Posted on 06/21/2016 1:17:25 PM PDT by Jim W N
Let’s get it straight.
Government self-interest is opposed to the Constitution and individual freedom.
State and individual self-interest - embodied in the Constitution and state and individual freedom - is opposed to government self-interest.
By its very nature the central government is against the interests of the states and the people. That is why we have a Constitution, to keep this potential monster in its constitutional cage.
Again, let’s get it straight. Political government basically does only one thing well: coerce and kill. Government is VERY GOOD at coercion and killing. A good government, limited by the rule of law, will kill threatening enemies without and coerce wrongdoers within. A bad government, unhinged from the rule of law, is tyranny and will coerce and kill mostly its own citizens in its unquenchable quest for money and power.
Our central government is a government of tyranny because it has shed the limitations of the rule of law of the Constitution which is its ONLY legal source of power. For those reasons, our central government loves its guns but, in its thirst for more and more illegitimate power, wants to take away our guns so we won't be a threat to their power regardless of constitutional prohibitions upon the central government from doing so.
Guns is a perfect example of the self interest of an unlimited government of tyranny being directly opposed to the self interest of the states and individuals. But guns are only one example of the central government taking unconstitutional and illegitimate power upon itself at the expense of your freedom.
You just have to ask yourself one question: which side are you on?
At some point, the people of each state must ask through their elected representatives, what price freedom? It is up to the states and the people of the states to say to unconstitutional federal acts ("tyranny"), ENOUGH! NO MORE!
The bad news is, so far, the states have shown themselves to be more interested in financial dependency on the feds than in freedom and independence. That MUST change.
A simple and effective explanation why we have a Constitution.
Many State governments are as oppressive as the national one.
Indeed.
BIGGER Government = Smaller individual
More powerful Government = LESS powerful individual
No.
Both federal AND state government self-interest,
Are inherently opposed to individual self interest.
Make no mistake about it.
It’s DC politicians and the Federal workforce against all the rest of us, with the propagandists in the press covering up the outrageous salaries and bonuses these cretins are sucking up by extorting our cash at gunpoint.
I see low grade morons pulling in 75-90K a year and for the crooks at the top, the sky is the limit.
A very small percentage of Americans have actually spent any length of time in DC, it takes about 2 weeks for it to sink in that these people are running the biggest scam in world history, shuffling paper and thinking up make work schemes to justify their ever increasing budgets and lavish spending .
The amount of waste fraud and abuse it preposterous, and rather than trying to stop it, it’s encouraged by the Feds, unless you are a white male.
Then the descendants of the demons Lincoln set free and the white tards that couldn’t make it in the private sector will be quick to give the stink eye and unleash hell.
These sons of bitches do very little work and like it that way, and this situation will not be reversed through the electoral process.
State government is LOCAL government. YOU have DIRECT power to change your state via initiatives and propositions plus you have closer contact with who you vote for state representatives. Worst case, you move to another state.
The central government is entirely different. That is why the Constitution is aimed directly at the CENTRAL GOVERNMENT, not the states.
To extend your point: As those governments consolidate power and exercise newly found authority aided by liberal courts, the resistance by individuals and groups will be deemed by a rogue, anti-America president as "insurrection" and pointed to as constitutional justification for imposing martial law.
“The bad news is, so far, the states have shown themselves to be more interested in financial dependency on the feds than in freedom and independence.”
Not really. My state has locked up 10 obuma thugs for rioting under the state’s anti-klan laws. They’re serving 10 to 30 years in state prison. I don’t expect you to know that because the national propaganda press has embargoed the story. Obuma and his goons now avoid the state.
We’ve also taken on Obuma’s SEIU thugs and ran them off. Those fat boys were squishes and begged for the police to come rescue them.
Honestly, I don’t know which state you’re talking about, but has your state nullified unconstitutional Obamacare? Has it nullified unconstitutional federal ban on your state’s anti-abortion and marriage laws? Has it nullified and rejected unconstitutional mandatory federal minimum wage? Has your state determined to be financially independent of the feds?
If not then your state, like every state, is not doing what it must to deal with federal tyranny which threatens to turn our constitutional republic into a socialist state.
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