“They refuse to do the right thing, because they want to do the wrong thing.”
The surest sign of a collapsing society is that we’re all lying to each other and we don’t even blush anymore. When caught, we simply lie about the lies we’ve told.[read_more]
Look no further than the past few weeks.
Interested citizens have witnessed a primary architect of Obamacare, MIT Professor Jonathan Gruber, exposed in his own words on numerous occasions, gloating that Obamacare was designed as a massive fraud from the start. Its goal was to deceive Middle America into accepting a health care system – and the resultant loss of wealth and personal control – that they would never have agreed to had they been told the truth. The press has largely ignored or excused the revelations, since they participated in the news blackout and cover-up of what was obviously a lie back in 2009.
The President – a psychotic practitioner of deceit and dissembling even when the truth would serve him better – said he didn’t even know the Professor, whom he had previously quoted as an expert and who had frequently been in White House meetings, including in the Oval Office itself. No one so much as blinked at his obvious lie.
During the elections we had Republicans passionately speechifying and pounding lecterns assuring prospective voters that they were going to abolish or defund Obamacare if elected! Now, many of these newly elected Republicans – including the presumptive new Majority leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell – are saying that they won’t or can’t do that. Huh?
Since Republicans seem unwilling to engage in a bare-knuckle fist fight over the destruction of the world’s best healthcare, one can only surmise that they are really okay with Obamacare as long as they are cut in on the deal. Judging by the lack of response, kowtowing Republican faithful don’t even feel duped or used, much less that they were lied to.
Right now the nation is embroiled in the spectacle of an ongoing immigration disaster that will rip the heart out of the nation. Americans are caught between two parties that are “lying like a rich man’s rug,” to quote a recent hit country song. Neither Party, with some notable exceptions, really cares what the American people want or say – even though the elections were only a few weeks ago.
They refuse to do the right thing, because they want to do the wrong thing.
The vast majority of American citizens are screaming their lungs out: Stop the madness; seal the border; worry about American jobs first; don’t give amnesty to people whose first act in the U.S. was to break the law. But their elected government has turned their back on taxpayers with a defiant, self-inflated tone that clearly indicates that they don’t think the rubes in Middle America know what is good for them. They don’t give a hoot what they think.
Unsurprisingly, the President is moving to do what he said on previous occasions that he wouldn’t and couldn’t do; and he is calling it something it isn’t because he is what he is. The radical Democratic Party (which gives the word creepy a rich new texture) is shamelessly looking for a way to register new “voters” and welfare recipients, so they don’t care, and many of them are embarrassed by a prosperous America to begin with.
But the truth is that many Republicans, contrary to what they claimed while campaigning, also want a big immigration bill, and amnesty, that will flood the country with up to 40 million legal immigrants (over and above the illegals) over the next decade – all to please big business donors. In turn, these donors only seem interested in replacing well paid technically skilled Americans, many of whom are currently unemployed or can’t use their technical skills, with second and third world imports at half the salary. At the same time, many of the most vocal proponents of this increased immigration, such as Microsoft, IBM and GE, have laid off tens of thousands of employees.
The only thing the Republicans have to do to pull this charade off is to find a way to package the deal without appearing to their base that they are…lying. It’s hard work. Really hard work.
The only holdouts to the wrecking ball crashing across the American landscape is the center hub of middle income, working Americans still holding onto their “guns and bibles,” to quote the President (whom many suspect has no familiarity with either).
But, how often can Middle America reach out to save the nation in mid-term elections, when the people they send to represent them can’t seem to find the same backbone they claimed to have on the campaign trail? The time is long gone when conservatives can sit back and be content to vote, go home, and then allow the process to work its way out in Washington. Too many ingrained and privileged special interests, on both sides of the aisle, mastermind and manage the events between election cycles.
There has to be a massive mindset change in grass root, conservative organizations that recognize and engage in aggressive, concentrated and vocal pressure on the officials they help elect; to make them do what they say they believe. Time and again this politicians are simply allowed to lie and equivocate, while the systemic failure of the government goes unaddressed.
All easier said than done; but hopefully, there isn’t a conservative anywhere in the United States that isn’t emailing and calling their representatives and senators over the coming weeks and months, demanding that they do their sworn duty. In the days ahead, conservatives need to be organizing visits to every district office, petitioning in person, in their own towns, and writing to friends to ring the alarm over Washington’s indifference. Beyond that they must begin educating their fellow citizens on what is happening to our Republic, and why – and finally finding primary challengers early in the process, to oppose their own elected officials who lie to them.
Losing the two current battles on Obamacare and immigration could well destroy what little remains of the concept of Constitutional self-government, and with it the Bill of Rights will begin to crumble in ways that no one can even judge yet. One result is obvious, however. When the people’s government turns to deception, lies and manipulation to pave the way to ends that only aggrandize and empower itself, they set in motion social repercussions that drive them even further away from those whom they would “rule.” In that far place they won’t be able to hear what will inevitably come if they push us into this new America.
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Your article could be summed up in a one word. Money.
Take the money out of politics, these problems get solved. Until then, nothing will change. Nothing.
The money will get out of the business of politics when politicians get out of the business of business. Not before.
Please, tell me how we get there?
I think Bruce Hedrick needs to look at the demographic data and voting patterns WRT third world immigrants before he so smugly pooh poohs our concern about constitutional self-government. We are about to reach the point – if we have not already done so already – about which Benjamin Franklin warned us. Ponder these words, Mr. Hedrick.
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money,
that will herald the end of the republic.”
– Benjamin Franklin
And that’s going to make the Bill of Rights begin to crumble? Horsecrap. Plenty of people have predicted the end or the world as we know it and they’ve all been wrong. You can fall for the latest portion of red meat that’s been thrown to you, but include me out.
There’s nothing “smug” in what I’m saying or how I’m saying it. I’m serious when I say that I’ve had enough of this “The Sky Is Falling” crap.
Yea, me to! Just about everybody predicts doomsday, and can answer many questions about doomsday.
The one question they cannot answer is “when” this doomsday will arrive. Generations have come and gone predicting doomsday.
I do believe in the Bible. But not these financial dooms day forecasters that eat, sleep, and breath doomsday.
Alright Bruce – just what do you think Ben Franklin had in mind when he uttered those words? And, if our republic ends, as he predicted, just what mechanism is there in place to safeguard our Bill of Rights?
In this statement, Ben was full of horsecrap rhetoric too. Mike’s not going to come back to his article, so I’ll ask you, Mark.
When is this going to happen? When will the Bill of Rights “crumble” (and I’m talking about serious crumbling like “Goodbye 5th Amendment”)?
Well, I don’t engage in hysteria, but I do understand demographic trends and human nature. Furthermore, I spent 20 years as an intelligence officer in the US Army, so I would like to consider myself a methodical thinker who gets right to the point. As I see it, with the importation of tens of millions of new voters from the third world, an unhealthy percentage of whom use government welfare programs, the Democrats will forge for themselves a voting bloc which will vote Democratic no matter what. Coupled with a left-leaning media (a very germane factor in this discussion) which refuses to report on anything damaging to the Democratic Party, and you have the ingredients for perpetual one party rule. In short, within ten years Democratic leaders will know they can get away with murder. I think what we saw in 2014 was the GOP’s last victory. There are states which solely for demographic reasons (e.g., California) have gone eternally blue, with more to follow. This will constitute a fire wall which the GOP will never break. Democrats know that, and with a corrupt and complicit media, and a packed Supreme Court, they will be able to get away with anything. Diversity, Dependency, Dictatorship.
You don’t engage in hysteria, yet you just threw down a truckload of hysteria? Here’s the way it’s worked back in the days on Ben. One political party rules the roost until they piss off the voters. Then they get sent packing to minority status until the new party inevitably does the same thing X number of years later. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Bruce – you did not comprehend what I wrote nor do you understand where we are going demographically in this country. Third world voters will vote Democratic no matter what – particularly when the liberal media fans the flames of racial division to keep their voters in a state of perpetual racial grievance. Come on, Bruce. You’re a Democratic local operative in Dansville, you of all people ought to understand how your side plays this game.
Wrong on “Democratic local operative in Dansville sic“, because I’m a quite independent voice. I support the best candidate, no matter what letter is behind their name on the ballot. If you’d done some research before you posted that out of spite, you’d have quickly found that out.
You just lost what credibility you earned with “I spent 20 years as an intelligence officer in the US Army” by saying “Third world voters”. I now put you in the same category as Mike Giere.
Yeah, sure Bruce. You’re quite “independent” all right. Your FB profile says otherwise. Ciao. I am not wasting any more time with dishonest trolls like you.
I guessed as much. Exactly what on my Facebook profile says “Democratic local operative in Dansville (sic)”? Proof Or Not Real.
Bruce Hedrick – I based my assessment (that you are a Democratic Operative) on the fact that you are a FB member of “Turn Out The Vote Danville Group,” which is filled with anti-Gillespie blather. Furthermore, I could not find one person of that Turn Out The Vote Danville Group who fit a conservative profile – but there were lots of folks who fit the Democratic profile (e.g., they liked Rachel Maddow, the Daily Show, etc). So, you work to get out the vote in Danville with Democrats. I am a conservative operative and I don’t ever remember working on a get out the vote effort with liberals. It just doesn’t happen. Conservatives and liberals do not mix in their get out the vote drives. Furthermore, like most Democrats, you refused to answer a simple question about liberal media bias which most conservatives and independents would consider a no-brainer. And you consistently troll this site. In my book, that makes you a Democratic operative. And like most Democratic operatives, you cannot even be honest when you are unearthed.
WRT the alleged “independence” of Bruck Hedrick, I will let people decide for themselves. Folks, does this look like the type of FB Group that an independent would join? It is filled with blather from Democratic hacks. https://www.facebook.com/groups/danvilleturnoutthevote/?pnref=lhc
You got it, buddy. I have posted twice in that group. Once was to clarify where a photo was taken, and here’s the other one for you to see.
http://i.imgur.com/ECSsOkU.jpg
You’ll notice I pointed out where “their” candidate was guilty of a lie as well.
You also have no concept of the word “trolling”. I speak my true opinion.
You use the word Democrat as if it is a curse instead of a badge of honor. I don’t understand why you do this.
See. You did come back. Told you so.
you will waste more time. you cannot help yourself
what safeguards? Why do you deny the power of the constitution? If you are not going to believe in the founding documents of this great country, perhaps you should leave
And Bruce, before I continue this exchange with you, I would like to see if you and I are both living in Realville. So please answer the following question with a simple yes or no. Does the mainstream media (NBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times and Washington Post) lean left in its media coverage? And please keep in mind that media bias can cut both ways – in the sin of commission and of omission.
I don’t care whether you continue this exchange or not. I’m sticking with the topic at hand which is “The use of hysteria and red meat comments”. I’ll be glad to discuss that non-germane topic in another venue.
Why don’t you include FOX in your list of main stream media? They are as main stream as any of the others, only more blatantly biased then the rest, but no less prominent
There you go again…
Complete histrionics that only plays well to the far-right wing that will rarely produce an electable candidate. Sure, you’ve got the Louie Gohmerts, the Ted Cruzes and the Trey Gowdys, but they will never be enough of them to come close to gaining a majority. And once their schtick is shown to the American people, they fade back into obscurity. Defunding Obamacare without a viable enacted alternative would cripple the Republican party for years to come. The reputation would become the reality of “shoving Grandma off the cliff in her wheelchair”.
What you say sounds awesome to a banquet hall full of people that think the same way that you do, but it has no chance of playing to the American public. That’s reality whether you want to see it or not, You’ve never came back to any of your articles to defend your positions, but I’d love to see you do it here.
You provide in summary the conclusion that
“Losing the two current battles on Obamacare and immigration could well destroy what little remains of the concept of Constitutional self-government, and with it the Bill of Rights will begin to crumble in ways that no one can even judge yet.”
An assessment that I am in agreement with competely. But here is the rub, after a mid term election that without equivocation stated the demands and the positions of the American voter on both progressive programs like Obamacare and the use of unlimited presidential discretion over Congresses’ Constitutional Article I responsibility for regulating immigration, as well as, the executive branch’s effectively ignoring existing law enforcement statutes BOTH parties have simply shrugged off the message and prepare to move forward, as if the election was simply a stage managed event, that they can now simply put behind them and proceed with agendas that clearly were NOT supported by the voter.
How a
“massive mindset change in grass root, conservative organizations that recognize and engage in aggressive, concentrated and “vocal pressure” on the officials they help elect; to make them do what they say they believe” OR “….emailing and calling their representatives and senators over the coming weeks and months, demanding that they do their sworn duty.” OR “… organizing visits to every district office, petitioning in person, in their own towns, and writing to friends to ring the alarm over Washington’s indifference” OR “…educating their fellow citizens on what is happening to our Republic,” OR “… finding primary challengers early in the process, to oppose their own elected officials who lie to them.”,
ALL of which have been aggressively undertaken over the past five years, is going to stem the tide of actions and the indifference to them by the opposing party is rather weak rhetoric in the face of the scope of destruction that is currently underway to our Constitutional Republic. These self appointed political and media elites aren’t going to be talked out of power (the drug they live for) or easily voted out as they they have shown a very effective ability to manage the electorical process through massive amounts of cash and raw political manipulation.
I can appreciate the difficulty for many who have matured professionally in this bastardized political system to face what it has evolved into and shy away from the obvious conclusion that the system will NOT be changed without the middle class finally putting its foot down and taking its cues for needed change from other examples of successful systemic change in American society. Look to the civil rights movement of the late 50’s and early 60’s for the lever to move change, a non violent, citizen based, effort employing civil disobedience to remove laws and political demagogues from power and transform our nation. I might even suggest a place to begin and that would be the malignant growth of the IRS into a political tool for citizen suppression and manipulation that it has so painlessly morphed into in today’s society. A national middle class tax boycott will garner more attention in a few months then a generation of phone calls and congressional office visits. To move change you will need to be prepared to make sacrifices the rest is just feel good measures.