The US Congress has been steadily forfeiting power to the Presidency for the past 2 ½ decades. The acceleration of the self-enervation of Congress began in the wake of 911 when it cowardly voted for the formation of the Executive-Branch-led security state (the Patriot Act and all of its Bill of Rights stripping progeny), rather than do its job and get to the bottom of the Intelligence-Military-Law Enforcement sector’s treasonous failures leading to 911. Congress followed that with its forfeiture of the power to determine whether the United States goes to war or not; a power vested in Congress by the original U.S. Constitution. Current President Joe Biden (then senator) was one of the most vociferous proponents of handing that power over to George W. Bush in 2003; while Biden also served as a front-row cheerleader for the Iraq War travesty.
Since then the Presidency has been steadily gifted more and more powers; including the power of the purse, another critical existential constitutional prerogative of the Congress. U.S. politics has degenerated into an every-four-years sweepstakes, the result of which determines which branch of the Uniparty gets first dibs on the spoils wrought from U.S. citizen taxation. In essence, we have become an autocracy with a new stand-in dictator picked every four to eight years. The administrative state is the only constant, and it loyally serves only the vast sea of blood sucking nongovernment organizations, think tanks, corporate lobbyists, arms and drug manufacturers which created and support it. Only an autocratic plutocracy remains of a once promising democratic republic experiment.
Despite all evidence to the contrary many people still associate their party as the defender and proponent of certain issues that in fact they are not. And for this reason they put up a Quixotic fight to the death to get their democrat or their republican elected to wear the crown. For example, republicans still consider themselves fiscal and monetary conservatives. And yet, when they got their most “conservative” President in place in 2016, they encouraged Trump to far outspend all other Presidents before him – only to promptly be outdone by Biden. Example B, democrats still fancy themselves the protectors of civil liberties. And yet, with their boy Biden in charge, the security state – led by its Censorship Industrial Complex – has rolled back First Amendment rights like never before (even in times of war). Further, for some odd reason Americans seem to equate democrats with peace. Yet, again Biden has us on the precipice of World War III, and seems hell-bent on pushing us over the edge, see Wag the Dog? .
Neither of the leading candidates is likely to do anything but exacerbate the inflation problem, the waning global influence problem, and the Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Tech, Military Industrial Complex policy domination problem. There are clear lines of demarcation on the issues of immigration and abortion and several personal values issues that ought not be government issues at all. But, that is about it. The only sane way to resolve any political divisions and differences, and only democratic way, is through full access to information and healthy public debate. And this leads to THE critical issue not receiving the attention it ought to.
Both sides are claiming that the election of the other will mark the ‘End of Democracy’. As noted that is a misnomer and somewhat of a straw dog because the American political machine has long-since voted and ruled against the collective interests of the populace. What is not being directly addressed is the only black and white issue that fundamentally determines whether we continue the path toward absolute plutocratic autocracy or redirect the empire back toward the democratic republic roots that led to it becoming the world’s more influential nation. That is, will either candidate say or do anything toward a commitment to restoration of the Bill of Rights upon which this country was founded? It might be appropriate to refer to Elon Musk who has ponied up 44 billion dollars to help restore those rights by his purchase of Twitter and its conversion to X; making it the last major online forum unsullied by the long arm of Big Brother’s Censorship Industrial Complex. When asked why he took a multibillion dollar hit on the deal, he has repeatedly noted that without freedom of speech and the press one does not have democracy in any form, democratic republic or otherwise. Democracy in order to survive requires first and foremost a well-informed citizenry. And that is only possible in a society where speech and expression are not restricted by specialized interests of any kind.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made it patently clear that he is committed to restoration of the First Amendment of the Constitution. With the two wings of the Uniparty spending hundreds of millions to defame, shame, and cancel him, Kennedy’s chances remain a long-shot. Ironically, Kennedy’s participation is likely tip the scales either toward the Republican or the Democrat candidate.
If you feel extorted into using your vote on the lesser of two evils, you are by no means alone. I believe a majority of people have felt that way over the past 10 years, at the least. If you feel that way today, I suggest you pay attention to where the candidates go with the critical issue addressed here, restoration of the Bill of Rights, starting with the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is the only issue that measures up to the rallying cry “we have got to save our Democracy.”
Moving On Up a Little Higher 