Posted on 06/23/2002 10:25:55 AM PDT by redrock
This is what passes for politics in America today:
Politicians in America |
Which one of these guys is the Democrat and which one is the Republican?
Does anybody bet money on which one of these guys is going to win?
Does it really matter that much who wins?
Not when you have an electorate that wouldn't know what real freedom was if it walked up and bit them on the a$$. Not when you have an electorate that is too lazy to own a legal dictionary. Not when the "promoters" like this:
have control of the money system and nobody knows who this guy was, or what his modern day equivalent is, and what role they play in controlling your life and country.
In my opinion (yeah, I know, who cares...) unless there's a whole lot of brainwashing de-programmed and a whole lot of education caught up on, we're just going to get a lot more of the same soap opera. So find something out about who that guy is in the picture. Learn about what money is in the context of the Constitution. Form a study group with like-minded friends. Talk to anybody that will listen about what freedom really is, not what the toob tells people it is. Challenge your friends to think "outside the box" - the box being the TV. Educate the children about what freedom really means. Learn something about the law the way it is and compare it with what you think it ought to be or the way it was 150 years ago. Take a trip to the state archives sometime. Try carrying around a copy of the Bill of Rights and see how many people around you can remember what's in it. Try filling them in on one of the Amendments they didn't guess. Endeavor to build a Bill of Rights culture in your little piece of America so we can get rid of the pro-wrestling and get back to what matters.
And for that very reason change of party direction will not be forthcoming. Why should they change? The Blind Sheeple will vote for their sorry hides anyway. Only one thing gets a person in office that's the voting public. That is the one sole way short of another Declaration of Independence we have to change this nations course. Our right to vote was never intended to be used as a tool for minipulation by parties bestowing fear upon the general public that they had but one choice. We have many choices. The Constitution ststes that many are allow no limits except age and citizenship. The more who run for office the more choices we have. By all means for this nations preservation make that choice to be what canidate best represents your political and moral beliefs and not what some tyrant politico dictates to you. Do you vote out of fear of events or losses that they say will occur if you don't vote as they say? Or do you chose the best person for the job based on their beliefs, record, and character? I say it's their beliefs, record, and character and not their party that earns them the privlidge to represent me and recieve my vote.
What about Bernie Sanders, then?To: exodus
Bernie isn't the only socialist in Congress, but he's openly socialist, which to me is a synonym for communist.
# 256 by exodus
How is socialism and communism different?
Either way, property is taken from individuals and controlled by the State.
In both, the individual must not question, but only obey.
That seems the same to me.
Thank you, agitator.
Your posts, and your work at the radio
are an inspiration to all of us.
Everyone, ignore the men in the ring.
They're following a script handed to them by others,
and it really doesn't matter which one wins.
The only way you can effect the results is to vote third party.
Force the major parties to earn your vote.
Don't vote based on what they say,
hold them accountable for what they do .
If everyone, or even a high percentage of people
voted based on their beliefs
we would still have a Republic,
instead of this Democracy we are stuck with today.
Carolyn
The posts talks about rhetoric, and how politics really work, where did I even say the words "conservative values"...this dysfunction probably has a lot to do with the way you view everything in general.
You read the words, then imagine they say something other than what you read.
This ends our conversation, do whatever you have to do, and justify it however you wish to justify it.
If you believe that the way to make an impact on the GOP is to walk away from it, that's fine.
See you later.
P.S. I don't think that you either supported nor voted GOP these past elections anyway.
That statement alone shows your utter ignorance of politics.
"The Leglislative Branch is out of order. Fix that and it doesn't matter who is POTUS as it will be the voice of the people once again in control. You can't curse one parties Congressmen and senators as being tyrants and socialist when you refuse to weed out those in your own party as well."
Washington : an abridgement in one volume by Richard Harwell of the seven-volume George Washington by Douglas Southall Freeman
- by Richard Barksdale HarwellAvailable through Barnes & Noble, also Amazon.com.
Also recommended, about the author of the seven-volume George Washington:
Douglas Southall Freeman, by David E. Johnson:
And the legacy of the neocon movement which now grips the Republican party is one of liberal capitulation; or better stated, vote for me, because I'm not them."
Tightening our borders, while necessary, and looking the other way as our 1st Amendment Rights are violated by CFR, and 4th/2nd Amendment Rights as well as "due process" are violated by Anti-Terrorism legislation, and on and on and on, will not get me nor many other disenfranchised little "r" republicans back into the big "R" Republican tent.
When the GOP offers up and we elect Americans whose fidelity is to the Constitution as written and act accordingly, perhaps I will then re-associate myself with the "party" and work once again for that party. Until then I will be quite content to exercise my voting responsibilities as a "NON-ALIGNED" citizen.
Not directed necessarily at you I would be curious to know exactly why the people that are still Republicans, are?
My guess is that in the main the response would be along the lines that the GOP is the only obstacle to the Democrats, which of course defines more what one is against than what one is for.
The argument will work for a limited time, but as more and more principled conservatives come to understand that once in office there isn't much difference between the representatives in the manner in which they legislate, I would guess more and more folks will become as I, dis-interested in and self dis-enfranchised from the GOP.
It really is not anywhere close to the party of Goldwater and Reagan these days, IMHO.
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