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They Let Us Down and It’s Hard to Trust Them Again
American Thinker ^ | 9 Aug, 2021 | Andrew W. Coy

Posted on 08/09/2021 4:11:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Institutions that we formerly respected and trusted are destroying their credibility at a pace that is accelerating. That's bad for democracy.

As we grow up, age and mature, we come to think that there are some that we can count on to call it straight. We can count on umpires to be neutral arbitrators of the strike zone. We thought we could rely on the Supreme Court to judge all laws, all ideas, all thoughts, all regulations, and all speech according to the U.S. Constitution. We thought scientists would pursue the truth.

I don't think we were being Pollyannaish, nor looking for rainbows, not ever acting as if we live in Mayberry. But at a certain age, we came to expect and appreciate certain political bodies, certain government agencies, and specific non-profits to judge all and everything according to the Constitution and rule of law. Even if we did not agree with them on a specific matter; we knew where they were coming from. We thought they would always be pure in their motivation. We thought they came at us straight and true.

But not anymore. Over the last 5 years, and especially the last 18 months it has become clear that many of these people are just dirty political fronts. They're not noble, they're not non-partisan, and they're not nice... at all. These groups that we had held in high esteem because we felt that they would always call it straight, regardless of the politics, have let America down. They have destroyed Americans' sense of fair play and neutrality.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: communism
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1 posted on 08/09/2021 4:11:25 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

How many do I trust now? NONE! Communism and the lust for power has corrupted every last one of them.


2 posted on 08/09/2021 4:12:09 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber
This should have included the free traitors, who while waving their American flags and preaching the benefits of capitalism sent our money, our technology, and ultimately our sovereignty to a communist nation.

Our side is a guilty as any of the others.

3 posted on 08/09/2021 4:19:35 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: MtnClimber

There is NOTHING in regards the Federal gub mint I trust.
FBI?
CIA?
IRS?
Senate?
Congress?
BIA?
ATF?
Military?
Obama put his marxist white America hateing folk in each of these and others.


4 posted on 08/09/2021 4:20:36 AM PDT by Joe Boucher
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To: MtnClimber
The Progressives banked on Americans' trust of institutions to build their Administrative State.

It was supposed to be government by non-partisan experts for the benefit of all. Non-partisan, except of course, they had to be Progressives.

This insanity is now exposed for all to see. Progressives are not non-partisan. They do not govern as experts for the benefit of all. They govern for their own benefit and to accumulate and use power.

Many, if not most Progressives now see the United States as an obstacle to be overcome.

They have always seen the Constitution as an obstacle to be overcome.

They have always seen limit on governmental power as obscene.

5 posted on 08/09/2021 4:22:45 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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To: MtnClimber

Probably the group that has been the biggest let down is our fellow voters who still vote democrat.


6 posted on 08/09/2021 4:27:18 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Institutions that we formerly respected and trusted are destroying their credibility at a pace that is accelerating. That’s bad for democracy. …
Hello? Coy? Anyone home? We are a republic, not a democracy.

Guess who wanted “democracy” for the USA.
What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […]

In America, where a democratic constitution has already been established, the communists must make the common cause with the party which will turn this constitution against the bourgeoisie and use it in the interests of the proletariat — that is, with the agrarian National Reformers. …

— The Principles of Communism
That was in addition to Woodrow Wilson writing that “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same” . . . so when you are dealing with those that regard democracy as the same thing as socialism, always expect socialism.

Reject socialism (democracy) and adhere to republicanism.
7 posted on 08/09/2021 4:29:10 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Bonemaker

Probably the group that has been the biggest let down is our fellow voters who still vote democrat.


or so the voting machines tell us ...


8 posted on 08/09/2021 4:30:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: MtnClimber

To some here on FR, their trust in Fauci, the CDC, and the Fake News is still strong!


9 posted on 08/09/2021 4:38:49 AM PDT by Artcore
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Yup. If there really was a majority, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections.


10 posted on 08/09/2021 4:38:55 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: Artcore
To some here on FR, their trust in Fauci, the CDC, and the Fake News is still strong!

The Vaxaholics brigade.

11 posted on 08/09/2021 4:44:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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These aren't distinct institutions and haven't been for a long time. They're different arms of the same globalist syndicate.

When Pope Francis stood down on the U.S.-Mexico border railing against candidate Trump, he made a very public statement. He is not the Pope but a political hack, bought and paid for by his globalist handlers.

12 posted on 08/09/2021 4:52:45 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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Making $$$ is more important to some on the right than personal freedom. The check pant “don’t rock the boat” country clubbers tells us to keep voting GOP (RINO) and suck it up. That’s the ticket....


13 posted on 08/09/2021 4:53:48 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Artcore
To some here on FR, their trust in Fauci, the CDC, and the Fake News is still strong!

Oh, but the CDC/Fact Checkers/Media is totally credible on the one subject of Bat Soup Flu. Honest. You just have to believe. Swearsies. /s

14 posted on 08/09/2021 4:54:07 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Joe Boucher

Once a liberal gets in charge or in management at any organization they ONLY hire other liberals.

After 40 years of this, they have saturated everything.


15 posted on 08/09/2021 4:56:49 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: MtnClimber
The list in the article of institutions that let us down:

Military

ACLU

Intelligence agencies

Supreme Court

CDC

The list is incomplete. There is no mention of the RINOs.

RINOs are the reason for the woke clown world we now live in. It was RINO-controlled state legislatures who gave the Steal to Dementia Joe on a platter. All because of their petty hatred of Trump and those of us who voted for him. If these state legislatures had been controlled by conservatives, the cheat-by-mail-in ballots would never have been allowed, or if they had, there would have been a proper audit of them BEFORE electors were seated and the fraud would have been immediately exposed. If everyone in government with an (R) after their name had been a constitutional conservative, Trump would still be president and we would still control the Senate.

Our last chance, if it's not too late, is in the 2022 MidTerms. Vote out every RINO who must face a primary and replace them with the Trump-endorsed challenger. No more squabbling about who is the most conservative challenger once Trump makes an endorsement. Run these RINOs out of the party. Make the RINOs form a new party. Why should we leave?

If the 2020 Steal is not enough to vote out these traitors, then nothing will ever be enough.

16 posted on 08/09/2021 5:09:41 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Bonemaker
Probably the group that has been the biggest let down is our fellow voters who still vote democrat.

Nope. RINO traitors have let us down more than any of the groups combined.

17 posted on 08/09/2021 5:11:16 AM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: Bonemaker; central_va
Probably the group that has been the biggest let down is our fellow voters who still vote democrat

More fake "red-blue" thinking.

If the country is to survive, you will need at least 50% of current Democrats to join the minority of current Republicans who still love the nation - because the majority of the GOP is sunk in treason and hatred of the nation, along with the intellectual leadership of the Democrats, and the actual American majority is divided and fighting amongst ourselves in the "Dems vs GOP" Punch and Judy show.

If you don't grasp what is happening after 50 years of electing Republicans and watching your nation wrecked, I don't know what to tell you.

18 posted on 08/09/2021 5:17:33 AM PDT by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: marktwain

The real word here is not “Progressive”, but “Regressive” as that better describes the situation. If these so-called “progressives” were really that, we’d be going forward instead of backward as it now exists. President Trump was a a real progressive with respect to how our nation was doing; the exact opposite of what it is now. Where did the idea get started that what is going on now is “progressive”? The word has a completely different meaning. What is going on right now is destroying our nation. How can anyone with even a small spark of honesty & decency call that “Progressive”?


19 posted on 08/09/2021 5:23:20 AM PDT by oldtech
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To: MtnClimber

Everything is political. That means, common sense and right and wrong is out the window. The Media Business models point toward woke and political correctness.


20 posted on 08/09/2021 5:38:14 AM PDT by FreedBird (T)
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