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THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE and Federalist 68…


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I believe that many who have advanced Hamilton’s Federalist 68 as a justification for current electors to reject the vote of the people in their state and vote according to their own preference in the Presidential Election.  I know that statement will likely stir up the anger of those who are NEVER TRUMPERS and those who dislike the Electoral College but I ask that you hear my entire argument before rejecting what I have to say.  Of course, if you are not capable or unwilling to listen to another side of an argument, you will have already turned me off or formulated your counter without hearing my position.  That, I believe, is one of the problems in today’s society, we DO NOT LISTEN we REACT.

I believe the Founders were endowed with genius in the adopting of the Electoral College system for electing the President of the United States in contrast to allowing the popular vote of the nation makes that decision.  They were adamantly opposed to pure democracies and understood that for us to have a viable long lasting republic the Union of States must be protected and thereby provide the voice of all citizens.  The pure popular vote would open the door to pockets of one ideology or another swaying the entire election and deny the several states from their representative voice.  It would also, in my view, open the door to greater voter fraud in the sense that it would allow those so desiring to taint the election in a few pockets rather than having to shape that of an entire state.  That would be Antithetical to the idea of the Constitutional Republic operating as a Representative Democracy.

Hamilton’s Federalist 68 opened the door to the idea of rogue electors doing their constitutional duty of rejecting a particular candidate based on their view of qualifications.  If we would consider that at the time of Hamilton’s writing there was not the massive availability of information as today.  Many of the citizens were uninformed of happenings and thus by electing individuals to represent them at the Electoral College they were opting for a situation where those individuals could, would or should be more informed as to what was happening.  That condition does not exist today and thereby, in my view, largely negates the argument that an elector has an obligation to vote his conscience or as is usually the case preference negating the voice of the people of his/her state.  Today, we have massive amounts of media information and internet availability enabling the average voter to make a rational decision and have as much information as the Elector as to the candidates.  That, in my view, is the reason we should consider an Amendment modifying the Electoral College. 

I did not say, do away with it and go to popular vote but modify it or alter it so that it is representative of the vote of the individual state and the people’s voice.  I would suggest that one possibility might be to mandate that each state awards the electoral votes to the candidate winning their state and avoid the possibility of an elector negating the voice of that state.  If we were still in the state, the nation was at the time of Hamilton’s Federalist 68 I would concur that an elector was duty bound to know all they could about a candidate and based on facts cast a ballot that they truly believed was in the best interest of the nation even if that was contradictory to the vote of the state.  Again, that condition does not exist today and the public has the availability to the information that the electors have and the elector is no more qualified than the voter to determine who should be president.  When an elector today decides that their decision has more validity or weight than the people of their state, they are in error and dangerously close to demagoguery.  You may disagree but are you disagreeing based on honestly evaluating what I have said or based on your preference and calling it morality or constitutional duty?  There is a difference!

The Electoral College has worked wonderfully through our history and has protected the voice of the individual states preserving the Union of States.  No one seems to take issue with the manner in which we choose Representatives.  We do not take issue with proportional representation in Congress and have no problem with each state having two Senators regardless of size.  That leads me to ask, “Why do we have a problem with the electoral college?”  How would we feel if there was a system where someone could negate the vote within a Congressional District and say, “No, I have decided that the candidate who won is not, in my view, qualified and therefore I will negate the vote of the district and choose someone else?”  Is that not as or more dangerous than the public voting for someone who is questionable?  It is to me.  I am 100% convinced that if Mr. Hamilton were to write his Federalist Paper today he would negate the argument that he gave license to ignoring the vote of the people of a particular state.

I am opposed to the popular vote nationally used as the means of electing a president but am fully supportive of the popular vote within each state to decide who is president.  That is embodied in the Electoral College System and something that we need to maintain while eliminating the rogue electors following their own desire.  One elector that has vowed he will not vote for Donald Trump for moral reasons is working with the organization led by Van Jones.  Imagine that, Van Jones is a 9/11 Truther, blamed the election on ‘whitelash’ and has offered incredible racist views, as well as advancing a Socialist if not the Communist view of government is coordinating an effort to prevent Donald Trump from being president.   Sorry, but if Van Jones and George Soros are in the mix it muddies the water for me greatly.

God, bless you and God bless America!

THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE – Initially and Presently…


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This year, possibly more than any previous election cycle there are those who appear ready to defect from their pledge to vote according to the popular vote of their representative state.  There is the incessant plea of the Democrats, activist, pundits, and some NEVER TRUMPERS for the selected electors in states that Donald Trump won to refuse to vote for him and vote for Hillary or someone else.  That, in my view, is a direct assault on our electoral system and the intent of our Constitution, including amendments, and even the original intent of the Founding Fathers.

In Texas, there have been two, thus far, who said they cannot or will not vote for Donald Trump, the candidate who won the popular vote in Texas and thereby the Electoral College votes of the State.  One has resigned or is resigning so that there can be another person take his place who can and will vote according to the pledge each of them took.  The other a Republican from Dallas who appears to claim moral superiority and declares his intent to vote for another candidate is somehow a defense of the Constitution to protect it against all enemies foreign and domestic.  Clearly, he considers Donald Trump an enemy of America and the voters of his state lacking in integrity, morality, and intelligence.  I wonder what he considers Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, or the leftist agenda and policies of the past 8 years?  When anyone assumes moral superiority and suggests superior intelligence I hit the pause button and step back to examine the matter.  If I take a pledge to fulfill an obligation and fail to or refuse to honor that pledge my integrity is immediately questioned.  I may or may not be justified in my decision but I must make absolutely certain that it is not based on my personal preference but there is factual evidence that to honor my pledge does irreparable harm.  I personally, believe this is a case of preference not factual evidence of danger and feel this elector should resign rather.  I do not believe there is any factual credibility to his decision and when I realize that he is linked to a Van Jones organization, I become even more convinced.  The voters of this state are not ignorant or uninformed.

The initial method of electing the President and Vice President proved to be unworkable.  The candidate garnering the most electoral votes was President and the next vote getter was Vice President.  Under that system, Donald Trump would be the President and not Mike Pence but Hillary Clinton would be the Vice President.  Imagine that, Hillary Clinton the President of the Senate?  Imagine how disruptive that would be in the White House, Congress, and the Courts.  That was quickly remedied and we got the 12th Amendment, ratified in 1804.  Under the original system, each elector cast two votes for President.  The votes were counted and the candidate receiving the most was President and the runner-up Vice President.  The 12th Amendment replaced that system with separate ballots for President and Vice President with each elector casting a single vote for each office.

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The Constitution gives each state a number of electors equal to the combined total of its Senate membership (2) and the House of Representatives delegation. The 23rd Amendment added 3 electors for the District of Columbia, a decision that I personally disagree with but it is a ratified amendment therefore stands.  Today, the electors are chosen by the voters, but in the beginning, more than half the states chose the electors in their legislatures.  That changed in the 19th century as the vote was expanded to more and more of the populace.  The electors take a pledge to vote for the candidate chosen by their state and the strict adherence demanded varies from state to state.  The desire of our founders and subsequent leaders was to ensure the integrity of the Rights and Proportional voice of the states, thus the system we have today.  For an elector to reject the will of the people of his/her state after having pledged to honor that decision is something I believe should be addressed and possibly rather than having individuals represent each of those electoral votes they should be allotted based on the outcome of the vote of the states without debate or opportunity of any dissident to subvert the voice of the people.  That would be an amendment I could support.

The Founding Fathers did not want political parties but the very system they established, later amended did exactly that.  The initial system lasted through 4 presidents and the election of 1800 was a catalyst to adopting the 12th Amendment.  The electors of the Democratic-Republican Party gave Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr both members of that party an equal number of electoral votes.  The tie was resolved in the House of Representatives after 36 votes and left a very bitter taste in the mouths of many.  A primary intent of the initial system was to prevent the bargaining and deal making behind the scenes to select a president.  To prevent that from happening again the 12th Amendment came into being and I personally am grateful it did.  At the time of Hamilton’s Federalist 68, there was not the availability of information to all citizens as today.  Therefore, it was incumbent on the elector to be informed, often far beyond the average citizen, and make a decision based on facts, not preference or conjecture.  I also believe that considering today’s information availability the legitimacy of a rogue elector is incredibly limited if it exists at all.

I do not support national popular vote because that would negate the proportional voice of the individual sovereign states.  I also, do not support the idea that each elector can go rogue and ignore the vote of the people based on their particular view of morality or preference.  If a person selected to be a member of the electoral college pledges to honor the vote of the citizens of his/her state and fails to do that, that vote should be negated, in my view.  Again, I do not expect everyone to agree and realize that there are many so adamantly opposed to the Republican President-elect they would embrace any action to prevent him from being elected.  That, in my view, is tragic for the glaring reality is that Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton will be the 45th President of the United States and Donald Trump won that in State votes.   We can continue dividing America or we can seek to unite around that which all of us have in common, AMERICA!   

God, bless you and God bless America is my prayer and desire!

 

AMERICA – The Severely Divided Nation…


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That is not a revelation that anyone was unaware of but something that needs to be addressed.  We have reached a point in American politics where there is a clear line of demarcation between having the Constitutional Republic or becoming a Socialist or Shira Compliant nation.  Unfortunately, the Republicans have not consistently championed the distinction and defended the Republic but the basic party platform does.  We have evolved from the days in which my parents would say, “I don’t vote for the party, I vote for the person” to “I vote for the party platform, not the person.”  That, for me, is a shift and one that I fully embraced in the 2016 election.  I saw a clear distinction between the ideological and announced agendas and one was much more grounded in the basic principles I believe and the other anathema to my core convictions and beliefs.  Thus, my vote was for principle embodied in the platforms of the parties.

We are divided politically more than any time in my lifetime.  I won’t burden you with a lengthy dissertation on when the shift of the Democratic Party transpired but it has been in the works a very long time.  The roots of radicalism, progressivism, liberalism, and socialism go back decades and how many working Americans and various ethnicities missed this or ignored it is often a mystery.  With the election of Barack Obama, the shift to the left was placed on the fast-track and with the defeat of Hillary Clinton, the brakes were applied dramatically.  I was dangerously close to losing hope for America until this election but now have a renewed confidence in a large segment of Americans and my faith in God has soared exponentially.  I truly believe we have been given a 2nd chance and as Ted Cruz correctly stated recently, “We have been given the Whitehouse and both Houses of Congress if we blow this there will be pitchforks and torches in the streets.”  I wonder if there might not be more than that but I am fully convinced that the movement for change that has demanded the Republic be returned to WE THE PEOPLE will not tolerate squandering this opportunity.  Republicans beware and I pray you realize what is at stake and determinedly stand for the People and the Constitution.

It began before McGovern, but in 1972 there was a dramatic shift of the Democratic Party toward Progressivism and it has slowly evolved into a cancerous blight on the Republic.  The Democratic Party’s view of those of us who desire a Constitutional Republic, limited government, secure borders, strong national defense, and limited spending as a “basket of deplorables”.  They are scrambling behind the money-bags of George Soros and other leftist trying to reconstruct their party and the reconstruction is not moving to the center but farther to the left.  Will that mean the demise of the Democrats?  I doubt it because over half of Americans are receiving some kind of entitlement or check from the government and when ‘money talks integrity walks.’  The Democrats are poised to possibly name as the Chair of the DNC a leftist who is so aligned with the Islamic community and so favorable to allowing Sharia Law to be superimposed over American Constitutional Law.  They are all in on abortion on demand, trampling on the rights of one segment of society in favor of another, and want to spend America into oblivion.

We are divided racially more than we have been in decades and that has escalated dramatically in the past 8 years under the regime of Barack Obama.  The almost continual diatribe decrying our judicial system as being systemically racist has not alleviated the problem but escalated it.  The praise of BLM Protests based on false narratives by the president and the Democrats has further divided the nation has not offered a positive means of reconciliation and open discussion on genuine issues.  The defense of Islamic groups and values while trampling on those of Christians and Jews is not moving us toward reconciliation but violent division and disruption.  The forced adoption of political correctness in our schools, colleges, and armed forces is not bringing us together it is driving wedges that can only result in undesirable realities.  The media’s continual labeling of anyone not supporting the leftist agenda and ideology as being racist, phobic, and lacking compassion is not bringing healing but division.

We are divided and if we want to survive as the Free Constitutional Republic we were established to be where those on both sides of the issues are able to express their concerns in a civil and rational manner or even irrational manner we must STOP and LISTEN to each other.  I pray that the Trump administration will take the actions necessary to ensure our national security, protect and defend our constitution, and limit government’s overreach.  Once that is done, we may have a chance to come to the table and discuss differences but until that is done we will remain dangerously divided.

God, bless you and God bless America!

THE DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY…


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I can only imagine what Americans thought as they received the news from Hawaii regarding the act of war by the Empire of Japan on December 7, 1941.  It was unthinkable that Pearl Harbor thousands of miles from Japan could be in harm’s way.  The historical record reveals mistakes, misinterpretations, and faulty intelligence and proper preparation on many levels.  The incredibly misguided decision to have the major portion of our Pacific Fleet harbored in one location was an invitation for disaster, as hindsight reveals.  But, on that morning shortly before 8 AM on December 7, 1941, virtually no one in Hawaii or in the United States could have imagined such an occurrence.

The two nations, Japan and the United States had been at odds for decades especially with regard to Japan’s belligerent attitude toward China and that region. Japan was an aggressive nation seeking to expand its economic and political position by seizing territory and commandeering the goods of other nations.  The United States believed, wrongly that aggressive economic sanctions against Japan would force them to curtail their expansionism.  Japan was a nation ruled by an Emperor who believed he was a god and whatever he decided was both right and to be pursued at all costs.  The United States had attempted to take somewhat of an isolationist stance in the War that was raging in Europe even in the face of Germany attacks on merchant’s vessels.  We were wrong and failed to realize that tyrannical despotism is rarely ever stopped at the negotiating table for the only thing they recognize is strength and a willingness to exert military might against them.

Our intelligence sources thought that since Japan was 4,000 miles from Hawaii any attack by the Japanese would be on European holdings in the South Pacific such as Singapore or Indochina.  Thus, we left Pearl Harbor totally exposed harboring most of our Pacific Fleet in that narrow harbor and lined up hundreds of our planes on adjacent airfields.  We made Pearl Harbor an irresistible target and the Japanese did not hesitate.  Their objective was to destroy America’s Pacific Fleet and render America incapable of mustering any resistance in the Pacific which would allow Japan to move across the South Pacific unchecked.  They were wrong!  They failed to take into account the resolve that made America the nation our Founding Father’s established and envisioned.  We maintained that resolve for decades but in the past, few we have seen a diminishing of the resolve, resoluteness, and commitment required to maintain our perch on the top of the world stage.  The past 8 years has been a concerted assault on what America was, is, and should be.  The attack on Pearl Harbor awakened the Sleeping Giant, the American People, and the American Spirit. 

When President Roosevelt addressed Congress and the world on December 8, 1941, He said, “Yesterday, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked.  No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.  I believe I interpret the will of the Congress and of the people when I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost, but we will make certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again.”  That was the Spirit of America expressed by our leadership but totally absent in the current administration.  Hopefully, the incoming administration will once again embody that Spirit and Resolve.

I was not alive on December 7, 1941, but I was very much alive on September 11, 2001, when terrorists, without provocation, attacked America by flying planes into the Twin Towers in New York, attempting to do so at the Pentagon, and another plane apparently designed to fly into the White House.  I know what I felt and the resolve that welled up inside my being.  I watched as Americans demonstrated the Spirit of America as they have in times past such as December 7, 1941.  We were forced into War in 1941 and determined to not only defend ourselves but completely and utterly defeat our attackers.  WE NEED THAT SPIRIT AGAIN!  No, I am not suggesting that we become Blood Thirsty, War Mongers but we need to say to the bullies of the world, NO MORE!  We need to say to the Islamic jihadist, NO MORE!  We need to say to the Despots and Tyrants in other nations and any would-be dictators within our nation, NO MORE!  We need to once again, Remember Pearl Harbor and remember 9/11.  We need to remember the Spirit that resulted in this nation being birthed and follow, the counsel of President Theodore Roosevelt by walking soft but carrying a very big stick.  We need not carry that stick for show but with the willingness to use it if necessary. 

America, we need to REMEMBER!  Today should rekindle the flame of Patriotism and Commitment to Independence, Liberty, and Freedom.  America was founded as a Free Constitutional Republic, has survived as a Free Constitutional Republic, and will continue only so long as we keep that Spirit alive!

God, bless you and God bless America.   I encourage you to take the time to reflect on Pearl Harbor and honor the memories of the lives lost and the sacrifices made by the millions of service personnel and civilians in the subsequent years to KEEP AMERICA FREE!  Today we remember the Day that Will Live in Infamy and it Does in my heart!

I HONOR THE MEMORY OF OUR VALIANT FIGHTING FORCES and THE AMERICAN RESOLVE TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!    

LANDSLIDE MANDATE FOR POPULISM or NATIONALISM???


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Was the 2016 presidential election a clear mandate in favor of Populism or Nationalism?  Many are saying yes, but I have questions and one research exit poll by a non-partisan group suggests another possibility.  I have questioned whether the election of Donald Trump, a candidate who is not clearly or truly a conservative on some issues was a shift to Populism or a desire to see massive Big Government Nationalism.  Let me briefly expand on the basis of my questions.

I truly believe that the election of Donald Trump was a total rejection of the Obama doctrine, the Democrat Progressive agenda, and a rejection of Hillary Clinton personally.  I believe that the election, which placed the Whitehouse and both Houses of Congress in the hands of the Republicans was a clear mandate from the American people to CHANGE DIRECTIONS and STOP THE INSANITY of an overreaching all-powerful Big Government.  I believe that this election was the result of prayer.  I believe that more than being a mandate for Populism or Nationalism it was a rejection of Status Quo and Corrupt Cronyism in Washington.

I am not, nor have I ever been a NEVER TRUMPER and never hesitated to vote for Mr. Trump.  I pray that he will provide the leadership we need to change course and return to many if not most of our founding principles.  Some of his nominees give me hope and some of them give me concern, so I will, like most, wait and see.  He could be a great president and revive our economy, secure our borders, strengthen our military, and shore up our national defense.  He could reverse many of the disastrous Executive Orders of Barack Obama and reverse the stranglehold of the federal government on businesses large and small as well as the American people.  He could bring sanity to the Healthcare Insurance situation and much more or he could follow the Populist/Nationalist ideology and create more unnecessary and undesired government and problems.  I will pray for him and his team to do the right thing and if he takes a turn I believe detrimental I will question that as I have with Barack Obama.

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The research that I referred to was from the Edison Research Group and they identified a segment of voters called the “Neithers”.  This group wanted ‘neither’ Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump but voted in an interesting way.  The compilation of the National Polling Data indicated that those Favorable ‘only’ to a candidate went for Clinton 41% to 36% Trump but there was 18% that wanted ‘Neither.’  Of that group, 49% voted for Trump and 29% Clinton which is a real indicator of how and why Mr. Trump won.  This research revealed some interesting information in the individual states.  In Wisconsin, the ‘neithers’ comprised 22% of the voters and they voted 60% Trump to 23% Clinton.  In Pennsylvania, the ‘neithers’ amounted to 17% and they voted 56% Trump to 31% Clinton.  In Michigan, the ‘neithers’ were 20% of the voters and they voted 50% Trump to 29% Clinton.  In Florida, the ‘neithers’ were 14% of the voters and they voted 61% Trump to 24% Clinton.  In North Carolina, the ‘neithers’ amounted to 15% and they voted 63% Trump to 28% Clinton.  What that suggests to me is that the NEITHERS were the catalyst which gave Donald Trump the votes sufficient to win those states and thereby win the Electoral Vote in impressive numbers.  The NEITHERS were largely conservatives that wanted, limited government, not Populism or Nationalism.  The ‘neithers’ were 61% male and more likely to be between the ages of 30-44 and were 78% white, as compared to the overall electorate which was 70% white.

We heard so much about the Independents being the swing vote in the election but from the above-cited research and exit polling data it seems that the NEITHERS were the deciding factor in this election.  Those that found neither Clinton or Trump favorable and yet voted, in my view, indicates an abject rejection of the Democrat agenda and the policies of Barack Obama as well as the policies and person of Hillary Clinton.  It was, in my view, a cry of the American people that shouted, I find both candidates lacking but am voting for a ‘stay of execution’ for America and while I don’t know exactly what I will get in Donald Trump I know and reject what I have gotten in Barack Obama and in Hillary Clinton.  Yes, those neither voters were a minority of the total votes but the size of that contingency is too large to overlook and I hope the Trump administration does not overlook them.

I am appalled at the tactics of the Democrats and Leftist in their continued push to either overturn or delegitimize the Trump presidency.  I am elated that Hillary Clinton was stopped and that Donald Trump was elected.  I contend that we won a battle not the war and we must continue to Pray diligently, stay abreast of what is happening, continue to be engaged in the process and stay vocal with our elected officials at all levels.  AMERICA’S FUTURE IS STILL HANGING IN THE BALANCE. 

God, bless you and God bless America!

MOTIVE – That Elusive Element in Life and Politics…


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Frequently, I will encounter something and the first thought is, “What is the motive?”  There are times, the motive is incredibly obvious and at other times, it is dubiously vague and difficult to ascertain.  The effect is clear but the reason for the action sometimes opaque.  In life, we are often challenged to determine MOTIVE.  That is not easy in any sphere of life and in politics often opens the door to wrong decisions or reactions and cripples our ability to rightly answer the false ideas that motivated the action.

Among the more recent events that beg for a determination of MOTIVE was the Green Party effort to demand a ‘recount’ in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.  Jill Stein received less than 1% of the vote, therefore a recount would not affect her standing, so what was the motive?  I cannot definitively answer that, I can only speculate based on information available, words spoken, and participants in the process.  Although she declared that it would be tragic for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump to be elected president, she knows that one of them will be the 45th President and the recount won’t change that reality.  Therefore, her suggested MOTIVE of ensuring the election was not fraught with fraud and valid, might be real but highly suspect.  The election officials of those states have declared there is no evidence of hacking or manipulation of machines or ballots, so the question looms large.  Also, why only the states that Donald Trump won narrowly and not include those won narrowly by Hillary?  If you want to ensure that no fraud took place, why not go to California, and seek to verify the voter rolls where it is reported that several million voted illegally?  MOTIVE, in this case, seems to be designed to prevent Donald Trump from becoming the next president or delegitimize his election regardless of the spin they are advancing.  The source of the money and the union of Hillary in the effort suggest my suspicion is correct.

How about the Protests/Riots after the election and the death threats to the designated electors if they vote for Donald Trump?  What’s the MOTIVE behind the protest/riot activities and the death threats?  The rioters/protesters official statement is they are upset with the outcome and their votes had been voided by a corrupt and flawed system rigged against them.  Then, we discovered that a significant portion of those protesting had not even registered to vote!  Imagine that, protesting because their vote, which they did not cast, had been subverted.  I guess they thought that we were using ‘mind-reading ballots’ and the election would be decided on their desire rather than actual votes.  What is the MOTIVE?  With the protests/riots, there is documented evidence that a George Soros backed entity or entities hired some to protest at wages up to $35 per hour.  Not bad work, if you can get it, right?  The MOTIVE might be genuine dissatisfaction but it might also be the work of dire forces ‘unseen’ and ‘unreported’ who want to delegitimize the election of Donald Trump and hamper his administration in its pursuit of the announced agenda and lay the groundwork for impeachment.  It might be that the Democrats, leftist, liberal, and progressives want to create a mentality in the American people that the only legitimate means of electing a president is raw popular vote rather than the proportional system now used in the Electoral College.  It might be rooted in the desire to ‘fundamentally transform’ America and render our Constitution null and void.  It might be something other than genuine angst by those on the losing side of the election.

What about the decision of Barack Obama to order the Border Patrol and I.C.E. to stop surveillance of our borders as his term expires?  What is the MOTIVE of encouraging more and more people to come to America ILLEGALLY?  What is the MOTIVE of those elected officials in cities across America to defend SANCTUARY CITIES where ILLEGALS are given sanctuary even if their history is violent?  What is the MOTIVE of allowing ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION?  Is it purely humanitarian as some on the left proclaim or something quite other than compassion?  If America is important and the Free Constitutional Republican Form of Government valuable, then national sovereignty is vital and to maintain that a secure border is required.  Is the MOTIVE to erase the borders and transform America into a member nation of the World Community where borders are eliminated and everyone is a Citizen of the World without the protection and security of individual national sovereignty?  Is the MOTIVE to develop and solidify a voting base that will assure power to a particular party and ideology into perpetuity?  Is the MOTIVE to allow asylum to those who truly are in danger?  I have a strong opinion but cannot give a 100% definitive answer to the MOTIVE of everyone engaged in this battle.  However, I can say the MOTIVE to have a secure nation should be important and if anyone is truly needing political asylum there are clear means to achieve that, but we dare never lose sight of the danger and fact that coming here ILLEGALLY is a Crime.

What is the MOTIVE for politicians to seek political office?  What is the MOTIVE for the activist to spin their rhetoric, engage in demonstrations, and even commit acts of violence?  What is the MOTIVE for wanting what we want socially, economically, morally, relationally, spiritually, or politically?  I continue to examine my MOTIVES and suggest you do the same.  Most of those who voted NO on Hillary Clinton and YES on Donald Trump had as their MOTIVE a Free Constitutional Republic where the Government would be more limited and less intrusive.  Most were and are fed up with the dirty business of politics as usual and wanted and want REAL CHANGE in Washington where we honor the Constitution and Limit Government.  Will we get that?  I don’t know but I know we would not under a continued Liberal Democrat administration. Therefore, I will pray for my nation and pray that God will prevent the leftist from achieving their goal of stealing the election and fundamentally transforming America!

God, bless you and God bless America!

 

THE REAL WAR FOR THE REPUBLIC…


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The petulance of the Left, largely the millennials who follow their mantra in the so-called demonstrations and protests which are frequently riots is disturbing.  However, the existence of this type of activity is not the major concern, it is the driving force behind it that disturbs me.  This is more than the inability of the fragile to cope with a defeat they were assured could never happen.  It is evidence of a problem much larger and a war much more serious.  If their unhappiness and uneasiness with the results of the election were all that was involved, I would say, “Give it time and it will blow over.”  However, it will not ‘blow over’ because it is part of a much larger issue and war that has been developing and being waged by the Progressive, Leftist, Socialist, and Anti-America factions in this nation and the world.  We are engaged in a very real War for the Republic.

The glaring lack of understanding of Civics or the complete rejection of our founding principles is incredibly disturbing and cannot be overlooked.  This is a War between Republicanism (not the political party) and Mobocracy or as the Leftist would argue Democracy. Our Founding Fathers did not desire that this nation be or ever become a true majority vote Democracy but a Republic or a Constitutional Representative Democracy.  The government they devised embraced principles of Democracy but was never to be a pure Democracy, which in their view was a recipe for destruction and some viewed it as Mobocracy where Anarchy and Tyranny would be the natural byproducts.  They were right!  If we lose sight of what is at stake we will lose our Republic and thereby our Rights, Liberties, and Freedoms.  Those demonstrating and arguing for Pure Democracy would ultimately find what they desired produced their own destruction, but it would be too late to correct the error.

I find it interesting that those protesting the Electoral College have no problem with Proportional Congressional Representation.  The vast, majority of any state might be Liberal or Conservative but have a few Congressional Districts wherein a majority, of voters, opted for a different party or direction.  There are no demonstrations in the streets, riots or protests as a result, so why is there over the election of President?  If we were to adopt a majority vote Democracy the U.S. Senate would be obsolete and completely out of harmony with that view.  How is it that we want equal representation in the Senate and proportional representation in the House of Representatives but are unwilling to allow the collective of states determine the President of the United States of America.  Are the voters of Montana, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Arkansas, Utah, or New Mexico irrelevant?  Are the only voices that matter the voices of the most populace states especially the densely populated regions within various states where there is a super-liberal majority?  If the President is to truly be President of WE THE PEOPLE, then every state must be represented and their decisions respected.  To eliminate the Electoral College process would be to effectively rescind the 10th Amendment and place the Republic in great peril.

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Do we want to so ‘fundamentally transform’ America that we become a nation where emotional, knee-jerk reaction by voters becomes the norm?  Are we going to do away with elected terms of office and whenever there is a groundswell of dissension, hold an election and remove officials or change policy without Congressional and Constitutional processes being followed?  Do we want to allow ‘mobocracy’ to become the norm and whatever the majority wants the majority gets, even if it means trampling on the rights of others in direct violation to God’s moral law and the Constitution?  This is no small matter it is a real War of Republicanism vs Mobocracy.  The Founders wanted to ensure that the rights of the people should not be violated by an unrestrained majority any more than they should be violated by a monarchy or tyrannical government.  Edmund Randolph warned those participating in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 that their responsibility was “to provide a cure for the evils under which the United States labored; that in tracing these evils to their origin every man found it in the turbulence and trials of democracy…”  John Adams revealed an understanding of the dangers of a True Democracy saying, “Democracy never lasts long, it soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.  There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”  Alexander Hamilton echoed those sentiments saying, “We are a Republican Government.  Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy.”  James Madison, known as the father of the Constitution argued, “Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they are violent in their deaths.”   The man known as the Father of the Country and our first president, George Washington, promised to dedicate himself to “the preservation of the Republican model of Government.”

In more modern times Progressives have continually waged war on our understanding of Republican Government and promoted the idea of Democracy.  In the War Department’s Training Manuel No. 2000-25 intended for use in citizenship training identified democracy as: “A government of the masses.  Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct expression.”  Results in mobocracy.  Attitude toward property is communistic — negating property rights.  Attitude of the law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.  Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.”  This manual also accurately stated that the framers of the Constitution “made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy … and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had formed a republic.”  In 1936 Democrat Senator Homer Truett Bone (D-WA) called for the complete repudiation of that document.  In 1952 the U.S. Army was singing the praises of Democracy rather than warning against it.  In Field Manual 21-13, entitled, ‘The Soldier’s Guide’ it stated: “Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our Government will be organized and run…”   The move was clear and forgotten were the warnings of our Founding Fathers and others.  In 1931, England’s Duke of Northumberland published a booklet entitled ‘The History of World Revolution’ in which he stated: “The adoption of Democracy as a form of Government by all European nations is fatal to good government, to liberty, to law and order, to respect for authority, and to religion, and must eventually produce a state of chaos from which a new world tyranny will arise.”  WE HAVE BEEN WARNED but HAVE WE LISTENED?

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This is more than a battle between political parties it is a War for Freedom and Republicanism standing against Mobocracy, Anarchy, and Tyranny.  If we allow the Democrats and Progressives to destroy that which our Founders gave us we will effectively destroy America.  You may think it right to argue “one man, one vote” morally right and proper, but if you carefully consider the consequences and the importance of proportional representation by the individual states as a collective you will see the incredible danger that involves.  Benjamin Franklin’s astute and insightful statement resonates powerfully today when asked what kind of government we had, he said, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”  CAN WE KEEP IT?

God, bless you and God bless America!

 

WHEN FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS TRANSFORMED BY THE LEFT…


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The Constitution of the United States of America is explicit regarding Freedom of Speech.  The exact words are: “Congress shall make no laws respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

I’m not sure what part of this the progressive leftist fail to understand but they clearly do and frequently object to it in its basic premise, foundation, and scope.  I have contended for some time that the religion established by the government has been liberalism, progressivism, and statism.  Those on the left worship at the altar of Cloward-Piven, Saul Alinsky, the Fabian Socialist, Margaret Sanger, and others as they follow a view that is clearly Globalist and rooted in a Socialist, Communist, Marxist, and Elitist ideology.  They believe in Freedom of Religion so long as the prospective religion aligns itself with their philosophy and will succumb to their demands.  Take, for example, the situation in Houston, Texas some time back when certain pastors were ordered to provide copies of their sermon outlines for approval or evaluation by a governmental board to ensure their sermons were in harmony with the Politically Correct, Leftist Ideology.  They were accused of engaging in “Hate Speech” and threatened with incarceration if they failed to comply.  Thankfully, they did not all surrender their 1st Amendment Right and the Courts agreed with them.  That was, in my view, simply a ‘test case’ to see how far the leftist could go giving them information for future infringements.  The argument that the Founding Fathers wanted the banishment of all things religious and biblical from the civil government does not bear up under examination.

I have presented numerous arguments debunking that view, I hate to be redundant and do so again for those who are entrenched in that view will not accept factual evidence.  The clear mandate of the 1st Amendment is that churches and pastors are given liberty for the “free exercise” of their faith including enumerating sins or lifestyles the Bible speaks in condemnation of.  It is not necessarily ‘hate speech’ to do so but an evidence of a shepherd caring for and warning his flock of danger.  I will not argue that a church could not become embroiled in ‘hate speech’ for they could and may seek to incite riots, murder people of differing beliefs, and encourage lawlessness and destruction.  That is not what the 1st Amendment protects, but to disagree with a Politically Correct stance the Liberals have taken on any matter does not constitute ‘hate speech’ and that disagreement is protected by the Constitution and the 1st Amendment.

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Freedom of Speech is a right that our founders not only recognized as inalienable but one they believed so valuable they included a protection in the Constitution through the 1st Amendment.  They, as Benjamin Franklin wrote under the pseudonym (Silence Dogwood), “Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.”  The father of our nation and first president George Washington said, “If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.”  Supreme Court Justice, Louis D. Brandeis offered, “It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.”  Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President said, “If men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences that can invite the consideration of mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the slaughter.”

We live in perilous times as the Bible declared would come.  We have come perilously close to losing our Republic and Freedom.  We must work to ensure that no Congress, President, or Court is allowed to infringe on our 1st Amendment Rights.  You have the right to voice your view even if I find your view abhorrent.  No Congress, President, or Court has the power to forbid our freedom of religion or promote one religion over another, as Barack Obama has done in his continual defense of Islam over Christianity.  They have no authority to infringe, suppress, censor, or restrict our Freedom of Speech or Religion. They have no authority to prevent us from the peaceable assembly in protest or request for redress of any grievance.  The key word is ‘peaceable’ and that is not what has happened in the BLM and other extremist actions.

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How do we guarantee the Constitution will be followed by the President, Congress, and the Courts?  Short of a rebellion we must do it through the electoral process and through possible boycotts as well as turn up the heat on those elected.  However, as a Christian, I believe that our most powerful weapon is prayer and through prayer and personal involvement we have a hope of turning the tide of the clear assault on our inalienable rights and constitutional guarantees.  That is why VOTING in every election and for every level of Government is imperative.  Not just voting, but voting in a manner to ensure defeat for the ideology that is desirous of stripping us of those rights and freedoms.

God, bless you and God bless America!

 

GOD DEMANDS ASSIMILATION SHOULD WE NOT DO THE SAME???


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That’s right, I said that God demands assimilation and does not allow those seeking to be incorporated in the Body of Christ to keep their old identities, ways, practices, and the rigid preservation of their ethnicity or culture.  He demands that we FOLLOW HIM by dying to self and becoming as He is, shunning the very appearance of evil and walk in adopt His precepts and principles as our guiding force and assimilate into the Family of God.  Therefore, if God makes that demand, where do politicians and activist get off telling us that ASSIMILATION is unacceptable, immoral, unethical, and wrong for those seeking to immigrate to our country?

The influx of those immigrating to the United States, both legal and illegal are no longer expected to attempt to assimilate, rather we are told we are not to impose that requirement on them.  WHY?  What is the motivation?  From our beginning as a nation ASSIMILATION was expected or demanded as a requisite for citizenship.  In our current situation with those identified as ‘refugees’ from Middle-Eastern countries do not have sufficient documentation, cannot be thoroughly vetted, and there are economic, health, social, political, and national security issues with many of them.  Yet, we are chastised if we resist allowing an almost endless flow of those to enter this nation.  We are told that to do so is somehow UN-AMERICAN and not what we are all about?  Really?  Have you examined our history and read the constitution?  Oh, sorry, I forgot those are anathema to the leftist, globalist view and we dare not confuse the issue with true history and facts.  We are told by our own intelligence agencies, our military, the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, and the NSA that thorough vetting is not possible.  Yet, that is not a deterrent to the globalist in Washington and the World.

Why would any politician who is even marginally concerned about our National Security and National Sovereignty be willing to expose our nation to such significant risk?  They are Globalist who believe in a ‘Borderless World’ and our national sovereignty is antithetical to their views and vision.  There has been such a push for ‘diversity’ that we have lost the vision of America and what made America great.  Hillary Clinton once stated that Angela Merkel of Germany was her favorite current world leader.  Wow!   The Leftist in America repeatedly demands that we allow this massive influx of immigrants as a needed pillar as a true indication of America’s commitment to diversity.  We once identified ourselves (America) as a ‘melting pot’ where people of various ethnicities, backgrounds, religions, and cultures were melded together into Americans!  They were not required to ignore any of those but were expected to become Americans.  Today, we ask them to become hyphenated Americans and the hyphen becomes more important than American.  In so doing, we are losing our nation and while we like to say we are a nation of immigrants, I must ask, are we?  Yes, many, if not most, of the original settlers of this nation were largely immigrants not native.  However, they became Americans and that was quite diverse.  I am of Scottish, Irish, Cherokee lineage but I have never considered myself a Scottish-Irish-Native American-American.  As a friend of my who is black said, “I am not an African-America, although my ancestry can be traced to West Africa.  I am an American and no hyphen is needed or desired.”  You may ferociously disagree and that is your choice but America or any country should expect those seeking to become citizens of that nation to assimilate.

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John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and most leftist are seeking a ‘World Without Borders”.  As Edward J. Erler of the Heritage Foundation recently wrote, “A world without borders is a world without citizens, and a world without citizens is a world without the rights and privileges that attach exclusively to citizenship.”  That is powerful and something that far too many in Washington and throughout the country seem to have overlooked.  Without borders the American Constitution is meaningless.  The Globalist want to strip us of our citizenship and thereby our rights.  They seek to create a world where the only effective means of governance is tyranny and the likely result is anarchy in rebellion and reaction to the removal of identifiable citizenship.  Citizenship affords rights and privileges which demand accountability and responsibility of the citizens.  In their borderless Utopia, everyone is effectively positioned to become a law unto themselves and in that state chaos or tyrannical suppression is the only logical conclusion.

Thus, my drive and focus is and will continue to be seeking Congressional Representatives and Senators who will commit to Secure Borders and a Strong National Defense.  That means we must know who is coming, as best we can, and determine how many we can safely and effectively assimilate into our society in a given timeframe.  So, Congress, I a, serving notice that I will continue my effort to inform people of the condition and danger of the leftist push for eradicating our borders and revoking our American citizenship while surrendering our national sovereignty to some Global Entity.  I will continue to fight for FAITH, FAMILY, and FREEDOM.

God, bless you and God bless America!

 

 

AMERICA’S RECIPE FOR DESTRUCTION…


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We have a developing situation and condition in America that is truly a Recipe for Destruction.  It is not new to this presidential election or even to this decade but I see stages of destruction in America and we are in the late stages, I fear.  What is happening right now in this nation should cause all of us to fall on our faces in prayer, crying out to Almighty God for His help.  I truly see some stages of destruction that I believe have and do exist in this country and if we do not wake up and address them we will experience the final harvest of destruction and America will be no more.

The Stages or Phases of Destruction:

THE SEEDS SOWN.

In my view, this begins with the planting of Seeds of Rebellion, (Disregard for the property and rights of others, Entitlement, Disrespect, Lack of accountability and responsibility).  I know that is quite a basket of seed but I do believe we have been planting or allowing those seeds to be planted for a very long time in America.  These have been planted in the classrooms in our schools, primary, secondary, and institutions of higher learning.  Academia has been active and diligent in the sowing of those seeds as they push their revisionism, secularism, socialism and Marxism, and the idea that being white is evil and being conservative and holding traditional biblical values is moronic, bigoted, intolerant, and racist.  When young minds endure that type of incessant brainwashing from the elementary school classroom through college and graduate school what could we expect but what we are seeing in the post-election protests and riots in our streets.  They have become so indoctrinated with the idea that the progressive, leftist, socialist view is the only acceptable view and all other views must be eradicated by whatever means possible.  Of course, academia is not the only guilty parties we must include the media, the activist, and too often the church and home. 

THE FRUIT THAT GROWS.

Those seeds produce the Fruit of Anarchy and I do believe we are witnessing that fruit in the streets of our cities, on social media, and in the organizations promoting this disruption.  It is one thing to have a peaceful protest but quite another to deface or destroy property, viciously attack individuals who disagree, and impede the normal operation of the country.  It is costing the ‘taxpayers’ millions and is being fueled by HATE not love, peace, or tolerance.  It is being fueled by a sense of ENTITLEMENT, not accountability or responsibility.  It is being fueled by people and groups who are not interested in those marching in the streets but in advancing their ideology, agenda, and empowering themselves.  It is lawlessness, petulance, and detrimental but they have been pampered so long they expect to get whatever they want with no real objections.  I have read that Twitter has blown up with calls for the assignation of Donald Trump and calls to rape his wife.  Of course, had Hillary won and someone did that, the FBI, Secret Service, HSA, and NSA would have made massive arrests.  The president is largely silent, Hillary in hiding, the media is silent, and Donald Trump can hardly come out and forcefully condemn the actions being taken, that would be quite counterproductive and fuel the fire.  No, the condemnation of George Soros, moveon.org, BLM, SEIU, and all others involved should come from the left, the media, and Democrats including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

THE HARVEST THAT RESULTS.

This is when we realize the complete collapse of our civil society!  At some point, people on the other side of the issue, who are losing property, paying the bill for repair, and fighting for their lives will push back.  That is when Anarchy boils over into a harvest of destruction.  Chris Matthews of MSNBC questioned what they were protesting saying that he understood protesting based on economics.  He then touted his love and admiration for the Marxist Economic model which he called very good.  The Bernie Sanders model for America was totally a Socialist model in which the evil wealthy would have their wealth confiscated and given to those who had not achieved, had no desire to achieve or no willingness to invest the time, money, or energy to achieving success.  NO, in their view, society owes them something because, after all, everything must be FAIR and it is not fair for someone to achieve success and another not have the same reward.  This participation trophy mentality will destroy our republic and probably sooner than later.

There is the expected move of the Leftist is to call Trump’s election illegitimate and claiming that the popular vote should supersede the electoral vote.  I have dealt with that but to put it in a nutshell if we allow the heavily populated liberal centers found on the left and right coasts (California and New York) to determine the outcome by numbers voting we negate the voice and vote of the other sovereign states and their citizens.  The system was designed to prevent localized areas from determining the direction of the nation.  We ARE NOT a majority vote Democracy we are a Republic and that demands that we remain a Union of Sovereign States and each State must have its proportional voice.  There is and will be a move to coerce the electoral vote to ignore the voice of their State and given to Hillary Clinton.  If that happens it will not be seeds of rebellion, the fruit of anarchy, it will be the harvest of destruction and full-scale civil war.

California has plans to put secession on the ballot in 2018 and 2019.  Oregon has something similar in the works.  Hollywood is in shambles over their failure to ensure the defeat of Donald Trump and the masses who do not think for themselves are following their directives like rats following the pied piper or lemmings going over the cliff.  AMERICA, it is high time that we awaken from our slumber and realize that more is at stake than getting our way.  This is about, the Constitution being preserved as it was intended.  This is about keeping America the Free Constitutional Republic our Founders gave us.  We are watching the culmination of the war between Populism, Nationalism, Federalism, Socialism, and Constitutionalism.  The factions are deeply entrenched and the divide quite severe in today’s America.  Are we witnessing the Harvest of Destruction or can we turn the tide and plant Seeds of Hope that can prevent our demise?  I HOPE SO, but truly do not know at this point.

God, bless you and God bless America!