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To: wita
You may well be right. Presidential politics 2016 overshadows everything. Yet IMO, the rise of Trump and Sanders alone reflects disgust with what our supposed republican, free government has become.

I haven't kept track of how many states have taken the administration to court at various times, but well over half challenged Obamacare and open borders. There is more support for reform than the media wish to admit.

The de facto Constitution has long ceased to operate; the government is no longer even representative. In its place is an oligarchy composed of the president and scotus. Elections have become courtesies that give the patina of legitimacy to accelerating despotism.

Obama and his social justice warriors have free reign to continue their destruction. If we don't take advantage of the peaceful means at our disposal, we are doomed to hard tyranny.

Even if Bernie and The Beast are kept out of the White House this time around, some other demagogue will eventually worm his/her way to power in 4, 8, or 12 years, and the rot will pick up where it left off.

Our nation is at a crossroads. To do nothing is not a logical option.

4 posted on 04/22/2016 5:17:28 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

To do nothing is not a logical option.

...and I would be in complete agreement. But to do the wrong thing would be equally illogical, and IMHO being engaged in an Article V movement that is at a standstill seems to me to be counterproductive.

It has taken well over a hundred years of leftist, progressive influence in our Federal Government to bring us to the present state where little if any consideration is given to our founding documents, and common law. We have slowly but surely taken the path of least resistance leaving us with nothing that the founders gave us but the dream of what is found in the Preamble to the Constitution.

Congress has essentially abdicated their position, as a controlling agent for the other two co-equal branches of Government. Unless and until enough people return to Congress the balls they left behind, no amount of amending the document they aren’t paying much attention to anyway is going to be a lasting solution to what ails the Republic.


7 posted on 04/22/2016 6:20:43 AM PDT by wita
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