How Red States Can Save The American Republic From Self-Destruction
By: Don Brubacher
September 23, 20221 of 2
The United States of America as it was founded and as many of us still imagine it is gone. It has been taken over by an ideology that has created a government with characteristics in direct opposition to the founding principles of the republic.
Many common folks now fear they cannot change the course of our nation through the ballot box, because all Democrat and most Republican politicians accept this anti-constitutional government.
Indeed, many in our country now embrace a system of government that denies American citizens their original constitutional rights.
Primary features of our current federal government that are contrary to the American founders’ principles include: 1) Immense federal powers of taxation, 2) immense regulatory power outside the legislative process, 3) the collection, then mass redistribution, of tax dollars to individuals and companies, 4) judicial processes that clearly make, rather than interpret, law, and 5) unrelenting participation in foreign adventures.
In general, the ideology that has instituted all the above unconstitutional federal activities is the progressive movement, an elitist approach to governance. It is not exclusively Republican or Democrat, although the Democratic Party has contributed substantially more to the process than the Republican Party has.
The Electoral Process Has Been Broken
The approach for erasing the founders’ America has been surprisingly simple: Have the government give people all sorts of things, from cell phones to retirement benefits to “free” health care, and tell them they deserve all this and more.
The typical citizen does not consider two absolute truths that might cause him to reconsider. First, power does corrupt, and the greater the power, the greater the corruption. Second, a government that has the power to give you everything has the power to take away every one of the things they choose to give you.
At some point, the government will take away its “gifts” if a particular citizen does not fall in line with the authorities. Those truths explain why every elitist government in the history of the world has become tyrannical and eventually produces violent revolt by the people subjugated to the rule of the chosen few.
You can contend, as uncountable others have through history, that we are different, that this elitist rule will succeed. But it never has been and never will be different. Human nature does not change.
Controlling Americans with Our Own Money
The federal government now controls our country through the power and intimidation of law: Pay your taxes or go to jail. They also control our country through what is essentially extortion. They take money from the citizens of each state and then tell those citizens what they must do in order to get some of that money back. Should a state be so foolish as to deny the mandate of the federal government, they will be denied funds at best, and charged with a crime at worst.
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