Posted on 06/26/2015 12:53:56 PM PDT by Jacquerie
How often at your workplace have you held your tongue out of fear of saying something that could get you fired? Are you willing to put your principles ahead of your income or pension or do you regularly “suck it up,” and save your muttering until you get home?
Everyone looks out for their interests. Read that again. You and I and everyone else naturally try to do that which best serves ourselves and families. It is called human nature and it has served mankind well since the Creation.
Our politicians are no different. They can’t be different, for as fellow human beings they are as imperfect as the rest of mankind.
Rare are the men/women who willingly risk all for free government principles. One exception is Michele Bachmann. I suspect she and her husband are still up to their eyeballs in debt because she wouldn’t cave to Speaker Boehner. Michele and Mr. Bachmann are the rare and notable exceptions.
Freeper posts overflow with diatribes against rinos, meaning those who campaign on conservative principles and soon go to the dark side and either do nothing to stop the accelerating tyranny or actually promote it.
First, we must understand that most of the chosen 435 of the House of Reps had to claw, grasp, climb their way up from humble beginnings. Does that sound familiar? Didn’t you have to do the same to achieve your level of success? They had to eat many a cr@p sandwich as they endured endless boring time on local school boards and county commissions and dealt with petty complaints from unreasonable constituents.
They are now in the House of Reps and they “made it.” In this heady environment most congressmen think they should be senators and most senators believe they should be president.
What happens to these otherwise good and upstanding people? Like anyone else, they respond in varying degrees to their (corrupt) surroundings. Go along to get along with party leadership and lots of extra power, money . . . are nearly guaranteed. They know their every public move and word is recorded and can be posted to the internet at any time. MSNBC, Politico, Salon, etc, are poised to exploit any unguarded moments. In this environment it makes perfect sense to shut up and avoid all controversy in and out of congress.
Despite the rhetoric at FreeRepublic, freepers themselves would respond in the same manner, and conduct themselves so as to continue their ascent in so-called public service. It is human nature. What you and I do in our workplaces is little different from the behavior of our politicians. It cannot be any other way!
We can admonish pubbies to stand up for the constitution all day and night. We can beat up rinos and blame them for the accelerating tyranny. It feels good. I occasionally take part in the sport myself. However, if we are to peacefully restore our previously FreeRepublic, we must come to grips as our Framers did with the fact that men respond to passion and self-interest far more often than reason. No matter where, in or out of government, personal aggrandizement trumps the greater good almost every time.
Since passions rule, how can they be turned toward the greater good? How can they be directed toward one of the declared purposes of our government, the general welfare?
All true.
Like any person the RINOs respond when their self-interest tells them to respond.
Conservatives who want to get rid of the RINOs run conservatives candidates against them in the primary and in the general elections.
That hits the RINOs right in their self-interest.
That is knee-slapping funny!
-PJ
So, you are trying establish great support?
Five of the seven richest counties in America surround Rome-on-the-Potomac.
Gee, what private products are produced in such quantities there to earn such wealth?
The greediest people on earth are government employees.
Support for what?
” Madison did not expect a people to stand idly by while a never-ending series of politicians repeatedly abused the largesse of the people until it was too late to act.”
None of the Founders envisioned that a consolidated organization would grow to control all that people learned of events in Washington and elsewhere.
National TV has destroyed all the checks and balances.
Amazingly, none of those architects died, in battle. Not one was injured, or taken into custody. How is such a truth- true?
That reminds me of a story of Patrick Henry.
Routed by the Redcoats he and a compatriot knocked at a woman’s door for food and shelter.
His fellow told the woman his companion was Patrick Henry and she replied:
“You lie! Governor Henry would never run from the British!”
... Really fits this thread LOL!
Article II Section 1:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
Article VI
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution;
-PJ
Well, that was my question.
Indeed.
The people themselves have been "Cloward-Pivened" beyond their capacity to regulate the actions of their government.
Now, it's the Confederate flag. It has to be a planned psychological ploy to keep the American people disoriented and consantly spinning.
Welcome to the beginning of the scorching of America that Drudge warned of a few weeks ago.
-PJ
Well, there is this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040698/posts
The Americans Who Risked Everything (by Rush Limbaugh’s father)
Very sobering how the signers of the Declaration suffered.
Thank You.
“a planned psychological ploy to keep the American people disoriented “
All advertising is just that and advertising is what pays the media’s profits.
I realize no one accepts that it is the nature of media to delude but it is how they make their money- and their news organizations have a role in that.
They “control the horizontal and the vertical” and everything else people see on their screens.
People don’t see the government exploding in power and debt, the media instead shows them new liberties and free money to spend on them.
They were elected to serve the voters. Instead the rinos serve themselves. They all need to be fired for not doing their jobs.
You are among the majority of clowns who post before reading.
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