Posted on 12/10/2020 9:17:52 AM PST by blueunicorn6
The citizens of The United States fought a Revolutionary War to give themselves the responsibility of choosing their own leaders.
It is a responsibility.
Too many Americans think that electing a President is just a game that is played every four years.
This kind of thinking is a great disservice to the men who spent years discussing, investigating and thinking about how a country should be.
Voting isn’t just about flipping a coin to decide who our chief executive will be.
Voting is a rigorous means of improving our citizens. Voting is a rigorous way to improve everything about our country.
The Founders understood that people will look out for their best interests. There is nothing inherently wrong with that.
A citizen of The United States is expected to vote for the person who will serve their best self interest.
But voting doesn’t just stop there.
The citizen is expected to investigate the candidates to determine which candidate will best serve their self interest. The citizen is expected to research and discuss and use deductive and inductive reasoning and think.
Research....discussion.....reasoning.....comparison.....examining experience.....
Are these not qualities that are beneficial in all areas of life?
Voting, as was meant to be done, produces alert and intelligent citizens.
Isn’t that what we want?
Cheating produces stupidity and laziness.
Cheating makes it useless to analyze candidates.
Cheating makes it useless for candidates to prepare themselves to be President.
A candidate merely needs to agree with the cheaters. And the cheaters are cheating so they can cheat our laws and morality.
The voters become apathetic. They no longer need to research and analyze and reason.
This freedom to grow as a human being has been taken away by the cheaters.
The person who manipulates the computers or prints the most phony ballots will determine who our President is.
All aspects of our society will suffer and deteriorate.
Fair voting is essential for the improvement of our citizens and the survival of our society.
At the heart of the matter: If we determine that our votes are kabuki theater, an that elections are rigged to suit the needs of some oligarchy, visible or invisible, our Republic is finished.
That is it right there.
I agree. And if cheating is allowed, the Republic will soon be finished.
Even if you really thought that voting was just a game and didn’t really matter consider: who wants to play a game with cheaters? Nobody, that’s who. At least, nobody except other cheaters.
So by cheating Dems are just making sure that nobody else wants to live in a country with them. When they were sneaky about it, we could ignore it like you might ignore the banker in Monopoly always finding that extra hundred bucks to pay the rent when he lands on your hotel, but now that they screwed up and made it obvious, nobody is ever going to want to play with them again.
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.”Betrayal of democracy? Why, this is democracy. Wilson said it best when he equated democracy with socialism—the supremacy of the community over the individual at the cost of the rights of the individual.
— Elbridge Gerry
“(T)he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”
— Communist Manifesto
“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.”
— The Principles Of Communism
“(I)t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”
— Woodrow Wilson
Not a Democracy
It is a Constitutional Republic
Yes, of course.
Let’s quibble while the cheaters grow stronger.
Thank you for posting blueunicorn6.
The state representatives to the Constitutional Convention (Con-Con) wisely gave ordinary voters, people like you and me, the express constitutional power to vote only for House members, not for senators or president.
The main reason that ordinary citizens got the power to vote for representatives is because the delegates to the Con-Con gave the power to originate bills for raising revenue (taxes) uniquely to the House (1.7.1). So when citizens didn’t like the federal taxes that they were paying they could fix the problem by voting tax-crazy representatives out of office.
Military issues aside, another reason that ordinary citizens could only vote for representatives is because the Con-Con delegates basically limited the federal government’s enumerated peacetime powers to dictate domestic policy to running the US Mail Service (1.8.7).
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, the founders had intended for citizens to work with state lawmakers, not federal lawmakers, to tax and spend for the social spending services that the citizen voters of a given state want.
In fact, the congressional records shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmakers, had clarified that the founders had left the care of the people uniquely to the states, not the federal government.
”[…] the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
The reason that ordinary citizens now vote for senators is because the anti-constitutional republic Progressive Movement spooked ordinary citizens to twist the arms of their state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived, mob rule 17th Amendment. State lawmakers caved and ratified that amendment, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress.
The problem with citizen’s having the express constitutional power to vote for senators is this. The founders had established the Senate partly to kill unconstitutional house bills, bill that not only steal state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers, revenues that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
However, when senate candidates who don’t know the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers any better than the voters do, promise low-information voters anything not related to the mail services to try to get themselves elected, such voters unthinkingly elect unqualified senators who then unconstitutionally expand the federal government’s powers when they keep their promises (ahem) to voters.
In other words, when low-information voters elect a senator who promises them federal healthcare services, Obamacare for example, such voters are clueless that they are abusing their 17A power by electing a senator who is going to help unconstitutionally expand the already unconstitutionally big federal government powers to provide constitutionally indefensible federal healthcare services.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And when the federal government steals state revenues to provide healthcare services, the states can’t afford to provide healthcare services under their 10th Amendment powers.
"10th Amendment: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
Finally, the states have never expressly constitutionally given ordinary voters the specific power to vote for president. In other words, so-called citizen power to vote for president is actually politically correct power under the states, the corrupt political parties keeping voters happy by giving them the false impression that they are in control of the Oval Office, but ultimately the mail service.
The bottom line is that patriots need to work with their state lawmakers to support PDJT in working with Congress to not only surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing for the last 100+ years back to the states, but also to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes.
Once unconstitutional federal taxes are stopped then each state will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues imo to provide its respective citizens with the "government" social spending service that the feds had formerly been unconstitutionally providing.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots need to further support PDJT in leading the states to repeal 17A. The 16th Amendment can disappear too.
I agree with you about the 17th Amendment.
I was not writing a history of voting in The US.
I was writing about how wrong it is to cheat in the Presidential election.
You have a very nice post.
Five people will read it and two of those will understand it.
“The voters become apathetic. They no longer need to research and analyze and reason.”
This reality today has made me even more apathetic than that. I cancelled my voter registration once this became clear. I will not participate in a sham, a happy show for the masses. I’m out. The only way I will return is if this election is corrected and the election process is corrected from this point forward. If those things don’t happen, it’s stupid to be a citizen of this country, let alone vote in its sham elections.
Thanks for reply.
People need to be made aware of the very big problem of unconstitutional federal interference in the states since the schools aren’t teaching it.
To quit is to surrender to the cheaters.
And to participate in a known sham...is just silly and only supports them in their fraud. Would we have voted in the Soviet Union? (Well, perhaps if it was at the end of a gun). The Soviet elections were no greater or lesser a farce than U.S. elections are today.
May your chains rest lightly on you.
Fixed it for ya.
They will rest on us both unless this is corrected. And short of bloodshed in the streets, there won’t be a thing we will be able to do about it. The system will be set.
A citizen should know this.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands...
You can provide evidence of when it was changed?
Or did you forget the /sarcasm tag?
It changed on Nov 4th, around 4 AM.
Boycott PA, GA, MI, WI, and AZ.
I’ve been going to their state websites and letting them know how corrupt they are. Went to the tourism departments to tell them to go to hell.
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