Divided or Undivided Government: That Is the Question

Some Americans believe that "divided government" is the way to go. They believe it's healthy to have Congress and the president each controlled by people from different political parties. Divided government, they theorize, can provide checks on the excesses of both elective branches of the federal government and can even push both sides to compromise in the so-called "center."

The biggest question the nation is fixated on right now is who's going to be the next president. I think a bigger question might be which party will control the Senate and the House. But a question that might be even bigger than those two is this: do we want divided government or un-divided government?

The biggest mistake voters could make next Tuesday would be putting Democrats back in control of both houses of Congress and the presidency. The last time America had "unified" government under the Democrats (where they had both houses of Congress and the presidency) was during Obama's first two years. Those two years led to Obamacare, our first trillion-dollar deficits, and the failed stimulus program, about which our Entertainer in Chief joked: "Shovel-ready was not as, uh, shovel-ready as we expected." (What's the big deal? The stimulus cost us only $831 billion.)

Except there's a fallacy, and a big one, there: that there is a difference between Democrat and Republican — virtually everything we've experienced in the past decade, and certainly the last few years, has indicated there is not.

The better metric is obvious: elite vs everyman.
(Or establishment vs non-establishment, if you will.)

The GOP has not proven to be a check on anything the Rats wanted to do. That’s the reason we now have Trump. Just watch. If Trump is elected the senate will move to vote on Obama Scotus nominee.

Trump isn't the endgame -- he's the opening move.I'm called a "Debbie Downer" because I see clearly what we're up against:

In the election we've already uncovered massive voter-fraud schemes.
We've seen how voting machines themselves can be subverted.
(There's a good video of this being done w/ just a hacked memory-card.)
We've seen how deeply entrenched our enemies, our own elite, are.
(You don't even have to touch Hillary: there's the 'investigations' of Fast and Furious and Benghazi, there's the info coming out about the pedophile-ring a good chunk of elites are involved in, and there's the Iran Deal [an act of Treason] to cap it off.)
We've seen how compromised the FBI is, how corrupt the IRS is, how little respect for the 4th amendment the NSA shows, and so forth — it's to the point where it's not an exaggeration to say that lawlessness has been institutionalized.

Given all of that, it's clear that merely electing Trump isn't enough — we need more than merely one man — we have to be ready to get our own hands dirty and root out corruption ourselves. And, being an entrenched corruption, it's not going to go without a fight.

Despite the trillions of dollars on the line for the status quo for our elites, there's more at play: their very lives. Do you honestly thing that we've seen the worst of their evils yet? — Need I remins you that pedophiles are often beaten to death in general population of prisons? It is as if the felons themselves are saying this is utterly unacceptable. — And that doesn't touch on the fact that Treason is a capital offense as well.

This is a matter of life and death.

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