Of Weakness and War

We live in a world now where there is no trust, no ability to discern truth from lie, reality from fantasy. Governments, corporations and agencies falsify statistics to keep from having to face their own failures. We are living in a land of cover-ups and distractions from the truth, because the truth would derail someone’s agenda. Gone are the days when we were sure that the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, where the good guys were the allies and the bad guys were the axis. Who knows if that was ever true? But we are much more suspicious of it than ever.

If the truth were known, there would hardly be a person left in congress, the DOJ, the FBI, the CIA or any of the fifty state legislatures. Some things are so obviously true, out there in the open, waiting for someone everyone can believe to tell the truth so we can all acknowledge it, but no one exists that everyone believes. I believe a lot of things from my own observation and calculation, but it does no good to get bogged down in it, if I don’t have a solution to it.

For instance, I always knew Obama was a Kenyan. I didn’t need some fake birth certificate to be debunked to know that. Before he ran for president he was proud of his status as a foreigner, because it lent some credibility to the self-loathing Democrat Party. He was known as a foreign student and if he wasn’t a foreigner, then he used that designation to fraudulently get special recognition and the blessings of the anti-American socialists in academia. That was for the Republican Party to debunk in 2008, before he won the election and maybe they didn’t do that, because then Hillary would have won and they were scared witless at the prospect of her or Bernie winning the presidency. But they knew it and did nothing about it. That was when I had specific and demonstrated proof that the Republican Party was a fraud in itself, back in 2008, because they wouldn’t expose Obama as ineligible for the presidency.

Whether it was because they were afraid of Hillary or Bernie with a mandate, I don’t know and I don’t care. What it told me was that to avoid hard decisions and take risks, they would allow someone ineligible for the office to take it. They would debase the republic for their own purposes. One could put a horse up for election on the Democrat side and the Republicans would nod and agree that Caligula’s Horse was perfectly capable of discharging the duties of the United States Presidency. That’s a good enough reason, in my mind, to secede from the Union, because they are not serious people, this is not a serious nation. There is no one United States the way there is one Poland, or one Hungary. We have always been a confederation of states, even after we allowed the constitution to make us a federal republic.

I was recently reading a speech by Patrick Henry that a reader of this substack with his own substack sent me, linked here on his page. Two things stood out from that speech, one being this distinction between a confederation of states and a federal republic, what Henry termed as a “consolidated government” rather than thirteen independent states. The other, was his identification of the issue I’ve brought up several times, which is the requirement for one representative for 30,000 in population which is worded in such an odd way that no one knows what it means. In Article I, Section 2 it states: “The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand,”. There has been no constitutional amendment to change that, because no one knows what it means. Does it mean there shall be one representative for every 30,000 people? Or does it simply mean that there cannot be two representatives where there are only 30,000 people? This was the crux of his argument, that the wording should be changed before a vote is held to ratify the proposed constitution. Most people think that Patrick Henry signed the Constitution, but he didn’t and a reading of the Anti-Federalist Papers would explain why he did not. But that was one area in which they could have been more clear, but intentionally refused to do so.

While I don’t want 10,000 representatives any more than anyone else, I do see the value in having someone from my particular 30,000 people to have a voice in our government rather than one from the 750,000 they now represent. For me, this stands out as when our government shrugged their shoulders and ignored a clear constitutional requirement in favor of expediency and it’s been downhill from there. The Permanent Apportionment Act of 1929 cemented the seats at 435, regardless of the Constitution seeming to want to restrict it and that’s substantiated by the fact that from about 1910, they tried to restrict “representation” to be that of 30,000 people and by 1929 had given up completely, but they did not pass a constitutional amendment to do so. Around the turn of the last century, they were passing constitutional amendments with speed and efficiency, so there’s no reason they could not have done the same with the apportionment, but they didn’t. They just passed an act.

Our government has run the same way since then. It is why they have now so completely disregarded whole swaths of individual rights, because they can. But this sort of thing, this undermining the foundations of a government always leads to collapse. A little bit here, a little bit there, substituting a constitutional amendment requirement for a mere bill and letting it go at that. Passing some legislation like the Patriot Act and undermining every single individual right as listed in the Bill of Rights, that also would require constitutional amendments to do so, but shrugged at, because they sought expedient and efficient solutions to something that is likely to have been orchestrated by them and if so, largely for the ability to further disenfranchise the American people.

But what have they done? They have merely taken control, but of what? This is not the mighty United States of America that they sought to exploit. In weakening it to the point of being able to control it and its people it has sunk to a place where that mere control has destroyed the object. In historic terms, they might have achieved a victory, but it is a Pyrrhic Victory at best. They have not defeated the people, because the people are elastic. Given more freedom, the American people create and devise and innovate their way into a comfortable life for themselves and incidentally everyone around them. Given less freedom, they cling to what little control they have over their lives and settle into a static condition of existence until freedom returns.

To answer that the government, totally unsatisfied with the compliance they sought, has begun to import people who are more to their liking, cementing the absolute destruction of their own power. China and Russia are ascendant and will see the weakened state and people of America, the new Americans, as easily conquered and dominated.

Our governments, all of them, are either corrupt or compromised to the point where they cannot see the writing on the wall. Their obedience to the modified and all-powerful federal government is a one-way trip to oblivion. The longer the individual states respect the power of the federal government, the deeper they sink into the same pit of despair. It can be no other way, but that is what they seek.

Many of these governors are just trying to stay afloat, attacked on all sides for not succumbing to the demands of the central government or they have already signed up for communist control. But they will have nothing and be unhappy. In some respects, it’s a game of musical chairs, trying to stay in power long enough to be recognized by the conquerors, whether internal or external, as being fit to remain in that position after the fall of the United States. By that, I mean voting and all of the republican sort of requirements. But they’re trading days for hours, because once the veil drops and elections are outlawed, or specific political parties are outlawed, they will be irrelevant and will quickly be replaced with someone more loyal. Oddly, and deservedly, of the conqueror’s race or religion, because they will want to establish homogenous leadership, because that is what works.

I’d like to see states recognize their original role as independent states relying on a federal government as a mere official representative of the several independent states, but I doubt that will happen. They’ve lost the vision of the revolution and can only now see what has replaced the republic since at least 2001, as the only possible system. It isn’t. There has never been only one possible system. All of them fail. It’s their turn and that’s why the people themselves are going to have to wake up and recognize our own government as a newer representation of the British.

It’s very simple, peace through strength. They have weakened the United States and their citizens internally to the point where there can be no peace, we are no longer strong enough to have it. Now, there will be a period of weakness and war until we stumble upon a system that allows enough freedom to create strength.

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