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Government without Consent Lacks Legitimacy
American Thinker ^ | 1 May, 2023 | J.B. Shurk

Posted on 05/01/2023 5:35:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber

America is the story of freedom. It was settled by those determined to rid themselves of Old World shackles and build something entirely new. Its people rejected servitude to a foreign king across the ocean. It fought a bloody civil war as testament to its founding principles that liberty and equality under the law are human rights irrespective of race. It became home to waves of new immigrants through the centuries who crossed great distances and risked tremendous perils — all to flee the tyrannies behind them and reach America's shores. Because no other nation has ever been birthed into existence by first recognizing that its legitimacy comes directly from the consent of the governed, America has remained a magnet for people all over the world who dream of being free.

When cultural saboteurs attempt to rewrite America's history as one replete with racism, murder, and hate, what they really desire is to brainwash Americans into forgetting who they are and why they fight. The U.S. government, like all governments filled with imperfect souls prone to corruption and ambition, will use the strengths and passions of the American people to fight all kinds of battles that have more to do with D.C.'s welfare than the country's. Politicians will say, "We're fighting for democracy," or "against terrorism," or so that "we don't have to fight them over here." Rarely, however, will you hear those politicians use freedom as a call to arms, even though America was forged and invigorated by an indomitable spirit yearning to be free.

Why? Why would those in positions of power forsake freedom as a rallying cry when no other word better signifies who Americans are, what they have done, and what they will do in the future? The answer is that the American government...

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: consent; leftism; legitimate

1 posted on 05/01/2023 5:35:06 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Today’s US government is like what people fled to find freedom. Happy May Day comrades.


2 posted on 05/01/2023 5:35:15 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

Yep.


3 posted on 05/01/2023 5:37:47 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: MtnClimber

The US government lost all legitimacy with me when you and I were disenfranchised in 2020.


4 posted on 05/01/2023 5:40:24 AM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s been a lie! THIS is what Biden’s inauguration REALLY looked like. Have you seen this? 😲

- credit to Real Americas Voice News

[video from above of empty capitol and mall on inauguration day 2021]

https://twitter.com/leslibless/status/1652907945166766080


5 posted on 05/01/2023 5:40:28 AM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Today’s US government is like what people fled to find freedom.

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Yep and we the people are at fault for letting it happen. JMO


6 posted on 05/01/2023 5:40:53 AM PDT by deport
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"The answer is that the American government has become no different than the English one it overthrew — intoxicated by its own power to such a degree that it has deluded itself into believing that control over those it purports to govern is its by right. In turn, individual freedom and the voluntary consent of the governed that only freedom can maintain have been abandoned, so that a cumbersome government bureaucracy may rise, beholden to none."

Its Woodrow Wilson's vision realized 100 years later.
However, it will require force to maintain it, and in fact the "soft" part of that is already happening (Jan 6ers, imho Tucker Carlson's ouster, attempted OSHA mandate).

The question is when the next Waco occurs?

7 posted on 05/01/2023 5:43:16 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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As Americans living in a constitutional republic, we consent to being governed if two fundamental conditions are met:

If both of these conditions are not met, we do not consent to being governed, and any government in place is illegitimate.

The argument can easily be made on both counts that these conditions are not being met, and we are therefore being governed by an illegitimate government.

8 posted on 05/01/2023 5:48:42 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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To: hardspunned

Yes. See my post above, we agree on this.


9 posted on 05/01/2023 5:49:11 AM PDT by rlmorel ("If you think tough men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of." JBP)
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That’s the problem, by being elected, those in power consider it CONSENT.

They forget that they’re there to serve the people, not the other way around.


10 posted on 05/01/2023 6:04:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: MtnClimber

“Old World shackles”

The USA has been in IRS shackles for 110 years.


11 posted on 05/01/2023 6:28:41 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Freedom?

Try building a new housing development here in Florida.

The rare people that have the skills to navigate the rules make big bucks.


12 posted on 05/01/2023 6:31:06 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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“necessary and proper”


13 posted on 05/01/2023 6:32:53 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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The USA has long been run by lawyers.

The Constitution was created so Revolutionary War instruments bought at steep discounts by speculators could be redeemed at face value.


14 posted on 05/01/2023 6:36:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Travis McGee

Good greif!

How do they keep something like this secret?
But then no one seems to notice here.


15 posted on 05/01/2023 6:56:15 AM PDT by AuntB (Trump is our Ben Franklin - Brilliant, Boisterous, Brave and ALL AMERICAN!)
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