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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Be Patriotic: Don’t Vote Murray Rothbard once wrote that even the most brutal dictator ultimately bases his power on the opinions that are held by a majority of the population that is under his rule. After all, even dictators with large armies tend to be vastly outnumbered by the populations they rule over, and revolution is always on the dictator’s mind. That’s probably how he gained power himself in the first place – the previous dictator was, well, too dictatorial and created the conditions for his own overthrow. Democratic regimes also base their legitimacy on their ability to claim that their rule is "the will of the people." They believe in democracy with all their will, they tell us, so much so that generations of American politicians have believed that it was legitimate to wage war on other nations and to kill thousands of their citizens to impose "democracy" on them. Lincoln’s armies killed some 300,000 fellow citizens and maimed for life an even greater number, supposedly so that "government of the people, by the people, for the people," i.e., democracy, shall not perish from the earth. This of course was pure B.S.: Had the South seceded peacefully, democracy would have still existed in the U.S., the Confederate States of America, Canada, England, France, etc., etc. Nevertheless, that was an official purpose of the war, and of numerous other American wars. Woodrow Wilson brought America into World War I to supposedly "make the world safe for democracy." We are now supposedly bringing democracy to Iraq at bayonet point with numerous other Middle East countries in our sights. But America was not founded as a democracy. It was a constitutional republic. The whole purpose of the Constitution, James Madison wrote in Federalist #10, was to control "the violence of faction," by which he meant democracy. That’s why, until the Lincolnian "Civil War Amendments" were added to it, every part of the Constitution was a prohibition of some kind of governmental power or activity. Democracy was made into a "civil religion" by Lincoln and subsequent generations of Lincolnites who have successfully overthrown the constitutional republic of the founding fathers. These constitutional prohibitions or limitations are all but ignored today, of course. The Constitution does not provide for the central government to get involved in education, let alone sending a man – and untold millions or billions of dollars – to Mars. There are no longer any constitutional limitations on the central government. Washington politicians laugh and sneer at libertarian think tank employees who occasionally appear before their committees to oppose this or that government program on constitutional grounds. They laugh and say to them, "we’ve got the power to do it, and we’re going to do it." I’ve seen it with my own eyes on C-SPAN. President’ Clinton’s Surgeon General, Joyclyn Elders, went so far as to assert that the constitution allowed for a federal masturbation education program. Even Bill Clinton thought that went a little too far and fired the good doctor. The Republican Party today stands for an explosive growth of the welfare state and is spending money on such programs as fast as Lyndon Johnson ever did. The Democrats are as bad or worse. On foreign policy the Republican Party is dominated by crazed Wilsonians who want to involve the U.S. military in perpetual global warfare "to spread democracy." As with all such imperialistic ventures, this would eventually bankrupt the country and create countless enemies who would like nothing better than to destroy us by the millions with nuclear weapons or poison. The Democrats are as bad or worse. Both political parties are competing to grant amnesty to all illegal aliens, as the first step along the way to allowing completely open borders. Combining open borders with an explosively growing welfare state will invite all the deadbeats of the world to come to America, with all their extended family members in tow, to "celebrate democracy" by voting themselves more and more of the hard-earned dollars of those of us who work for a living in this country. This would cause the welfare state to eventually eat up a huge portion of national income, probably half or more. American taxpayers would be nothing but docile slaves to the Washington, D.C. plantation. The government schools long ago gave up teaching anything significant about the founding fathers, the Constitution, and the philosophy of limited government – other than to trash and demean them. In a democracy it is not in the state’s best interest to educate its own citizens about the virtues of limited government, and ours doesn’t. And it certainly will never make any attempt to do so with the hordes of new immigrants it hopes to attract (and register to vote). Belief in the Constitution is essentially a lost cause. That’s why it is unpatriotic to vote. Being patriotic in America means being devoted to the Constitution, if not the natural rights philosophy that motivated much of it. Since neither of the major political parties has any interest whatsoever in enforcing the constitutional limitations on the state, they are all traitors to the Constitution (with one lone exception, Congressman Ron Paul). Anyone who supports them is also behaving in a traitorous manner. That is, anyone who votes for any of them. Voting only allows these traitors to the Constitution to proclaim that "the people have spoken" and "I am your president," or congressman, senator, governor, or whatever. Their legitimacy rests solely on their ability to make this claim. Imagine what a patriotic thrill you would receive if, in the next presidential election, a mere 10 percent of the electorate, instead of the usual 50 percent or so, voted. The unconstitutional regime in Washington would be de-legitimized. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 9.
#8. To: christine (#0)
What the GOP wants you to "remember" is that things were just as bad under Clinton, Bush I, Reagan, Carter, blah blah blah. They also want you to "remember" that it's not just Republicans who are corrupt (I mean, there's no denying that, right?), but it's ALL politicians. The conclusion? If you are pissed off over the way things are, don't vote. That'll learn 'em. Of course, the unspoken deal on this is that it is bullshit. Things were NOT as bad under Clinton, or Bush I, or Reagan or even Carter. Hell, things weren't even this bad under Nixon or Ford. No, this collossal clusterfuck is unique to George King W Bush and his compliant, supine GOP colleagues in the majorities of both houses of congress. The action advocated here, not voting, is equivalent to saying all politicians are bad, the GOP are just politicians, so they should not be exclusively punished for what are their exclusive fuck ups. The unspoken result of peddling this idea, should it be accepted, will be that the GOP, with its core of true believers and extremely efficient get out the vote organization, will remain in power because you were stupid enough not to vote. In other words, the position advocated here is, "Look, we understand your life sucks and you feel like you've been gang fucked for five years. But your life is going to continue to suck and we are going to continue to fuck you, so lay back and accept your role as victim. You can't do anything about it, so don't try." It's a tried and true propaganda technique; a fallback position. Well, we may be terrible, it's true, but the other side is just as bad... How is "it" going to go away if we stop voting? Only if we rise up and kill "them". Unless you are ready to do that (and I'm not holding you back), you'd better get out and vote. Same propaganda, different words, different source. Same lame GOP shit.
I can't imagine what positive impact the "f" word has to intelligent discourse. Nevertheless, let me repeat myself by sharing a post I previously made on this forum. "There is no two party system, three party system, or any party, for that matter. We are being "ruled" ... and until enough citizens accept what is fact, voters' preferences have no bearing on the result. Fact: This country is NOT a democracy; the USA is supposed to be a republic, but is "run" by socialists, most of whom have long had the goal of "one world order". Solution: Revolution, or even better, Civil War II. After 50 years of never having missed an election, I am not voting this year. However, I am stashing the barest of necessities, stocking my cupboards, and packing my gun(s). Good luck to all and I'll see you on the other side."
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