Not when one is trying to reform a liberal program.  'Liberal' doesn't even mean liberal anymore, it means statist.  And statist programs are in need of reform as soon as they are implemented.

The key words being "concept" and "appears."  It all depends on who gets to coordinate and plan who's lives.  Regulated life is servitude, plain and simple.

I haven't ever witnessed Canadians stand up for Freedom until the Freedom Convoy.  Liberals have long given up on Liberty for an illusion of safety — through ever-increasing draconian measures.  What can citizens of countries without a Bill of Rights do to resist state oppression?  Not much...

I guess this means most of the world's governments are not nearly in the center...  The US, Canada, Australia, France, lead the way in authoritarian power grabs using the pandemic as a pretext while doing everything they can to dis-empower any citizen who expresses dissent.  Freedom hangs by a thread as the Great Reset aims to re-write the rules of society worldwide.  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

See the Summer of 2020 and the Antifa occupations — no charges.  Whereas in Canada, the RCMP will be tracking down every person that waved a flag on Parliament Hill in protest of mandates shutting down people's lives.  Those that sent in a $50 donation have had their bank accounts frozen and insurance cancelled.  Scratch a liberal, find a authoritarian.

Servitude remains the #1 racket in the world.

What a topsy-turvy world in which rioting and mayhem is "peaceful" while gathering peacefully at the nation's capital for a redress of grievances is an "insurrection."

This may be my favorite P.J. O'Rourke quote.  ;-)

"There's only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences."

P. J. O'Rourke always hits the nail on the head.

Every totalitarian regime has disarmed the populace.  An armed citizenry is the primary defense against servitude to the State.

Amen

Indeed.

This has not aged well...

That's a pretty broad brush.  It completely negates your statement.

But not from a lack of trying...

Spoken in the days when the People could acknowledge "that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be..."  The secularization of America has opened the doors to atheistic communism's religion of Power that has since hijacked the republican form of government. 

They have taken over the currency, switching from gold and silver money to interest bearing IOU's (a fundamental communist plank), the public schools have been turned into indoctrination camps to disempower children and to re-write history.  Urban plantation's vote in nearly every capital city overrides the working families in the rest of the country — and elections are increasingly fraudulent — as the communists say, "it's not the voting but the counting."

Government bureaus with no law making authority are imposing rules on the People, requiring they be injected with a brand new, never tested before on humans, "vaccine" that is not a vaccine but an experimental gene therapy that actually makes you sick forever to stimulate the immune system, when in fact it weakens immune systems considerably month after month.  And unlike any other vaccination, if there are adverse reactions, the pharma companies (and the government) have given themselves 100% immunity from suits for damages.

This is world war, plain and simple.  The Western nations are being brought to their knees by leftist governments.  My god, Hitler never had such a reach, and the USSR couldn't even pull this off.

It is a Chinese takeover, with all the Western politicians in their pockets doing the heavy lifting.  China is the biggest beneficiary of all this, and it is absolutely intentional.  They managed to fix the US election (hundreds of thousands of mail-in ballots and phony IDs have been seized coming from China).  The Biden's have been helping China for decades — follow the money.

How can we get out of this if we continue to be dependent upon Chinese goods?  I went Christmas shopping the other day, and wondered how empty these stores would be if there were no Chinese products?  Every appliance, TV, plastic spoon, or toy would be gone.  These products are made with communist slave labor — not just the Ugyars but the majority of the population.

We must get back on track to defending Freedom and lawful Constitutional government — end the states of emergency which are long past due.  Tear down this wall!  

Let us stand up against these obvious power plays designed to destabilize American life and foment civil war. And in the words of George Washington, with the help of Divine Providence we will succeed.

Mike, I understand your argument, and I also agree.  I understand that 'law' from your perspective is Natural Law, unmovable by man.  Statutes are legislation, and I agree again, that man cannot make law but only rules — rules that are supposed to support and defend man's natural born rights — again, outside of the power of man to legislate.

So, I believe the argument that Welch is making is in that regard. If you actually look at the statutes being passed by legislation, most of these shouldn't apply directly to the people but to corporate fictions engaged in commerce and thus subject to the Interstate Commerce Clause.  These are commercial regulations to be applied to collective groups/companies to keep them in check as their power can easily roll over the rights of the individual.

In essence, governmental power must be kept in check because it's tendency is to pursue more power, and government has made a lot of ground over the last 100 years at the expense of the rights and freedom of the people.

This awakening is due, and the powers-that-should-not-be are doing everything in their power to keep us in the dark and disabled.  Wake up, please!

How, specifically, does following the Constitutional principles of a republican form of government lead to fascism?  As far as I can tell, fascism is what happens when a statist form of government is established — that is to say a government that grants 'rights' that it also can take away.  

It is unfortunate that so many Americans will not think, but merely react as per their conditioning.  All of America's ills can be traced to implementing statist (i.e. authoritarian, totalitarian, socialist) legislation that steals the power of the people and centralizes it into the hands of the ruling class.

Socialism is a con and a lie.  Taken to its eventual end, is total domination of the people by those that have the power to create money out of nothing — the only way to defeat private enterprise, is through gaming the system.  

Socialism leads to greater and greater control until there is only one political party and often a ruler is 'voted' into office for life — such is the direction of democratic socialism.  The big lie!

Well stated, Noah.  Hitler was elected by Germans that identified as socialist and the Nazi party was a socialist party.  Hitler killed off his other socialist contenders — does that disqualify him as a socialist?  I don't think so.  

A republican form of government is decentralized and has checks and balances — the primary foundation of which is the declaration that the People have inherent rights that cannot ever be legislated away.  

However, a statist form of government is centralized, and the head of state is sovereign, and all others subordinate — the State is supreme, and the people are its subjects.  'Rights' can be granted and taken away.  Statism has many forms — monarchy, socialism, fascism, communism, any top down pyramidal structure.  The key to power in politics is to preach socialism to get elected, then profit from the graft that comes with the corruption of that office. 

'Rules for thee but not for me' is the hallmark of socialism.

I read the article — yep, that's socialism, and no I'm not on board.  See, the problem with socialism is that you do not have a choice any more.  Personal responsibility is turned on its head.  You have to be conditioned in school for years to be made fit for society.  Blecch — imagine everything run like the DMV. 

Socialism is the centralization of power, ultimately creating a seat of power ripe for dictatorship.  Socialists seek power — others' power.  It is a mind f@ck, hive mind, Borg mentality — 21st century slaves.  Apologists for socialism usually hold positions of employment funded by the State, directly or indirectly.

Think Venezuela — same thing.  A rich and prosperous country brought to its knees via 'socialist democracy' — otherwise known as 'voting for money.'

The fatal flaw with an interest-bearing fiat currency is that the 'money' you exchange for labor and capital is a debt with rent due.  It's a leaky vase, eventually draining to nothing if you don't pass on the hot potato before it's worthless.

Essentially we are renting the poker chips needed to play the game, and the odds are fixed in favor of the house.

And all property is taxed, gold is forbidden at the cash register — in fact, real money like gold and silver coins are not permitted for purchasing of goods.  The entire economic system is designed to increase the level of debt obligations exponentially — the more you produce, the higher the rate of taxation. 

Ultimately a fiat currency's value is always approaching zero.  If the issuers of the currency were indeed wise and incorruptible, there could be a government that would not need to tax the people but merely issue the currency they needed interest-free. 

But power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and there is no other absolute power than the power to create money by simple decree.

Until we throw off this iniquitous system, there can be no real prosperity, justice, freedom, independence.  The goal is to keep people in crisis and in fear.  THAT is the currency of governments. 

It's not a bug but a feature.  ;-)

It is about POWER — nothing else.  Remember that.

You don't have to "get the jab" either to serve your country.  Protect the lives and liberty of your fellows by standing up to the draconian dictates of eugenicists in the name of public health and safety.  For them, you dying for your country is what they want.  What better gift to the over-populated world than to leave it.