They are abrogating the contract, the Constitution, between the people and their government by usurping authority not granted to them and amending whatever they choose in violation of their oath of office to achieve the goals desirous of the mob. They are succumbing to the power of influence. They are violating the law of the land and doing so as you clearly and effectively point out in your statements and referrences.
You, I and all about us are witnessing the collapse of the Republic. This is how it happens and our vociferous protestations and debates of the fine points will not affect the outcome. Recalling a statement made regarding the need for the frequency of rebellion and the loss of the blood of tyrants and patriots in the process, I find we are long overdue for remedial action. I am a peaceable man not easily provoked and react only in defense of life, liberty and property. It may well be the acts of those holding high positions in government will provide the catalyst for rebellion and an opportunity for redress. I fear I may live long enough to witness the catastrophe resulting from that opportunity.
In closing I add that, in my experience, barring a realization of wrong doing and self imposed correction of behavior, the only way to stop a bully is through a judicious use of force in self-defense. In other words, “Just say no.” and the chips will fall where they may.
There is no right to vote in the original Constitution, and no amendment passed so far (including the Poll Tax Amendment)would prohibit a state from disenfranchising anyone based on their receiving welfare or Public Assistance.
Pass a law and require everyone to re-register, then deny all the welfare cases, unemployed, food stampers, the whole lot.
Collapse is inevitable if the current electorate is allowed to continue to vote for marxists.
This is the only solution.
You can't educate parasites, and the Founders had no intention of enfranchising all and instituting Universal Suffrage, which is the reason we are where we are today.
Giving everyone a right to vote creates a Democracy, and a political class which will pander to the parasites in exchange for power.
The Founders were brilliant men who understood history and the mistakes made by previous civilizations, mistakes which led to their demise.
I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either. … Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty. When clear prospects are opened before vanity, pride, avarice, or ambition, for their easy gratification, it is hard for the most considerate philosophers and the most conscientious moralists to resist the temptation. Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never. John Adams, letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814).
Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.
Attributed to Thomas Carlyle "The Scholar in a Republic", centennial anniversary address to Phi Beta Kappa of Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts (June 30, 1881). Reported in Carlos Martyn and Wendell Phillips, The Agitator (1890), p. 581. Reported as unverified in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989).