Tag: consent of the governed

My Newswithviews Column, April 7 (‘Do We Still Need the Consent of the Governed?’)

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The Two Stooges

Democrats are pursuing insane policies that have little or no public support–that are, in fact, making people very angry. Why? Why are they behaving as if they know they don’t need the public’s approval anymore?

Do We Still Need the Consent of the Governed?

Are they clued into some great secret that makes them independent of popular support? Have they got another 81 million phantom voters lined up for November? Why do they batter us with one disaster after another… and still expect to win elections?

I’ll bet more than a few of us can guess the answer.

Very Strange Politics

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Animated Brewing Witch Trio | Grandin Road

It’s gonna take more than witches’ brew to make this plan work!

I have an honors degree in Political Science and I’m supposed to understand this stuff. Ha, ha, ha.  I don’t.

I’ve been hearing this scenario bandied about in just the past few days.

Joe Biden’s polls are awful–probably worse than the 38-40% approval cited in the nooze. With the mid-term elections coming up, Dems are afraid Biden will lead them off the cliff.

Solution! You get rid of SloJo somehow (think of the aged Tiberius, smothered under a pillow as he waited for his beef cutlet) and Kamala Whatsirname becomes president. Her polls are even worse than Biden’s, but somehow that doesn’t bother Democrats. One commentator warned, “You’ll know the game is on when the media suddenly begins to discover hidden depths of wisdom in Kamala.” This presumes the public is even more easily fooled than anybody thought.

Next, Kamala appoints Hillary Clinton vice-president. That Hillary is probably the most widely unpopular and least trusted politician in America is not a consideration.

And then, shazzam! Kamala resigns (why?) and gets a seat on the Supreme Court where she can cackle mindlessly away for the rest of her life, and two-time loser Hillary becomes president without having had to win an election.

And America lives happily ever after! Somehow the consent of the governed, public approval, and popular support have become completely unnecessary.

Honk if you think this is any more than a psychotic episode.

Erasing Our Freedom

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We Cannot Tell a Lie: The Danger of Misquoting George Washington | Washington Crossing Historic Park

[See Why Tech Totalitarianism Threatens to Turn America into Canada or China Unless We Stop It, by Kara Frederick in The Federalist (https://thefederalist.com/2022/02/23/why-tech-totalitarianism-threatens-to-turn-america-into-canada-or-china-unless-we-stop-it/) ]

So it seems that the glaringly misnamed Dept. of Justice is setting up a “terror unit” focused on “anti-government or anti-authority” sentiment. By which they mean anti-them and anti-their pretensions.

Have they forgotten how our country was founded? Maybe they simply don’t know. Let me clue you in, DOJ–the American colonies rebelled against both the government and the authority of Great Britain. We did not say “May I?” We did not wait for permission to set up our own country.

And the one that we set up, according to the Declaration of Independence, derived its powers from the consent of the governed. Do you see the difference? They, the freakin’ government, are the ones who are supposed to say “May I?” They need our permission!

But we seem to be drifting away from that lately, don’t we?

Yesterday was George Washington’s birthday. If he were alive today, he would be leading an army against the city that so unworthily bears his name.

Government and Big Tech are colluding to become our masters.

Give them your profound distrust.

‘Are You Getting Angry Yet?’ (2019)

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Step back just a little ways, back to 2019… and see what Our Beloved Rulers were doing to us before they had a pandemic to play with!

Are You Getting Angry Yet?

Since then: they’ve plugged their abominable Critical Race Theory into our schools and unleashed the FBI to spy on parents who complain–and of course we’ve all had the lockdowns and the masks and the shortages and Mandates out the wazoo. And don’t forget jacked-up gas prices and inflation!

“The Free World”–hah! That’s a joke. Canada. Australia. New Zealand. You’d have to be an archaeologist to find any freedom there.

Well, this is what happens when “government,” if you want to call it that, loses all its fear of the people.

We have to find a way to bring back their fear. May God show us the way.

Will the Government Confiscate Your Retirement Account?

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Is the Federal Government Eyeing Your 401K?

People are getting paranoid about the government; and these days, it’s hard to blame them.

From time to time I hear someone say he’s afraid the government has a plan to “confiscate” everybody’s 401K or IRA. Or at least start taxing it to death. Hey, those multi-trillion-dollar “infrastructure” follies have to be paid for somehow. Can’t just keep on printing funny money.

But before anything like confiscation or new punishing taxes can happen, our current laws would have to be changed. And who knows what the Supreme Court would have to say about it?

Some financial experts call this “baseless speculation” about a draconian scheme that has never actually been proposed (https://www.irahelp.com/slottreport/government-not-planning-confiscate-your-ira). But we are getting used to government way overstepping its bounds–like, just three years ago, who ever heard of lockdowns? So there are people who are just one step removed from pulling all their money out of the bank and hiding it under the mattress.

Laws do get changed. “Mandates” are a dime a dozen now. Executive orders routinely sidestep laws. So yeah, people are afraid. Government’s erratic–one might even say “weird”–responses to the COVID scare have led to an erosion of trust. In fact, a lot of things have led to an erosion of trust in government. You can name as many as I can.

The only way we can even hope to be safe is to vote Democrats out of power and keep an exceedingly sharp eye upon Republicans.

Because in the long run this is a political issue, and the way it pans out will be directed by political maneuverings. And those depend entirely on how much power the people are willing to allow the government.

New Zealand Extends National COVID Lockdown

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New Zealand's COVID-19 strategy criticised as lockdown extended | Reuters

Are we talking “ghost town” here? When do we get the people back?

Does this make sense to you?

New Zealand has a population of 5.1 million. Since the beginning of the pandemic, New Zealand has reported 2,698 COVID cases… with 26 deaths. Yes, we said 26.

In a year and a half, how many people in New Zealand die from other causes? Cancer, heart disease, auto accidents, accidents in the home, etc. Surely more than 26.

Nevertheless, the prime minister has extended the national lockdown (https://www.ntd.com/new-zealand-extends-nationwide-lockdown-as-criticism-over-strategy-mounts_664701.html).

Everyone must stay home. Physical contact will be allowed only among “those in their household bubble.” Bubble? They’re living in bubbles?

Businesses and schools will be closed, “only essential services” will remain operational. And no international travelers will be allowed to enter the country for the rest of 2021.

The new lockdown rules are to remain in force until midnight of August 29. Unless they change their minds and extend them again.

Is this response proportional to the stimulus? Come on–really? Or is it hyper-humanists shooting for a goal of “zero COVID”? They’ll give us an earthly paradise if they have to shove it down our throats and choke us.

Do we submit–all for our own good, of course!–or does the government wind up losing the consent of the governed? How much “safety” is too much?

 

A New Age of Predatory Politics

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How Artificial Intelligence is Applied in Smart Cities

Venezuela’s gift to the world is a new political theory: The consent of the governed is no longer necessary. It was in Venezuela that the computers and software and crooked voting machines were developed to guarantee that dictator Hugo Chavez would never again lose an election.

Now we know the system works because it’s been used against us, right here in the USA–the very home of “government by the consent of the governed.” Now the various Chavez wannabes can use technology to manufacture a fake consent–thus rendering real consent totally irrelevant.

If the theft of America’s 2020 presidential election is allowed to stand, the same system will be installed all over the world–and freedom will disappear. Governments, backed up by phony votes generated by technology, will do anything and everything they please and no one will ever be able to vote them out of office. Because the lawful votes of real people will have no value anymore.

Why seek consent, when you can manufacture it? Yes, globalists are sure that manufactured consent is the way to go from now on. If you can do it to America, you can do it to anyone.

And they’ll only get better and better at it with practice.

This is why the 2020 presidential election must be overturned.

It’s not just America’s future that’s at stake, but the world’s.

Whoever loses this fight loses everything.