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<\/a><\/p>\nThe Foibles of <\/span><\/b><\/span>\u201cDumb-ocracy\u201d<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Searching for\u00a0Signs of Intelligent Life in Politics<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n By Scott Rohter, March 2014<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you are looking for any signs of intelligent life in politics I have\u00a0only two words for you\u2026. Good Luck!\u00a0 In politics nothing operates the way\u00a0it should. Money is\u00a0the principal driving factor behind everything that happens in politics\u2026\u00a0behind every vote that gets taken<\/span>, behind every law that\u00a0gets passed, <\/span>and behind every program that gets implemented. It is the driving force behind every politician that gets elected and nothing that anyone has done ever seems to be able to change the way things are. No campaign finance reform\u00a0Bill has ever done one thing to change the way Washington works. <\/span><\/p>\n There is nothing\u00a0in the universe\u00a0that operates\u00a0exactly the way that politics does so m<\/span>aybe we\u00a0will be just wasting\u00a0our time looking for\u00a0signs of intelligent life in the realm of politics, but if we\u00a0consider that a good deal of our lives depend on politics and politicians what choice do we really have. Perhaps we\u00a0shouldn’t begin our search for\u00a0 intelligence in the \u201cDumb-o-crat\u201d Party. Recently twenty eight \u201cDumbocrats\u201d participated in a night long session of Congress on one of their most favorite subjects, global warming\u00a0. If that is any indication of the quality of critical thinking\u00a0that prevails\u00a0in the Democrat Party then I know we will be just wasting our time looking for any\u00a0intelligence over there.\u00a0 There might be\u00a0some potential\u00a0cause for optimism though in <\/span>the Republican Party. At least they stayed away from the global all-nighter\u00a0orchestrated by the Democrats. So let\u2019s\u00a0start our search for intelligent life by looking\u00a0at the Republicans and the GOP. Let\u2019s\u00a0probe\u00a0that stellar body of higher intellect to see if there\u00a0really is any reason for\u00a0optimism…<\/span><\/p>\n Now before we launch into our political probe\u00a0let me remind you that the United States is really not a democracy at all. It is a constitutional republic. It was never intended to be\u00a0a democracy.. or a “dumbocracy”. Nevermind the fact that \u201cDum-bo-crats\u201d pay no attention\u00a0at all to\u00a0the Constitution. Most of them stand on something called legal precedent which is what\u00a0progressive lawyers, and legislators, and\u00a0judges stand on when they won’t stand on the Constitution and they can’t stand on the rock of wisdom and\u00a0common sense.\u00a0To them\u00a0the Constitution\u00a0is just a rudimentary\u00a0foundation upon which they can\u00a0build a better structure for governance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Progressives look at the Constitution like they look at a fractured\u00a0slab of concrete.\u00a0They think they have spotted numerous cracks as big as fissures\u00a0which \u00a0they can put their foot in…. Worse than that they can put their hands in. In their mind\u00a0the Constitution\u00a0was\u00a0a\u00a0poor\u00a0first attempt at self-government\u00a0which\u00a0was dreamed up by a bunch of\u00a0 old white men who owned slaves and rode horses. Why these old slave owners didn’t even enjoy the conveniences of indoor plumbing so\u00a0to all liberals the Constitution\u00a0needs to\u00a0be upgraded just like outhouses do. These self proclaimed\u00a0progressive geniuses\u00a0think they can do\u00a0a better job than\u00a0James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, John Jay and the rest of the Founding Fathers did. I shudder to think what these “Dum-bo-crats” would say about the much older works of Aristotle,\u00a0Socrates, or Plato, or even the\u00a0Hebrew prophets who gave the world the Old Testament. I am sure these liberals think that even the least of\u00a0them is smarter than all of these old\u00a0wise men combined.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n Let me give you\u00a0an example of why progressive Democrat thinking is dangerous\u2026\u00a0 Progressive ideology first reared its\u00a0arrogant head\u00a0in\u00a0the early 20th Century in the Republican Party with Teddy Roosevelt. Our Constitution was created in the 18th Century. When our Constitution was written\u00a0the United States House of Representatives was elected by\u00a0the people,\u00a0but\u00a0Senators were supposed to be elected by the members of the various State Legislatures,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0however that is not the case anymore. Ever since the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913 United States Senators are directly elected by the people too.\u00a0 The\u00a0House of Representatives was\u00a0also supposed to be elected only by Americans. That meant citizens, but it\u00a0was not specifically stated anywhere in the Constitution. It is implied however. Today\u00a0any one who can make it across our southern border can vote in our federal and state elections and they frequently do. That includes Central Americans, South Americans, and Mexicans who are\u00a0here illegally.\u00a0For all practical purposes today you don\u2019t\u00a0\u00a0have to be a citizen of the United States\u00a0in order to\u00a0cast a ballot. You don’t even\u00a0need to show an i.d. card in order to vote in many\u00a0states. As long as you can get\u00a0into our country\u00a0and avoid being deported then you can cast a ballot in any election.\u00a0B<\/span>oth\u00a0Democrats and progressive Republicans are responsible for allowing this to happen\u00a0. It was never the intent of our Founding Fathers to allow foreign nationals or people in our country illegally to vote.<\/span><\/p>\n The reason that members of the United States Senate were originally supposed to be elected by their State Legislatures\u00a0was to ensure\u00a0a proper balance of power between\u00a0the States and\u00a0the Federal Government, <\/strong>but progressive democrat thinking threw\u00a0that\u00a0noble concept\u00a0out the window in 1913 with the 17th Amendment and ever since then the whole idea of State\u2019s Rights has\u00a0come to be associated with slavery and\u00a0viewed as a bad thing. As I said\u00a0nothing in the world of politics\u00a0works\u00a0the way\u00a0 it should. Today the fifty States offer no\u00a0meaningful resistance to the growing power of the Federal government. The States\u00a0are basically\u00a0ineffective at controlling this growing imbalance of power.<\/span><\/p>\n The 16th Amendment was passed and ratified at just about the same time as the 17th Amendment was. Its purpose was\u00a0 to take away the power of the purse that the States originally held over Washington D.C. It provided a stable source of funding for the nascent federal government which was not controlled by the States.\u00a0<\/strong>This new source of\u00a0revenue\u00a0for the Federal government removed any remaining power that the States had over the central government\u00a0they\u00a0had created.\u00a0 It changed the way that taxes were collected by\u00a0establishing a completely new tax on personal income which was to be paid directly by individuals to the Federal government\u00a0thus bypassing the States altogether. This situation was never intended nor anticipated by\u00a0the Founding Fathers. It was created by progressives who have no respect for the doctrine of Original Intent. Federal taxes were supposed to be collected and paid to Washington by the States just\u00a0like Senators were supposed to be elected and sent to Washington by the States. There are not any sovereign States\u00a0in America anymore..\u00a0All fifty States are\u00a0just different appendages or divisions of\u00a0one centralized\u00a0government.<\/span><\/p>\n When the 16th Amendment was passed the idea of people directly electing their Senators seemed like a good idea at the time. More power to the people, right\u2026? Wrong! It\u00a0sounded like a good idea in theory, but in reality people don\u2019t actually elect their Senators. Money does! Money drives everything in politics, and big corporations or big unions with lots of money to throw around during elections manage to manipulate our government thanks to another progressive\u00a0Supreme Court decision which gave\u00a0corporations\u00a0the same rights and legal status as people. That decision was the 2010 Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission <\/a>decision.<\/span><\/p>\n The 9th and 10th Amendments clearly limit the power and authority of the Federal government. The Constitution lists all of the powers that the United States government has. It has no others than these. They are all enumerated in the Constitution. <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The 10th Amendment specifically states that all of the powers that are not\u00a0enumerated in the Constitution belong to the States or to the people. If\u00a0a power is not listed\u00a0in the Constitution then it does not belong to the Federal government. It belongs \u201cto the States or to the people.”\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n The 9<\/span>th<\/span><\/sup><\/strong> Amendment says that all of our rights are not<\/span> enumerated in the Constitution. We have other rights and powers that are not listed in the Constitution. Even though they\u00a0may not be mentioned nevertheless these rights\u00a0belong to us.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Together the 9th and 10th Amendments form the basis of our freedom. They limit the power, size, and scope\u00a0of the Federal government. They give all of the rights and the powers not specifically listed in the Constitution to the States or\u00a0the People. But no one in Washington especially the \u201cdum-bo-crats\u201d pay any attention to the Constitution\u00a0. So are there any signs of intelligent life in politics. In a word\u2026 NO.<\/span><\/p>\n If you enjoyed reading this article please don’t forget to let me know by clicking the LIKE\u00a0 Button below and while you are at it sign up for my free RSS Newsfeed located at the top and bottom of this page… Thank You.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n If you are looking for intelligent life in politics I have just two words for you\u2026. Good Luck! In politics nothing operates the way it should. Money is always the principal driving factor behind everything that gets done\u2026 every vote that is taken, every law that gets passed, every program that gets implemented, and every politician that gets elected. 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