Posted on 08/10/2024 12:32:16 PM PDT by OneVike
I have been around FreeRepublic for over 26 years, and one thing I notice is how the more things change, the more they get worse, not better. Everyone needs to understand that we the people are the inmates, and what ultimately happens to us is of no concern of those running this asylum we call America. I have learned that while there are good people elected to office, the vast majority of them are in it for themselves. After all, the days of the citizens getting elected to do their civic duty, then going back home after a few terms is long gone.
Today we have popularity contests between people no one knows, pushed by other people we don't know, and then the winner moves to the state capital, or, Washington, get sworn in and, if we are lucky, they will leave office before they die. Sadly the majority leave after their mental capacity has diminished or just die in office. In reality, our existence is of no concern to them, until they run to get re-elected.
In the movie, "The Green Mile," we are introduced to the phrase, "Dead Man Walking." It's a supernatural story of what happens with some death row inmates, and the men who guard them. The phrase refers to the last walk, a man on death row, takes a he heads to the electrical chair in a room at the end of the hallway. Short of a stay of execution by the Governor or the Supreme Court, the man, or women, will take that walk and there is nothing they can do but face reality. From the moment they are put on death row, their lives are useless, and all they have to look forward to is that long walk to a chair.
Through the years most politicians have learned how to keep us clueless as to what they are really doing by hiring pubic relation firms to help them fool the voters. We call them campaign managers, but in reality they are just a bunch of PR advisors. No different than the idiots hired by companies to give them advice on how to fool us into buying something we actually don't need. Sadly, through the years politicians have gotten wiser while the voters have gotten dumber.
A perfect example is the how the Clintons were able to fool the public into believing they were doing the business of the people. When in reality they spent eight years giving the people the business instead. From the moment they entered the office, they changed politics for ever by using the office of the Presidency as their personal PR firm instead of the office of, by, and for the people. To understand the full impact of what the Clintons did when they assumed the office in January 1993, Now, there are 93 United States Attorneys appointed to the 94 federal judicial districts across the United States, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. The first thing the Clintons did was fire every one, and then replaced them with their own loyal handpicked attorneys.
With the help of the MSM, the Clintons were able to redirect any problems away from them. Rush Limbaugh at one time informed us that the Clinton regime had a policy to do so many underhanded, borderline illegal things that the Republicans could never keep up. With the help of a sycophant loyal media, they just accused the opposition of always complaining. The more the Republicans pointed out what the Clinton's were doing, the more the Republicans were accused constantly complaining instead of wanting to govern.
The next thing they did was steal 100 FBI files of the top Republicans and their supporters. So regardless of their own illegalities, they knew the dirt they had on the Republicans would allow them to get away with things. If you look back after Gingrich was removed, you will notice how it sure seemed that the Republican Speakers actually helped the Clintons, and later Obama. Now that we know about form speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert's proclivities for little boys, we can see why he gladly worked with the opposition so much. I still wonder what Obama had on former Speakers, John Boehner and Paul Ryan.
Go ahead and look back at all those Republicans we once trusted, and how they all turned against Trump, thus against us, the people. Well, here we are 30 years after the Clintons brought Arkansas politics to Washington, and the Democrats have a firm control of everything. Oh, sure we have the house, but do we really? When you look at the US Senate, the Democrats hold only a two seat majority, yet Republicans Senators seem to work with Biden more than they did with Trump. Why else does Biden can get almost anything he wants without much fight from Republicans? Maybe the fact the Senate's Republican minority leader, Mitch McConnell, has been in the Senate since 1985, and they've had his FBI file since 1993. Then add into all this that, while we may a majority conservative Supreme Court, it sure seems they often times rule in favor of the left in ways that make us scratch our heads.
Well, thanks to the moderate Republicans and conservatives on the high court selling out to the left, we cannot even count on honest elections anymore. Look across the country, even in states controlled by Republican, we see RINO Governors and liberal courts who have assured the Democrats will keep elections to stay in power. Thus for the vast amount of Americans who desperately want change, we have no power. The left learned well from their friends the communists, it’s not who votes that counts, but those who count the vote. It worked for the Soviet Union for 70 years, and for the Chi-coms for almost 80 years. Today, we can only pray that come November, the Democrats will lose control.
Yet, will they?
The United States has entered the twilight zone of reality, and those who count the vote continually get away with whatever they desire to do. So far even the US Supreme Court has yet to rule against the Democrats on stealing elections. Time and time again it does not matter if they cheated. So too, is the response we get from Republicans who have done nothing to ever stop the Democrats from cheating.
Someone please tell me ONE thing the Republicans have ever done in the past 2 to 4 years to stop the Democrats from stealing the elections. We can go back as far back as 1996 when the Republican party allowed the Democrats to steal B-1 Bob Dornan’s House seat, and again in "2008" when they refused to fight for Coleman's US Senate seat in Minnesota. Ever since the Democrats learned that the Republican party will not fight for stolen elections, they have just continued stealing election after election. Then in 2020, the Republican party refused to fight for Donald Trump.
Time and time again the Republican party has sat back, allowing the Democrats to steal one election after another. In 28 years since Sanchez was allowed to steal Dornan's seat, I have yet to see either the Republicans or the Supreme Court stand up and defend the integrity of elections. Now we have Willie Brown's paramour, installed as the Democrat party's nominee for President.
Mind you, since 2020 there has been nothing, or very little to protect the integrity of our elections, Well I for one am not convinced that Trump will win come November. Not because the voters pulled a lever for Harris, but because the Democrats will steal the election again. Then, as in 2000, the I do not expect the Republicans, nor the Supreme Court to step up to the plate. However, even IF Trump wins, I expect to see many Republican's to join the Democrats in stopping anything he does while attempting to destroy him just as they did last time. Also, if Republicans win the Senate, can anyone convince me that enough Republican Senators will have Trump's back when the attacks from the left and MSM begin?
I often times pray for God to intervene one more time to give us another chance. Yet, so often men just thumb their proverbial finger into God's proverbial eye, as they tell Him to leave us alone. Mind you, Christ will not be returning because government is bad. Nope, He will return because men's hearts are evil. Even if Trump wins, America will fall. The writing is on the wall, and we don't need Daniel to interpret what its says. I stated in the beginning of this rant, that I have been a Freeper for 26 years, and one thing I notice is how the more things change, the more they get worse, not better.
I am convinced that even if Trump wins, in 6 to 10 years from now, America will be an even worse place to live than it is now. Evil does not become less evil over time, it becomes more evil. Look at the those who will be replacing us as we old timers die. As bad as things are now, give it another 10 to 25 years, and the United States as we know it will cease to exist. If we do not change the way our elections are held soon, well then things will just get worse.
I'll leave you with this thought. Consider what kind of world we are leaving behind for our children and grandchildren. See, if we don't fix things, and fix them soon, then their lives will be like those on death row. They will be but dead men walking, awaiting that a long walk down a hallway of misery where a chair awaits them.
I am open to anyone who thinks they can convince me I'm wrong.
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What people fail to understand is that freedom from tyranny is not a natural state for mankind. Historically, the natural state is for the many to be ruled the few. We have always been ruled by a few powerful tyrants who fight each other for the right to rule over us.
The founders had to fight and win a bloody revolution against the great powers of their time - the would-be tyrants of the 18th century.
But by doing so - by establishing a self-governing constitutional republic - the founders did not eliminate the threat from would-be tyrants - that threat will always be there - so the need to fight never decreased one iota - not for a second.
But did the sons and grandsons of the Founders keep fighting? I think we can all agree the answer is no. Not the way the founders fought. I guess no one wants war. People will sacrifice a lot for peace and security.
Starting immediately after the American Revolution, before the Founders were even cold in their graves, people began to give up their authority for the sake of peace and security.
The main way this was done was by growing the size and scope of government - and delegating more and more private sector functions and services to the government this meant creating new government offices and agencies and empowering them to control and regulate mire and more aspects of our lives.
At first it seems like a good idea to delegate and empower government and collect taxes to pay for it. We do this all the time in local government - let the town government deal with road maintenance and trash collection - then school administration - then public safety - then enforcement of all kinds of ordinances. At some point (usually when it’s too late) people realize they traded away the freedom and rights the founders fought for.
People think - well then vote for a politician that will return the power to the people. Good luck with that - would-be tyrants have money and power and can easily tempt politicians with bribes or threats. Only a few will resist - but they are rare.
It’s a spiritual war. In the end God wins. In the meantime, here we are. Satan has to be extremely pleased. He’s winning over lots of people. This is worldwide, not just isolated to the USA.
I am looking forward to the rapture and going home.
from your second link:
I used to live in this district when this happened in 1996. My father witnessed someone walk up to the ballot box and drop a pile of ballots two feet high into the ballot boxes and the poll workers did NOTHING. I remember going to bed that night, happy, that Dornan has survived by what I remember to be about 2,000 votes. The networks and the local papers wouldn’t call the race because there about 5,000 (I believe) mail in ballots outstanding. I thought to myself Loretta Sanchez would have to get over 70% of the mail in ballots to barely win. Well two weeks later, what do you know she started leading by over a 1,000 votes. That means she got over 80% of the mail in ballots. Santa Ana and Garden Grove were hardly “urban” districts so getting 80% was next to impossible. There investigations and there were 800 plus ballots determined to be fraudulent but not enough to overturn the election. If I remember, Pete McClosky a Democrat, in Indiana, had a similar situation happen to him but unlike the feckless Republicans the Democrats in Congress disqualified the election (which is in their power). Gingrich, Armey and DeLay didn’t extend a finger to help Dornan because they didn’t like him.
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Dornan own hubris defeated him. He did not even campaigning in his district during his last election.
He had his permanent residence in DC, not in his 46th district. Sure, he had a run-down house in Garden Grove, but never visited.
He spent a mere $23,000 on his last campaign. He said of his opponent, Loretta Sanchez:
“She can’t beat me. Bob Dornan is a father of five, grandfather of 10, military man, been married 41 years. She has no kids, no military, no track record. I win.”
Speaking of Loretta Sanchez, she became known as Boom-Boom here on FR during the 2000 Presidential Race when she scheduled a Hispanic fund-raiser for Al Gore at the Playboy Mansion.
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In 1996, instead of working to secure his seat, he spent a considerable amount of effort and resources in a quixotic campaign for president. Then in 1998, he ran a rather weird campaign to regain his seat by using images of the Virgen of Guadalupe in an effort to appeal to Mexican-American voters.
I haven’t been around FR as long as you have but I’m amazed that I haven’t seen your FR profile before today. It is awesome and I will spend more time going through it - looks like it will take a LOT of time but I’m up to it....
Thanks so much for this thread - I will also check out more of your threads to see what I’ve missed.
I look forward to reading this - we lived in OC at that time and remember the controversy.. OC was SO conservative at the time and glad we moved out of there before all was lost...had Chris Cox as a congressman and then Dana Rohrabacher...I guess people got tired of hearing the truth..
Spot on
It’s the same in Arizona.
The McCainiacs in Maricopa county stoled both 2020, 2022 elections for the Dems
Brother, if you say you are convinced that we will be worse off in 6-10 years no matter what, it’s fairly defeatist.
We might be, I don’t know. But it is not good to be convinced of that, nor to encourage others to think so. IMO.
Amen
And I agree
Given Heels Up's internal plumbing and her elevated melanin levels she'll be tougher to beat than The Big Guy.
Will DJT's margin of victory be too big to cheat?
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I was new to working at a polling place in the late 70’s in Costa Mesa. What a terrible experience! Arrived early at the designated address - someone’s garage and there wasn’t any preparation - no tables, no chairs. In the days of no cell phones to call the county to get direction on “what do we do now” and the owner of the house not home to let us use their phone. I think neighbors who came to vote went back to get tables and chairs when they saw our plight. We managed to get going and managed to close at the proper time. My husband and I took the ballot boxes to Santa Ana late at night to drop off and that had never been discussed beforehand. I was the last one there so guess it fell to me and my husband came to the rescue.
I remember early in the day as voters arrived, an older woman also working there told me I had to keep track of the NUMBER of the paper ballot on the sign in sheet so they could match everything later on if needed. I told her that certainly wasn’t any part of our training and I wasn’t going to do it. Wanted to call her a crazy old bat but held back. I was in my mid ‘30’s at the time so I was pretty gutsy but with common sense.
I think as old as she was even then she went on to give advice on voting in 2020 somewhere in the country!!
So what you want is for us to just give up? Hmmm? Is that what you want? Well I’m a geezer too. Also been here from FR’s beginning although under a different handle back in the day. I won’t give up until the day I die, and I resent whiny rants like yours that encourage people to just give up. Stuff it!
It’s the same in Arizona.
The McCainiacs in Maricopa county stoled both 2020, 2022 elections for the Dems
The world is broken and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that it is getting worse. I’ve been here for over 25 years and nothing surprises me. But God is still sovereign and in control which gives me peace during the fight. Let not your heart be troubled.
I’ve been reading your page, very well done. I especially liked your section on “Habakkuk, Then & Now”. I’ll have to dig a little deeper into Habakkuk.
Interesting
Thanks fir that
Thank you
I usually don’t get I to politics much anymore, but now and then I’ll write something like I did today
Amen
Never even suggested that
I shared my thoughts, yet I will continue to fight and vote
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