The Rubicon was Crossed Years Ago: Kavanaugh Hearing Proves the American Republic Is Dead
Troubling but nothing that can be disputed.
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You and Isabel Paterson both:
"The final and formal stroke in disestablishing the states was the Seventeenth Amendment, which took the election of Senators out of the State Legislature and gave it to the popular vote. Since then the states have had no connection with the Federal government; representation in both Houses of Congress rests only on dislocated mass. The simultaneous abdication of both houses in 1933 was the result. They were not thrust apart, they did not even fall apart, because they were no longer in any structural relation whatever, neither to mass nor to each other nor to the superstructure. They had simply ceased to function. The immediate appearance of an enormous bureaucracy was the natural phenomenon of the structureless nation.
"Concurrently and by interaction with these political events, the productive economy was distorted, and energy diverted into the political channel. The Civil War precipitated the sequence. The looting of the defeated Southern states (under the direction of philanthropists as usual in collaboration with crooks), was most demoralizing because the political power pretended to legitimacy in the acts of extortion. Scoundrels were immune within the law, while honest men were forced to revert to the primitive pre-legal mode of association; the chief, informal council and posse comitatus. There was no government, there was only force, the moral control having been disconnected. People lived by the moral order; they cannot survive otherwise; but the ancient and erroneous identification of government with force became plausible again. Likewise, politics became lucrative." -The God of the Machine, Chapter XV The Fatal Amendments (1943)
And as for myself, what I get from this (and Atlas Shrugged) is a functional definition of a criminal:
Criminal, n. Any dictatorial bureaucrat, politician or other wielder of brute force (self-appointed or otherwise) who operates under the guise of businessman or financier, anyone who dresses destructive force in productive or protective attire, whatever the altruistic or cynical lies they tell to rationalize their evil.
. . .is an indisputably revolutionary declaration.
Exactly. The filter has to let money, people, goods, and services through but not force. Trade is the key to wealth. I like to think such a zone could be defended by a citizen militia with small arms they personally own. It would be more beneficially to trade with them rather than to loot them. The whole thing is maintaining a philosophy of liberty among the citizens.
Yes. I certainly would be happy to see it, regardless of who funded it. I like to fancy it's happening already, in some zona franca in some obscure country, and it's not widely publicized yet. That fantasy, of course, is different from the Gulch.
I liked the Gulch in AS, but I felt like it probably wasn't nearly big enough to have sustainable economy. I imagined wealth created when the world was functioning better having to flow in to sustain it. But it still showed how even the most dogged producers would give up.
My favorite thing about the story was the build up to the Gulch.
Else, you build, they take, or destroy.
Or a lot of people with less deep pockets. I see no reason it has to be one individual funding it.
IMO, the Seventeenth Amendment was the turning point in the nation away from a Constitutional Republic toward a democratic mob. (I'd also argue that the Twelfth Amendment should also be overturned, returning the vice-president to a non-party-line position.)
I'd actually dispute the assertion that Kavanaugh doesn't understand the Constitution, however, and I blame the author! One of the things he is arguing is the traditional role of the Courts according to the Constitution, yet he forgets that the Courts were supposed to be the weakest of the three branches. Because Congress has largely abdicated their legislative duties to unelected bureaucrats while restricting the head of the Executive Branch from controlling those very bureaucracies, Congress has in effect made the Supreme Court the powerhouse it is and effectively granted them the ability to create law contrary to the Constitution. Many of these cases which come before the Supreme Court should end with the following verdict: this needs to go before Congress and a legal law should be the remedy - not an edict from five unelected, black-robed lawyers. A single position on the Supreme Court should never have become as pivotal as it has become, practically rivalling the importance of President in power.
Including screaming attendees being hauled out every six min.s of his 36 hr marathon hearings. Democrats , the opponents of his nomination were hell bent on virtue signaling.
Giving political speechs during his hearing they had certainly no intent to examine his record. The way Feinstein, the Pocohantus and Schumer and The rest of the maniacs hell bent on covering up all their traitorous behavior want to stop his appointment the more favorable he is to me.
~ Harry S. Truman
(1884-1972), 33rd US President
Many ways for the evil to blackmail an average Flake. They are usually not very creative. It almost always has to do with a life destroying
"evidence" (photo or video) related to sexual perversion. That or Money.
Justice Kavanaugh (53-47) I predict . He was attacked with false sex abuse related lies and then an attempt to perjure him. Right out of their sick playbook.
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