At the close of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what type of government had been created. Franklin’s reply: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
With the daily, relentless assault on our freedoms by the current socialist-in-chief, President Joe Biden, following the policies of his predecessor Barack Obama, and the socialist Democrat-controlled Congress, we may not. We may yet, if you follow the advice I will share with you in a moment…
But with the constant pounding on the Constitution from Biden and Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and the rest of the socialist elite elected class — as they work to not just chip away at our nation’s foundation as progressives before them, but to obliterate it completely — it appears their takeover of business and industry will never end until all money flows through government.
It appears their assault on free speech will be never-ending as well. A Washington Examiner editorial points out, “The White House’s efforts to deputize social media platforms into becoming de facto government censors should be deeply troubling to every citizen who has ever voiced an opinion outside of the politically acceptable mainstream.”
Will the hubris of the elected class never end? Apparently not. Recall that day by day; week by week; month by month the socialist Democrats pounded away at so-called healthcare reform until they enacted a socialist, European-style big government healthcare system and foisted it on America.
Know this: Pelosi, Schumer and Biden… they understand. They just don’t care. It’s the progressive way. Hey. It’s only money, and printing it is cheap. It’s only freedom, and restricting it is easy when the people look the other way and ignore the Constitution.
If the Constitution was important to the socialists Americans wouldn’t be sitting back asking themselves, “What’s next on the agenda: Another stab at lockdowns and direct payments from government? Amnesty for illegals and open borders? Another run at grabbing all the guns? A wealth tax?” All are being advocated for by the lapdog media.
To be fair, all of this can be laid at the feet of the socialist Republicans who blindly followed George W. Bush’s big government socialism over the economic cliff. They—the socialist Republicans—are always claiming an epiphany and want to appear to be standing up to the Democrat tyranny. But like all socialist elected elites, when they controlled Congress the socialist Republicans grew government, expanded its power to monitor its citizenry and supported Bush’s nation-building, empire-expanding war policies his original $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), Obama’s trillion dollar budgets, and Trump’s $2 trillion spending spree to combat the COVID casedemic. So what’s another $6 trillion to them?
Though they — the socialist Republicans — claim to be strict constructionists when it comes to the Constitution now, they passed the heinous Patriot Act that entrenched government spying and have never shrunk government one iota. They have ever increased government entitlement spending and therefore increased the roles of non-producers eager to sponge off the hard work of the producers.
But that’s what you get from the socialist elected elites. They ignore the Constitution because to them the “be all and end all” is government. They like big government and they like bigger government even better.
You can be sure that the Biden-Pelosi-Schumer triumvirate isn’t going to rest on its laurels. More big government programs are on the way.
And Pelosi is not afraid to kick in a few doors to accomplish it. As she told a group of Leftwing bloggers leading up the passage of Obamacare, “…once we kick through this door there will be more legislation to follow.” And so it has been.
We are experiencing the further socialist takeover of America. It’s evidence that sovereignty is in the hands of but a few, as the anti-federalist Brutus – thought by most scholars to be New York Judge and delegate to the Constitutional Convention Robert Yates — warned in Anti-Federalist No. 1:
“If the people are to give their assent to the laws, by persons chosen and appointed by them, the manner of the choice and the number chosen, must be such, as to possess, be disposed, and consequently qualified to declare the sentiments of the people; for if they do not know, or are not disposed to speak the sentiments of the people, the people do not govern, but the sovereignty is in a few.”
What can be done to reverse the loss of freedom and restore our Republic? It begins with wisdom, which filters through to only a very few.
I implore everyone to read, however, while words carry knowledge, words cannot carry wisdom. Wisdom is perception and spiritual discernment. It is to know God and reality. It is the evolution of consciousness. It is the fullness of life on earth that God intended. Blessed are those who have it!
This is beautifully described in Madame Ghis’ book “Madame Ghis: Escape In Prison.” Madame Ghis is a prison name given by inmates to Dr. Marie Eva Sophie Ghislain Lanctot, a medical doctor who spent a few months in prison for refusing to conform to the income tax system in Canada.
She wrote:…”My soul showed me that the world in which I live is made up of lies and illusions. Reality can only be perceived with the soul’s eyes. With her (my soul) help, I learned that behind the tax system and all …
… behave? Like a domestic dog. He submits to the will of his master who uses it as he wishes. In return, the master feeds it and brings it security. The more docile is the dog, the better he gets treated.”
Everything turns on the individual imperative to inquire and not act like a dog or a slave. Do you know that most people do not inquire? They ask no questions. They seek no information.
We who inquire are few. But we must inquire, what does the socialist state not tell us? What does the state not want us to know? They do not want us to know that we are on the path to giving up our human freedom, that democracy is a myth, and that the republic is close to being lost right before our eyes — unless we open them.
Written by Bob Livingston
