[Perseverando]

The demoKKKrats are determined to destroy the Constitution, eradicate the Electoral College and ensure that their urban vote fraud machines keep their far left radicals in power in perpetuity.

[Rurudyne]

Kicking the Constitution to the curb has been a progressive pastime since FDR managed the first real strides that stuck in that direction.

[foreverfree]

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[Kickass Conservative]

WKRP = Washington Killed Redcoat Pigs

[dfwgator]

I blame Howard Zinn.

[atc23]

The demoKKKrats are determined to destroy the Constitution, eradicate the Electoral College and ensure that their urban vote fraud machines keep their far left radicals in power in perpetuity.

They can have at it. It’ll be a slow roll to the end and hopefully I’ll be dead. It’s bad enough now with the the Squeaky Wheels, foreigners, South American invaders, Typhus, Muslims and uneducated nitwits overwhelming the system ala Cloward Piven.

It’s a race to see if I’ll miss the worst of it. Assisted suicide is an option.

[SMARTY]

“Washington was celebrated as “Cincinnatus.” He earned that name by being an astonishing example of republican virtue.”

Well that’s how old I am... I thought everyone knew THAT

[Olog-hai]

Well, for more historical revision, a lot of universities are denigrating the “Cincinnatus” epithet by pointing out that the original Lucius Quinticus Cincinnatus was a Roman dictator, dictators being one of the aberrations of the Roman Republic (comparable to our unappointed “czars” and other executive-branch bureaucrats)—but they leave out his immediate surrender of that nigh-absolute power twice, after the Aequi invasion and Maelius’ attempted coup respectively.

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[Lowell1775]

The Society of the Cincinnati is the nation’s oldest patriotic organization, founded in 1783 by officers of the Continental Army and their French counterparts who served together in the American Revolution. Its mission is to promote knowledge and appreciation of the achievement of American independence and to foster fellowship among its members. Now a nonprofit educational organization devoted to the principles and ideals of its founders, the modern Society maintains its headquarters, library, and museum at Anderson House in Washington, D.C.

https://societyofthecincinnati.org/

[jjotto]

Demagogues like the females on the US Supreme Court...

[mikeus_maximus]

Yes, I know the origin of the name of the city. But then, I’m an Ohioan by birth and grew up at a time when the state had one of the best public school systems in the US. We were required to learn national, state, and local history. Ask the simple questions of younger generations now whether they knew the original colonies were founded primarily by northern European Christian fundamentalists escaping religious persecution, and that their descendants wrote the foundational documents for our new nation that were intentionally based on uniquely Judeo-Christian concepts of human rights and dignity, and all you’ll get are unbelieving or blank looks. The truth of our history is no longer taught in our schools, despite the wonderful and unique result it produced. That would offend a large percentage of our population now. And so they are destined to lose a quality of life that has been unique in all of human history. It’s already happening.

[Lowell1775]

Cincinnati OHIO PING!

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“How Ignorance Of American History Feeds Demagogues Who Hate The Constitution”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3756620/posts

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

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[Albion Wilde]

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[CondoleezzaProtege]

Ignorance of all* history. Our founders studied the ancients.

[Amendment10]

"The demoKKKrats are determined to destroy the Constitution, eradicate the Electoral College and ensure that their urban vote fraud machines keep their far left radicals in power in perpetuity."

Probably most Democratic voters who weren’t murdered in the womb were at least born with good heads on their shoulders and would support a constitutionally limited power federal government if they were brought up to speed on those limited powers.

Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if most citizens receiving compensation from a federal social spending program probably wouldn’t care if their government income was coming from their state, not the feds. The Founding States had intended for the states, not the feds, to establishing social spending programs, depending on what the legal majority citizen voters of a given state want.

In fact, note that a previous generation of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified Congress’s constitutionally limited power to appropriate taxes.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.



Also, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had trusted the states, not the feds, with the care of the people.

”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)

Justice Brandeis had put it this way.

"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.

Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.

The problem with nearly all federal domestic spending is this. As a consequence of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, citizen voters elect federal senators who probably don’t know the fed’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters do.

Career senators then get themselves reelected by working in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to buy votes with social spending programs, such senators oblivious (ignoring?) that the federal government has no express constitutional authority to establish or fund such programs with taxpayer dollars imo.

In fact, you can bet that if a given federal domestic spending program is not reasonably related to the US Mail Service (1.8.7), or militia training (1.8.15), that it is unconstitutional and probably be right most of the time.

And the states cannot establish the social spending programs that their respective citizens want because the feds keep stealing state revenues by means of unconstitutional federal taxes evidenced by the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above shown here.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.



The remedy for corrupt, unconstitutionally big federal government on our backs…

Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, but will also promise to surrender state powers that feds have been stealing from the states for decades back to the states.

And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.

Remember in November 2020!

MAGA! Not Democratic MADA (Make America Dead Again).

• "The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me

• "The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me

• "The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me

• "Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me

Corrections, insights welcome.

[loveliberty2]

There was a time when the NEA (yes, the National Education Association), before its union conversion, actually published a book which might help us today, to be read or purchased: here.

Progressive activism and takeover of all the major bureaucracies for educating youth in the United States now dominates and indoctrinates those youth who are committed to its care and teaching.

Freeing American youth from its influence is the best way to begin a reorientation of those youth to the ideas of freedom.

[IronJack]

Uh ... the ORIGINAL Cincinnatus was a Roman general about 500 years BC.

[norwaypinesavage]

Do not blame the citizens, blame the teachers. The reason I know nothing of the Cincinnatus, is that I was never taught of it. A Minnesotan, I learned much about, and even the spelling of, the Mississippi river in early grade school. It's not that I yearned to learn of it, it was because I was taught it. I was taught it, because the great river, with headwaters in our state was of importance to the schools there.

By the time we exit high school the vast majority of our knowledge comes from the things the schools elected to teach us. We know that, today especially, this election is greatly misdirected.