Posted on 08/19/2026 6:50:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We are less than three months from the midterm elections, and for all the billions of dollars that will be spent convincing Americans otherwise, the choice facing voters is remarkably straightforward.
Do Americans want government guided by common sense? Or by crazy, woke ideas that have endlessly proven to make our lives worse? If they prefer the former, they can let Republicans continue driving American prosperity. If they prefer the latter, they can give Democrats the wheel.
The individual issues may change: crime, immigration, abortion, elections, education. But the throughline remains remarkably consistent. Vile ideas that would have once been confined to the lunatic fringe a decade ago have found eager champions in today’s Democratic Party.
As one example, look at Michigan.
Abdul el Sayed, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate, proudly campaigned alongside left-wing internet commentator Hasan Piker. Piker is notorious for his anti-American rhetoric, including his infamous 2019 declaration that “America deserved 9/11.” Piker also praises America’s most ardent enemies, claiming Chinese Communist dictator Mao Zedong was a “great leader” and dressing in his trademark suit.
But el Sayed doesn’t need Piker to prove he’s incapable of representing the American people. His support for socialist healthcare, defunding the police, and abolishing Immigration and Customs But el Sayed doesn’t need Piker to prove he’s incapable of representing the American people. His support for socialist healthcare, defunding the police, and abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement is proof enough of his crazy ideology....SNIP
Everyone can see that they are crazy except for the crazy people.
“Do Americans want government guided by common sense? “
From what I see in the blue part of Ohio... absolutely not.
Framing the choice wrong. It is actually: Common sense vs. Free Stuff.
I think you are right. It is an uphill battle against paychecks without work.
This is why America was supposed to have a Limited Government.
Doesn’t get any crazier than the lefties in California. Latest is a War on Tires:
“The California Energy Commission on Monday voted to restrict what type of tires Californians can buy and when they can replace their tires.
The new rules will lead to a ban on the sale of the majority of tires in the state because they don’t meet the new efficiency standards.
According to analysis, more than 70% of tires will be banned.”
Yesterday “Republicans” in Florida by a wide margin chose an ex-New Yorker, former felon, recent ex-registered Democrat as their 2028 gubernatorial candidate. Oh. Forgot to mention. His family is from Panama and some other third-world incubator. Oh. And he’s Black btw. This is a red state, right?
You forgot to mention that Byron is MAGA and has been a great Republican congressman for the state of Florida and the country.
“”Yesterday “Republicans” in Florida by a wide margin chose an ex-New Yorker, former felon, recent ex-registered Democrat as their 2028 gubernatorial candidate. Oh. Forgot to mention. His family is from Panama and some other third-world incubator. Oh. And he’s Black btw. This is a red state, right?””
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Sooo... what, specifically, about Byron Donalds’ policies, do you object to? His stance against open borders? His pro-2nd Amendment rights stance? His fiscal conservatism and pro-deregulation stance? Or is it just his connection to MAGA and approval by Trump, perhaps?
Yeah, but crazy is winning.
Everything under the Sun is in tune, but the Sun is eclipsed by the Moon.
Everyone has several choices...not just one.
The single most important choice is whether those who have chosen a side actually voter...or are satisfied to sit in front of the screen and yell their preference at the screen.
TURNOUT is the #1 choice.
In the Florida primaries yesterday the R votes were much larger than the D votes.
Do Americans want government guided by common sense?
Common sense arguments aside, please consider the following from related threads.
The problem with the country is that tax-oppressed voters (16th Amendment; 16A), as a consequence of having too much voting power (17th Amendment), voters not having a clue about the federal government's constitutionally very limited powers, use their misguided "common sense" to unthinkingly elect and then reelect pirate lawmakers who promise voters every constitutionally indefensible federal spending program under the sun to "make life better" in order to to stay in power.
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. (Abuse of 16A)
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.
16th Amendment: The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived [emphasis added], without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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)
Reelected crook lawmakers then continue to abuse their 16A powers in an endless cycle of rescuing voters from escalating government-manufactured crises.
It can be argued that the crazy, elite political descendants of the Civil War Southern States have gotten themselves elected to Congress where they continue to violate the 13th Amendment's prohibition of involuntary servitude on all taxpayers by means of 16A-facilitated federal taxes in the ongoing post Civil War cold war.
And the so-called mainstream Rats will say, "Oh yeah, I was DSA from the beginning."
Watch it happen.
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