Posted on 11/18/2022 10:13:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind
collectivists
the state is primary
what flavor?
doesnt matter
Original in post 60 is originate.
One of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People.
From our precious Declaration of Independence: “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.”
The voter, too, should be held to some form of transparency, not in how they voted, but in who voted. As a civic duty, the voters should be made to assemble and publicly vote in a manner for all to see. No more mass mail-in voting, no internet voting, no anonymous voting. Anonymous votes, yes, but voting itself, no.
-PJ
It's harder for lefty crooks to control the makeup of a state legislature than for statewide offices like Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State. For example. Philadelphia can manufacture votes to control statewide offices, but the crooks in Philly can't easily gain control of the state’s representative districts.
Pennsylvania is blood red except for a couple of urban hellholes where cheaters manufacture outcomes.
The Founders arranged that state legislatures would choose their State's two US Senators. This ensured a republican arrangement to include a state's far-flung areas would have a say in who was to be their US Senators.
There are 18 states that similarly have an urban hellhole choosing/rigging who should be US Senators. If the 17th Amendment was kicked to the ground leaving the nation as it was originally founded, those 18 states could produce 18x2=36 US GOP Senators in addition to up to 50 retained in the Midterms, for a total of 86. Sounds crazy, but it's not.
More than 66 US GOP Senators could convict Biden and remove him from office.
And what was the Era called when the 17th slipped through?
Ans. The "Progressive" Era.
The founding fathers **did** design a system that could withstand what Democrats are now doing to it.
It’s those in D.C. who allow it to happen spines are few and far between there.
Pick a party any party if the founding fathers were alive they would strangle them they built the greatest country in the world.
Agree….
I hope enough people are now seeing clearly, and that it's not too late for the few to start dragging the many back to Godliness, common sense and concerted action to turn this wreck around. That said, I'm glad I'm old.
I disagree, the destruction started with the 17th Amendment and the beginnings of Progressive Liberal Politics in the late 19th Century. Culminating in the FDR being elected in 1932, there is your demarcation point when the this country crossed the Rubicon to where we are now.
In reality we have moved, via the Democrats, to a Quasi Stalinist State, where only one ideology is tolerated and everything else must be censored and eliminated.
if the Left had it’s way many of us would be sent to Re-Education Camps, straight to Gulag or a Death Camp. Only fear and threat of death to keep everyone in line.
You have valid points. Others say it was the Civil War, with Lincoln suspending habeas corpus to try to quell secession. Whatever is the case, the seeds were sown long ago.
Democrats ARE mighty faggots.
I don't disagree with what you said, but I didn't talk about the 17th amendment at all in my post.
-PJ
For sake of discussion, let’s assume that the Supremes rule that student loan bailout is unconstitutional. But the Biden admin ignores ruling and starts sending out checks.
What happens then? Cuz I expect something like that will happen.
RE: the Supremes rule that student loan bailout is unconstitutional. But the Biden admin ignores ruling and starts sending out checks.
What SHOULD happen is IMPEACHMENT. But it’s a futile exercise because even if Congress votes to convict, we need 2/3 in the Senate to remove. Impossible even if the Republicans won in the midterms and got 54 seats ( the most optimistic estimate then ).
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