Posted on 10/27/2016 10:51:41 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
TRUMP ABOUT TO SPEAK Looks like standing room only
"We, the People"--all the People--need a crash course in how to be equipped to distinguish between the principles that would keep America free and prosperous and the false premises that will enslave us. We must, as well, be able to articulate them.
Accommodating tyranny by failing to call it what it is is dangerous. We need a leader whose words are strong and courageous and based in the principles of our Declaration of Independence--even if he/she may have to call in scholars to clarify the message. In other words, we may have needed a Paul Revere, not a philosopher--who would listen?
American citizens need to wake up to the counterfeit ideas and false "hopes" offered by politicians who use "promises," just as the rest of us use "currency."
They buy votes with "promises" in order to gain power to themselves and their ilk. Then, when "hopes" are dashed, "the people" they have promised to help (the naive, the poor, the ignorant--even the "educated" who are ignorant of liberty vs. tyranny) find themselves enslaved, working for those who have purchased their power in the most despicable manner--by offering "hope and change." Thus it has ever been.
The people who founded America were not so "dumbed down." Hear two of them:
"It is proper to take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties. We hold this prudent jealousy to be the first duty of citizens and one of the noblest characteristics of the Revolution. The freemen of America did not wait till usurped power had strengthened itself by exercise and entangled the question in precedents. They saw all the consequences in the principle [usurpation of power] and they avoided the consequences by denying the principle. We revere this lesson too much . . . to forget it." - James Madison
" . . . nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers, and destroyers press upon them so fast, that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon the American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the penshioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited, and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependents and expectants, until virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, and frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, lusury, foppery, selfishness, meanness and downright venality swallow up the whole society." - John Adams
Further, it was not just the founding leaders who were well-informed about their constitution and approaching threats to its protections.
By the Year 1830, when the French jurist Tocqueville traveled America, he wrote admiringly of the citizenry, observing that even the backwoodsman was far more well-read and informed than those in other parts of the world, and that they understood their Constitution, and had with them a Bible and a newspaper. Sadly, beginning in the mid-20th Century, our "government" schools removed the ideas of liberty from the nation's textbooks, largely under the guise of a counterfeit idea of "separation of church and state," and the citizenry is uninformed as to the difference between tyranny and liberty.
Today, with all modern means of communication, Americans possess little understanding of threats to their liberty and, thus, risk losing it to charlatans whose only goal is power and fleeting personal wealth--thinking nothing of posterity.
Thanks for the link. Once again rsbn’s stream utterly fails.
Looks like Hellary has a pretty good crowd. First I’ve seen.
HC brings them with music celebrities and the crowd leaves when the music stops and she begins speaking.
Heh heh. So true.
Youtube live stream being overwhelmed. Cannot even come close to keeping up with the chat comments, almost all of which are pro-Trump.
Wow, Trump knocked it out of the park!!!
Did they have a free concert again?
Daisy Summer Love
4 minutes ago
I love those pink Trump signs! I enjoyed the chant! "Woman for Trump"!!
I am 21 year old young female and I just voted for Trump in California!
How was the crowd at Kaine’s? Oh, wait, never mind.
Moooche was with It Clinton and college arena.
And a long advertisement time while Trump gets big crowds with only 24 hrs notice.
Just got back from the rally. I got there an hour ahead of time and was 125-150 back from the stage. I estimated about 7500 people based on crowd density and size of area people stood in. Only one protester was escorted out by Secret Service and I don’t think Trump saw him. Tall fat young person filming agent as he led the protester out.
Always at college where the kids are there already, and still she gets lesser crowds.
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