Episode 172 Show Notes- Why The Powerful Elite are Devoted to Take Down Federalism
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There are too many who view our Constitution and the system of federalism as old and outdated. There are too many who have little understanding and knowledge about our Constitution, our system of federalism, and the roles and responsibilities of our institutions. When those in power know little about the American system, yet they’re the ones that control it, it’s a recipe for disaster. It’s not the system that’s corrupt, it’s the ruling class. It’s not the system that’s broken, it’s the politicians that are broken. They’ve forgotten that they exist to serve us and uphold the Constitution and the system of federalism.
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Show Transcript- Why The Powerful Elite are Devoted to Take Down Federalism
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Intro
Welcome everyone to another episode of The PAS Report Podcast.
It seems we have drifted far away from this idea and its lead to a major problem throughout our country. It’s a problem that afflicts much of our society. It doesn’t matter what side of the political spectrum you fall on. It doesn’t matter if you are a liberal, a democrat, a republican, conservative or libertarian.
It’s something that has me deeply concerned, and I’ve spoken about this problem before, but the more people I speak with, the more I am convinced that many people know very little about our Constitution, our system of federalism, and the roles and responsibilities of our institutions.
And the problem becomes that if you don’t know about these things, you don’t have any real appreciation for them or for what the founding fathers were trying to do. If you don’t know these concepts, how can you defend the United States from the vicious assault on our principles that we witness every day?
For those on the left, they view the Constitution and our form of government as an inconvenience. They view Constitution and our system as old and outdated. That it needs to be reformed to meet 21st century standards. It’s no secret that Democrats and the left believe in a big government apparatus.
For many on the opposite side of the political spectrum, those on the right, while I may agree with them ideologically on the issues, particularly the idea of limited government, I’m also finding too many that are unaware of these things as well. While they preach about the Constitution, and concepts of Liberty and freedom, they too don’t fully understand the system. And how you can adequately defend the Constitution, the concept of federalism, and the American political philosophies of liberty and freedom, if you’re unfamiliar with them.
Last week, I spoke about a little thing called truth. I explained how truth exists in everything and we can accept the truth or reject it, but no matter what we do, the truth exists. It does not depend upon our acceptance to give it its binding force of validity.
And so here is another truth. We are all responsible for our current state of politics. We are all responsible for what’s happening in the United States regardless of political ideology, and while we can easily blame the state of our education system for this problem because they never really taught American government and politics, the reality is that we bear some of the blame as well.
I’m a big believer in personal responsibility, and we have to accept our share of the blame.
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Why We Need to Accept Responsibility
Jumping right in. We’re responsible because we failed. We have failed to uphold the principles that made us the greatest country in the history of the world. We failed to know and understand the country that we’re living in. While the schools may not have done a good job, don’t we have an obligation to learn about it ourselves?
Serious question to everyone listening. When was the last time you actually read the Constitution? When was the last time you actually read the Declaration of Independence?
These are two core documents, yet how many of you are thinking to yourselves right now, “Wow, I can’t remember the last time I’ve read it.” Some of you, if you’re being honest, are realizing that you’ve never read these documents before, and I want you to think about that for a second.
Republicans, conservatives, and even some of you blue dog democrats are constantly bringing up the Constitution. You constantly say how important these documents are, yet you never read these documents yourself, or if you did, for many it’s been years, if not decades since you last read them.
For Democrats, liberals, and regressives, I’m no longer calling people progressive because they are for anything but actual progress. However, the same thing applies. Some of you never read these documents, and if you have, for many it’s been years and decades as well. Yet, many are constantly going out there bashing the Constitution. Talking about how old and outdated the Constitution is.
Now I know I’m generalizing, but again, how do we speak on all the issues out there, with such confidence, when we have no clue what the founding principles are, why the system of federalism was created, and who’s responsible for what? How can we say the government should or shouldn’t do anything when so many know how the system actually works?
A Refresher on the Constitution and Federalism
So, it’s time we get a working knowledge and understanding of how the system is supposed to work.
First up is the Declaration of Independence. This is a brilliant document explaining why the colonies wanted to be free of British rule, and while the list of grievances was provided, more importantly, it begins to lay the foundation for the American political philosophy.
Throughout the document, Thomas Jefferson, who was assisted by Benjamin Franklin and John Adams, shows their deep understanding of human nature, and why it was necessary to lay out the reasons that “impel them to separation.”
Last week, I defined truth, where truth does not depend upon human acceptance to give it its binding force of validity. As I said, truth exists in everything whether we want to accept it or not.
And we see the founders start with this idea when they write, “We hold these truths to be self-evident,” meaning we don’t need to have government or pseudo-experts to tell us what our rights are. That our rights are not granted by government, they are “endowed by their Creator.”
See, we are human beings, and as human beings, our inalienable rights include life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Governments exist to protect these rights, not usurp them, and Thomas Jefferson argued the preservation of innocent life, not the destruction of it, is the first job of government.
Now the founding fathers weren’t stupid. While our rights are inherent because we are human beings, they recognized that governments could do one of two things. Governments can promote the responsible exercise of human liberty and free will within the confines of natural law or government can reject natural law and liberty thereby becoming a tool of injustice.
Essentially, we would have to embark on a journey where liberty is protected, and at the same time, we can maintain societal order.
When governments become a tool of injustice, it is the right of the people to alter and abolish it, and so this is why it was necessary to separate from Britain.
The founders believe the abuses were so serious going far beyond light and transient causes, that the time has come to embark on our independence and lay out a new vision for our future.
Jefferson also explains the weakness of human nature. That human history is replete with examples of people willing to suffer under abusive regimes “than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.” See, as human beings, we have a particular weakness to prefer stability even when we are fully aware that things aren’t right. That the government is overstepping its bounds.
While the Declaration was not legally binding, it was, perhaps, one of the most profound documents in human history and reshaped the world.
Suspicion Surrounding an All-Powerful Government
While the Declaration expressed our want to be free, it would be war and bloodshed in the American Revolution that secures our independence.
We would be fighting a superior military with superior capabilities in every single way, and through Divine Providence, we would defeat the British even though under every simulation we should have lost.
The scary part is that fighting the Revolution would prove to be the easy part. Creating a government would prove to be far more difficult.
Our founding fathers were deeply skeptical of government, particularly one where the central government would have so much power. They understood the more power a government has, the more that government would eventually abuse that power. But they also understood that a central government would be needed to bind the colonies as states.
At the time, they were deciding on what form of government to utilize. Now, if I ask what does form of government means, many will say democracy, communism, republic, and various other types. But that’s not what form of government means. Those are types of governments. Types of government are the governing philosophies of a nation. The form of government is the mechanics of government. How the government actually operates.
At the time, our founding fathers were contemplating two forms of government. The first was the Unitary system where the central government would have the totality of governing authority. Basically, the central government is responsible for all issues whether it’s education, healthcare, policing, immigration, infrastructure, you name it, and the central government will set up subdivisions to assist in implementing its policies.
The founding fathers rejected the Unitary system as our main form of government. They didn’t want a central government to be responsible for the entirety of the nation because they understood that it would be ripe with abuses.
Instead, they chose the confederal system where you would have a loose coalition of states bound together by a weak central government. The central government would only be able to exercise those powers given to it by the states, and the states are the ones with the power in this system. They remain sovereign, and they can expand or contract the power of the central government at any time.
In any event, this model was chosen based on the 3 Principles of Old Republicanism. Our founders understood that governments are naturally flawed. They’re flawed because they are created by human beings, and we’re flawed, thereby, anything we create is unnatural and will have defects, but the founders understood that government was a necessary evil.
The second principle is that liberty is best protected in the states. A central government is far removed from the people and the states, and it is much more difficult to change a national government than it is to change a state government. While the founders realized that liberty is at risk with any form of government, they understood that a national government would be out of touch with their people, and since it’s so far away, the national government would constantly move to restrict people’s liberties because there would be little consequence.
The last principle was that the government that governs the best, governs the least. The founding fathers were big believers that any government should be as limited as possible when it comes to power. They didn’t want to create a system that would just churn out law after law. Every single law restricts human behavior in some sort of way, and while laws are necessary, the founding fathers knew a national government would overstep its boundaries due to people constantly looking to government to solve problems.
The Articles of Confederation would formally create the United States and was founded on the belief that this form of government would not represent a threat to human liberty. Unfortunately for them, what was won in blood was lost through incompetence.
The national government was far too weak, and there were four essential flaws that ultimately led to the Articles of Confederation to collapse.
Under the Articles, while Congress could request money from taxes, but they couldn’t collect taxes. They relied on the states to collect tax monies, but the states wouldn’t turn the money over to the national government. No government can operate without funding.
Another flaw was that Congress can pass, but not enforce laws. This led to states picking and choosing which national laws they wanted to implement, and there was little uniformity. Sounds familiar when you look at today, but I’m going to get into that in a minute.
Another flaw was that Congress couldn’t expand the national government’s power. We know during certain crises, it may be necessary for the government to expand its powers. The obvious being in times of war or during economic downturns.
The final flaw was that the government could not regulate foreign or interstate commerce. This was a disaster as states would essentially be allowed to negotiate with foreign governments, and rather than present ourselves as a nation of one to the international community, it would make it much easier for foreign governments to exploit and manipulate the United States. Another problem is that states were at each other’s throats when it came to trade, and there were major disputes between the states.
And so, the Articles of Confederation collapsed.
Federalism
The founding fathers recognized the system collapsed, and they embarked on a new journey. They held the Annapolis Convention. At the Annapolis Convention, they realized that the Articles of Confederation were beyond repair. It’s not like they can offer simple fixes. They also recognized that due to the Article’s rigid structure, it would require all 13 states to approve any changes which were nearly impossible.
They passed a resolution convening a broader convention. At the time, it would be called the Philadelphia Convention, but we know it as the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
Our founding fathers had some important goals. They needed to strengthen the national/state relationship in order to strengthen the union. They also had to strengthen the national government while protecting the concepts of liberty and freedom. Think about how difficult that is. How do you give the government more power without infringing on liberty?
This is where our current form of government, the system of federalism, was born. Federalism is where you have two levels of government neither of which is created by the other and both of which operate independently of each other.
Now, this is really important because it highlights many of the problems, we see today which I’ll get into in a little bit.
Under the system of federalism, neither level of government would be reliant on the other. The federal government is going to be responsible for certain things, and the states is going to be responsible for other things.
The Constitution
Ultimately this is where the Constitution was born when the Great Compromise was ratified by nine out of the 13 states. Our entire system would be based on the idea of compromise. In any event, it would be the written constitutions of each individual state, as well as the United States Constitution that would now govern us.
And it was really genius when you think about it. This system would be much stronger than the Articles of Confederation. In order to protect the people from an all-powerful, over-bearing government, the founding fathers would institutionalize safeguards to prevent abuses of power.
Understand, when people say the Constitution is old and outdated, that it’s a document written 230+ years ago, and it needs to be modernized, they are lying to you, and it’s obvious they’ve never read the Constitution.
Our Constitution is not a philosophical document that may need to be updated and changed with time. Our Constitution is a mechanic’s guide to how our government operates and who is responsible for what. Changing the Constitution really means changing our entire system of governance, and this would represent the greatest threat to us all.
See, we are constantly pushing this idea that we’re a democracy, and many believe that within a democracy, the majority rules, or at least should rule. However, while the people would have their say in our system, the founding fathers sought to prevent the Tyranny of the Majority, and hence the reason we are a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy.
Our founders recognized that majorities could be wrong, and they didn’t want elected officials to be beholden to the whims of the mob. The minority viewpoints would always have a say within the system, and while they won’t get their way, it forces compromise within the system.
Our government is designed to be slow, awkward, and inefficient. Conflict has been institutionalized throughout the system. Conflict exists within and between all levels of government, whether it’s conflict between the states or between states and the federal government. Whether it’s conflict between the political parties or conflict within the political parties. Or conflict between the branches of government. Our founders created a system where conflict would make it difficult for one person, one party, or one branch to seize power.
Our founding fathers wanted the government to discuss and debate the issues. To protect people’s liberties, and maintain societal order. They didn’t want the government to pass knee-jerk policies to make it as if they were doing something, and we see this a lot today. Instead, they wanted well-thought-out solutions to the problems.
There are many interrelated parts to pass a bill. It’s a slow and complex process. It’s exactly how the founding fathers intended. They understood that all bills essentially empower government at the expense of the people. They didn’t believe every issue required a national response, and if the bill-making process was easy, the national government would empower itself that sooner or later, the government reigns supreme.
The Constitution also lays out the Separation of Powers and we see this clearly in Articles 1-4 of the Constitution. We are going to have 3 distinct and separate branches of government at the federal and state level. We are going to have a distinct separation of powers between the federal government and the state governments.
Each branch of government is going to exercise different powers, serve for different terms, represent different constituencies, and fulfill different philosophical purposes.
Article 1- The Legislative Branch
When looking at Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution, it clearly states that all legislative powers, law-making abilities, shall be vested in a Congress consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Just to illustrate how little most people know about our government, many constantly refer to the House of Representatives as Congress, and they make it as if the Senate is a different entity from Congress.
When we look at this, our founders were clear. It’s not the President that gets to make law. It’s not the Supreme Court that gets to make law. It’s Congress that makes law.
And again, here is where we see most Americans don’t have a good grasp on the intent of the government, and I find this fascinating. Polls consistently show that Americans disapprove of Congress by large majorities. Majorities by both Democrats and Republicans. When asked why they disapprove, the number one response is that Congress doesn’t do anything.
My response is so what? That’s actually the point of why the founding fathers created the complexities. Do you really want Congress to just churn out law after law? Do you really want to make it easier for Congress to pass laws? Just think about that a second and let that marinate with you.
See, as a student of history and American government, I only want Congress to pass laws when they thoroughly debate an issue. I only want Congress to pass a law when they actually have a solution to the problem. I only want Congress to pass law after exhausting all other options.
We are constantly told that Congress gets nothing done. Guess what, if they don’t really debate an issue, have realistic solutions, and aren’t willing to compromise, nothing will get done, and so be it. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially when you have elected officials that think they should have ever-increasing power and authority over our lives. Especially when they think that we’re too stupid to make our own decisions and that We the People don’t know what’s in our, or our families, best interests.
Consider this, for the last 60-70 years, we’ve been debating the same issues. At times, Democrats had most of the power. At other times, Republicans had most of the power. Both sides have passed laws in regard to these issues. Both sides have increased federal power and authority. Yet here we are debating the same issues to this very day.
Has anything improved in education? Healthcare? Immigration? Foreign policy? Or any other issue you can think of. Sure, if I research hard enough, I’ll find some slight improvements, but the reality is we just made the government more powerful, and the same problems persist. They fixed nothing.
Article 2- The Executive Branch
When we look at Article 2, we see it focuses on the Executive Branch, and essentially the President serves as the CEO of the United States. The President runs the day-to-day operations of our government, and the President is responsible for enforcing the laws passed by Congress.
However, there are many who seek to change this. There are many who want the President to sidestep Congress and implement his own agenda when that agenda coincides with our own political ideologies.
Essentially, they want to eliminate the checks and balances the founding fathers institutionalized, and blur the lines between executive power, as well as legislative and judicial power. This goes directly against the warning Madison provided in Federalist 47 where he stated, and I’m paraphrasing, that all powers- legislative, executive, and judicial- concentrated in the same hands is the very definition of tyranny.
It appears today that there are too many people who are willing to allow a President to do whatever they want as long as that President agrees with us ideologically.
Article 3- The Judicial Branch
Moving onto Article 3, where the founding fathers state that judicial power shall be vested in one Supreme Court and inferior courts as deemed necessary by Congress.
Now judicial power is fairly clear cut. The judicial branch exists for two main purposes, the first is to guarantee the concept of due process and equal application of the law. The second is to exercise the power of judicial review where the Supreme Court can rule acts by Congress or the executive branch unconstitutional.
Over the last several years, we have seen some major changes within philosophical judicial principles where the courts have shown way too much deference to the government over the people. They’ve allowed the bureaucracy to operate with broad discretion without examining the long-term implications.
We are also witnessing those who want to cheapen the judicial branch and encourage the judicial branch to become nothing more than a politically partisan institution. It’s why Democrats want to expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices.
In Federalist 78, written by Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton argues that judicial power rests on good judgment and that a judge’s allegiance should be to the rule of law. Now there are those that are arguing that a judge’s allegiance should be to a political ideology as opposed to the Constitution and the rule of law.
There are many who believe the Court should operate under the modus Operandi of judicial activism, as opposed to judicial restraint. The same people who believe the Constitution is old and outdated believe want the Court to actively interpret the Constitution, and essentially legislate from the bench. They believe that the Courts should intervene when Congress fails to take action on particular issues. Again, it’s clear there are many who seek to blur the lines of the separation of powers and undo everything the founders tried to protect us against.
Remember, judges should never substitute their ideology for law and the Constitution. Judges are not there to make policy decisions. Judges should apply the law, and the Constitution, as it was written, rather than try to create it.
Article 4- The States and Article 6- The Supremacy Clause
Finally, I briefly want to talk about Article 4, the 10th Amendment, and Article 6.
Article 4 lays out the responsibilities of the states and outlines the relationship between the states and the federal government. We see this concept of federalism codified throughout the Constitution.
While it requires every state to recognize and respect other state’s laws and institutions, it’s clear that the states are free to implement and adopt policies that are in their own best interests. The states are the laboratories of experiment when it comes to policy, and what may work in one state, may not work in another state.
When we take Article 4 and examine the 10th Amendment, we find that any power or policy not listed in the Constitution is left up to the states to decided, and if it’s not prohibited by the states, then the power rests in the hands of the people.
Article 6, the supremacy clause, codifies that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that no State can create a policy that conflicts with the Constitution and federal authority.
When we combine these three, you’ll quickly realize that the federal government has encroached dramatically on state authority. Nowhere in the Constitution will you see things like education, healthcare, welfare, or any other federal responsibilities in regard to these issues. Therefore, it should be the states creating policy within these arenas. Yet there are many who simply bypass the rights of the people, the local governments, and the state government, and look directly to the federal government to get involved, but we do this at our peril.
Challenging the Foundation of the United States
Some of you may be wondering where I’m going with all this, and the reason I’m spending time on this is that we are witnessing an all-out assault on our system of governance and the founding principles of this nation.
Both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for the weakening of the safeguards our founders imposed. They are both responsible for weakening the system of federalism. More importantly, they are both responsible for moving us ever closer to totalitarianism.
It’s not to say that all past Congresses or administrations did this for nefarious intent. Most thought they were doing what’s in the best interests of the United States. However, the intent has morphed and changed, and it is now nefarious.
FDR and the Expansion of Federal Government
There were three times in our history where we see a major encroachment of federal authority on the system. The first is the Civil War and the period of Reconstruction. Now, this is not controversial, and it is largely accepted that it was necessary in order to keep the Union whole. However, even during this period, power and the proper balance within the system were ultimately restored.
Unfortunately, this wouldn’t last long relatively speaking. The next time we saw a usurpation of power and authority was during the Great Depression and FDR’s administration. This time, power wouldn’t be restored to the proper balance. Under FDR, he implemented an enormous number of social policies that many would argue usurped the rights of the states and the people under his New Deal initiatives.
Now we understand why FDR wanted the New Deal pushed through. The United States was going through the Great Depression, and states were unable to effectively respond to this economic crisis. So, we see the federal government using a crisis to usurp power and authority. Sound familiar?
What most people don’t know is that these New Deal policies really didn’t end the Great Depression. In fact, some may argue that these policies had little impact. It’s not to say these policies did have any benefits or didn’t help at all, but we have to recognize that states started recovering economically in 1933. Also, we wouldn’t fully recover from the Great Depression until we entered WWII and needed our industries to mass produce to support the war effort.
So, under FDR, we would morph from a system of federalism, where we have two levels of government, neither of which are created by the other and both operate independently of each other, to a system of new federalism.
New federalism is where we still have two levels of government. Neither of which are created by others, but one level of government would become dependent on the other level. Now some historians will conflict with me on this idea. They’ll say that’s not what new federalism is. They’ll argue that new federalism is when certain powers were transferred from the federal government back to the states in the 1960s.
That’s not really accurate though. First of all, if this is the case, why coin it new federalism? Transferring power back to the states would actually restore the principles of federalism laid out by the founders. It wouldn’t be new. It would be restoring the original principles of federalism.
Secondly, and more importantly, it’s a myth that the federal government transferred power back to the states. All the federal government did was provide block grants to the states, thereby increasing their dependency on the federal apparatus. While the federal government wouldn’t have full control over these programs, the federal government would be able to dictate state policy by extortion and threatening states to cut off funding if they don’t comply. It’s a similar tactic that organized crime uses, except when government does it, it’s legal.
Recognize that on average, 25% of a state’s budget is reliant on federal funds thus making the states beholden to the federal government. No state can afford to lose 25% of its revenue, and with all the programs now being introduced, that reliance is certain to increase.
The Attempt to Completely Do Away with Federalism
We are now witnessing efforts to completely do away with federalism. Like FDR, the democrats are using the coronavirus as a crisis needed to usurp all authority and power.
This was clearly evident in Joe Biden’s State of the Union-like address where his agenda attempts to seize whatever remaining elements of federalism, we still have intact.
The Biden administration is betting that the coronavirus is the vehicle where they can fundamentally alter the structures of government. They see it as an opportunity to do away with inconveniences like the Constitution or the concept of federalism.
Think about it logically. Think about the touting of the new normal. Think about how hard they’re pushing the idea that we can never go back to our way of life pre-coronavirus. Don’t you find that talk the least bit unusual for a virus with a 99.97% survival rate for anyone under the age of 60, and for a 96.5% survival rate for anyone over the age of 60?
But they don’t care. They instilled an enormous amount of fear where the sheep blindly give up power because of this fear. In fact, I’m constantly hearing that the federal government failed in its response to the coronavirus. Here’s the problem with that, because of the system of federalism, the federal government isn’t in charge of emergency response operations. The states lead response, and the federal government exists to provide assistance, coordinate resources, and issue guidance.
In fact, the major reason the federal government doesn’t lead response efforts is that every jurisdiction is different, and therefore it needs to be managed differently. Why should Poplar Bluff, Missouri be required to respond the same way as New York City?
It’s clear, this administration plans to push for a hostile takeover necessary to implement a big-government, quasi-socialist agenda. It’s why he essentially announced cradle to grave policies. From universal daycare to universal community college to universal elderly care. And listen to their words carefully. Everything is a crisis. Whether it’s coronavirus, the climate, guns. You name it, and they label it a crisis, except for illegal immigration and our borders being overwhelmed, of course. Funny how that works.
Of course, they say they’re doing it because they’re compassionate. They say they’re doing it to create equity within the United States. They say this is the only path forward. But make no mistake about it, the only thing it does is make us more dependent and compliant to the government powers that be.
And when you actually use your brain. When you actually think about it for a minute. It doesn’t make any sense. Take universal community college. College education is not a federal responsibility. It’s clearly left up to the states to decide. Ask yourself, why haven’t liberal states like California implemented a program like this? Surely, the social welfare state of California would approve of a program like this. Doesn’t it make more sense to try a policy like this at the state level first? If the policy works, then more states will adopt similar policies. If it fails, well, at least we didn’t screw it up for the entirety of the United States.
And I can do that with any policy whether it be universal daycare, universal healthcare, elderly care (whatever the hell that means). I mean policies like these are the dreams of many democrats and every socialist but recognize it goes against the founder’s intent.
But we have our answer as to why they’re doing this. They don’t want to push it in the states because they know it will fail. They know it will bankrupt the state. They also know that when people realize what the programs are really like once implemented, the people in other states will quickly reject these programs and they will make sure these policies never get implemented in their states.
However, if you implement them on the federal level, everyone has no choice but to obey and comply. Not only that, once the policies are implemented at the federal level, it’s nearly impossible to get rid of these programs. Just take a look at the Affordable Care Act.
But the real reason, the main reason, is because as dependency continues to grow on the federal government, people will be programmed to empower government even further. And when the system begins to collapse because understand that with all these programs, the system will be break and collapse, then people will be so desperate, they’ll surrender total power to the national government.
Congress Breaking the Safeguards
The Democrats in Congress are also working their hardest to break the safeguards that the founding fathers institutionalized. The founding fathers institutionalized these safeguards as a way to prevent exactly what we are witnessing and what the Democrats want to do.
Just think, HR1 usurps the power of State legislative bodies in elections clearly laid out in Article 2, section 1 of the Constitution. Offering amnesty to millions of millions of illegal immigrants to change the voting demographics. Adding four additional seats to the Supreme Court. Trying to push through DC statehood. Increasing the surveillance state and empowering the bureaucracy to target opponents deemed “domestic enemies.”
Nearly everything that’s being introduced in the Democrat-led Congress, has one common trend. They are all designed to further empower the federal government. They’re designed to weaken the states. Most importantly, it’s designed to weaken the power of the people.
Closing
Our founding fathers weren’t dumb people. They understood the threat the government poses to the people. They understood the threat the politicians pose to the government and its structures. It’s why when we look at Article 5 of the Constitution, they made it so difficult to amend and change the Constitution. They understood the greed and ambition of the ruling class.
In Federalist 43, Madison explained the need to make the process extremely difficult to amend the Constitution. He wrote that if the Constitution could be easily changed, it would render the Constitution utterly useless. It would be unrecognizable due to the ruling class’s thirst for power.
In Federalist 85, Hamilton argued that the complexity of the amending process serves as a barrier to national authority. He explained that this process ensures that the federal government would not usurp the states and the people’s authority. It’s remarkable when you think of where we are today.
See, the founding fathers wrote the Constitution in a way where it lives through the ages. Those who call the Constitution old and outdated, those who say federalism is broken, they’re lying to you. It’s not the system that’s broken, it’s the politicians that are broken. They’ve forgotten that they exist to serve us and uphold the Constitution.
And it’s because of the lack of knowledge of the system and the Constitution, by both the people and those who have sworn to uphold the Constitution, they are now looking to bypass the amending process. Their backdoor attempts to restructure the system will have catastrophic consequences if they succeed.
When those in power deem the system as outdated and inconvenient. A system that they took an oath to uphold and preserve, we are in dangerous territory. When those in power know little about the American system, yet they’re the ones that control it, it’s a recipe for disaster. When those in power seek backdoor attempts to get around the Constitution, it becomes a crisis of epic proportions.
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Some of you may think I’m exaggerating. That I’m blowing it out of proportion. However, just yesterday, a report was released that the Biden administration and the Department of Homeland Security are looking to hire contractors to monitor Americans.
I want you to really think about that for a minute. According to the report, they’re considering enlisting these private firms because the “federal government is legally limited to what they can do without a warrant.” (Daily Wire) See, the pesky Constitution and the Bill of Rights are an obstacle, but now they’re going to use a backdoor attempt to get around the 4th and 5th Amendments, and our right to privacy. Who the hell do these people think they are, but it’s our fault because we’ve allowed it to get to this point.
It’s why it’s so important to people understand the founding of this country, and the documents that guide us. It doesn’t matter if you’re a liberal, a democrat, a republican, conservative, or anything else. This system has served us well for 230+ years. While it’s not a perfect system, we constantly strive to correct past sins.
We are the most advanced civilization in the entire world, but the regressives want to take us backward. It’s not the system that’s the problem. It’s not the system that’s rotten. The people in power are the problem. The ruling class are the ones who are rotten and thoroughly corrupt.
With that being said, there is a reason for optimism. No matter how anyone wants to spin the 2020 elections, recognize that Americans largely rejected socialism and the far-left. Gains were made in state legislatures throughout the country. Governorships changed. Gains were made in the House of Representatives and continue to be made as witnessed in the recent special elections.
It seems many have woken up, and that’s why it’s important we continue to speak out. It’s why we have to stay informed. It’s the only way we will be able to preserve our principles and our history. It’s the only way our Constitution survives.
Disengaging from the system is not an option. Sitting on the sidelines is not an option.
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