UNITY AT "ANY" PRICE?

A number of folks have asked me what I meant by my words, "Unity at ANY price is suicidal." It's really quite simple:

If union alone is the goal of Americans, and not the safeguarding of our traditions, the principles of dual state-federal sovereignty, limited federal authority, and protecting our liberties, then what good is such a union to a free man.

It is also important to note that our framers never suggested we would be--or, logically, should be--an "indivisible union", indivisibility being a fatuous and revisionist notion injected into our thinking in the early 20th century by a socialist. In fact, understanding the innate corruption of man, the consensus among our founders was that the republic they created would likely not last much beyond 1825. In truth, original meaning and intent were already under siege from the earliest years of our republic. Add Lincoln's War in 1861 and relentless Progressive subversion since the early 20th century and you have a constitutional republic in its death throes. In short , for over 150 years we've been spiraling into constitutional disorder and lurching toward authoritarianism.

So, that's what I mean by those words which, with each passing day, sound increasingly more painfully relevant. And, very frankly, I'm too old to embrace my overly optimistic Pollyanna side, a puerile facet which is always so readily inclined to ignore the menacing and divisive ideological winds besetting us and our once seemingly indestructible constitutional republic. For me, there is some special comfort and wisdom in dealing with reality. Unity at ANY price really is suicidal.

SOCIALISM AND SECESSION

GRAB A CUP OF COFFEE AND READ this amazingly spot-on article by the scholarly Abbeville Institute. As teasers, I offer these two short paragraphs from the article which, for many years now, perfectly mirrors my own viewpoints in this matter. Take heed, folks. And with the enactment of the National Popular Vote proceeding at a rapid pace among blue states, we may be closer to realizing our national fate, for better or worse, than any us could have imagined. For me, successful passage of the NPV interstate compact, a Progressive initiative quietly underway now for some time which obliterates the Electoral College, will surely seal our fate, one way or the other. Best we be fully prepared for any eventuality. For too long now, we've scurried around stanching the endless bleeding on every front, essentially plugging a damn which is about to burst, and hoping against hope that it will all somehow work out for the best, with or without our own active engagement. My humble advice: best we jettison the Pollyanna in us and focus on the likely irremediably foundational mess we are now in. Clearly see that our "fight", while noble indeed, is very likely in vain. Anyway, read on, please.

"Are we not living in a geographical entity officially called the United States of America where verifiably there are TWO Americas, TWO conceptions of what is real and what is not real, TWO ideas of what is moral and what is not, TWO views about Truth and Error, TWO visions about using whatever means is available to reach a desired and posited end (which for one of these groups is the creation of a brutal, vicious and soulless “utopia” that would make Joe Stalin’s Communism seem like Disneyland in comparison)?

"Words—“devil terms”—now pop up with amazing regularity and frequency: “racism,” “white privilege,” “sexism,” “toxic masculinity,” “equality,” “democracy,” and so on. And these terms have been weaponized and are now employed by those on the Left—but also by many elitist movement conservatives (“conservatism inc.”)—to disauthorize, condemn, and damn anyone who would actually oppose the rapid Leftward spiral of what remains of this nation."

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Is Secession the Answer? By Boyd Cathey on Feb 4, 2019 Share on Facebook Tweet it Share on Google+ Share on LinkedIn Pin it Share on Reddit Share on StumbleUpon Email this Print Watching NBC’s TODAY program on Tuesday, January 23, 2019, there was anchor Savannah Guthrie demanding to know if Coving...

Confederate States of America, a Beacon of Jeffersonian Democracy

DID YOU KNOW that the Confederate States of America was an economic powerhouse before Lincoln's lawless and needlessly ruinous slash & burn invasion?

By a huge margin, Per Capita income in EVERY southern state exceeded that of every state in the North, and economic historians described the CSA economy in 1861 as the 4th most powerful in the world. (So, it wasn't a backward, poor and medieval swamp deserving of invasion.) Man, have we been sold a bill of goods all these years by Lincoln apologists passing themselves off as objective American historians.

And just how Jeffersonian vs Hamiltonian/Lincolnian was the CSA governmental structure? Intended to inhibit federal overreach/tyranny/corruption/crony capitalism, here's just a sampling of the restraints incorporated in the CSA Constitution:

1. To restrain general gov't spending, thus containing the growth and corruption of that gov't, the CSA Constitution required a 2/3 vote in each legislative chamber just to INTRODUCE a spending bill !!!!!

2. Bills were clean, i.e. no tack-ons unrelated to the bill under consideration = no pork, no 3,000 page indecipherable omnibus bills catering to an army of lobbyists.

3. Spending for Internal improvements, aka infrastructure, had to be financed by the States and/or private sector--NOT the central government !!! (This is also a requirement in our Constitution though you wouldn't know it. Trump, take careful note !!!)

4. The one 6-yr term President possessed the line-item veto

***5. By a 2/3 vote in each chamber any State in the confederacy was empowered to impeach ANY federal officer operating in that State's territory requiring a timely trial of that offending officer by the national Senate. (You can be sure that reduced federal abuse, overreach at the State level, huh?)

6. Only 3 States (roughly 25% of the States) were needed to propose amendments to the Constitution, and 2/3 of all States were required to ratify same. (Our Constitution under Art V requires 2/3 of States to propose amendments and 3/4 to ratify.)

7. For new States to be admitted into the confederacy, a 2/3 vote in both the House & Senate was required. (Currently, our Constitution requires but a simple majority in both houses of Congress to admit a new State.)

This is just a sampling of the enlightened Jeffersonian provisions contained in the CSA Constitution, some or all of which today's Convention of State advocates should seriously take a look at. (We should carefully consider these provisions for incorporation in our our own US Constitution.)

The more I read about the REAL Confederate States of America the more I come to realize how painfully misinformed we have all been regarding the prosperity, productivity and educational level of the CSA (1 in 248 Southerners were college educated vs 1 in 780 in the North). And BOTH whites and blacks shared in this prosperity. (There's a good reason why so many 'slaves' gallantly fought on the side of the Confederacy.)

Over the years, self-serving revisionist historians hellbent on rendering the North--and Czar Lincoln in particular--the "good guys" have sold us a pack a lies. After all, it is the victor who writes the history, inclusive of all the misinformation and spin, of course. (If you get a chance, for starters check out Donald Livingston's videoed historical commentaries about all aspects of that otherwise terrible and deliberately mischaracterized period in our history. Very enlightening, educational. Might even piss ya' off when you realize how hood-winked we've been all this time.)

For some time now, I have understood that the South can take justifiable pride in its illustrious history and the statuary honoring its heroes, the latter which the crazed Fascist Left revisionists have been intent on destroying these last several years.

Oh, and why did the South lose its War for Independence? Very simply, it was out-gunned and terribly out-numbered.

WHAT VOTER FRAUD?

The Socialist Democrat Party has been assuring us for years that there is no voter fraud, or so utterly minor in frequency as to have no significant affect on election outcomes. They tell us no need for voter ID to vote because minorities are too stupid, too indigent, too immobile, too oppressed, too something or another to obtain an ID to vote. Of course, these same minorities the SDs so patronizingly and arrogantly denigrate are able to obtain ID for purchasing firearms, whiskey, airline tickets, etc. etc. etc. But, God forbid (meant to be painfully offensive to my Lefty 'friends') that these downtrodden, disabled minorities be asked to present proof of their citizenship to vote in an American election. After all, the requirement to show ID to vote constitutes "voter suppression", right? Oh, the horror! The temerity! The unmitigated gall! By the way, one's knowingly voting when one knows s/he is not qualified to vote is a second-degree FELONY. Glad to see Texas at least is enforcing the law. Trump tried to clean this up around the country, but his clean-up effort was effectively rebuffed by some States and every Socialist Democrat infecting this nation. And so it goes....

ALBANY CELEBRATES DEATH OF INNOCENTS

Congratulations, New Yorkers. YOU and YOUR representatives have permitted the slaughter of unborn innocents up to the moment of birth, and that's just peachy keen with you. But to most of you the wall is somehow immoral??? Cognitive dissonance on steroids? It would appear that cerebral rectal inversions is a veritable plague in the People's Democratic Socialist Republic of NY. Up is down, right is wrong, murder of the unborn is to be celebrated. You folks are twisted, depraved and sick.

YES, THE PRESIDENT MAY LAWFULLY DECLARE NATIONAL EMERGENCY

After listening to Judge Napolitano's highly dubious explanation this morning on FOX as to why Trump can't cobble together already allocated federal funds to pay for the wall, a few points: 1) As I noted in my previous post, the Constitution authorizes his declaring an emergency and taking appropriate action to defend the US, and to do so would, of course, require emergency funding; 2) the Emergency Declaration Act (1976) pretty much says the same thing, but with a condition, that being that a joint resolution of Congress via simple majority vote in each chamber and the President's signature on that bill is sufficient to nullify the emergency declaration. (However, if the President vetoes the bill, much more than likely, a 2/3 vote in each chamber would be required to override his veto, highly unlikely); 3) the general legal opinion is that Trump can cobble together already allocated federal funds for diversion to wall construction; 4) Since the emergency is of a military, national defense nature, it is generally understood that he could direct the military to either construct the wall or to deploy as many troops and military assets to the border as needed to address the border emergency. And from my perspective, the latter can be done with or without judicial blessings.

Read this post from VOX.com. Obviously, as in all things political and legal and somewhere in between, there is a divergence of opinion among legal eagles on various aspects of this issue, but, on balance, from all I've read and researched I can't imagine the Commander-in-Chief would be violating his oath of office to preserve, protect and defend the United States by declaring an emergency and taking lawful actions to resolve the matter. Of course, "living constitution", anti-American leftist jurists will differ. Such subversion and faithlessness in that arena is to be expected.

Lastly, declaring an emergency takes the wind out of the Demonrats' failed zero sum negotiating position. Yes, the gov't would likely be re-opened, but the deceitful Demonrat leadership will have to explain to the People why they've done nothing to alleviate the border crisis--especially if and when Trump actually deploys a huge number of troops and assets to the southern border. I'm talkin at least 20,000+ troops.

How I loathe party-first, me-first, the-country-be-damned Progressive subversives. Unwary Democrat voters best awaken to the threat their blind loyalty to their Leninist leaders pose to themselves and the country.

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HITLER: A WARNING TO THE MYOPIC AMERICAN LEFT

 been reduced to a horde of mindless, compliant automatons. (Lesson learned: no man is above submission and self-destruction. That includes Americans as well.) Through incessant deception and outright lies, Hitler, a darling of the Left, won over a majority and ended up utterly destroying the useful idiots who enabled his rise to power, but also millions of innocent lives and Germany itself. So tragic the American Left is unwilling or otherwise indisposed to understanding the awful lessons of Nazism, Fascism and Communism--each a Leftist phenomenon. History really does repeat itself, and we need to expect this and courageously prepare for it. Historically, the Left's single-minded pursuit of political power always overwhelms reason, common sense and comity. It always ends in terrible conflict and self-destruction. So, to the useful idiots and myopic power mongers among us, wake up. Avoid the inevitable catastrophe you are foolishly cultivating.