America is a Constitutional Republic, Not a Democracy or Any Other Undesirable Form of Government

Over the last few weeks I have seen an increasing number of Liberal, agenda driven people, posting on social media and speaking anywhere they could get in front of a microphone or TV camera. These people are completely irrational, uninformed or worst, deliberately working to destroy America and make us part of George Soros’ “One World Order”. Regardless of which of these three categories they fall into they all have one thing in common. They are all insisting that America is BAD because we elected Donald Trump as President. Some of them are even comparing President Trump to some of the world’s worst dictators, current and past. One example I saw was a lengthy post on Facebook where the writer compared America today to the early stages of the horrible situation that exist in Venezuela today, and compared President Trump to the now deceased Hugo Chavez. The writer used these comparisons to strongly recommend that people in America” RISE UP” against President Trump!  Unfortunately the writer of this post, as misguided as he is, is not alone in his beliefs and desires for the destruction of the Trump Presidency, and consequently the destruction of America!

Regardless of whether the people opposing the Trump Presidency are uninformed, irrational, or really want to destroy America, it is obvious that they do not understand America at all. In America it does not matter who you ARE, what you WANT, or what you DO, you do not get to make America be what YOU want it to be! The Obama Administration was a perfect example of an individual or group that is obsessed with making America be what they want it to be. The reason an individual or group cannot make America be what they want it to be is because our brilliant and far seeing Founding Fathers made sure that cannot happen when they wrote our Constitution and got it ratified creating the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. As long as our government functions as a Constitutional Republic we will continue to be a free nation. When our Constitution is ignored by agenda driven people in power, and they get enough support for their actions, we will cease to be a free nation and will self-destruct into anarchy.

Under our form of Federal Government we have three co-equal branches of Government. The three branches are the “Executive” (the President), “Legislative” (Congress, the House of Representatives and Senate) and “Judicial” (the Supreme Court). There is also an elaborate system of checks and balances in place to keep the balance of power between the three branches in place. Sometimes these checks and balances get a little “fuzzy” when people in positions of power are too “self-centered”. As noted above, the Obama Administration was an example of an administration that was opposed to America’s Constitutional Republic form of government and it’s built in “checks and balances”. The Obama Administration made repeated attempts to bypass the other two branches of our Government and  ignore our system of “checks and balances” while trying to force their chosen way of life on America’s citizens, especially during Obama’s second term.

On November 8, 2016, as a result of the Obama Administration and his sycophant supporter’s disdain for our Constitutional Republic form of government the Patriotic American voters stood up and said “NO MORE”! On that day our Constitutional Republic form of government began to work again like our Founding Fathers intended it to work.

In addition to our Constitutional Republic form of Government America has one more thing that other countries do not have. That is the most patriotic, freedom loving, and heavily armed population in the history of the world. Combine that with qualified patriotic people in positions of power in our Constitutional Republic Government and America is going to be a “shining example” to the rest of the world again.

Notes:

Our State Governments are also modeled after our Federal Government which makes our entire system of Government better than any other Government in the world, past or present.

Here is a link to an article explaining the difference in our Constitutional Republic form of government and a Democratic form of government: http://madisonproject.com/2013/09/we-the-people-a-constitutional-republic-not-a-democracy/

Facts for Michael Moore, Madonna, Katy Perry, Ashley Judd, et all

Fact 1: You have the right in America to free speech and peaceful assembly. However the right to free speech does not allow people to publicly say things like Madonna said at the rally in Washington, “I have thought a lot about blowing up the White House”! You also need to be aware that you do not have the right to declare an election for the U.S. President invalid because you do not like the results. You DO NOT speak for all of America. At the regret of sounding arrogant “obamaish” I will repeat what he rudely said to Senator John McCain in one of the extremely rare times he actually made a weak attempt to do his job and held a bi-partisan meeting at the White House. Obama said, “Elections have consequences, I won”.

Donald Trump won this election with a big Electoral College margin. That is not going to change. Regarding the Electoral College, I have written and published articles about the Electoral College several times in recent months and about how brilliant and far sighted our Founding Fathers were when they created it over 200 years ago. It was created as a way to form the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I firmly believe that without the Electoral College, the Constitution would not have been ratified by all the states that existed at the time. I am also convinced that the Electoral College is as critical to our way of life today as it was then. It prevents California and New York City from having the final say in who our President is and what our national and international policies will be! The Electoral College is part of our Constitution and is NOT going to be changed!

Fact 2: The Democratic Party is DEAD. You Liberals killed it and are in the process of making sure it cannot be revived in any of our lifetimes. You lost the White House, both Houses of the US Congress, most of the State Governments and you are going to eventually lose the Supreme Court, regardless of what Senator Schumer said! You reappointed Nancy Pelosi as House Minority leader, you are about to appoint Keith Ellison (a RADICAL RACIST AMERICA HATING MUSLIM) as head of the National Democratic Party. You have twenty two Democratic Senators up for reelection in the mid-term elections in 2018. Many of these Senators are in states that President Trump easily won. In case you do not understand what will likely happen in the 2018 elections in these states? It means that after these elections the Democratic Party will be even more DEAD than it is now!  With 65 to 70 of the 100 Senate seats filled by solid Republicans after the 2018 elections no one can prevent President Trump’s picks for the Supreme Court from being approved, and there will likely be at least three of the nine replaced in the next four years!

Fact 3: President Trump’s Cabinet choices are the most successful, qualified, patriotic picks that I have ever seen. Schumer can grand stand for the TV cameras and the rino Republicans can let him get away with delaying their approval but he cannot stop their approval. They will serve America WELL! I wrote about what an extraordinary group of people they are in my article published last week.

Fact 4, my final note in this article: No democratic country has ever survived when it stopped being a strong two party country! You self-centered pompous asses are destroying our country and the “sheeple” are following you!  For example the LGBTQ “dance party” on Vice President Elect Pence’s front lawn DID NOT HELP YOUR CAUSE! Look in the mirror and WAKE UP before it is too late!

Successful Patriotic Federal Government Cabinet Members and Department Heads Versus Failed Idealogues

I have heard and read a lot of Liberal “displeasure” regarding President Elect Trump’s picks for his Cabinet.  Many Liberals are especially upset that so many of Trump’s picks have long and successful careers in the private sector and are wealthy. Why? That does not surprise me at all. It is just one more example of how irrational, incompetent, and in many cases corrupt Obama’s Liberal base is.

There are two basic rules that all successful business people follow. These rules have never failed to prove to be RIGHT. They are:

  1. You can delegate authority but not responsibility. This means that if you are the person “in charge” you are ultimately responsible for EVERYTHING that the people reporting to you do.
  2. The most successful managers are the ones who are always trying to “hire their replacement”. What this means is that the most successful people in the business world are the people who, when they have a job opening to fill, work very hard at filling that position with the most qualified and successful person they can hire.

There is never any justification for making exceptions to either of these two basic rules.

These basic rules do not just apply to the free enterprise business world. They also apply to our government beginning with the President. It is especially important when the President is making his picks for his Cabinet and Department heads. An obvious example of a President/executive who failed miserably at following these basic rules of business, numerous times, is Obama. He appointed sycophant ideologues to every position he had the authority to fill and then every time there was a major mistake made by, or worse a corrupt act carried out by, any branch of the Federal Government, he said that he first “heard about it in the news”.

All of the members of a President’s cabinet are absolutely critical to the Presidents success in taking care of America and positively influencing what happens in the rest of the world. Two that are especially critical are the Secretary of State and the U.S. Attorney General. 

Regarding the Secretary of State, when you compare Hillary and John Kerry to Rex Tillerson the difference in their resumes is SHOCKING!  Hillary’s entire adult life is a public record open book beginning with her being a devoted Saul Alinsky disciple in college, to her record of deliberate gross negligence, incompetence and treason while she was Secretary of State. John Kerry’s entire adult life is also a public record open book with the highlights being a failed Presidential run and ending with four years racing around the world being an Obama sycophant promoting Obama’s failed international policies. Rex Tillerson’s record is one of a lifetime of hard earned personal success in one of the most competitive (ruthless) industries in the world. He began his career at ExxonMobil as an entry level Production Engineer straight out of college. He spent his entire career there eventually working his way up the ladder to be the company’s top executive in 2006. Under his leadership the company has done extremely well including doing business in many foreign countries. One of the many reasons that ExxonMobil has been so successful doing business in many foreign countries is that it has its own private “State Department” in its corporate headquarters. Quoting “Bloomberg Business Week”, “Behind the walls of ExxonMobil’s secluded corporate headquarters outside Dallas, Texas a little-known intelligence unit works to keep top executives informed on economic, social and political situations around the world so they never walk into a foreign negotiation unprepared. The analysts compile risk profiles for every place Exxon has assets, personnel or may be considering investing”.  As noted earlier the differences in the resumes of Hillary, Kerry and Rex Tillerson are SHOCKING!  Rex Tillerson’s resume is a perfect example of what a Cabinet Member’s resume should be!

Regarding the U.S, Attorney General (AG), when you compare the resumes of Eric Holder, Loretta Lynch and Jeff Sessions the difference is SHOCKING! The Holder family and Obama family have been connected by the same ideologies since their college days. Eric Holder’s wife and Michelle Obama were roommates in college and formed the first black only sorority. Eric Holder has been one of the most racist and corrupt Assistant AG’s (under Bill Clinton) and AG’s under Obama in the history of the Department of Justice. Holder’s racist and corrupt history has been written about extensively in a number of books and articles. I wrote about this in detail in one of my recent articles about the “Department of Injustice”. Loretta Lynch stepped right in and continued to lead the Department of Injustice just like Holder did but with less public visibility. Jeff Sessions also has a public open book resume. He has a long and distinguished career that makes him one of the most qualified potential U.S. Attorney Generals to ever be chosen for that position. His impressive biography is available on-line if you wish to read it.

When I look at every one of President Elect Trump’s picks they all have several things in common. None of them need the position they have been chosen to fill. They are all highly qualified for the position they have been chosen to fill. They all have money and have, or had power in their professional careers. They all are volunteering to serve their country, in very difficult and personally demanding jobs out of a sense of duty to their country. Many will be “dollar a year” people, which means they will only accept one dollar a year in salary. None of them is an ideologue or a sycophant or has ever spoken a negative word about America. When you compare every one of President Elect Trump’s picks to all of Obama’s the differences are SHOCKING! .

As I said in closing my article last week, getting President Elect Trump elected was only the beginning. We must continue to support him, his staff and the actual Conservatives who are in Washington so Trump can do what he set out to do. Stay informed and involved. Communicate with your elected representatives and demand changes regarding term limits, open public records, transparency in all government activities, fiscal responsibility, and reasonable performance standards for all government employees.

 

 

 

 

 

Term Limits and Special Interest (January 7, 2017)

Sent to me by a friend who found it on the internet, origin unknown but appropriate:

“All politicians should be limited to two terms…..

One in office and one in prison

Works in Chicago”

I wrote and published my first article about Term Limits and  Special Interest in May, 2015. I have rewritten that article to make it more current and am republishing it for two reasons.

  1. Everything that has happened in America leading up to, and especially after the election on November 8.
  2. With the new Administration taking office on January 20 we actually have an opportunity to take America back from the Rino/Liberal corrupt and self-serving Washington politicians and the anarchist and irrational self-serving Liberals refusing to accept the November election results.

Based on everything I have read and been told over the years the Founding Fathers saw elected office as a patriotic public service especially on a national level. In fact they were concerned about elected officials becoming professional politicians. This is evidenced by Benjamin Franklin’s reply to a woman who asked him a question as he exited Independence Hall with the announcement that they had agreed on a final proposed Constitution for our new country. She asked, “What have you given us Sir, a Republic or a Monarchy?” Without hesitation he replied, “A Republic Madam, if you can keep it”. To me this confirms that the Founding Fathers feared the concept of a national government run by career politicians. Every time I read anything about or think about our Founding Fathers I am amazed at how brilliant and far sighted these men were. The fact that such a diverse group of men agreed on a document, that is our current Constitution, is significant and Benjamin Franklin’s reply to the question is the evidence. As I wrote this article a comment by Jaun Williams in his recent book, “We the People” really resonated with me. He questioned what our Founding Father’s reaction would be if they could walk the streets of America today. It was a reference to what America is like today politically versus their vision for its future.

Every day I am literally stunned when I see the American flag trampled on here in America!, hear people shout down free speech at our colleges and universities, or hear people publicly say things like what Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg said about our Constitution. In a televised interview she advised the people trying to form a new Egyptian government that they “should not use the US Constitution as a model for their new constitution”.  This is a life time member of the Supreme Court of the United States of America publicly saying that our Constitution is “bad”!

How did we get to this place in America? I think the answer to my question is simple. It is that too often money and power bring corruption. All you have to do is turn on the news, look at a newspaper or open up your internet browser to see endless examples of corruption and mismanagement of public funds on every level, local, state and national. In my local paper I periodically see reports of local officials or their staff members committing fraud or outright theft. At the state level it is even worse and on the national level it dominates the news way too often. Unfortunately this is becoming the new “norm” where the only thing that matters to the ideologues on the “Left” and the RINO Republicans is what is in their personal best interest. To these people what is morally and ethically right, is in violation of applicable regulations, and in some cases outright illegal does not matter. Here are a few examples:

Obama’s public denigrating objections to the “Citizens United” Supreme Court decision. This from a man who publicly committed to accepting matching funds (with its restrictive fund raising regulations) for his first presidential campaign but then ignored the commitment and  went on to break all campaign fund raising records with no concern for any related ethical or legal regulations regarding campaign fund raising. This included his campaign headquarters refusing to use approved software which would eliminate illegal donations from the same donor or possible foreign donors. He also had the CEO of Goggle staffing, paying for and managing a team of high end technicians to “mine” data and maximize campaign donations and election efforts. Loud public objections to the “Citizens United” decision have now been adopted by every ideologue on the “Left” including Hillary. It seems massive infusions of cash from any source are only OK when it is to the Liberals benefit!

A commissioner with the Federal Elections Commission recently ruled that Harry Reid could keep all the money left in his reelection campaign fund and use it to fund a “transition office”. It seems that “loose” regulation of unspent campaign funds is common by the FEC, especially under the Obama administration.

Lifelong professed Socialist Bernie Sanders and his family are Ok with using “other people’s money” for their personal benefit. In the past Bernie’s wife and daughter were paid annual salaries out of his senate reelection funds with questionable job titles and duties. Bernie’s wife was also involved in questionable financial transactions involving millions of dollars when she was president of Vermont College. After the primary election they bought their third home, which is an expensive “vacation” home.

The mayors of Chicago, San Francisco and other “sanctuary cites” doubled down in recent press conferences reinforcing there decision to be “sanctuary cities”. Some of them have pledged tax dollars to pay the legal fees for illegals fighting deportation.

The California legislature hired Eric Holder to help them oppose the Trump Presidency in court before Trump is sworn in. This is obviously tax payer dollars. For the record Eric Holder is the only U.S. cabinet member in history to be held in “Contempt of Congress” for deliberately lying to Congress and deliberately withholding information from Congress.  I actually watched his testimony before Congress on two occasions and it was obvious that he was not only guilty of both charges, he did it with an arrogant indifference, and then made public speeches afterward claiming it was all because of his race!

Obama made illegal recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NLRB, with its new members immediately began to issue a stream of new regulations on their own, not through Congress. These regulations had   dramatic negative effects on many American businesses. The NLRB continued to do this unabated until the law suit filed against the recess appointments finally made it to the Supreme Court where the ruling against the appointments was 9 to 0.Unfortunately most of the damages done by all the new regulations issued by the NLRB during the time it took for the case to make it to the Supreme Court cannot be recovered and many of the regulations are still being enforced by the Obama administration while the legality of the regulations is being litigated.

Senator Schumer has publicly announced that the Democrats in the Senate will question all of President Elect Trump’s picks for his cabinet and other positions which require Senate approval, and that he expects the process to take months. Obama’s picks were approved in days when he was elected in 2008. Schumer also publicly said that NONE of President Elect Trump’s picks for the Supreme Court would get approved by the Senate in the next FOUR years if they did not meet what the Democrats considered to be acceptable standards. RINOs McCain and Graham made this situation even worse by publicly acknowledging that “some” of President Elect Trump’s picks did need to be “questioned”. This public position by the RINOs is the exact opposite of the public position they took regarding Obama’s picks over the last eight years. In fact McCain publicly justified his quick votes for Obama’s picks by publicly saying the President was entitled to choose who he wanted for these positions.

Keith Ellison, Democrat Representative from Minnesota is the leading contender to be the new head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He is the only member of Congress to be sworn in on the Koran, is an avowed member of radical Muslim organizations like CAIR, has made pilgrimages to radical Muslim countries (paid for by radical Muslim organizations) and has published articles demanding that all white people pay slave reparations to all black people (and other similar topics) using his Muslim name Keith E Hakim. Obama has endorsed his run for DNC Chair.

Donna Brazile is still the acting head of the DNC even though details of some of her unethical/corrupt activities while she was in this position and was a CNN correspondent have been made public. She was fired from CNN for these same actions.

There was a remarkable book, “THE CONFESSIONS OF CONGRESSMAN X” published in 2015.  It is only 69 pages and you have to order it on-line, but it is well worth the effort. It details just how dirty you have to be to keep a Congressional seat in Washington.

Obviously this list of examples of what a “cesspool” Washington is could be endless about people from all political parties or no solid political affiliation, but I think these examples illustrate how broken our political system is today, especially on a national level.

Getting President Elect Trump elected was only the beginning. We must continue to support him, his staff and the actual Conservatives who are in Washington so Trump can do what he set out to do. Stay informed and involved. Communicate with your elected representatives and demand changes regarding term limits, open public records, transparency in all government activities, fiscal responsibility, and reasonable performance standards for all government employees.  

Trying to Reason With Liberals can be Challenging

As I researched, studied and wrote about where we are in politics in America today one thing kept coming back up in my thought process. It was how Liberals could be so irrational and unreasonable in their beliefs and their position on issues.  I actually had a lengthy discussion about this with some of the other “old guys” at my gym one morning, including a very liberal psychology professor. The consensus of opinion was that the reasoning portion of the brain simply does not work in people who are liberal.

The more I thought about this the more I began to believe that the “left brain, right brain” explanation that I wrote about earlier this year is too simplistic. There are too many different people who hold liberal views for this simple explanation to be valid. There are people from all races, backgrounds and professions who are Liberal. Many are very intelligent, highly educated and very successful in their chosen profession.

As I studied this subject and tried to figure out how to understand and interact with people who are Liberals, I noticed that they usually fall into one of five different groups:

  1. Liberals who are totally uninformed about facts regarding issues and do not have any interest in being informed.
  2. Liberals who think that they are informed when they are actually misinformed. This is because the people they usually associate with have deeply held liberal views which they constantly share with their friends.
  3. Liberals who acknowledge that Liberalism is not perfect but openly say that they prefer it over Conservatism. These people are different from the people in group “4”. They are much less demanding and personal agenda driven. Their mindset is more attuned to a “live and let live” lifestyle.

4.Liberals who simply want things to be the way they want it to be even if it is not logical or ethical. Unfortunately, too many of the young people in America today are in this group. There is no other way to explain how so many of them supported a professed Socialist for President or organized protests groups like Occupy or BLM.

  1. Liberals who are so agenda driven that they are deliberately working to make America be a Socialist/Communist country.

As I thought about how different Liberals can be in some ways, I also noticed that they do have some things in common:

Many of these Liberals had a bad life experience that shaped their views. Something like a failed business or personal relationship that they refuse to acknowledge was their fault.

Almost all Liberals are Fox News haters. They cannot tolerate any opinion about anything other their own.

Trying to reason with most Liberals can be challenging. Some will politely ignore you, some will question you and some will become angry and absolutely nasty in their responses to you.

I have actually tried to understand how some of these Liberals have the views that they do, and even tried to have a rational exchange of ideas/facts with some of them, with limited success

During some of my attempts to interact with various Liberals I noticed that some had to suspend all semblances of reason, ethics, and honesty to profess such strongly held liberal views. I cannot understand people who can do this and will simply avoid those that do in the future.

I do still believe that there are some people with liberal views that can be positively influenced, but based on my experiences in recent years I will “pick my battles” more carefully in the future. I ask all of my fellow conservatives and Libertarians to do the same. We cannot just give up and allow the Liberal base in America to continue to grow!