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It past time to face facts. Congressional elections are placebos for a gullible people. Free government is gone and shall not return until the people exercise their sovereignty and restore it.
1 posted on 05/02/2017 2:37:48 AM PDT by Jacquerie
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What I find so interesting is that a government of Congressmen owned by the nation's wealthy people is pretty much exactly what was designed by our Founders. This idea that everyone who reaches the age of 18 and might or might not be a law-abiding U.S. citizen should have a say in electing their representatives in government is really nothing more than a modern delusion.

All the American Revolution did was replace the British government with a domestic "nobility" here in the new United States of America -- and these are the people who now run this country. Donald Trump himself has known that for his entire life, despite his charming populism on the campaign trail last year.

In 1824, for example (one of the earliest elections where I could find a popular vote total), there were about 350,000 votes cast -- in a nation of more than 10 million people.

2 posted on 05/02/2017 2:48:39 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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Charlie Brown voters. The GOP is “Lucy”


4 posted on 05/02/2017 3:29:32 AM PDT by Cboldt
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I cast my first vote in 1972. I was four months into my eighteenth year, and pulled those levers with pride.

He must have been voting in a mock election at school. Unless he failed math, and doesn't realize he was actually in his 19th year.

6 posted on 05/02/2017 3:32:12 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. Obama free since 1/20/17. PTL ~ Þ)
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You are right, and much of the blame for America’s demise lies with uninformed primary voters who really believe the rhetoric of PRyan and the McCs.

I can’t see how the October budget will be any different, with the same “lawmakers” setting the sgenda.


7 posted on 05/02/2017 3:32:23 AM PDT by Theodore R. (Let's not squander the golden opportunity of 2017.)
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To: Jacquerie; LS

The republican congress sold America down the road. Ryan yet again has lied to Trump or Trump went along knowingly.

We are ruled by Tyrants, the time is now.


10 posted on 05/02/2017 3:46:21 AM PDT by stockpirate (There is a coup in progress, catch them, try them, HANG THEM ALL TREASON)
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Related post: The Confessions of Congressman X.
11 posted on 05/02/2017 3:51:09 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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Charlie Brown Vichy Republicans

Republicans are the party of collaborators, we are La Résistance. We must hold back the Vichy regime until President Trump Can organize the opposition.

Trump needs to veto the spending bill and make the collaborators go on record with a vote to override. This is a vote against the Republican base that elected Trump; it is a declaration of war against the people they claim to represent.

When he vetoes the bill, Trump must declare that he will hold rallies in each and every district that overrides him, and ask the voters not to stay home in 2018 but to work with him to send a Congress that will represent THEM and work WITH Trump to advance OUR agenda.

-PJ

14 posted on 05/02/2017 4:06:45 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/after-their-spending-bill-win-democrats-confident-they-can-block-trumps-agenda/2017/05/01/5be2915e-2e97-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.3f0185094649


19 posted on 05/02/2017 5:23:03 AM PDT by street_lawyer
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