Posted on 07/08/2014 4:59:07 AM PDT by workerbee
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We are now governed by elites, some the second and third generation of elites, who have decided the rest of us aren’t smart enough to govern ourselves. They believe modern society has become so complicated that government needs to be in every nook and cranny of it, making the decisions for us, for our own good. They know what’s best for us.
This growing dissatisfaction hasn’t reached a boiling point, but it shows no signs of simmering down. The signs are everywhere.
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Rather, we are badly divided as a country.
Please elaborate. What exactly do you mean, and what would it solve?
Welcome, you are not alone. Mark Twain - If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."
It’s how Che, Fidel, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc. all got their start.
Promise to take from the evil rich and give to the virtuous poor.
After all has gone to hell in a handbasket, rev up the storm troopers, snitchers, and internment camps.
In 1775 we didn’t have peaceful, constitutional means to press our demands to the rights of Englishmen.
The Framers gave us Article V to address the current crisis, to reestablish republican freedom.
Sorry couldn't resist.
America's Founding Fathers would never have imagined that things would drift to this point, without a complete upheaval and new start.
William Flax
I absolutely believe that for national offices.
I don't know that there's a viable way to do that.
Thanks, I’ll be checking out your links.
“Rather, we are badly divided as a country.”
Totally by design.
Insidious Progressive indoctrination has taken its toll and the international Progressive movement is on the march.
IMHO
It’s hard to not be pessimistic — doesn’t everything the Framers left us for peaceful resolution rely on the understanding of, and commitment to, following the rules as laid out?
.....And it will come back to haunt the progressives bigtime.
What promoted republican freedom was the division of power, of which first and foremost was the vertical division, that between the states and the government they created.
The 17th Amendment pulled the keystone from the arch of American freedom. Overnight, all constitutional powers devolved to one president, 535 popularly elected members of congress and nine blackrobes.
Absent the states in the senate, no force was present to secure the 9th and 10th amendments.
The convulsions of 2014 can be traced to the snake oil of democracy which the Left sold an unwitting nation in 1913.
In short, the 17th denied the states their legitimate and necessary place in our government. It denied them consent of the governed, and our republic is paying dearly for that mistake.
“And it will come back to haunt the progressives bigtime.”
Please explain that delightful scenario.
Thanks.
IMHO
The Framers were quite familiar with wild democratic state assemblies, yet left elector qualifications to the federal House of Reps up to the states. In 1787, northeastern states were moving toward universal white, free suffrage, less so as one moved south.
The key to keeping a lid on the expected democratic mob was a Senate of the States.
The system worked. It kept the genie of democratic tyranny, mob rule in her bottle.
I would have to disagree with the article and say that we are almost at the boiling point. This situation will not be resolved at the ballot box.
Was this person a school teacher or educrat or some other form of government employee. Government types certainly believe that because the programs they administer are such Rube Goldberg structures that they can't explain them to any normal taxpayer and get very angry and defensive that the taxpayers don't have a properly respectful attitude towards the administrative class.
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