Things Worth Pondering

This piece highlights why it is important that House of Representatives be taken away from the Democrat party.  The logic is clear and concise.  Quote: "On Election Day 2020, I will probably do something I rarely do.  I will cast my ballot for Republicans from top to bottom.  It is true.  I do not always vote for the Republican candidate.  I have had Democrat candidates as clients – and I was the campaign spokesperson for the re-election campaign of Chicago’s Democrat Mayor Eugene Sawyer. That is not to suggest that I compromised my conservative principles for cash-on-the-barrelhead.  Au contraire. In each case, there was a specific reason that I preferred the Democrat candidate.  For example, my effort on behalf of the incumbent Mayor of Chicago was to keep Richard M. Daley from re-establishing the old political machine.  It did not work, unfortunately, and Daley went on to be everything I feared he would be."  And,  "If this list appears to be short of the specific issues you see debated on the news shows, that is intentional.  Constructing a wall on the southern border, sending more troops to the Middle East, sanctioning Iran, arming the Ukrainians, and placing tariffs on China are important issues worthy of political debate, but it is the nature of governance – the underlying philosophies – that guide the American ship-of-state.  Issues do not create who and what we are. They merely reflect it. We can debate the need and value of another federal regulation or an increase in taxes.  Those are issues.  They reflect a shift away from constitutional federalism and toward an increasingly powerful and authoritarian central government beyond the influence of the people. I believe that the Democratic Party – as we see it today – is a threat to the Founders’ belief that governance rises from the populace – not imposed upon it.  That is why I will vote against further empowering the Party of power.  http://punchingbagpost.com/2019/07/10/horist-10-reasons-why-we-need-to-give-the-house-back-to-the-gop/

This is a sad accounting of the times we live in.  Quote: "False hope breeds crippling apathy. This is what I have to think to myself when I see the news media fervor over the second arrest of billionaire Jefferey Epstein or similar events which in most cases end up fading into the background and forgotten. The public’s favorite distraction has always been to watch high profile people kicked out of their castles in the clouds; but I would point out that even when the globalists sacrifice one of their own in the public eye it is usually only to satiate the masses and their hunger for justice for a very short time. The system is not designed to root out evil, it is designed to obscure it. Epstein is a perfect example of this. He was already prosecuted on pedophilia charges over 12 years ago and received a “sweetheart” plea deal which allowed him to serve a mere 13-month sentence. How many child rapists get that kind of treatment in our court system? And what about the vast array of people (including political leaders) that were close friends and associates with Epstein during his “Lolita Express” days? Are we really to believe they knew nothing about what was going on? That they visited his island and never saw any wrongdoing?"  And,  "The most egregious criminals are rarely if ever touched by scandal or prosecution because they stand in key positions within our system. You will never see central bankers in the Federal Reserve suffer punishment for consistently and deliberately fueling economic bubbles through artificially low interest rates and stimulus measures. You will never see them prosecuted for deliberately imploding these bubbles with perfectly timed liquidity tightening and interest rate hikes into economic weakness."  And,  "You will not hear the mainstream media or even much of the alternative media talk about the real solutions to elitist criminality or government corruption. You won’t hear about these solutions because they are hard; they require struggle and sacrifice. Voting is easy, which is why it does not work. Legislation is easy, which is why it does not work. And, protesting with signs on a street corner is easy, and it might spread the word on an issue, but ultimately it does not work. The corruption remains."  And,  "You will not hear the mainstream media or even much of the alternative media talk about the real solutions to elitist criminality or government corruption. You won’t hear about these solutions because they are hard; they require struggle and sacrifice. Voting is easy, which is why it does not work. Legislation is easy, which is why it does not work. And, protesting with signs on a street corner is easy, and it might spread the word on an issue, but ultimately it does not work. The corruption remains. There are two options left; walk away peacefully from the system and build one that works on your own or with others of like mind. If you are successful, then expect the corrupt system and the elites behind it to try and stop you. When this happens, the only option left is to fight back and remove the threat.  This is where we are inevitably headed, not because we want it, but because they will force the issue. We can no longer deceive ourselves with notions of absorbing Washington D.C. or Wall Street and making them work for us. The hope that this is possible is poison, and the elites use that poison to weaken public resolve. While we sit around waiting for the system to police itself, the Earth turns and they become more powerful. Without a dramatic change in our own strategy, without direct action on our part instead of action through political middlemen, I predict our situation will only become much worse."    https://boblivingstonletter.com/alerts/the-corrupt-system-will-never-police-itself/

This move by Trump could well be the rebirth of the meaning of human rights that the political left has shamelessly and incessantly perverted over the last 100 years.    https://thehornnews.com/trumps-brilliant-move-stuns-liberal-leaders-boom/