Dangers of Democracy Pt. 1
OCTOBER 19, 2022
by ThinkingWest
The word “democracy” appears exactly zero times in the United
States Constitution. And yet, no form of government is celebrated
with the same fervency as democracy. Recently, the phrase “Our
Democracy” has been co-opted by nearly every politician as an
attempt to appeal to the populace’s supposedly unshakeable faith
in the voting process. Appeals to the fragility of “Our Democracy”
are commonly made by political figures hoping to discredit rivals;
rivals they unhesitatingly accuse of threatening that ancient
Athenians inheritance. A keen extraterrestrial might conclude that
conclude that many of the developed nations of the world embrace
democracy as religion.
But is this unquestioning reverence for a form of political
governance healthy, reasonable, desirable? Does such reverence
blind us to the shortcomings that democracy may possess relative
to other political arrangements and lure us into complacent, even
dangerous, self-satisfaction?
Let’s review a few of the major issues that beset democracies.
The aim is not to condemn democracy as a form of governance, but
to critique it such that we may be better informed of its imper-
fections. After all, politics of any form must involve human
beings and human beings, despite their best intentions, are far
from perfect.
1.) Democracy is only as Noble and Reasonable as its Voting
Citizens
The first critique of democracy concerns the responsibility
that citizens have to exhibit character in daily life and to stay
well informed about the issues for which they vote. It does not
matter how passionately a citizen may feel about a particular
issue; if that passion is not tempered by objective investigation
and the application of
reason to the issue at hand, the voter abdicates a central re-
sponsibility as a citizen. No degree of passion is a substitute
for clear-headed thinking. Understanding well the tendency that
democratic citizens have towards this failure, Winston Churchill
once quipped,
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter.” Unfortunately, many citizens of modern
democracies fall prey to emotional pleas and assume that heartfelt
emotion is sufficient to guide ones voting decisions. The media,
with that oh-so-dangerous self-satisfaction, appeals to the smug
assuredness of over-confident voters through emotionally manipu-
lative means.
The voters are constantly reassured that their viewpoint is the
only reasonable one.
Democracy has yet to find a solution to the Dunning-Kruger ef-
fect, the phenomenon where the less a person knows about an issue,
the more confident a person is in their knowledge about the issue.
A 2018 study by Ian G Anson published in the journal Political
Psychology investigated how the Dunning-Kruger effect affects citi-
zens’ perceptions of their political knowledge. Anson examined over
two thousand American adults via two online surveys which quizzed
the participants on basic political knowledge. Most participants
of the study performed poorly and those who performed poorest
were more likely to be confident in their knowledge of politics
than those that performed well.
The Dunning-Kruger effect, combined with patronizing and pander-
ing from politicians and the press, results in a poorly informed,
but highly opinionated public. A hyper-emotional public is incap-
able of cool-headed, rational debate and is, instead, prone to
political provocation and manipulation by media and power-hungry
politicians.
A successful democracy requires citizens to continuously revisit
and revise their understanding of core issues in a level-headed man-
ner. Such revision is best embarked upon with temperance and reason.
Source: Wikipedia
2.) Democracy Makes Neighbors Political Adversaries and Makes All
Issues Political
A less considered shortcoming is the tendency for democracies to
create adversity between citizens who hold differing political opin-
ions. In the United States, this adversity has become so intense be-
tween Republicans and Democrats that distrust between members of op-
posing parties extends far beyond just political issues. Nearly
every issue brought to the public eye, whether science, sports,
movies, or music becomes irreversibly burdened with political
interpretation, intention, and influence. Ideas and concerns sub-
mitted by one side of the political aisle are a priority rejected
and condemned by the other
side before the slightest consideration of the idea’s merits. This
effect may be particularly amplified in a democratic political
system where there are only two major parties. Then, nearly every
political issue inherits a kind of adversity that is more likely
to be absent when the number of available choices exceeds two.
The recent COVID-19 pandemic emphasizes the need to be aware of
the tendency people have to view apolitical issues through partisan
lenses. As thoughtful citizens we should be cognizant of this ten-
dency when evaluating actions to take to solve these issues. A June
2020 article from FiveThirtyEight detailed the divergence of exper-
iences between Republicans and Democrats during that time. Republi-
cans generally exhibited less concern about the pandemic while Demo-
crats exhibited greater concern about it. The intent of this article
is not to determine which political party was correct or incorrect
about the pandemic, but to demonstrate how partisan politics played
a crucial role in shaping people’s viewpoints about a major issue.
One would presume that the pandemic should never have been a poli-
tical issue. Instead, the pandemic and its mitigation efforts should
have been matters of public health and science.
Source: FiveThirtyEight.com
Ideally, an open scientific investigation and discussion should
have been facilitated to find the best solutions to counter the pan-
demic while maintaining the minimum possible obstruction of freedoms
upon citizens. Instead, political parties championed separate causes
and blamed the opposition for any and all Covid-19 deaths. This
turned the opposing party into literal “murderers” while one’s own
party used these deaths to lobby for votes.
This is not to say that there were no valid issues that were
brought up during the political chaos. Examples of valid points of
disagreement included masking policies, vaccination mandates, lock-
downs, and experimental drug treatments. However, actual open scien-
tific debate on these issues was rarely carried out.
The COVID-19 pandemic response is just one example of where the
political divide contaminates problem-solving and leads to further
distrust between those that share different political opinions. As
the political divide in America (and across the West) widens, more
and more aspects of society become political, from sports to music
to education. Nearly every aspect of life now contains political
undertones, which only divides us further and makes cordial politi-
cal dialogue near impossible. The U.S.’s current circumstance stands
as an example of the tendency for democracies to politicize every-
thing and divide its citizenry.
I will continue this in Part 2 to further explain how we as a
nation seem to lack the ability to separate current events from our
political views.
May God save our nation.
Conservatively,
John
Inconvenient Facts on EVs…13 November 2022
Inconvenient Facts About Electric Cars
John Stossel / November 02, 2022
Electric cars sales are up 66% this year.
President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, “The
great American road trip is going to be fully electrified,” and,
"There's no turning back.”
To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some left leaning
states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning
them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts, and New York copied California.
Washington state’s politicians said they’d make it happen even
faster, by 2030.
Thirty countries also say they’ll phase out gas-powered cars.
But this is just dumb. It won't happen. It’s magical thinking.
In my new video, I point out some “inconvenient” facts about
electric cars, simple truths that politicians and green activists
just don’t seem to understand.
“Electric cars are amazing,” says physicist Mark Mills of the
Manhattan Institute. “But they won’t change the future in any signi-
ficant way (as far as) oil use or carbon dioxide emissions.”
Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won’t reduce oil
use very much.
“The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now,” says Mills.
“If we [somehow] get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil
consumption by about 10%. That’s not nothing, but it doesn’t end the
use of oil.”
Most of the world’s oil is used by things like “airplanes,
buses, big trucks, and the mining equipment that gets the copper to
build the electric cars.”
Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there’s
another problem: Electricity isn’t very green.
I laugh talking to friends who are all excited about their elec-
tric car, assuming it doesn’t pollute. They go silent when I ask,
“Where does your car’s electricity come from?”
They don’t know. They haven’t even thought about it.
Inconvenient fact 2: Although driving an electric car puts lit-
tle additional carbon into the air, producing the electricity to
charge its battery adds plenty. Most of America’s electricity is
produced by burning natural gas and coal. Just 12% comes from wind
or solar power.
Auto companies don’t advertise that. “Electric vehicles in gen-
eral are better and more sustainable for the environment,” says
Ford’s Linda Zhang in a BBC interview.
“She’s a Ford engineer,” I say to Mills. “She’s not ignorant.”
“She’s not stupid,” he replies. “But ignorance speaks to what
you know. You have to mine, somewhere on Earth, 500,000 pounds of
minerals and rock to make one battery.”
American regulations make mining difficult, so most of it is
done elsewhere, polluting those countries. Some mining is done by
children. Some is done in places that use slave labor.
Even if those horrors didn’t exist, mining itself adds lots of
carbon to the air.
“If you’re worried about carbon dioxide,” says Mills, “the elec-
tric vehicle has emitted 10 to 20 tons of carbon dioxide (from the
mining, manufacturing, and shipping) before it even gets to your
driveway.”
“Volkswagen published an honest study [in which they] point out
that the first 60,000 miles or so you’re driving an electric
vehicle, that electric vehicle will have emitted more carbon
dioxide than if you just drove a conventional vehicle.”
You would have to drive an electric car “100,000 miles” to re-
duce emissions by just “20 or 30%, which is not nothing, but it’s
not zero.”
No, it’s not.
If you live in New Zealand, where there’s lots of hydro and
geothermal power, electric cars pollute less. But in America, your
“zero-emission vehicle” adds lots of greenhouse gasses to the
atmosphere.
Politicians and electric car sellers don’t mention that. Most
probably don’t even know.
*John Stossel*
Now for my two cents worth.
It basically impossible for a country that gets 88% of its
energy from gas and oil, to reduce the carbon dioxide to even a
noticeable level.
Like the article says, to make one battery, it will take a half
million pounds of minerals and rock. To make that one battery, 10
to 20 tons of carbon dioxide will be emitted.
Imagine this scenario. A hurricane or severe storm with feet
of rain would require people to evacuate. When to lead vehicle's
batteries die, what will the thousands of other do? Nowhere to get
a charge, no time to wait, and no way for an electric tow truck to
get to you and the thousands of others.
The making of a catastrophic disaster never seen before.
People on a fixed income can't afford to even buy the car.
This could be the dumbest plan ever fabricated and the least
affordable for the country as well as the people.
The climate and green people border on suicidal.
Take a minute and pray that this foolishness stop and ask God
intervene.
Conservatively,
John
Your Midterm Choices are Critical…6 November 2022
State of America Makes Midterm Choices Clear.
Adriana Cohen
During a debate with Jimmy Carter in 1980, Ronald Reagan famously
asked, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" Which
is a sensible and basic question that's been asked in political races
ever since — and next week's midterm elections are no different.
As Americans head to the polls on Tuesday, one ought to consider
if you, your family or your business is better off today under Demo-
crat control of one's state and one-party rule in Washington, or not.
Unless you like paying significantly higher prices for essential items
like food, gas, rent, heating bills and just about everything else,
I suspect the answer is no.
When Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the average national
gas prices were $2.33 per gallon, according to the Energy Information
Association. As of today, Nov. 2, the national average is $3.765, per
AAA. And no one will forget that gas prices surged to an astronomical
$5.02 per gallon last June, or even worse if you were in Nantucket,
Massachusetts, where Biden will be spending Thanksgiving again this
year, gas prices surged over $6.08 per gallon. I experienced that
firsthand, as I was there last summer, cringing every time I filled
my tank.
Soaring gas prices shouldn't have come as a surprise, as Biden
campaigned in 2020 promising "we are going to get rid of fossil
fuels." Voters now need to ask how the president's kowtowing to spe-
cial interest groups, campaign donors and climate fanatics — many
who live in big houses, own gas-guzzling yachts and fly private
jets — affect your family's budget.
Same with sky-high inflation, which was 1.4% when Sleepy Joe took
office in January 2021. Today, inflation is a whopping 8.3% — a
40-year high — with elevated food prices hurting working families.
"Grocery prices are up 13.5% compared with a year earlier, the big-
gest 12-month jump since March 1979," reports The Wall Street Jour-
nal. "With no relief in sight, many consumers say they are strug-
gling to keep up."
And for those who want a more left-leaning perspective, CNN re-
ported in September, "Americans browsing the supermarket aisle will
notice most food items are far more expensive than they were a year
ago. Egg prices soared 39.8%, while flour got 23.3% more expensive.
Milk rose 17% and the price of bread jumped 16.2%."
These are basic necessities Americans need to survive. But sad-
ly, under one-party Democrat rule in Washington over the past nearly
two years, millions of Americans are being forced to choose between
filling their gas tank to get to work, paying their rent or feeding
their families — not a choice anyone should have to make living in
the richest country in the world.
Nor should parents have to scramble to find baby formula in Amer-
ica due to the Biden administration's embarrassing failure to re-
solve manufacturing and supply chain snafus that continue to threat-
en the health and well-being of our nation's precious infants.
When it comes to public safety, crime is soaring nationwide. Many
living in major cities like New York are rightfully afraid the ride
the subway, walk the street at night or even wear nice clothes to
work without worrying about being assaulted. New York's Democrat Gov.
Kathy Hochul's willful blindness that there's a palpable crime pro-
blem in her state, as well as other soft-on-crime liberal officials
nationwide who support cashless bail for violent criminals, make us
less safe, diminishing our quality of life.
And with Democrats' failed immigration policies and open borders
controlled by dangerous drug cartels, fentanyl and other deadly
drugs are pouring into our communities killing scores of Americans.
Over 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses in 2021, the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention reported last spring.
At that rate, a vote for a Democrat means a vote for the status
quo. That translates to thousands more Americans dying of drug over-
doses each year — the number one killer of 18 to 45-year-olds in
America today. If all that's acceptable to you, vote Democrat next
week. However, if you believe that America's not on the right track
and that we're certainly not better off than we were two years ago,
vote for Republican candidates across the board.
The choice is clear.
*Adriana Cohen*
Tomorrow we vote. Are we going to survive this disaster of the
last nearly 2 years or are we too blind to use this opportunity to
save America.
Biden said at a gathering (too small to be a rally) that there
would be NO MORE drilling in the country and he aims to shut down
the remainder of the coal fired electricity plants.
It has been proven that we cannot come close to supporting our
needs using wind and solar energy. The brownouts and rolling black-
outs are killing Americans in the heat and many places have been
told that people who depend upon diesel will not have fuel avail-
able to heat their homes this winter.
On top of that there will be no fuel for the trucking industry
or many parts of manufacturing.
It becomes more and more how incompetent the entire Biden ad-
ministration are and have been since its inception.
Please get everyone you know to get out and vote to end the
disaster created by the evil, amoral, unethical people in our
nation's capital.
Pray about it and do your part. God will prevail.
Conservatively,
John
Constitutional Deep Dive Part 3… 30 October 2022
Constitution Deep Dive pt. 3 - The Father of the Constitution
September 21, 2022 by Jakob Fay
“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” James
Madison famously posited in Federalist No. 51. “If angels were to
govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government
would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be adminis-
tered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must
first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next
place oblige it to control itself.”
In these three sentences, the Father of the Constitution encap-
sulated the fundamental tension at the heart of any government and
also why, to him and his fellow founders, a Constitutional Republic
seemed to be the preferable form of government.
By the time James Madison participated in the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, the 36-year-old delegate from Virginia already had many
years of political experience, having helped draft Virginia's state
constitution in 1776 and served as the youngest member of the Conti-
nental Congress during the Revolutionary War and a leader in the Vir-
ginia Assembly where he often championed religious liberty.
His frustrating years in the Assembly in particular taught Madison
to be deeply distrustful of government–but for a different reason than
his friend Thomas Jefferson distrusted government. Jefferson feared,
rightfully, that the government might become unrepresentative of the
people. Madison, on the other hand, feared the government would be too
representative of the people.
He knew the madness of mobs, the irrationality of a passionate
majority, and sought to protect ideological minorities from being
trampled by a government that became too reflective of populist poli-
tics. “In Republics,” he warned, “the great danger is that the major-
ity may not sufficiently respect the rights of the Minority.” In the
Constitution, he hoped to prop up safeguards against this.
Madison supported a relatively strong federal government. His
Virginia Plan, presented to the Constitutional Convention by Edmund
Randolph, proposed giving the federal government a national veto over
state laws, an idea that (thankfully) did not make it into the final
document. As already explained, Madison had helped draft the hugely
influential Virginia Constitution, and many of the ideas contained in
that document, however, found their way into the U.S. Constitution.
Despite favoring a strong national government, the future presi-
dent, as Federalist 51 would indicate, understood the importance of
compelling government to “control itself.” His now-famous “ambition
must be made to counteract ambition” quote clarified that the unheal-
thy human drive for power should be used against itself; basically, if
politicians in different branches were all vying for power, they
would, theoretically, cancel each other out (ie. checks and balances).
Although Madison’s Virginia Plan was not accepted in its entirety
by the Convention, he embraced the new constitution and became an im-
portant voice urging the states to ratify the document, contributing
29 essays to the pro-constitution Federalist Papers.
Additionally, although initially opposed to a bill of rights
(believing it would be unnecessary), he drafted and proposed the
amendments that would become the Bill of Rights.
Interestingly, this was not the only thing the Father of the
Constitution seemingly changed his mind about.
The Madison of the 1790s was far warier of national power than
the Madison who had called for a sweeping federal government during
the Constitutional Convention. He had always been less of a national-
ist than his Federalist co-author Alexander Hamilton was, but even
Hamilton was shocked and confused when Madison vehemently opposed his
economic proposals for building a strong central government.
The Virginian gradually developed into an outspoken states’
rights advocate who co-founded the Jeffersonian-Republican Party,
which was characterized by its opposition to Hamilton’s “loose inter-
pretation of the Constitution.” He even supported the right of states
to stand against unconstitutional federal actions, a far cry from his
call for a national veto over state laws.
It may seem like James Madison radically shifted his political
views in a relatively short span of time, and in many ways, this is
true. But it’s better to view his evolution in light of a fierce loy-
alty to the Constitution. Our governing document gave the national
government an enumerated handful of powers… and nothing more. To do
anything beyond what the federal government expressly had permission
to do, was, in Madison’s mind, a deep betrayal of the Constitution.
If Madison was frustrated by Hamilton’s disregard for the Con-
stitution, we can only imagine what he would think of our government
today. We have expanded so far beyond the original intent of the Con-
stitution, that to say we are governed by it would almost be an insult
to the man who fathered that blessed document.
Nonetheless, we can thank James Madison for his extraordinary
contributions to American history and profound political insight. Per-
haps ambition failed to counteract ambition as he thought it would,
but thanks to Article V of the Constitution, we don’t have to wait
for the federal government to control itself.
To join the Article V movement and take action to save the Con-
stitution, sign the petition on the Constitution of States site.
*Jakob Fay*
For those of you that are not familiar with Article V, I would
suggest you read it and explore the power it gives back to the people.
Simple things like term limits are reachable by expanding the
use of Article V.
Maybe it is time for us ALL to wake up and take back our nation
that God blessed us with.
Conservatively,
John
Constitutional Deep Dive Part 2… 23 October 2022
Constitution Deep Dive pt. 2 - A document like no other
Published in Blog on September 19, 2022
by Brianna Kraemer
What makes the U.S. Constitution so great?
The combination of brilliance, prudence and leadership of our
Founding Fathers created the foundational structures of the American
system and the self-governing way of life.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia is what
brought about the three branches of government we have today. The
outlined roles of the federal government were detailed within the
seven articles of the Constitution.
*The Constitution lays out the seven articles as follows:
Article I – The Legislative Branch
With 10 sections in Article I, the roles of the legislature, the
House and Senate are laid out in detail. The requirements to hold
these offices are set forth.
Article II – The Executive Branch
With four sections in this Article, powers are granted to the pres-
ident, the cabinet and the military. The authority to recommend
appointees and pardon Americans is also granted.
Article III – The Judicial Branch
This Article establishes the federal courts system and allows for
lifetime appointment for federal judges. It lays out the jury system
and trials for all criminal proceedings.
Article IV – The States
With four sections in this Article, the states are expected to honor
one another as individual entities while also existing as 50 unified
states. The procedure to admit new states is defined.
Article V – Amendments
Article V is what Convention of States is utilizing to call a 50-
state convention. It gives both Congress and the states the ability
to propose amendments to the Constitution. Only the congressional
method has been used thus far. Ratification occurs in the states.
Article VI – Oath
This Article codifies the Constitution as the supreme law of the
land. It also requires all elected officials to take an oath to
adhere to Constitution.
Article VII – Ratification
This Article solidified the Constitution as law upon ratification of
nine state.*
By Brianna Kreamer*
On top of these articles are the 27 amendments to the Constitution,
which we’ll cover in another Constitution Week blog.
In their wisdom, the Founding Fathers created a federal govern-
ment with sufficient powers while also preserving the independence
of the people. They knew from experience that too much government
and oversight was not a desirable way to live.
Sadly, I have exchanged FB posts and messages with hundreds of
liberals who seem to have NO idea what the Bill of Rights are and
what the Amendments describe in each of the Articles.
Not only does Article I do as the writer explains but it also
draft and pass legislation, borrow money for the nation, the power
to declare war, and raise a military. It also has the power of checks
and balances of the Executive Branch and the Senate. They make laws.
As listed, Article II the Executive Branch manages the day-to-day
operations through federal departments and agencies, like the VA, the
Treasury Dept., Justice Dept., the military, as well as many others.
The president swears an oath to "faithfully execute" the responi-
blities as president and to "preserve, protect, and defend the Con-
stitution of the United States." The executive branch powers include
making treaties with other nations, appointing federal judges,
department heads, and ambassadors, and determining how to best run
the country and military operations.
The current occupant of this position is failing Americans more
and more each day.
Article III, the Judicial Branch has much more responsibility
than most know, such as The Supreme Court is known as the court of
last resort. People are to be tried by a jury of their peers.
The individual states in Article IV are expected to respect that
ALL of the 50 states are to be a republican form of government.
It determines how new states can join the Union while ensuring that
ALL states remain equal to each other and respect each other's laws
and judicial decisions made by others states courts.
Article V allows Americans to take power away from an abusive
or out-of-control Congress with a 2/3rds majority of the states. The
states band together after 34 state legislatures vote to join the
Convention of States and ratify any law or bill they elect together
to pass. This would become law. ie: Term limits
Article VI discusses more than Oaths. It states the supremacy of
the Constitution and ALL laws made from it. Whether members of the
state legislatures, Congress, judiciary, or the executive branch,
have to swear an oath to the Constitution.
In Article VII the Ratification clause outlined and ratified the
original requirement of 2/3rds of the states are required to approve
the US Constitution and or any amendments.
To understand the United States of America, start with the Con-
stitution. Written over 200 years ago, when the nation was first
being established out of the 13 British colonies, this document is
a blueprint.
Its seven sections (or articles) detail the core components of
how the framers wanted the government to run the country.
While the number of states has grown since the constitution was
signed, their signatures verify who signed the original document and
that all of the interested parties witnessed it.
We currently have a mess in DC of people who think that it is
their duty to change not only our Constitution but also every facet
of American life.
They have worn out their welcome.
Please pray for a decisive victory in the upcoming Nov 8 midterm
election.
May God take control and save our nation.
Conservatively,
John
How to Put America Back on Track…16 October 2022
How to put America Back on track
By Michael Reagan
Can someone please tell me where anything good is happening in
the U.S.?
Everywhere you look, America the Beautiful has been turned ugly, weak
and troubled.
The economy is on the road to a recession - or even worse.
Inflation is stuck at over 8 percent a year with no end in sight.
The stock market is spiraling to Hell.
Interest rates on mortgages have more than doubled in six months.
Gas prices are again zooming toward $7 a gallon in California.
The prices of lettuce, ground beef and eggs across the country have
gone to the moon.
In just two years, the Biden administration's fossil-fuel-haters
have sabotaged our booming oil and gas industries and returned us to
dependency on OPEC and the thugs running Venezuela.
And now we're more than half a year into a brutal proxy war with
Russia over Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Instead of calling for a ceasefire, hosting a summit and working
toward a political settlement, the Biden administration and its war
hawks are keeping the bloody conflict going by giving Ukraine tens of
billions worth of military weaponry.
Back on the home front, civilization is losing the fight against
chaos and lawlessness.
Streets and sidewalks in our greatest cities are permanent homes
to booming populations of homeless people, drug addicts and mentally
disturbed people.
The "woke" criminal justice policies of Democrat mayors have
turned even once-safe neighborhoods into lawless spaces where in-
creasing numbers of random murders and assaults, smash-and-grab
robberies of retail stores, and car jackings occur.
Their cities' police departments are under-funded, understaffed
and demoralized by irresponsible so-called "social justice" policies
like cashless bail and early prisoner-release programs that make
their jobs miserable and impossible.
On a federal level, don't get me started about things like the
border, the politicization of the Department of Justice and the FBI
and our $31 trillion national debt.
America has become a train wreck with 340 million casualties -
and it's largely thanks to the addled president and the Democrats who
control the levers of power in Washington.
How anyone who is not a Democrat committee person or does not
host a nightly show on MSNBC can actually be happy about the way
things are going in America today is baffling to me.
After two years of failures, how can any normal American who's
buying groceries or watching the news still be supportive of Biden
and the Democrats?
Maybe people don't understand that their 401ks are in the stock
market.
Maybe they don't realize our southern border is a freeway for
millions of illegal immigrants or that we're on the verge of a seri-
ous, dangerous and completely unnecessary war with Russia.
Maybe people think personal pronouns, the pursuit of "equity"
and saving the planet from global warming are more important topics
for our leaders to worry about than keeping America free, safe, happy
and prosperous.
Whatever loyal Democrats think, it's clear America has been go-
ing backwards under Biden, Inc.
He is a national embarrassment, but he's not the main problem.
He's a figurehead, a puppet.
It's the string-pullers behind him - and the Democrats running
Congress and the major media - who have been aiding, abetting, and
ignoring Biden's shameful deconstruction of America.
We're stuck with Joe as president for another two years - if his
brain and body last that long.
But if enough Americans wake up, which I think they will in a big
way, on Nov. 8 we can stop the damage Biden and his crew are doing by
humiliating the Democrats in the midterms and taking firm control of
the House and the Senate.
Then, following two refreshing years of political gridlock, we
can put a Republican back in the White House.
Then - as long as the Republicans we elect on Nov. 8 do the right
things and we decide to re-elect them in 2024 - we'll be able to put
America back on the track to greatness.
*Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author,
speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.*
Another receptive Reagan hits the nail on the head.
Now we have the Primaries behind us and things are looking up for
Americans barring any new cheating from the Left.
More and more evidence is being disclosed so there could be an
even better future ahead.
Ponder this scenario: After a successful legal election, Biden
could be impeached for treason and failure to protect our country
from enemies both foreign and domestic.
Harris is impeached for failure of fulfilling her Oath of Office
and allowing the immigration disaster she was tasked to correct.
Our new President will be the new Speaker of the House.
Add into that, replacing dozens of Justice Dept. leaders, as well
as numerous Democrats who have squandered trillions of dollars of
our tax dollars.
The new President rescinds dozens of Biden's horrific Executive
Orders and cut funding to liberal wasteful spending.
So many things will begin to return to some state of normalcy
and we begin to heal.
God said he would heal our nation so we owe it to Him to do all
we can, to revive the Freedom of religion and stop the sick things
that have been forced upon our children and "We the People".
Maybe the United States that many of us grew up in will see a new
revival and we really can "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN" for all legal
America citizens.
Pray that God rescues us from our ignorance.
Conservatively,
John
I will return to Part 2 of the deep dive into the Constitution
next week. Until then pray for our Republic.
Constitutional Deep Dive Pt. 1… 9 October 2022
Constitution Deep Dive pt. 1 - The apex of western civilization
Published in Blog on September 19, 2022 by Jakob Fay
When Daniel Webster boasted that the “American Constitution is
the great memorial of the deeds of our ancestors,” he made an under-
statement; America’s Constitution was not and is not merely a memorial
to the brilliance of our Founders but to the greatest ideas of all
western philosophy.
The Founding Fathers relied heavily on the wisdom of the past.
They represented a conglomeration of philosophies and influences
(Mosaic Law, Athenian democracy, Christian virtue, Magna Carta, John
Locke, Montesquieu, Enlightenment thinking, etc.) all of which com-
bined to produce a singular governing document that could not have
come together at any other moment in history.
They also had personal experience. Their own run-ins with the
crown had taught them just how easily a government could become ty-
rannical. Despite refined political philosophy and guarantees of
rights, a government could still turn its back on its people–just
as Great Britain had.
When assembling the American system of governance, the Founding
Fathers knew they’d need not only to study great governments of the
past but also why those governments had a fall from greatness. Creat-
ing a good government would be one thing; saving it from human nature
would be another altogether.
The Founders were well acquainted with human nature and spoke of
it often. James Madison warned that “there is a degree of depravity
in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and dis-
trust.” “We must take human nature as we find it,” George Washington
agreed. “Perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”
They knew the same human proclivities that soured England's gov-
ernment could crop up in the hearts of politicians anywhere. The
American system, therefore, must hold the national government back
from becoming a threat to fundamental rights (the inevitable danger
of a government with too much power) while at the same time giving
it enough power to perform a few essential tasks (to avoid the ca-
tastrophe of the Articles of Confederation).
Finding that delicate balance seemed close to impossible, but
thanks to their wisdom, broad frame of reference, and Divine Provi-
dence, the Founding Fathers hit the mark. What they gave us was a
Republic unlike any other, the apex of western civilization.
As Americans, we are direct beneficiaries of their profound
accomplishment. We are beneficiaries of thousands of years of wis-
dom and experience. As Calvin Coolidge said, “to live under the
American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was
ever accorded to the human race."
This week, as we take a deep dive into our exceptional governing
document, may we appreciate how blessed we are to live in this great
nation. May we also remember Benjamin Franklin’s words upon leaving
the Constitutional Convention. When asked what delegates to the con-
vention had given the American people, the doctor answered
“a Republic… if you can keep it.”
No matter how great the document the framers created was,
Franklin knew there always would be an “if.” Now, it’s our genera-
tion’s turn to “keep” the American Republic, and if we lose it, as
our forebears have warned, “there is no place to escape to.”
Join us in our mission to call an Article V Convention of States
–which comes directly from the U.S. Constitution–and together, let’s
save freedom’s last stand on earth.
*Jakob Fay*
There will be three parts to this explanation of how Americans
can choose to save this country by fighting for the rights given to
us by the Constitution.
We have no one to blame for what finally comes of the corruption
that is spreading over the nation and destroying all the effort put
into its design.
The corrupt are trying to "Fundamentally Transform America" into
something far removed from a 'Republic'.
We know many of who are responsible and how they have used the
media and the failing patriotic will of the people to brainwash
the weak minded. Those who have come here for the purpose of turning
this country into what they were escaping and letting themselves be
lied to and convinced that there is a free ride up right up to when
they learn that NOTHING is life worth have is free.
We have a group of people in DC that have so many conflicting
agendas that all they have done since 2006 is tear the thread of our
nation into so many shreds. The words, "We The People" has lost all
meaning and The People's only choice will be to unite under the law
of the Fifth Amendment and with the malitia afforded us form a Con-
vention of States and take back what so many have fought and died to
preserve.
If God is willing to guide us, He will save our nation and guide
others to restore the world to what God intended.
The evil on this planet has lost its way and only He can open
ALL eyes.
If we fail, we have nowhere else to go.
Conservatively,
John
Good Bye Cheney, Not Good Bye Inflation… 2 October 2022
Goodbye, Cheney - not goodbye, inflation
Michael Reagan
The best news of the week for all Americans is that Liz Cheney
lost. Big time.
Her crushing demise in Wyoming's Republican primary shouldn't
have been a surprise to anyone - and she deserved it.
Congresswoman Cheney - despite voting with the Trump administra-
tion more than 90 percent of the time - had come down with a politi-
cally fatal case of the "I Hate Trump Syndrome.”
After she sold her soul to the Democrats running the House's
Jan. 6 show trial, the liberal media - who not-so-secretly probably
hated her father more than they hated Saddam Hussein - had turned
her into their favorite Republican.
Cheney was so honored, she apparently really started believing
what they've been saying on MSNBC and CNN about her great moral
courage in the defense of our democracy.
After she was rejected by the conservative Republicans of her
very red state, she compared herself to Abraham Lincoln and hinted
about running for president in 2024. Seriously.
Meanwhile, as the Biden administration is taking victory laps
around the U.S. over the passage of its fraudulent Inflation Reduc-
tion Act, the country doesn't care about our current president.
Everyone in the media is still talking about Donald Trump and the
ramifications of the FBI's unprecedented and unjustified raid on his
home, aka "The Fishing Expedition at Mar-a-Lago.”
This latest abuse of federal power by the Democrats in their
never-ending war to destroy Trump's future is another free topic for
the news-and-opinion manufacturers in the liberal media industrial
complex.
The facts are thin and the official charges against Trump are
still unspecified and probably unjustified. Sound familiar?
But so what? The actual facts are always irrelevant to the anti-
Trump media.
The FBI raid was automatically justified - because its target
was Donald Trump.
Turn on CNN and MSNBC and their pundits and the gang of partisan
former FBI and CIA hacks they've hired are already virtually saying
Trump should be executed for treason - or at least banned from ever
running for office again.
Then there's Joe Biden's "historic" legislation to end inflation,
the so-called "Inflation Reduction Act.”
"Isn't it great?" so many people said. "No more inflation! The
Democrats just passed a law to end inflation! God bless Joe Manchin!”
Really? What is it in the bill that makes anyone, but Biden's
White House economists think it will actually reduce inflation -
which has been caused by irresponsible federal fiscal and monetary
policies?
The defenders of the bill claim with a straight face it will
spend $800 billion the federal government doesn't have to reduce the
deficit $300 billion. Sounds like Democrat Math 101 to me.
The Inflation Reduction Act is such a fraud that even the liberal
media have had to admit it is not going to reduce inflation.
The media have decided that, despite its deliberately misleading
title, it is really a climate change, health care and tax bill.
It's a downsized, Manchin-approved "Build Back Better" bill
stuffed with billions of subsidies for green companies, climate
change boondoggles and rich people who can afford to buy electric
cars or rooftop solar panels.
Plus, it will fund the hiring of 85,000 new IRS agents, with gun
training, to crack down on the country's 721 billionaires, and it
pushes the lie that families earning less than $400,000 a year will
pay no new taxes.
Someday all Americans are going to realize that whenever Demo-
crats want to slip an expensive and harmful federal bill past the
American people, they just give it a nice sounding name like the
"Inflation Reduction Act."
Democrats never speak the truth about the big laws they pass
which is "Stick with us. We only want to raise your taxes, grow the
government and limit your freedoms.”
*Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author,
speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation.**
Mr. Reagan nailed this one but as usual, I will add my two cents
worth and expand on the subject of how Liz Cheney turned her back on
the Republican Party, just like her Dad and G.W. Bush did, because
they were too afraid of the Democrats to stand up and work for ALL
Americans.
Now, with the midterms on the near horizon, it is time to be
very aware and vigilant in ensuring voter integrity and train as
many volunteers as we can to be there even in the early voting.
In 1982 a Carter appointed judge signed a bill that restricted
Republicans from forming Election Integrity Groups that would allow
more poll watchers as well as oversight at the vote compiling
centers.
This bill did not expire until 2018 so this election will be much
harder to cheat but don't think for a moment that they won't try.
The easiest thing to do is ignore Cheney and pretend she is just
a bad part of history.
Now in the near future the SCOTUS will rule on the legality of
the Constitutionality of the state legislatures making the rules that
apply to how the elections will be run in ALL states and then no more
liberal cheating will be tolerated.
What a wonderful thing to actually follow the law.
May God restore our land.
Conservatively,
John
Beware the Pronoun…25 September 2022
Beware, the Pronoun
By: Bill O'Reilly August 28, 2022
With sincere apologies to Jesus, there are some people I cannot
abide by. I do believe we are all God's children, but certain folks
I have encountered need to go to boarding school. Forever. So, I
don't have to deal with them.
UnChristian? Certainly. Intolerant, all day long. I hope the
deity forgives me.
My judgmental attitude really kicked into gear during the late
1960s. That was the time when young people actually said things
like: "It's far out, man. Groovy, not a drag at all. Know what I'm
sayin'? Right on!"
Right back. Then I disappeared faster than a muffin on a cruise
ship.
Cliches drive me insane but using words to fill the air with
foolish garbage is far worse. So, now, I would like to warn you
about contemporary words and phrases that signal danger.
Let's begin with "cisgender." This word is almost always used
by leftists who flunked biology. It means "a person whose sense of
identity corresponds with birth sex." So, if you're born a male you
act like a boy and later a man. That's cisgender.
However, woke people object and I guess they also despise the
Spencer Davis Group who once loudly wailed: "I'm a man, yes I am,
and I can't help but love you so!"
If you hear a person lamenting "cisgender" behavior, run fast.
Next up is " empower." This word is mostly used by folks who
believe they are victims and want to arrange some payback. Don't
wait around.
Then there are people who demand "safe spaces." Once again,
they are often among the victim crew who are constantly offended by
"micro-aggressions." If you are near someone seeking a "safe space,
follow Paul Simon's simple philosophy: "just slip out the back,
Jack..."
And finally, people who object to "cultural appropriation."
Those folks amuse me from a distance because I won't get anywhere
near them. There is a big list of banned Halloween costumes because
of CA.
Let's see. Want to dress up as Cochise, the great Apache chief?
Are you freakin' kidding? Sociology students from Yale will burn
down your house.
How about wearing a Mexican sombrero? Uh, no. But you can dress
up like a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day. Can't figure that one out.
Back to the Eve of All Hallows. Mrs. Doubtfire? No. Dustin
Hoffman as Tootsie, don't even think about it. George Washington?
Slaveowner. General Patton, way too many micro-aggressions!
Peter Pan? Watch it. Cinderella? Too dependent on the prince
and cisgender to boot. Pinocchio, the nose might make some feel bad.
The list of banned costumes and words is endless. The entire
cultural madness we are seeing is right out of "One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest". About the only thing sane people can do is employ
another phrase from the 1960s.
'Beat feet'.
*This column originally ran October 3, 2021
I will add a little to Bill's post.
So Liberal saw an obscure word that truthfully has NO meaning,
"QAnon" and the left wastes no time using it although it actually
has no definable definition. It was made up by someone who called
himself "Q". The best definition I could find was that it was a
completely unfounded theory used to claim Trump was waging a secret
war against some elite Satan worshippers. But they have never found
anyone but "Q" who's name they don't even know.
I'll add just one more, although there are many false, fabricated
words, I have to stop somewhere. The current occupant of the White
in our once great nation has labeled Republican patriots and most
supporters of our rightful president as 'Maga' Republicans.
It is sad that Biden took this route, but it has defined who he
is and that his goals are not to make the US better.
The term should be MAGA Americans. Those are citizens of this
country who love their country and want nothing less than to try to
"MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN?
As most of the corrupt media, Justice Dept. and nearly every liberal
member of Congress and the Executive Branch have forgotten when they
took their Oath of Office, it did not mean when they felt like it or
when it was worth it to them but every day that they are in service
of the United States.
I take that as an upgrade from being called a "deplorable" to
being called semi-fascists, to "a threat to the country", to now
he called us MAGA Republicans.
And all I can do is call him an angry old man who lived off the
taxpayers for over 50 years, and that is truly sad.
As with all of us, God will judge us all and deal with us all
according to His Word.
I pray for America and for the souls of the Left.
Conservatively,
John
Biden UPs the Hatred…18 September 2023
Biden Ups the Rhetoric Against Republicans
Mark Hendrickson
President Joe Biden crossed a line of sorts last week when he
characterized the philosophy of Donald Trump and his supporters as
“semi-fascism.”
“Fascism,” of course, is the verbal f-bomb of politics. As it’s
most commonly used today, it’s an inflammatory insult, a rhetorical
flame-thrower’s delight. It’s a virtual knee to the groin, a condem-
natory epithet, the ultimate slur, shorthand for “You are a subhuman
cretin who is beneath contempt.”
The word “fascism” once had a reasonably objective definition
(more on that below) but it has been used so often as an emotive vil-
ification that few people have a clear sense of what fascism origin-
ally meant. In his comprehensive description of the sadistic labor
camps in the USSR, “The Gulag Archipelago,” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
explained the historical corruption of the word.
Solzhenitsyn tells us that “fascist” first became a pejorative
term in the Soviet Union. The Communist Party branded everyone a
"fascist” who wasn’t on board with Comrade Stalin’s plan for global
socialism under the control of the Soviet Politiburo. This started
with the true fascists, such as Hitler and Mussolini, who were
condemned for favoring national socialism over global socialism,
and for clinging to the un-communist notion of national indepen-
dence. But then the word became a term of scorn for all the oppo-
nents of worldwide communism, even individuals whose values and
policies had little in common with the Fuhrer and Il Duce. Thus,
everyone from the pope to atheists like Ayn Rand, American politi-
cal leaders ranging from George McGovern on the left to Ronald
Ronald Reagan on the right, and mortal enemies like the president
of Israel and the ayatollahs of Iran, have been lumped together
under the denunciatory label “fascist.”
In short, “fascist” means “non-communist.” What does that say
about Joe Biden now that he has taken to using the political f-bomb
to malign his political opposition? Of course, Biden left himself
some wiggle room by saying “semi-fascism.” (Maybe Hillary Clinton
should have said “semi-deplorables” when she felt like doing some
venting several years ago.) Now Biden can say that he didn’t really
cal Trump’s supporters “fascists,” but I suspect he hopes that the
stench and stigma of that ugly word will cling to Republicans.
Now let’s look at the word fascism more objectively. Merriam-Web-
ster defines fascism as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime
… that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that
stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictator-
rial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible
suppression of opposition.”
Which of our two main political parties comes closer to meeting
this definition?
In the ongoing battle between the collective (the “nation” as per
Merriam-Webster) versus the individual, it has been the American pol-
itical left—progressives and Democrats—who, in the name of “social
justice,” push collectivist master plans like the Green New Deal (a
blueprint for a command economy, i.e., for “severe economic and
social regimentation”). It has been the conservatives and Republicans
seeking to preserve the traditional individualistic ideal of a free
market economy based on companies competing to meet the wants of the
sovereign consumer instead of producing according to the dictates of
a political elite.
In regard to race, it’s the Democrats and progressives who are more
in favor of teaching critical race theory, which exalts racial above
individual identity. Republicans reject such blatant racism. It has
been mainly Democratic policies that have harmed black Americans
while Trump’s tax reforms led to record levels of employment and
income among black Americans.
When it comes to a “forcible suppression of opposition,” it’s Biden
and his party that have tried to intimidate Americans into silence
by characterizing parents who object to public school policies as
"domestic terrorists.” It’s Biden’s party that has leaned on the
social media companies to silence debate on vital issues like climate
change
and COVID-19 vaccinations, and often succeeding in censoring those
those who dissent from the progressive agenda. It’s the left that
has sought to “cancel” conservatives and turn them into what were
known as "non-persons” in the Soviet Union.
In amplifying on his charge that Republicans are fascists, and
therefore hateful, Biden ignored the flagrantly hate-filled rhetoric
of so many on the left. From calls to “guillotine the rich” to
vicious comments from recent years, it’s clear that the left has not
shunned hatred.
In short, Biden’s attempt to verbally tar-and-feather MAGA conser-
vatives and populists with the “fascism” slander seems to be a case
of projecting his party’s own tendencies onto his political oppo-
nents. I suppose one could retort to Biden’s baseless “semi-fascist”
mudslinging by saying that since it has been communists who have led
the way in using “fascist” as a term of disgrace and disdain for
their opponents, then maybe Biden is a semi-communist. But let’s not
go there. Let’s break away from any disgusting contest to see who
ca administer the most hurtful or damning verbal insult to politi-
cal opponents. We need to ratchet down the corrosive emotionality
in our political dialog.
The way I prefer to look at the contest between Biden and pro-
gressives on the one side and Trump and MAGA Americans on the other
is this: The most important political question is whether government
policies protect or suppress liberty. All anti-liberty ideologies
and movements—communism, socialism, fascism, progressivism, environ-
mentalism—are opposed to liberty; therefore, they are literally
illiberal. Let’s all forswear the use (actually, the misuse) of the
political f-bomb. Let’s have a grownup conversation about whether
governments are protecting the rights of all impartially, or instead
suppressing them via illiberal policies.
Mark Hendrickson
In recent days Biden has also referred to Conservatives as Maga-
Republicans. The problem with that is similar to the liberal way
they refer to ANTIFA or QAnon without a clue as to what they are
talking about.
QAnon is a made-up, completely unfounded theory that Trump was
waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshiping pedophiles in
government. Somehow liberals got their own made-up ideas of what it
is even though it does not exist. If true, it would be a worthy
cause.
ANTIFA is actually a group who originally were Charlottesville
residents, peace advocates, Black Lives Matter activists, and self-
styled anti-fascists who call themselves "ANTIFAS". That would
easily be translated as Liberals or in many cases Democrats.
Every American should be proud to call themselves MAGA supporters.
MAGA is an American movement that simply translates exactly like its
acronym says "MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN". If Democrats want to make
that to be a bad thing, I suggest they leave because if a citizen of
this country opposes making us better it makes it clear that they do
not belong here.
So Joe is piling on the level of hatred in an effort to cover up
his incompetence. He continues to fabricate lies to demean those of
us that want to save the US from a total collapse of our economy.
Only God can rescue our land from the evil, amoral, faithless,
and unethical party that has lost total contact with honesty, truth,
and facts that ALL of America should share.
Conservatively,
John
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