Ryerse: "Donald Trump is absolutely inconsistent with Christian principles of love and compassion, justice, looking out for the poor, meeting the needs of the marginalised."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Respectfully to Mr. Ryerse and other understandably concerned but constitutionally misguided Christian leaders with their sights on DC, post-17th Amendment (17A; popular vote for federal senators) ratification Christian politicians concerned for the needs of the poor and marginalized seem to be as clueless, as probably most patriots are, about the Constitution's division of state and federal powers regarding the care of the poor.
Noting that the constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government's caring for the poor is based entirely on corrupt Congress's vote-buying abuse of its 16th Amendment powers (16A; direct taxes) imo, constitution-impaired Christian candidates for federal office actually need to do the following.
"Defenders of the poor" Christian lawmakers need to consider winning either Democratic or Republican state and federal lawmaker seats, whatever it takes takes to easily and honestly win a seat, so that they can support "ignorer of the poor" PDJT47 in leading Congress to do the following.
Simply put, the Constitution's drafters left the care of the people UNIQUELY to the states, not the now very corrupt, constitutionally undefined, vote-buying political parties that have pirated control of state and federal governments.
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 [emphasis added].
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.
The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with [all emphases added] the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states. —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
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.
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature. —Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
To make PDJT47's legacy as permanent as possible, the Trump-supporting Congress that patriots wake up and elect in 2026 needs to successfully propose to the states a new amendment to the Constitution that is strictly limited to repealing the ill-conceived 16&17A.
In fact, Christian voters need to primary ALL candidates for state and federal office who refuse to publicly support a resolution to propose a new amendment to the Constitution to repeal 16&17A in January 2027.
Consider that a resolution to repeal 16A was introduced as recently as 2021, but was unsurprisingly ignored.
We'll call the repeal amendment Trump's Boston Tea Party II Amendment.
Once unconstitutional federal taxing and spending is stopped, the states will ultimately find a tsunami of new revenues that they probably won't know what to do with imo, healthcare, including taking care of the poor, and education, on the short list of priorities.
Thank you for sharing. I hope their GOP opponents will step up to the plate and cut through the BS!