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Peter Schweizer: 2016 Election About Whether America Will Be Ruled by Political Class
Breitbart ^ | Oct 18, 2016 | John Hayward

Posted on 10/18/2016 9:52:28 AM PDT by detective

Shortened title.

Full title: Peter Schweizer: 2016 Election About Whether America Will Be Ruled by Political Class or American People

Peter Schweizer, author of the best-selling book Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow for Tuesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.

“I think it’s important that we have this national conversation about Washington, D.C., and what the problem is,” said Schweizer, gratified that the topic of corruption has become an important part of the 2016 election. “For too long, Alex, the political debate has been, ‘Well, should it be Republicans or should it be Democrats?’ People have failed to recognize that really, on a lot of cases, it’s two sides of the same coin – that you’re essentially getting the same thing.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; clintoncash; constitution; election; josephstory; oligarchy; peterschweizer; rulingclass
This is an excellent article. This is what the election is all about.

If Clinton is elected, America will no longer be a Republic. The freedoms and prosperity that our country has enjoyed for over 200 years will be only a memory.

1 posted on 10/18/2016 9:52:28 AM PDT by detective
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To: detective

Will the ruling class give me free porn on the internet while suppressing those mean racists I keep blocking on Twitter?

If so, then I’m voting for the ruling class!

/typical American


2 posted on 10/18/2016 9:54:33 AM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (You can't have a constitution without a country to go with it)
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To: detective
Schweizer: “For too long, Alex, the political debate has been, ‘Well, should it be Republicans or should it be Democrats?’ People have failed to recognize that really, on a lot of cases, it’s two sides of the same coin – that you’re essentially getting the same thing.”

Hooray for the Uniparty. Now it makes no difference if we vote for a Democrat or a Republican. Whew, that takes a lot off my mind. Flip a coin. Heads or tails, it's all good.

3 posted on 10/18/2016 9:59:38 AM PDT by upchuck (Trump to the White House!! Hillary to the Big House!! h/t Jim Robinson)
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To: detective

Rules for Changing a Limited Republican Government into an Unlimited Hereditary One

http://www.constitution.org/cmt/freneau/republic2monarchy.htm


4 posted on 10/18/2016 10:00:03 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: upchuck

And then there’s Trump.


5 posted on 10/18/2016 10:02:45 AM PDT by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: detective

A non-politician patriot takes out the political Bush cabal and the parasitic Clinton Crime Syndicate in one election cycle.

HOORAY Donald J. Trump


6 posted on 10/18/2016 10:02:49 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: detective

This may be our last election. Stupid Never Trumpers (Always Losers) don’t understand that. They don’t see that with HilLIARy we would become like a nation-wide California, with one party ruling all branches of government in perpetuity. Sure, Congress will be republican at first (don’t get me started on how useless they are most of the time) and may take some heroic stands, but the 2020 census will change everything.


7 posted on 10/18/2016 10:03:57 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: detective
Inasmuch as protection of America's Constitution as the fundamental and supreme law upon which liberty rests, might it be time to review Justice Story's Commentaries on the Constitution. . . .?

Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1833) - by Joseph L. Story - BOOK 3, CHAPTER 45 - Concluding Remarks

Sec. 1903. We have now reviewed all the provisions of the original constitution of the United States, and all the amendments, which have been incorporated into it. And, here, the task originally proposed in these Commentaries is brought to a close. Many reflections naturally crowd upon the mind at such a moment; many grateful recollections of the past; and many anxious thoughts of the future. The past is secure. It is unalterable. The seal of eternity is upon it. The wisdom, which it has displayed, and the blessings, which it has bestowed, cannot be obscured; neither can they be debased by human folly, or human infirmity. The future is that, which may well awaken the most earnest solicitude, both for the virtue and the permanence of our republic. The fate of other republics, their rise, their progress, their decline, and their fall, are written but too legibly on the pages of history, if indeed they were not continually before us in the startling fragments of their ruins. They have perished; and perished by their own hands. Prosperity has enervated them, corruption has debased them, and a venal populace has consummated their destruction. Alternately the prey of military chieftains at home, and of ambitious invaders from abroad, they have been sometimes cheated out of their liberties by servile demagogues; sometimes betrayed into a surrender of them by false patriots; and sometimes they have willingly sold them for a price to the despot, who has bidden highest for his victims. They have disregarded the warning voice of their best statesmen; and have persecuted, and driven from office their truest friends. They have listened to the fawning sycophant, and the base calumniator of the wise and the good. They have reverenced power more in its high abuses and summary movements, than in its calm and constitutional energy, when it dispensed blessings with an unseen, but liberal hand. They have surrendered to faction, what belonged to the country. Patronage and party, the triumph of a leader, and the discontents of a day, have outweighed all solid principles and institutions of government. Such are the melancholy lessons of the past history of republics down to our own.

Sec. 1904. It is not my design to detain the reader by any elaborate reflections addressed to his judgment, either by way of admonition or of encouragement. But it may not be wholly without use to glance at one or two considerations, upon which our meditations cannot be too frequently indulged.

Sec. 1905. In the first place, it cannot escape our notice, how exceedingly difficult it is to settle the foundations of any government upon principles, which do not admit of controversy or question. The, very elements, out of which it is to be built, are susceptible of infinite modifications; and theory too often deludes us by the attractive simplicity of its plans, and imagination by the visionary perfection of its speculations. In theory, a government may promise the most perfect harmony of operations in all its various combinations. In practice, the whole machinery may be perpetually retarded, or thrown out of order by accidental maladjustments. In theory, a government may seem deficient in unity of design and symmetry of parts; and yet, in practice, it may work with astonishing accuracy and force for the general welfare. Whatever, then, has been found to work well in experience, should be rarely hazarded upon conjectural improvements. Time, and long and steady operation are indispensable to the perfection of all social institutions. To be of any value they must become cemented with the habits, the feelings, and the pursuits of the people. Every change discomposes for a while the whole arrangements of the system. What is safe is not always expedient; what is new is often pregnant with unforeseen evils, and imaginary good.

Sec. 1906. In the next place, the slightest attention to the history of the national constitution must satisfy every reflecting mind, how many difficulties attended its formation and adoption, from real or imaginary differences of interests, sectional feelings, and local institutions. It is an attempt to create a national sovereignty, and yet to preserve the state sovereignties; though it is impossible to assign definite boundaries in every case to the powers of each. The influence of the disturbing causes, which, more than once in the convention, were on the point of breaking up the Union, have since immeasurably increased in concentration and vigour. The very inequalities of a government, confessedly founded in a compromise, were then felt with a strong sensibility; and every new source of discontent, whether accidental or permanent, has since added increased activity to the painful sense of these inequalities. The North cannot but perceive, that it has yielded to the South a superiority of representatives, already amounting to twenty-five, beyond its due proportion; and the South imagines, that, with all this preponderance in representation, the other parts of the Union enjoy a more perfect protection of their interests, than her own. The West feels her growing power and weight in the Union; and the Atlantic states begin to learn, that the sceptre must one day depart from them. If, under these circumstances, the Union should once be broken up, it is impossible, that a new constitution should ever be formed, embracing the whole Territory. We shall be divided into several nations or confederacies, rivals in power and interest, too proud to brook injury, and too close to make retaliation distant or ineffectual. Our very animosities will, like those of all other kindred nations, become more deadly, because our lineage, laws, and language are the same. Let the history of the Grecian and Italian republics warn us of our dangers. The national constitution is our last, and our only security. United we stand; divided we fall.

Sec. 1907. If these Commentaries shall but inspire in the rising generation a more ardent love of their country, an unquenchable thirst for liberty, and a profound reverence for the constitution and the Union, then they will have accomplished all, that their author ought to desire. Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capable, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial blessings of fife, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and independence. The structure has been erected by architects of consummate skill and fidelity; its foundations are solid; its compartments are beautiful, as well as useful; its arrangements are full of wisdom and order; and its defences are impregnable from without. It has been reared for immortality, if the work of man may justly aspire to such a title. It may, nevertheless, perish in an hour by the folly, or corruption, or negligence of its only keepers, THE PEOPLE. Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them."


8 posted on 10/18/2016 10:04:44 AM PDT by loveliberty2
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To: detective

There’ve been so many recent revelations, it’s hard to even wade through them, but the one that actually is starting to stick with me is Clinton acknowledging, even celebrating, the idea that a politician should have one position for public consumption, and another one for behind closed doors. That is basically the essence of corruption.


9 posted on 10/18/2016 10:04:51 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: Behind the Blue Wall

Just transfer congressional functions/offices throughout the prairie. Will the political class move with them?


10 posted on 10/18/2016 10:08:55 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: detective

bookmark


11 posted on 10/18/2016 10:46:56 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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...2016 Election About Whether America Will Be Ruled by Political Class...

I AM SHOUTING! But to make it easier on the eyes I'll revert to a less aggressive style. We are NOT supposed to be RULED; we are supposed to be SERVED! They (the political class) don't GET IT. That's why Trump gets so much traction. We need to throw them out through TERM LIMITS, because we obviously won't do it at the ballot box!

12 posted on 10/18/2016 11:12:40 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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