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The Consent of the Governed Is Slipping Away
Blobspot ^ | 5/24/22 | Charles Hugh Smith

Posted on 05/25/2022 3:27:15 PM PDT by BusterDog

It feels like the consent of the governed is slipping away in the U.S. The reason is so obvious we dare not acknowledge it or discuss it: those in power--elected and unelected--only give lip-service to "serving the public interest and common good." Beneath this flimsy facade of PR, every action serves the interests of a wealthy, politically potent elite or the self-interests of those in power.

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It been done gone.

When did we lose it? Early 90's during First Bush - Better Bush?
1 posted on 05/25/2022 3:27:15 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: BusterDog

You are right. I’m not sure. I hate to say it but probably Daddy Bush saying “we are ushering a new world order”. At the time, I didn’t give it much thought.


2 posted on 05/25/2022 3:31:29 PM PDT by PeachyKeen
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To: BusterDog

This is why pitchforks and torches were invented.


3 posted on 05/25/2022 3:33:54 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: BusterDog

When the Government blew JFKs head off and covered it up. It’s been downhill from there. We are now a government that has a people.... not a people with a government.


4 posted on 05/25/2022 3:34:24 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: BusterDog

Slipping?????


5 posted on 05/25/2022 3:38:50 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: PeachyKeen
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6 posted on 05/25/2022 3:40:34 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BusterDog

Many of us recognized this fact years ago. It is this realization that led to the TEA Party movement and the Convention of States movement.
Those two movements led to the Deep States’ surveillance of We The People in order to protect themselves from us.
Since it was Obvious that Donald Trump re[presented We The People against the Deep State they pulled out all the stops to Destroy him and thus dispirit us.


7 posted on 05/25/2022 3:41:19 PM PDT by ocrp1982 (God is Great and Jesus is Our Lord and Savior)
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To: BusterDog
The goal of the Deep State and the Elites is to remove "consent of the governed" as a feature of our country and world.

Their position is that "government by the people" is unworkable and inefficient because most humans are idiots.

That is a correct assessment, but overlooks the fact that the Deep State and Elites are also idiots.

This is why Americans must not relinquish their weapons. As long as the masses are armed, the plan of the Deep State and Elites can be prevented (and they know it).

8 posted on 05/25/2022 3:41:59 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: DesertRhino

If everyone went back to the ‘old country’ it wouldn’t be so bad. People would migrate anyway. Would they fight for what’s underground in their neighbors territory? Females-don’t they have their own? Kings could not be happy in their kingdom. They always had to raid the next one. I once saw the Edinburg Castle. Didn’t need to go in. How do you get people en masse to attack with bows and arrows?

Then there’s religion. The only ones dying to spread theirs is the moozlems. Mormons tried the same thing once. Now they all dress up like the Jehovas.

You gotta admit there’s no love lost for those that come over, spice up our food and de-flower our daughters. It’s evolution but then there’s the religion of government policy. Too many Mexicans. Blacks? What would you prefer-coming on a slave ship or stay home and be eaten?


9 posted on 05/25/2022 3:45:32 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BusterDog

Never trust anyone who presumes to tell you about seeking “the common good.”


10 posted on 05/25/2022 3:46:08 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: BusterDog

The consent was stolen by traitorous Demonicrats and gutless coward RINOcrats.


11 posted on 05/25/2022 3:49:06 PM PDT by Carl Vehse (A proud member of the LGBFJB community)
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To: RoosterRedux

Sorry, idiots implies incompetence. These people have a goal. They are targeted in their believes and what they want to accomplish. They may be an idiot, moron or stupid to you but it seems they get a lot what they want to advance their agenda. And here we are….


12 posted on 05/25/2022 3:51:33 PM PDT by PeachyKeen
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Slipping away?

It’s been going away since LBJ killed JFK and was completed when the first computerized election was allowed.


13 posted on 05/25/2022 3:56:49 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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The Consent of the Governed Is Slipping Away

It been done gone.

When did we lose it? Early 90's during First Bush - Better Bush?

1861 when Lincoln invaded states that no longer gave consent to being ruled by corrupt Washington DC.

14 posted on 05/25/2022 4:17:55 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: BusterDog

True, that


15 posted on 05/25/2022 4:29:25 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Proud subject of the Great MAGA King)
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To: BusterDog

And we have been fools for ever giving the consent we have.


16 posted on 05/25/2022 5:03:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Agreed.


17 posted on 05/25/2022 6:48:32 PM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Seruzawa

And guns.


18 posted on 05/26/2022 12:18:32 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: DiogenesLamp

Oh for God’s sake.


19 posted on 05/26/2022 12:21:05 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses. Now governed by idiots. )
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To: PeachyKeen
Folks in the Deep State and the Elites are idiots because they don't know that an autocracy or elite oligarchy cannot manage an economy from the top down.

The greatness of America in terms of business and invention is the result of the incentivization of individuals (that comes from individual freedom) to create/produce/market and to govern themselves.

Even highly regimented societies and those using caste systems fail to be inventive/creative.

Why do you think China has to steal U.S. intellectual property?

20 posted on 05/26/2022 3:48:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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