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The problem isn’t that politicians are too old to serve their country, it’s that voters are lazy and by their own choice ignorant of civic duty to be well-informed. People tend to be one issue voters and therefore easily influenced by what touches their hot button. For the most part, name recognition is the deciding factor, and the attitude “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” prevails. Unfortunately, our ship is ready to sink and those that are suggesting the hard decision to man the lifeboats and venture into unchartered waters are assailed as being traitors to our comfortable living standards.

Our federal and state governments have piled up unfunded liabilities to the sky in hopes of satisfying the promises made to voters. What we now have is a huge elephant in the room: unpayable debt. The public, living in their utopian bubble of future promises, is beginning to awaken to the farce-laden life they’re living.

The basis for electing people to serve us comes from simple mathematical and parenting skills. Two plus two equals four, not five, and honey I’m really sorry but we can’t afford that and no Billy, I’m not going to take from your sister to give to you just because you want it and think you deserve it.

The bulk of people are ignorant by choice. They only think of rights and not responsibilities. The first question we should ask a politician is this: who are you going to steal from to satisfy me? And if I support that theft, why isn’t the budget balanced?

Our country was founded on the premise that men could govern themselves. For that to happen, we all had to agree on the same basic laws which were derived from English natural law and the ten commandments from Judeo-Christian teaching. Ever since our government’s inception, there has been a continual, unabated assault on the liberty our constitution gave us.

The Bill of Rights spelled out the inalienable rights that people must have if they are to call themselves free. We are daily in a battle with those who want to run our lives and spend our money. We must win this battle if not for ourselves, for our posterity. Our “rights” should come from God, not some bureaucrat who delights in their power over other people’s lives.

Following are comments on an article Tom Woods posted on the lockdown.

The American system was obsessively designed to bolster state and local power to protect against federal tyranny.
Now it has being taken over by state and local tyrants, and the federal government can’t do sheit.
Who woulda thunk that the federal government would become a champion of freedom ???

Really?? • 4 days ago • edited

For individuals, a vaccine is far, far in the future, of uncertain effectiveness and producing and distributing literally billions of doses reduces the likelihood that one will actually get an effective vaccine. The best case scenario one can hope for is to eventually catch a case of the COVID that does not kill them or require hospitalization that bankrupts them or become a COVID “long hauler” AND that a COVID infection confers immunity from future infections.

Giverment authority will greatly expand when state giverments start prosecuting people for non-compliance (e.g., fines, imprisonment, requiring proof of COVID antibodies). For example, my sister, who lives in New Mexico traveled to Colorado to visit our mother. She was required to quarantine for 14 days upon return to New Mexico, unless she took a COVID test and could prove that she was negative. At this point, it is unclear who enforces such laws or what the penalty is for ignoring them. Will New Mexico law enforcement authorities be empowered to demand proof of a negative COVID test of anyone they know has been outside New Mexico?

robert carpenter • 3 days ago • edited

The great fear of ALL POLITICAL REGIMES is always the fear of REBELLION. The great dream of all political regimes is the carceral panoptican society. All over the world one sees emerging populist rebellions against the ruling political classes. Trump’s 2016 election was a decisive rebellion against the ruling class. It was always a question of how rather than if the ruling class would move to put down the emerging populist rebellion. The covid lockdown regime is best understood as one tactic within a counter-revolutionary strategy.

frozenjim robert carpenter • 3 days ago

I tell you what, if Trump loses, it isn’t only America that is going full-on Marxist. If Trump loses, both Canadian mainstream parties (Conservatives and Liberals) are just ITCHING to move this lockdown into high gear – forever.
Your president is the only person standing between the globalists and a global win. Sad to see him embracing Covid the way he has – spending trillions on a lie, which makes him the biggest swamp creature in the history of the swamp. Worse, even than Obama when it comes to spending.

10/09/2020Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

When it comes to Covid-19, bureaucrats and politicians keep moving the goalposts, changing the rules, and engaging in bait-and-switch tactics, so they can maintain the “new normal” dictatorship. Those who object, we’re told, “just want people to die.” It’s now becoming clear that “you can’t have your life back in some states unless you take it back.”

A judge who rules according to the constitution and adheres to our founding fathers’ intent is labeled “right-wing” which in my view is unfair but nonetheless, those on the left think of it that way. A judge on the “left” feel the constitution is a “living” document, that the founders were writing for the times in which they lived but knew that future members of the court would have to interpret the law for the times in which they were living.
I am an originalist and believe the constitution should be strictly adhered to because our founders knew that politicians have a bent for accruing power and the Supreme Court was necessary to maintain allegiance to the original intent of the document they wrote, which is limiting the ability of those in government from gaining too much power.
Anti-constitutionalists want to abolish the constitution that we were given and replace it with one that is in constant change and flux to facilitate the whims of the state. The living translation idea does give some room for the state to exact that end and indeed the left are suggesting diluting the court with many more judges which would make it even harder than it is now for the population to deal with the rulings of rogue judges.
The old saying, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is a good rule to go by.

I think if anyone was guilty of giving people the COVID, it would be the governor of New York putting affected people in nursing homes. Being the average age of death is past 80, it is not universally as deadly as is reported. Hard to believe but old people are susceptible to death from everything.

So, although many older citizens die of COVID intermingled with other diseases, it doesn’t mean the rest of the population must give up living. The destruction of our economy (which many have determined to be of little importance) is resulting in the death of millions worldwide and sentencing millions to a desperate life of hunger.

The COVID PANIC was seen by authoritarian leaders as a chance to grow their power and control over constituents just as happened after 9–11. After that event the whole population was deemed untrustworthy, guilty first, innocent later, maybe. After COVID struck the Bill of Rights evaporated before our eyes and millions support the new normal and the endless need to monitor every citizen. The forced vaccine can’t be far down the line. The last remnant of freedom, physical money, will be removed for our “safety”. It’s dirty you know.

The pandemic is horrible but has been effectively used to push us in the direction of an all-powerful state ruled by corrupt men. The public is ignorant and encouraged by their betters to stay that way. And so the war begins.

Jesus said we didn’t need much faith to accomplish the will of God, to live the Christian life. We know that mustard seeds are small, smaller than most seeds and Jesus said all we need is that small amount of faith. Faith is what grows the kingdom of God. So if you don’t need much faith, how does the kingdom grow?

Like any seed, the place where it’s planted must be watered, weeded, nurtured. It takes many days for the seed to sprout and the secret ingredient to growing the plant is simply believing that seed will grow. Before you plant and go to all that work you must believe it will grow.

If we work diligently, it will sprout which in turn helps our belief grow. Eventually, we may have sown many seeds and have an immense crop. It is then we can expect God to do the impossible.

Attempting to do the impossible requires belief. Belief starts with the first seed planted. Unbelief stems from giving up before we see the increase. If prayer isn’t answered the first time, do it again, and again, and again…….