I believe that it is time for all Americans to take a serious re-look at what America stands for; our “democracy”, and our way of life as it exists today. Is it really all that great?

Is America living up to the grand ideals set forth in the “Great Experiment of 1776”?

Or, it is just going to be yet another big mistake heading towards the “great collapse” of society?

I think that a serious reappraisal of [1] what America is, [2] what notions it is founded upon, and [3] how it is structured needs to be re-thought out. It is time to take a good long hard look at [4] what America has become, and [5] how we got here. And [6] what needs to change once [7] corrective measures have been put in place.

I ask this.

Really, is democracy; “rule by popularity” ideal for Americans?

Can the Constitution be protected from “well meaning”, or “the greedy”, or “evil” such as President Wilson, or FDR, or Obama from rewriting and re-interpreting it to fit their various nefarious ends?

Well, can it?

Because if we cannot, using the current governmental structure, then we must change it into something different.

Indeed, simply hoping that our progeny will be “ever vigilant” is just wishful thinking, and history has proven, for certain, that it does not work. And at that, we must well understand that it will NEVER WORK in the future.

What’s going to stop another Wilson, another FDR, another Obama, another Bush from rewriting the Constitution, or reinterpreting it to fit their nefarious ends? What’s it going to take?

What is it going to take?

But my thoughts are this matter are perhaps a little too harsh to the general American public. No one wants to hear that a democracy is flawed, or rather so flawed that America will collapse upon itself within a decade. No one wants to hear this.

Americans have a Pavlovian response to the phrase “freedom and  democracy,” and it’s no surprise that so many of them are rooting for  the protesters in Hong Kong. 

-World Affairs Blog

Well, others, better word-smiths than myself have some things to say about this subject. One of the best comes from Mr. Noonan in his article titled “A Clean Break“. He wrote this article on 29 September 2019, and I personally think that it is brilliant. He isn’t so prone to offending people as I am.

For I earnestly believe that America has neither "democracy" nor "freedom". We just parrot the words without talking a good look around us at what America has devolved into.

Here I present it for your viewing pleasure.

This article is copied as written without much editing aside from some paragraph formatting and the fonts used in this template.  

I added some "pull away" text for highlighting and maybe interjected on or two personal comments along the way (though you will be able to easily see that they are from your's truly.)  

I have added my own pictures to help illustrate some of his fine points.

After reading the article, I would suggest the reader go to his original article and read some of his other works. This fellow is brilliant and a word-smith.  

All credit to the author Mr. Noonan writing in Blogs for Victory.

A Clean Break

September 29, 2019M.

As the last few weeks have played out in politics, it has forced me to do a complete re-assessment of how I’ve looked at the world for my entire adult life.

To be sure, this reconsideration has been ongoing for about a decade, or maybe a little more, but it has really crystalized out recently. It is time for a complete, clean break with what went before and to chart a new path forward.

Although rated worse than any other institution in the country, federal  lawmakers are not alone in facing mass disdain by a US electorate who  increasingly thinks that the system has stopped working.  

- Poll: 80% of Americans Think Government, Banks, Corporate Media are Corrupt 

What Hunter Biden did is nothing new; it isn’t in the least remarkable.

• Scandal: Joe Biden’s son Hunter landed sweet big money
• Dr. Gorka Stunned By Biden-China Deal
• Joe Biden’s Son Accepted $1 Billion Check From China

He was merely the recipient of what people in his position routinely receive: a special deal which allows him to be very rich for little or no effort.

This way his life can be devoted to what really matters: hanging around with other rich people, attending conferences and galas and generally having a swell time.

And if he decided to follow in Daddy’s political footsteps, the way would be cleared for him in some safe (Congressional) seat.

If you start looking into it – as Matt and I did in our 2007 book, Caucus of Corruption – you just see that it is everywhere. In that book, for political reasons, we concentrated on the Democrat side of the aisle (given that our goal was to show the absurdity of the Democrats 2006 campaign against a so-called “GOP culture of corruption”), but we could easily have written it about politics, in general.

Corruption is everywhere in the United States.

What it really shows is that people who go into politics – with a few very rare exceptions – are in it for themselves.

The advent of legalized corruption launched by the  Supreme Court empowers the superrich to fund their own presidential and  congressional campaigns as pet projects, to foster pet policies, and to  represent pet political enclaves. You have a billion, or even several  hundred million, then purchase a candidate from the endless reserve  bench of minor politicians and make him or her a star, a mouthpiece for  any cause or purpose however questionable, and that candidate will mouth  your script in endless political debates and through as many television  spots as you are willing to pay for. All legal now.

To compound the political felony, much, if not most, campaign  financing is now carried out in secret, so that everyday citizens have a  decreasing ability to determine to whom their elected officials are  beholden and to whom they must now give special access. As recently as  the 2014 election, the facts documented this government of influence by  secrecy: “More than half of the general election advertising aired by  outside groups in the battle for control of Congress,” according to the  New York Times, “has come from organizations that disclose little or  nothing about their donors, a flood of secret money that is now at the  center of a debate over the line between free speech and corruption.”

Of this handful, the largest by far is WPP (originally  called Wire and Plastic Products; is there a metaphor here?), which has  its headquarters in London and more than 150,000 employees in 2,500  offices spread around 107 countries. It, together with one or two  conglomerating competitors, represents a fourth branch of government,  vacuuming up former senators and House members and their spouses and  families, key committee staff, former senior administration officials of  both parties and several administrations, and ambassadors, diplomats,  and retired senior military officers.

WPP has swallowed giant public relations, advertising, and  lobbying outfits such as Hill & Knowlton and BursonMarsteller, along  with dozens of smaller members of the highly lucrative special interest  and influence-manipulation world. Close behind WPP is the  Orwellian-named Omnicom Group and another converger vaguely called the  Interpublic Group of Companies. According to Mr. Edsall, WPP had billings last year of $72.3 billion, larger than the budgets of quite a number of countries. 

 – From the Gary Hart article, Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption 

Corruption is part of democracy.

They want power and money and attention and fame and praise and so they go into politics – and almost invariably, if they are even modestly successful at winning office, wind up richer than they did when they started.

And it has been going on for a long time, folks; throughout all the Western democracies.

Just a small quote from Chesterton about 1910 will suffice to show it:

There are, I believe, some who still deny that England is  governed by an oligarchy. 

It is quite enough for me to know that a man  might have gone to sleep some thirty years ago over the day’s newspaper  and woke up last week over the later newspaper, and fancied he was  reading about the same people. 

In one paper he would have found a Lord  Robert Cecil, a Mr. Gladstone, a Mr. Lyttleton, a Churchill, a  Chamberlain, a Trevelyan, an Acland. 

In the other paper he would find a  Lord Robert Cecil, a Mr. Gladstone, a Mr. Lyttleton, a Churchill, a  Chamberlain, a Trevelyan, an Acland. 

If this is not being governed by  families I cannot imagine what it is. I suppose it is being governed by  extraordinary democratic coincidences.

…extraordinary democratic coincidences.

Funny, huh? How people from the same family can keep winding up on top. Either they are families of geniuses, or someone is making things happen.

• What are the odds that the son of an American Senator would be just the person an oil company needs to pay $50,000.00 a month to?
• That the daughter of a President would be just right for that $600,000.00 news gig?
• Or that another daughter of a different President would prove to be perfect to host the fourth hour of the Today show?

You know that is all bullsh**.

I know it is, too.

They know it as well.

But, it just keeps happening and happening because, well, that’s just the way it is. And it wouldn’t be so bad if they were at least any good at being an oligarchy!

But they aren’t.

Back in Chesterton’s day, there was the cold, hard reality that Winston Churchill was at least as talented as his father, Randolph. There was something there – there was, that is, a justification for Winston getting a leg up (and he did) to enter politics based on his father’s previous efforts.

These days, you get to benefit even if the previous person in line was a complete, rotten failure. And rotten failure is all we’ve gotten – and I’m getting very ecumenical in that, by the way. I’m not excusing anyone on partisan grounds any longer.

To be sure, the Republicans I voted for in the past were at least  better than the Democrats I voted against (with the exception of McCain:  knowing that I’m the co-author of Worst President,  please understand that I believe McCain would have been even worse than  Obama proved to be). 

But they were only better in degree, not in kind.

Republicans are corrupt.

I mean, let’s face some cold, hard facts here: President Bush the Younger was re-elected with 51% of the vote in 2004 and came into his second term with high approval ratings and a Republican Congress.

With all this, he couldn’t even manage to de-fund Planned Parenthood or NPR!

It could have been done, easily, in a budget reconciliation between House and Senate and there would have been nothing the Democrats could have done about it.

On a more personal level, how can public service be promoted  as an ideal to young people when this sewer corrupts our Republic? At  this point in early twenty-first-century America, the greatest service  our nation’s young people could provide is to lead an army of outraged  young Americans armed with brooms on a crusade to sweep out the rascals  and rid our capital of the money changers, rent seekers, revolving door  dancers, and special interest deal makers and power brokers and send  them back home to make an honest living, that is, if they still remember  how to do so.

Our ancestors did not depart Europe and elsewhere to seek  freedom and self-government alone. They came to these shores to escape  social and political systems that were corrosive and corrupt. Two and a  quarter centuries later, we are returning to those European practices.  We are in danger of becoming a different kind of nation, one our  founders would not recognize and would deplore.
 In addition to the rise of the national security state,  and the concentration of wealth and power in America, no development in  modern times sets us apart more from the nation originally bequeathed to  us than the rise of the special interest state.

There is a Gresham’s  law related to the republican ideal. Bad politics drives out good  politics. Legalized corruption drives men and women of stature, honor,  and dignity out of the halls of government. Self-respecting individuals  cannot long tolerate a system of election and reelection so dependent on  cultivating the favor of those known to expect access in return. Such a  system is corrosive to the soul.
 
 – From the Gary Hart article, Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption 

This was “better” than a President Kerry who probably would have increased PP funding, but not really better in that the taxes of pro-life Americans were still going to fund something they consider abhorrent…and which Bush and the entire GOP campaigned on getting rid of.

I know some will say that this is just our GOP screwing it’s base and that the Democrats don’t do that. But, they do.

Democrats are corrupt.

Obama was elected in 2008 with 53% of the vote and came into office with a Democrat Congress and a filibuster-proof Senate majority…and he couldn’t even get the single payer health system Democrats say they want.

It would have been easy.

The GOP could have done nothing to stop it. Enact a 10% payroll tax to fund it and just start passing out the cash to people who need health care.

 A former senator from Colorado, Gary Hart, has written an extremely  powerful and accurate critique of the unfathomably corrupt and crony  state of the U.S. government in 2015. It covers several very important  angles, including how appalled and disgusted our founders would be at  the current state of affairs. How a once great republic has devolved  into a thieving oligarchy in which the pursuit of money at power at the  expense of the public good has been elevated into something that’s not  just tolerated, but actually celebrated and encouraged amongst an ethics  deprived status quo. 

-Liberty Blitzkreig

That you and I know it would have been a disaster is neither here nor there – our side had lost the election and the Democrats won all the power they could possibly need to make all Democrat dreams come true…and they couldn’t do something like that.

They instead wound up with the abomination known as Obamacare which even if it had worked as planned would still have left millions out in the cold and cost like the devil – but they couldn’t even write something that worked!

Meanwhile, not only did Obama not end the wars they campaigned against in 2008, he started new one’s…

• droning the living sh** out of every poor, brown skinned person they could target (well, those they weren’t letting in as unvetted refugees, that is).
• A public works bonanza that didn’t create any public works.
• A slew of new spending which improved nothing.

This is what the Democrat voters get for investing their time and effort? Yep – in other words, nothing: but lots and lots for whomever is the crony. Democrat cronies made out like bandits. But your average purple-haired Democrat wanting more safe spaces? Not much.

 By that standard, can anyone seriously doubt that our  republic, our government, is corrupt? There have been Teapot Domes and  financial scandals of one kind or another throughout our nation’s  history. There has never been a time, however, when the  government of the United States was so perversely and systematically  dedicated to special interests, earmarks, side deals, log-rolling,  vote-trading, and sweetheart deals of one kind or another.
 
 What brought us to this? A sinister system combining staggering  campaign costs, political contributions, political action committees,  special interest payments for access, and, most of all, the rise of the  lobbying class.

 Worst of all, the army of lobbyists that started relatively small  in the mid-twentieth century has now grown to big battalions of law  firms and lobbying firms of the right, left, and an amalgam of both. And  that gargantuan, if not reptilian, industry now takes on board former  members of the House and the Senate and their personal and committee  staffs. And they are all getting fabulously rich.

 Frustrated, irate discussions of this legalized corruption are  met in the Washington media with a shrug. So what? Didn’t we just have  dinner with that lobbyist for the banking industry, or the teachers’  union, or the airline industry at that well-known journalist’s house  only two nights ago? Fine lady, and she used to be the chairman of one  of those powerful committees. I gather she is using her Rolodex rather  skillfully on behalf of her new clients. Illegal? Not at all. Just smart  . . . and so charming.

 There is little wonder that Americans of the right and many in  the middle are apoplectic at their government and absolutely, and  rightly, convinced that the game of government is rigged in favor of the  elite and the powerful. Occupiers see even more wealth rising to the  top at the expense of the poor and the middle class. And Tea Partiers  believe their tax dollars are going to well-organized welfare parasites  and government bureaucrats. 

 – From the Gary Hart article, Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption 

And as far as the social disintegration we’ve seen over the past 60 years – we’ve been blinded by the Democrats pushing the disintegration that we haven’t noticed the Republicans letting them do it.

And when they have power to roll it back, doing nothing of the sort.

 The Administrative state and its  regulators, a creation of previous congress’s, have grown into a  bureaucracy so entrenched that worker’s can’t even be fired. They lurk  in the darkness of their own regulations and use their powers to punish  those who fail to comply. Regulators are great for making and executing  rules and regulations, and taxing, but not so good at designing those  regulations to advance unproven political theories, that most often come  undone.

 The unrealized dangers of delegating  rules and regulations making, is that Congress removes itself from accountability. Legislators govern by theory, proposing ideas that are  then delegated to an agency charged to “make” it work. To ensure their  schemes work, Congress politicized the Federal judicial benches,  including the Supreme Court, to support their legislative agenda  regardless of the unconstitutionality, through judicial activism. Judges  don’t make laws! 

- Why Should We Accept Corrupt Government? 

Their actions are disgusting.

And now we see in the Epstein case the reason why it might have all been allowed to happen: Lord only knows how many of the high and mighty are caught in that web…

…but what better way to get out from under that rock than by making the rock legal?

By making you, a normal person, the bad guy if you point out some of the disgusting actions?

• Illegal immigration to provide votes for Democrats and cheap labor for Republicans.
• Wars which don’t end in victory or defeat.
• Enforcing immorality against popular wishes.
• Providing government sinecures to anyone who will toe the line – and who won’t be got rid of no matter how corrupt or stupid they prove.
• Accepting money from foreign entities who want the United States destroyed.

Both sides, all the time – and on top of being this stupidly destructive, raking it in for themselves, their families and their friends. It is time to bring an end to all that. By peaceful means if possible but, ultimately, by any means necessary.

Our peaceful means are “President Trump”.

President Trump is the hero of the common man.

Trump isn’t part of the system, you see.

Dimwits look at his billions and go, “he must be one of them”. But, the bottom line is that he’s not.

He’ll hang out with them. Be friends with them. But he never was of them. He made his own way and got his pile of money…and then looked around and saw, from the 1980’s, what was happening to his country and started to wonder why, and if there were anything he could do about it?

He essentially first let Bill Clinton have his chance.

Then Bush the Younger.

Then even Obama.

But he found out something – it didn’t matter who was in charge, they were all in on it, together. That is, regardless of stated political philosophy, the primary goal of nearly everyone in politics was personal enrichment and making sure no outsider pushed his or her way in.

Trump decided to push his way in.

And now he’s there – and outside of a precious few (Cruz, Paul…and, oddly, McConnell), he’s nearly alone fighting for one thing: us.

The United States of America.

We, the people.

And everyone inside is furious and terrified and so are lashing back as much as they can hoping that something, anything will turn up to get rid of Trump.

And, make no mistake about it, they are already planning on punishing us for electing Trump. They don’t propose to allow this sort of thing to happen again.

And, make no mistake about it, they are already planning on punishing us for electing Trump. They don’t propose to allow this sort of thing to happen again.

The “big con game” is up.

I’ve mostly stopped arguing with liberals these days – first off, it is pointless but, secondly, I’m starting to pity them; nearly as much as I pity that shrinking number on the right who still stand aloof from Trump: they simply can’t shake free from the line they’ve been fed.

And none of us can get high and mighty about that: to one degree or another, all of us were suckered at one time or another.

All of us believed in some aspect of the con being used to keep us confused, frightened and divided while the Ruling Class stays fat and happy.

All of us. Including myself.

But for those of us who have awakened from the con, it is time for a clean break – a refusal to accept that anything over the past 60 years was any good…a desire, that is, to move forward in an entirely new way, unshackled to whatever we might have said or done in the past.

We can see what happened; we can see what needs to be done – we can’t trip ourselves up (nor allow our opponents to slow us down) by fussing over what views we might have expressed previously.

Our desire is a Constitutional Republic of free people – our means of getting there must be “whatever works”, not adherence to a dogma which might, upon review, only have been a means whereby the con artists kept us in line in the past.

I, for one, will only defend what I find defensible and will attack whatever I see as wrong.

We still have a magnificent window to win this thing and fix our nation – naturally, the first requirement is protecting President Trump.

We need a complete review of EVERYTHING and ask “is it good”

But the next step is just as important: a complete review of everything and asking the question, “Is this good?”.

We’ve already learned that so-called “Free Trade” wasn’t what many of us thought it was – take that as your template and ask yourself, “is this thing I’ve adhered to really in the interests of a free people? Or is it something which only serves the well-connected?”.

As Lincoln once said, it is time to think anew and act anew: not to create something different (nothing can be more magnificent than the United States, as far as human effort allows), but to recreate what we had, but even better than before.

And if that mission requires us to knock a few off their pedestals, then that’s just what will have to happen.

 The problems of government are systemic.  The reason for government should be a primary concern of anyone wanting a  better government but this cannot be accomplished with people of  socialist persuasion who scream, yell and interrupt other speakers in an  effort to kill free speech. 

 Trump has thrown a wrench into the gears  of socialisms advancement. Socialists are reeling in confusion but don’t  count on them staying there. A revolution is coming. The question is,  who’s going to lead it, them or us? 

- Why Should We Accept Corrupt Government? 

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