Posted on 12/20/2018 7:48:21 AM PST by Loud Mime
During this last election in California our ballot showed only two Democrats as candidates for US Senator—no Republicans, no independents. Making matters even worse was that the system would not allow write-in votes, which has been a privilege exercised by the voters since the beginning of this nation. The change was due to the Democrats modifying the primary system so it would allow only the two top candidates from the primary to enter the general election. Properly exercised, this modification could, and did, eliminate their republican competitors at the primary level. This system, when combined with the state’s lack of voter identification, unverified mail-in ballots and unconstitutional sanctuary policies, may be good for their party, but it is posing a danger to the entire nation as it poisons the federal government with new officers from the enterprising faction. The Federal Government must step in and stop this before it is too late.
The Feds have the obligation to do so since our Constitution gives them that power. In Article IV, Section 4 is the following text, which is the ONLY guarantee in the Constitution:
“The United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.” This Section of the Constitution is important. The writers understood that it made little sense to have a nation comprised of states with different forms of government, such as monarchies, mob-rule democracies, dictatorships or aristocracies scattered across the nation, because those rogue governments would eventually deliver officers to federal positions that would bring chaos and eventually dismantle the republic. For a symphony of governments to work, they must be reading from the same sheets of music—they must be the same forms of government: republican. This is why the founders provided a guarantee, not a suggestion.
Many people have not heard of this section of the Constitution, which may end up being more important than our Bill of Rights. It gives the federal government the power, and the duty, to properly deal with rogue states. One Senator, Charles Sumner, called it “a sleeping giant” back in 1867.
Sumner’s name may be familiar to some of you. Senator Sumner represented Massachusetts in the mid 1800’s and was vigorously anti-slavery. He often got personal in his remarks as he debated pro-slavery senators. One time in 1856 he went too far in his depictions of South Carolina and its slave owners, insulting them by inferring that some slave owners used their slaves for sexual favors. Those were fighting words. Shortly after the speech he was confronted by Representative Preston Brooks, who walked up to Sumner on the Senate floor and proceeded to beat him severely with a gold-headed cane. During the assault the cane broke from the strikes on Sumner, yet Brooks continued to beat him to unconsciousness with what was left of the cane. It took months for Sumner to recover. But slavery is now history, and we now face another serious problem with Sumner’s “sleeping giant” ready to strike at the wrongdoers.
You may wonder why I brought that up. California leads the nation in debt; it has put a greater obligation on the future than any other state. Many people call this “debt enslavement,” as the future citizens will have to work for the benefit of others without getting a penny for their work; that is slavery. The beneficiaries of this process will fight all they can to maintain their unearned income, be it pay or other gifts from the government treasury. Expect them to fight with great vigor, even if everything they want is ill-gotten—just like Preston Brooks did.
Despite what it says on its flag, California is not behaving like a republic; it is behaving like an unrestrained popular democracy that continues to lose respect for our constitutional government. California is either horribly managed or brilliantly mismanaged, depending on your political point of view. On one hand, many politicians, state officers and various government employees have gained wealth despite their state sinking in debt—at least they are working. But many people are not; they are finding shelter and comfort in the state’s welfare, care and sanctuary programs. On the other hand, the national debt clock lists California’s debt at over $420 billion, with other estimates soaring to $1.3 trillion, yet the Democrats were bragging in their campaign ads that they were balancing the budget. Nearly a tenth of its 40 million residents are on welfare, the infrastructure needs work across the state, a need that is largely ignored, and, while the Los Angeles area drivers swelter in traffic jams that take two hours to drive forty miles (in the diamond lanes!), the government is ignoring the freeway system as it pushes billions of dollars on a high speed rail between San Francisco and Los Angeles. The cost of that project has more than doubled from $33 billion to $77 billion, with an expected completion date of 2033. Any rational individual knows that the cost will grow far beyond its last estimate.
Some events in California are not going to stay there—they will affect our nation. The results of this last election will change their representation at the federal level, largely due to the appearance of thousands of provisional and mail-in ballots after the polls closed. Republicans who had led by thousands of votes at the end of election night ended up losing as the the new boxes appeared; virtually all of those votes were for the Democrats. Investigations are being conducted as claims of various types of fraud circulate in the news and Internet.
Something is rotten in California, and it promises to poison the federal government. The Feds must act. But in doing so, they will run into a string of arguments that promise to delay the process, the biggest of which will be the definition of a “republican form of government.”
In studying the founder’s concept of a republic you will enter a maze of differing opinions. Many of their writings claimed that a republic would involve the will of the people, which may have been to ease the public fears of an overly-powerful federal government as the states debated ratification. James Madison, in Federalist 10, defined a republic as a form of government “in which the scheme of representation takes place,” and then offered the system as a cure for the power of a faction because the representatives would tone down the energies that popular movements always create. Well, that was the idea, but times have changed and the electorate has totally changed from Madison’s day, when the people had fought for independence instead of dependence.
Despite all the arguments concerning the definition of a republican form of government, there is one clear point about what a republican form of government is not: a government that caters to the demands of an unrestrained majority. The founders loathed the idea of a government answering to popular will alone, unencumbered by history’s warnings of horrible debt, sinecures and redistributions. Madison stated that “democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been in short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
It is getting to be high noon as the beneficiaries of this last election ready themselves to take their federal offices. A party that has benefited from slamming the future with outrageous debt and disregard for our constitutional principles—and flat-out lying in their oaths of office—is ready to fight against everything and every one who believes in prudent government. For years too many people have been unconcerned with the federal and state debts, which has continually fueled the liberal faction throughout this nation. We are now at a point where it is best to use good management to solve the problem instead of succumbing to a financial collapse. Only a patriotic energy, coupled with a constitutional focus, can pull the reins on the state’s move to more debt and eventual anarchy. It is time to address the issue. Expect a fight and do not shrink from your duty when it starts.
If it was repealed, do really think the democRats in the Kali legislature would send better people? The illegals voting there needs to be stopped, and they need to not count for apportionment.
Thanks for all the information - I mean it. There is so much more that could have gone into this essay, but I wanted to keep it below 2,000 words.
The character of the voter has changed. The 17th put a process in motion that took a few years to realize its power of corrupting the senate - the courts were then corrupted by the senate. Without educating the public, and convincing them to start acting like they’re interested in this nation’s future, going back to a pre-17 senate would we worthless.
Trump’s biggest success now is his judicial appointments. Thank God he’s doing this instead of Hillary.
good stuff thanks
Here’s the latest from Sanctuary Calif where public safety is not a priority much like in congress.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article223318080.html
I agree about stopping illegal voting and apportionment issues.
Otherwise, Kali democRats probably don’t understand that probably most of the federal funding that they regularly beg Congress for is arguably Kali state revenues stolen from Kali by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
Congress has an orchard of money trees did ya know. /sarc
So hey, why not eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the corrupt, incompetent feds, from “helping” to manage state revenues?
I think you'd have to toss a grenade in the teachers union tent, clean up public education (vouchers?) and then wait for more educated kids started coming out the back end of K-12.
In March 2017 Trump admin called for election records from the states. 17 states refused including California. The federal government backed off. Nothing will be done about illegals voting.
I do appreciate your informed posts on this stuff. So I will just add my post #46 as a first step toward what to advocate. This won’t work with morons electing congress.
Patriots need to get Pres. Trump up to speed with the fact that he has the Constitution on his side regarding not only dealing with undocumented Democrats voting, but also in dealing with major constitutional problems with how electoral votes are counted.
More specifically Trump needs to work with the states to enforce the Constitution’s 12th Amendment which will put a stop imo to unconstitutional state winner-take-all electoral votes.
"Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"
Trump also needs to work with the states to enforce Section 2 of the 14th Amendment. Section 2 establishes a punitive remedy for states that abridge the voting power of citizens.
”14th Amendment, Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens [emphasis added] twenty-one years of age in such State."
Note that subsequent voting-related amendments to the Constitution have effectively change how voting criteria specified in Section 2 is to be interpreted imo.
Also regarding Section 2, Trump needs to work with the states to make sure that qualified citizen voters present valid citizenship / photo ID cards before being allowed to vote. Such cards need to be scannable to facilitate Democratic ballot box officials with “poor” eyesight.
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