Without an active, frequently reinforced grasp of American history, current and recent events appear to be unique, and justification for implanting new policies for the guidance and “transformation” of the United States. This is a dangerous circumstance, readily corrected by wise, educated and honest media. Sadly, we no longer are served by wise, educated and honest journalists, or by equally qualified managers and owners of “the press.” If we were, political bull-crap would be challenged without fail by members of the 4th estate who recognize lies about government and about history, on the spot!
Instead we see complete capitulation to partisan politics and, worse, ownership of the largest media conglomerates by multi-billionaires whose own partisanship distorts their news as much as their editorials, and whose financial power is used extra-constitutionally to direct public policy against legal activities they don’t approve of. This is no longer capitalism in a constitutional republic, it is fascism outside of and regardless of, elected representation, on which our society depends.
Financial institutions and even specific retailers have joined in to set “public” policy with regards to guns, for glaring example. Banks, although tightly “regulated” and subject to hundreds of laws and rules, have begun to deny legal services to businesses they disapprove of: firearm manufacturers, gun ranges, ammunition manufacturers, firearm retailers, large and small. They are responding by either changing their businesses or offerings, if retailers, or moving or, for smaller retailers, giving up their small business. Those on the left (exclusively) cheer this as “woke” capitalism. To Hell with democracy, or even with representation, when something is “evil,” “the people” must act. It is all too simple.
Some of the neo-fascists believe that guns are “racist” because so many blacks are killed by “gun violence,” occasionally when a white person is wielding the weapon. The more than 90% of black shootings performed by black weapon wielders do not count. Some wise and educated journalist could immediately question their view on many grounds, not least of which the fact that many gun laws on the books today were part of “Jim Crow” laws aimed at keeping blacks from owning guns.
The 35 Million black babies vacuumed from their mothers’ wombs do not constitute a racist action: that statistic is living proof (odd phrase, that) that blacks are enjoying their full array of “civil rights.” No one whose Constitutional protections guarantee his or her RIGHT to question such dubious views, seems available to actually raise the question.
Lately – mostly since the democrat-socialists regained a majority in the House of “Representatives” – there are put forth daily radical ideas for subverting democracy, if not ignoring it altogether. The greatest of these is nearly 3 years old, now: the subversion of Donald Trump and others who helped him gain the presidency. Once the Electoral votes were tallied in his favor the heavy machinery of a virtual coup d’etat was rolled into place. Democracy be damned.
This has yielded the hottest complaint against the constitution: it’s time to replace the Electoral College with “the popular vote.” A number of states have accepted simple subversion of the U. S. Constitution by resolving to unseat their own Electors who are committed to a candidate who did not win the imaginary “popular vote.” And it is imaginary since the presidential election is not a “national” election: it is 50 state elections held on the same day. Choosing Electors who are empowered to cast votes for President is a function of EACH STATE’S VOTERS. How callous can elected officials be to declare in advance that they – not their voters – will determine if their votes will actually count on election day. That’s an odd mind-set for people who won election in the United States of America. Let’s hope cases are making their way to the Supreme Court to put this unconstitutional plan out of our misery.
Interestingly, however, not a single “journalist” questions these weird declarations and resolutions. No one has been smart enough to point out to reckless and/or ignorant state election officials that theirs are state elections, not national ones. The United States does not hold a national election at any level.
Another proof of the idiocy of these efforts can be found in the execution of congressional elections that are held on the same day as the election of Electors in each state. States run their own elections for federal representatives, for example, according to the congressional districts into which the states have divided themselves. Each district’s voters make their choices and the winner takes the seat. Using the precise “logic” of the Electoral subverting states, if the number of one party’s voters in one group of districts – or even a single district – were greater than all of the votes cast for a different party’s candidate in the other districts, every winner in the lower-count districts would have to relinquish his or her seat to the candidate of the opposing party. Only that undemocratic shift would fulfill the “principle” of the statewide “popular” vote. “Hey,” the winners’ supporters might justifiably say, “we voted for the guy who won IN OUR DISTRICT. We don’t care how many votes the gal in the other district received. This is our district and OUR VOTES COUNT!”
Is there not a single champion of a free press intelligent enough to point out the obvious fallacy of the “national” popular vote? Were they all so poorly educated and left to graduate with only the merest ability to think for themselves, that none can question partisan stupidity? How is it that district results are less sacred – or more sacred – than states’ results? Don’t the votes that elected the winning slate of Electors count, also? When did any state, or any district, for that matter, gain authority to discard legitimate votes?
The essential nature of a free and skeptical press is enshrined in the first Amendment. The founders could not conceive of a craven, dishonest and partisan press as the single source of information for a majority of voters; nor could they imagine the alternative sources being simultaneously converted to corporate censors in favor of a single party.
Our Republic is hanging by a thread, my friends.