The United States was
founded on the republican principles of federalism (states' rights) and
representative government. Today's government is "constitutional" in
name only.
National politicians and
the federal judiciary have no fealty to the Constitution. They give it lip
service. Some Republicans, at least claim to support it and run on it, but then
when elected immediately vote to cede congress' lawmaking authority to the
imperial president and the myriad alphabet soup agencies of government.
Now we have the IRS, the
FCC, the EPA, HHS, the Department of Energy, the Department of Homeland
Security, the FDA, the USDA, etc., writing and enforcing laws under the guise
of "regulatory authority." The result is a contemptible abuse of the
people by agents of the federal government, rising taxes and fees, closed
businesses, stifled innovation, and depressed economic growth.
But few are those in
government who consider the Constitution at all. That's because politics and
government attract psychopaths, liars and thieves. It attracts people who are
parasitic in nature, greedy and without conscience. In short, these are people
who have the born mentality to live off of other people.
They are selfish and
attracted to money and power. Therefore, they are easily swayed and even bought
by the corporatists and banksters and their every act is to increase their and
their agency's power and sphere of influence.
The masses of people have
been propagandized by the state-controlled media and the public (non)education
system into believing that government is designed and tasked with looking out
for the best interests of the people. But nothing could be further from the
truth.
They have little knowledge
of the Constitution and little concept of limited government, and they believe
government can and should be all things to all people… particularly if a check
to them from the federal Treasury is involved.
The so-called regulatory
agencies of government are typically staffed at the top by crony capitalists
and lobbyists for the industries they supposedly regulate. As such, they write
rules and regulations that benefit preferred large multinational corporations
and government at the expense of the people.
As Benito Mussolini
stated, "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because
it is a merger of state and corporate power" and "The definition of
fascism is the marriage of corporation and state." That exactly explains
what our former constitutional republic has become. It is benevolent
totalitarianism, tyranny under the guise of democracy. But the truth is
democracy = socialism = fascism = communism. They are one in the same.
Mussolini also said of his
fascism, "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty," and that is
likewise the goal of the American fascist politician and federal bureaucrat.
Liberty necessarily perishes under collectivism, egalitarianism and government
altruism.
Republican voters are
well-versed in having the party's elite slap them around. Like a battered spouse
who continues to return home, Republican voters believe tomorrow will be
different. "He loves me, after all," they tell themselves.
Republican voters vote —
or at least think they vote — for small government, fiscal responsibility and
safety at home but get massive spending bills more government bureaucracy and
more wars abroad.
True conservatives reject
statism, embrace small government and abhor confiscatory taxes. Conservatives
believe in a strong military for the Nation's defense (not military adventurism).
Conservatives advocate liberty and personal responsibility.
The Republican Party is
now ruled by CINOs (conservatives in name only). I have been telling you this
for a long time.
We must come to terms with
the fact that voting for more Republicans to send to Washington will not change
the status quo. Who remembers how big and how fast government grew under the
"compassionate conservative" George W. Bush when he had a Republican
Congress?
In seven years under Bush,
federal spending jumped from $1.86 trillion in 2001 to $2.98 trillion in 2008,
a jump of 60 percent or a growth rate of 7 percent.
Bush and Republicans gave
us No Child Left Behind, the USA Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland
Security, perpetual war and bailouts. Those measures are certainly not
conservative by any stretch of the imagination.
The current crop of
Republicans are giving us massive spending bills that would make Barack Obama
blush. His 8-year spending barrage pales in comparison to what the Republicans
have unleashed on the American people.
It is a bad day for
America's economic house when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(Communist-New York) cheers that America's "era of austerity" has
"come to an end," as he did last March. The Republican spending
barrage has continued into the fall.
So what is the good
Republican voter to do especially with the midterm elections looming? Though it
is certainly no guarantee for success, Republican voters should concentrate on
finding candidates for state and local elections who will uphold the
Constitution they swear to uphold and who are willing to take a bold stand for
state's rights and against federal tyranny. It's at the state level that
nullification of unconstitutional federal laws is to take place, as outlined by
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in
1789.
If you feel you must take
on national issues, push for term limits and the repeal of the 16th and 17th
Amendments which would end the unconstitutional income tax system and
necessarily end the Federal Reserve, and restore selection of senators to the
states where the Founders intended. A return to sound money and republicanism
is what will save the nation.
Gradualism — the glacial
move away from federalism led by national politicians who used and continue to
use the Federal Treasury to buy votes and reward crony corporations and intrude
into state issues, and used by an activist federal judiciary has turned republicanism
on its head and into a fascist system of tyranny and oppression.
To peacefully restore
constitutional governance will be a gradual and difficult process, and its
probability of success remains in doubt. But it starts with you. No national
politicians will do this for you. Yours for the truth, Bob Livingston
Comments
Everything Bob
Livingston said is true. But what he didn’t say is that we have Trump restoring
our Constitution and our economy. I will
vote Republican at all levels for this mid-term and then I will yell at them to
cut spending and privatize everything.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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