Look at the Democratic Party today — bending over backwards to accommodate the Democratic Socialists of America.  The 2026 mid-terms were a blowout for republican principles and a huge embrace of socialist principles (with a little ballot stuffing helping push them over the finish line). 

Since all you need is 50.1% to win in a democracy, the socialists seem to always win by the needed fraction, usually with last minute mail-in ballot arrivals that always favor the socialists. 

"By any means necessary" is their creed, and one-party rule the end game, to be followed with the suspending of Constitutional law, often with a permanent dictator.  Useful idiots indeed!

Um, no, you had it right the first time. 😉

You can say that again!  (Is this a Jungian slip?)

I grew up in DC, then the family moved to Charleston, SC when I was in middle school.  How surprised I was to learn in SC History class of the 'War of Northern Aggression.' 😉  Boy, was that an eye-opener for this Yankee carpet-bagger!

Mike made a good point the other day. The States 'united' make up the free and sovereign states parties to the Constitution. If they were not sovereign, it would not have been a confederation but a 'union' — it would have been the American Union, like the Soviet Union, in which all were incorporated into a single state ruled by a central statist government.

And after the defeat of the secessionist states, those states were forced into the 'union,' their representatives appointed for them, and the Reconstruction Amendments forever changed the context and tone of subsequent Constitutional Amendments.  

Not only is America not a democracy, the so-called democracy is not even democratic!  It has become painfully obvious in the last 50 years that elections are a farce.  The choices are two sides of the same coin, and all parties moving leftward. 

With electronic vote counting and unaccountable mail-in ballots swinging elections in one direction only at the last minute with Secretaries of State protecting the steal (often to their own personal political advantage), the cheating is "in-your-face" with no way to enforce validation of those casting the votes.

The statistics are off the charts — nearly all shifts from Republican to Democrat for higher office do not match the down-ballot votes where Republicans still win their seats.  The tallies are about as real as Obama's birth certificate.

Ranked choice voting has had the effect of splitting a majority republican party in two, allowing the unsplit opposition party win with a minority vote.  The same thing will happen as happens in Canada with a dozen parties — the minority parties act as spoilers for the leading parties.  This is what happens with 'democracy'.  

With a republican form of government, not everything can be put to vote and all powers are limited first and foremost by the rights of the citizens which can never be voted away.

Again, once the people can vote for access to the Treasury, it's game over.  Once the precedent is made, the populace won't be satisfied with the Treasury but will then extend to the property of fellow citizens, and even worse to vote to go into debt perpetually (as is the case today) raising taxes forever to pay the interest.

Those that understand the racket learn how to game the system in their favor — thus we have the corrupt plutocrats in power.

The Founders warned us, but we did not take heed, and are headed for the abyss.

Calhoun made his argument from the understanding that South Carolina was a sovereign state, not subject to the majority vote of other sovereign states.  It was common knowledge in those days that each state was sovereign and had the right to secede — see the Federalist Papers during the Constitutional Convention, this was well understood.

Each step following the Civil War moved further away from this contract between the states until eventually the 'de jure' republican form was transformed into a 'de facto' statist form.

If you don't know what I mean, it is a prime example how Americans have been duped with a bogus education about American History and republican jurisprudence and common law.

Frankly, I don't see America ever able to return.  A civil war might happen, but without an educated populace in republican government and a return to lawful currency, once the dust settles, the banksters will pick up where they left off...

Once people discover they can vote for money, republican government is over.  The government essentially becomes all-powerful if it can print up money at interest and funnel it to welfare programs of all stripes.  The people then must pay taxes on the interest for the unpayable debt forever thinking that their taxes are paying for government services — heck, interest on the debt is now more than any other government department and rising.

Now that all are dependent upon some sort of dispensation from government, all we can do is keep voting for more.  If people had to provide for themselves as they did at the beginning of the republic, famine and death would kill off most of the populace — war would be inevitable.  So we keep voting on the conditions of our servitude.

You are not wrong.

Try speaking out against transgender policies and forced vaccination in Canada and find yourself in prison.

The key difference between Canada's Charter and the US Constitution & Bill of Rights is in WHO is making this declaration & WHO is chartering the government.  In the US, it is 'We the People'; in Canada it is the Crown. Also, the Bill of Rights makes explicit what the government may NOT do — there is no equivalent in the Canadian Charter. 

Certainly the ideals are good; however, whoever has the power to grant 'rights' also has the power to take them away.  I remember during COVID, Canadians were prohibited from leaving or entering the country without proof of vaccination — where in the Charter were Canadians protected against forced vaccination?

🤣 I've always loved this quote!

Yep.  Until we clean up the voter rolls, require verification of voters' eligibility to vote, and reform the voting process with a traceable and verifiable paper trail, elections will continue to be rigged.  It has never been more obvious — it's in our face as the devils laugh their way to the bank.

🤣 Geez, Waffler, if you only realized you are talking about yourself!

The dumbing down is geared towards the statist usurpation of the government.  Since anyone can own land, unlike the British Commonwealths, those with a stake should have a say while those that do not should not get to vote away the property of those that have it. 

The idea that only the good ol' boy rich owned land is false. Every square inch of land in the United States was 'patented,' and the ownership of the land was distributed across all the population, not just the rich.  The robber barons got their land through currency scams that bankrupted the nation and transferred ownership of all the land to the banksters.

That's one of the reasons for the Electoral College — electors had to be land owners. And secondly, Senators were to be chosen by the State legislatures, not put to vote like the House of Representatives.  Both of these were proscribed in the Constitution originally, and served as a check against the evils of 'democracy.'

Voting machines are obviously rigged.  Explain to me how a counting program that any 1st year programming student could write needs to be 'proprietary'?  When these machines were first rolled out, it was hyped to be a way to get results out faster.  But it has not done that at all.  Paper ballots can be counted just as fast as loading a ballot into an electronic reader.  I've worked in IT for banks for most of my life, and security is the number one concern with many checks and guardrails to prevent theft.  There is always a paper trail, and records have to be kept at least 7 years and sometimes indefinitely.

If we must use electronic counting machines, the software needs to be open source with paper trail.  It is absolutely unconscionable that these voting machines are from Venezuela and other socialist countries — that should be a red flag right there.  There should be no built-in functionality to switch votes or count votes with a percentage scale or allow connectivity to the internet, which they all have now.

Look to history — socialists cheat!!  They all eventually lead to one-party rule with a leader who manages to stay in power indefinitely.

Then we know who the true masters are, don't we...

No doubt!

It is not enough to profess but to practice.  Liberty, like Christianity, is a practice, and practice makes perfect. 😉

However, today, it appears that the art of politics is to be able to lie with impunity — the most successful liar wins!

Indeed!

I would say, anyone who is a ward of the state should be ineligible to vote — anyone dependent upon government subsistence (not counting pensions people have paid into their entire lives) should not get to vote on how government spends.  Otherwise, the pigs will elect the swineherd every time.

A little known fact is that in the republican form of government established by the Founders, only land-holders could vote for Governor and President, all other votes were treated as a poll.  Senators were appointed by the state legislatures, not voted in by the populace.  Elections for the house of representatives counted votes from all citizens.  As we know, the Electoral College cast the final votes for President. 

This was to serve as a bulwark against the evils of democracy where the property-less could vote away the property of their neighbors. 

But these checks have gradually whittled the republic down to a de facto democracy, which was abhorred by the Founders.  Once the lawful system of money was usurped by commercial debt (fiat currency, making possession of gold a crime at the time), all property, including land and the people on it, were mortgaged (in theory) to the unpayable debt incurred.  Ever wonder why we can't trade in gold or silver coins any more?  

Gradually the Bureau of Land Management stopped issuing land patents, and no one has really 'bought' anything because we use IOU's (commercial paper) for trade.  All is held by the Federal Reserve Bank as collateral for the bankruptcy of the US. 

We've come a long way baby!