Posted on 07/09/2020 10:34:05 AM PDT by Loud Mime
To The Editor:
Years ago while the Republicans slept, the Democrats replanted our Constitution on the “right wing” of political measurements. It was the greatest political move in our nation’s history, for suddenly, the Constitution was an off-center philosophy, while radical, anti-constitutional politics became the middle ground, the mainstream. Our politics have followed that map, and the respect for our Constitution has nosedived.
This incredible change resulted from simply moving the point of reference, the initial point.
To illustrate the power of such a simple move, try it in your accounting. If you moved the decimal point in our dollars and cents according to your desires, you could pay less than you deserve and receive far more than you deserve. Moving the initial point corrupts the entire system. The square deal is mutated into an unfair gain by one party. The system’s discipline has been lost. This is happening now in our politics.
In education, the effect of this repositioning has had a great impact on our nation. Every new student to politics has been taught that our foundation of government is biased, right wing, and intolerant; it has to be changed to conform with the desires of the mainstream center, the land of the intelligent, loving party of the common man. For decades, the students have also been conditioned that the Constitution is a living, breathing document, instead of the disciplined, most successful foundation of government ever written.
Let us get back on track. If the Constitution is the foundation of law, logic suggests that it should be the foundation of all political measurements. Every political act is measured from the Constitution, not a group’s desires, not a foreign court’s pressures. So, the constitutionists should refer to themselves as “Centrists,” or “Constitutional Centrists.” Putting the Constitution back in the Center returns it to its proper position and respect.
Because of the unrest and turmoil in politics, the sooner we focus on a constitutional center, the better. All we have to do is claim that our political measurements start from the Constitution, not the Democrat Party, and correct people whenever they use the old system. It would be heartening to hear your editors promote this, and even better if President Trump made it an official policy. Centering the Constitution is a logical start to getting our nation back.
Steven Maikoski California
Views expressed in this article are the opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
Half a century ago while the Republicans slept ...
Missed in the author’s analysis of the positioning of the Constitution being on the right wing is that doing so gives leftists the ability to call the right wing: fascists.
They remember the Great Promise of a Socialist World which was betrayed by the right wing of the socialist movement when Hitler attacked their beloved USSR.
HCUUAC had the Communists on the ropes and then the media and Hollywood and academia launched an assault on the government. by the end of the 1960s and throughout the 1970s we had thousands of bombing campaigns by far left extremists with international connections.
Today those militant Communist traitors have cushy jobs in academia at prestigious institutions.
I was there. They were not sleeping. They were busy electing and then s-—tcanning Nixon. While doing nothing about the dammed immigration bill the dems and LBJ rammed through in 1965.
Canning scamming sleeping no difference - their attention was elsewhere, missing even the egregious takings of private property.
Too bad they didn’t stop RMN before he laid the foundations for the radical liberal movements while creating a special class of citizen who now have the eastern half of Oklahoma.
The man was the worst President since W. Wilson; only Clinton surpassed him. Zero just took advantage of the earlier foundations.
Yeah I remember too well
Not to worry - if DJT wins again, they will get on with major bombing campaigns. If he loses, then just look to China to see what’s next in XI Jinping’s plans
The Left is ALWAYS trying to re-write history which of course, includes our Constitution. Read it and learn and agree.
“Half a century ago while the Republicans slept ...”
Right?! I have only one question, were they asleep, or did they actively look away?
I am almost certain it is the latter. I believe both sides, sit together in a back room, lighting their cigars off the dollar bills of our productivity, laughing at us all.
lighting their cigars off the **hundred** dollar bills of our productivity,
Haha I almost wrote 100 dollar bills but got lazy
Actually, the fascist-democrats have no method of measuring the intensity or the direction of political acts, so anything goes for them.
Years ago I developed a model that involves both the intensity and direction, but did not cover it in this letter. When they call the right wingers extreme, from what point is that intensity measured? How is it extreme? They are just throwing out words.
Go to ourconstitution dot us and you can download the pdf that explains it. Please let me know your opinion on the model.
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Excellent post.
Its not about intensity here - its about origins of the words used and the ability to falsely label others. Words mean things and the Dems co-opted the language while the GOPers slept or were diverted by internal squabbles. So the GOP lost the language battle they did not know they were engaged in - naive lot.
Not interested thank you for the invite - I have too many other demands at the moment.
It is to a certain extent the inevitable outgrowth of progressives hijacking the word “liberal”, to use as camouflage, in the 1930s.
And our allowing it. This has to change within our group first.
I’m all in on reclaiming the word “liberal” for its rightful owners. The progeny of Wilson and the Roosevelts, they’re progressives - they’re not liberals. However, I don’t see this happening any time soon.
Liberal, progressive and such are not points worth arguing.
But returning the Constitution as the initial point in all political measurements will have a good effect in our education system. It identifies all the educators as a fringe element, not centrists.
I’ve been using this tactic for years. It works. I had a NPR reporter stammering when I argued using this point.
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