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The fatal flaw in our constitutional republic: The founding fathers did not design a system that could withstand what Democrats are now doing to it.
American Thinker ^ | 11/18/2022 | D. Parker

Posted on 11/18/2022 10:13:12 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Are there any decent Democrats out there anymore? Are they sick and tired of what the fascist far left has been doing to this country? Have they become thoroughly disgusted by the lies, deception, cheating, and gaslighting promulgated by their side in a headlong pursuit of power?

The election two years ago highlighted the fatal flaw in our constitutional republic — a flaw that only has been made worse this time around. Our system isn't designed to withstand it if one side loses its moral underpinnings in favor of a lust for power and is willing to do anything to win.

Many tried to ignore the problem back then, but it didn't help that leftist liberty-deniers jeered about the issue as preparation for using the same tactics in the midterms.

Now it's happened once again, and the perpetrators have become even more polished in how they've manipulated the system they set up for a long past "emergency." We can no longer whistle past the graveyard of constitutional republics and pretend that we even have a two-party system.

There are those who argue that we should at least try to compete along the same lines as the illegitimate left, but whom are we kidding? Leftists have set up the system to their advantage: a drawn-out election season favors those willing to vote for a living. Activists who falsely think they are "saving the planet" or other such facile nonsense will always outcompete those who are actually useful to society.

Anti-liberty leftists love phrases like "a race to the bottom," so let's look at the end of the slippery slope.

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To: Jim Noble

collectivists

the state is primary

what flavor?

doesnt matter


61 posted on 11/18/2022 12:09:07 PM PST by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: Amendment10; All

Original in post 60 is originate.


62 posted on 11/18/2022 12:10:48 PM PST by Amendment10
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To: SeekAndFind

One of the foremost constitutional theorists of the founding generation, John Adams, observed, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious People.


63 posted on 11/18/2022 12:47:45 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: drypowder

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.”


64 posted on 11/18/2022 12:56:22 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: Hostage
The Founding Fathers expected transparency in how our government operates. That's why:

  1. Congress must keep a daily record of its activities (Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.),
  2. the President shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union,
  3. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial.

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

65 posted on 11/18/2022 1:03:33 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too; All
The 17th Amendment was more damaging than most can see, and for those that see, more damaging than can be imagined. Without the 17th, the US Senate would be much more conservative.

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.

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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.

66 posted on 11/18/2022 1:53:50 PM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


67 posted on 11/18/2022 2:48:31 PM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Boogieman

Agree….


68 posted on 11/18/2022 2:59:06 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: SeekAndFind
The destruction of our system started almost immediately post-WW2 with the atheist rights and civil rights movements, veering hard left into feminism, anti-marriage and abortion in the 60s & 70s, followed by plummeting child development markers and child poverty and fatherlessness as a result. Those children are now adults, sending out more fatherless children into the streets, while their unchurched middle-class age-mates are producing spoiled, entitled slackers, pathological narcissists and media-indoctrinated screen addicts.

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.

69 posted on 11/18/2022 4:32:33 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: SeekAndFind

70 posted on 11/18/2022 4:35:29 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Albion Wilde

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.


71 posted on 11/18/2022 4:37:42 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


72 posted on 11/18/2022 4:41:48 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: kiryandil
The Democrats win because they always band together. Individually the sticks may be frail, rotten, cracked and brittle. Bring enough of them together in a bundle, and they form a mighty faggot.


73 posted on 11/18/2022 4:57:14 PM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: Captain Peter Blood

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.


74 posted on 11/18/2022 5:13:05 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free... Galatians 5:1 )
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To: Dr.Deth
I agree

Democrats ARE mighty faggots.

75 posted on 11/18/2022 5:16:20 PM PST by kiryandil (put yer vote in the box, chump. HARHARHARHAR)
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To: Hostage
Are you sure you meant this for me?

I don't disagree with what you said, but I didn't talk about the 17th amendment at all in my post.

-PJ

76 posted on 11/18/2022 6:03:46 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


77 posted on 11/18/2022 6:06:39 PM PST by GSWarrior
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To: GSWarrior

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 ).


78 posted on 11/18/2022 9:40:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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