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The government versus the people
American Thinker ^ | 9 Nov, 2021 | Jerold Levoritz

Posted on 11/09/2021 4:05:40 AM PST by MtnClimber

If things aren’t working, it’s because those who work within the federal government don’t want them to work.

I am amazed how many words have been wasted trying to explain this or that government policy that is hurting the American people. Don’t we know by now that, if a government program seems not to be useful, it was designed to be that way?

Instead of taking each program and dissecting it, the trick here is to bundle them together to better understand their motivation: importing cheap foreign labor, increasing energy costs, the irresponsible tolerance of cancel culture, vaccine mandates, anti-ableism, defunding the police, bail elimination, supporting inflationary policies, the failure to prosecute rioters on the political Left while taking political prisoners on the Right, promoting racial division, stamping out debate on government policies, assaults on private property rights, selectively enforcing the law, etc.

What ties these policies together? The U.S. government, in the form of many elected officials and the permanent bureaucracy, is deathly afraid of the People of the United States. Likewise, members of the government characterized President Trump as evil arose because they feared his policies.

Both ordinary Americans and President Trump have badly misunderstood the nature of our government. They believe it has the potential to be a benign force for good. With that in mind, by repeating many times and in many fora the idea that our government is “of the People, by the People, and for the People,” the People have scared the living daylights out of government lifers, elected officials, and the powerful elites outside of government.

It is for this reason President Obama acquired and distributed huge amounts of weaponry to myriad government agencies. Government employees needed these weapons to defend themselves should the People come rapping at their door.

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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Education; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: communism; government; policy; tyranny
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

85.5%? source please ...


21 posted on 11/09/2021 5:47:22 AM PST by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Soul of the South

“Instead of taking advantage of the opportunity to roll back the every encroaching bureaucracy, the GOP Congress fought the Republican president while conducting business as usual with the Democrats.

Obama initiated the transformation of the bureaucracy into a political force. When it had the opportunity to use the power of the purse to reign in the bureaucracy, the GOP did nothing.“

This explains EVERYTHING that anybody needs to know about this nation’s problems.

-Our POLITICIANS are allied - against We the People.

If we don’t learn to stop arguing with Uncle Fred, that neighbor with the Biden sign, etc…. And identify that our REAL enemies are OUR POLITICIANS, we will lose the fight and learn to enjoy slavery like our friends in North Korea and Venezuela…


22 posted on 11/09/2021 5:49:21 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: bankwalker
85.5%? source please ...

Think about it and it will hit you. Someone just posted that 14.5% work for the Feds. That means the rest of us work to support them. Are you good now?

23 posted on 11/09/2021 5:50:06 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Bratch

SOOOOOOO well said!!!!


24 posted on 11/09/2021 5:50:55 AM PST by joethedrummer (We can’t vote our way out of this, folks..)
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To: MtnClimber

Bkmk


25 posted on 11/09/2021 6:50:20 AM PST by sauropod
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To: MtnClimber
From the article:

"At this strange moment in history, Americans of the ordinary kind are left only with hope, prayer, resignation, and as a last resort, groveling until our floundering economy is forced to respond to the realities of a failing complex system."

I won't grovel. And the last resort is the "break glass in case of emergency kind". Which why they're desperately trying to set up a gun registry.

26 posted on 11/09/2021 7:04:34 AM PST by Tench_Coxe
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To: MtnClimber

That was a comprehensive listing of what we are facing

I’ve never been more ashamed and more afraid of our federal government than I am now. Would be even worse if I lived in a blue state. At least I have found some relief here and a place to make my stand.


27 posted on 11/09/2021 7:23:43 AM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Pete Dovgan
Thank you for the new tagline.
28 posted on 11/09/2021 9:24:12 AM PST by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: Cboldt; Bratch

And yet I’m constantly told at FR that a Convention of the States is too dangerous to contemplate.

Despite the theft of 2020 and everything since, we’re told to just keep voting.


29 posted on 11/09/2021 1:59:41 PM PST by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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