I am sure it is time to ban political parties
I have come to the conclusion that political parties are the problem. Not to have politics, but the parties and affiliations themselves would remove a lot of the crap we are seeing. I would suggest no parties, if you want to run for Senate, you must have 5 years residency in that state (to prevent migrant senators), same for House. Elections are government funded ( I know, I know but wait..) 50,000 for House, 50,000 for Senate, paid for from a fund established by selling off current party assets (both of them and all the rest of them as well) and the money put in a 401K (which , if it's good enough to fund military retirements, it is good enough to fund political races). Now, I am not proposing we junk the whole party idea, and the subsequent screaming about rights, freedom to do what they want etc. You can still have a philosophy, even a group, you just have no "Dumbocrap" or Republicrat, as such running. The top 2 vote getters in a Senate race are in, the top "X" in the house race get in (unless we choose to break it up by population, but then that starts to allow for groups to form again). Lobbying in banned, no need to feed the political pigs, they all get the same salary as the median income of all the governors of the 50 states. It seems like this would alleviate an awful lot of the current crap we see: Bought politicians, rigged elections, slanted news, outright lies, laws ignored, unequal treatment across the board, you name it. It also heads us back to the land of the individual, and where people who want to represent me in the seat of government are actually doing that, and not the money they had to grub to get there. I would say this would be much more of an equitable system and eliminate a huge subclass of people wanting to mooch for a living.
In one case the county wanted those big sliding drawers for plat maps. That was over $10,000.00. so they put it on the ballot. We found down at Beale AFB some brand new never been used one's at the Base Property Book Disposal Office. For a few hundred each and aftere military other government entities were next in line. The cost was one employee with a truck to drive the 400 miles or so down and back and probably one night in a motel. Guess what didn't win on the ballot. Those ideas work IF the citizens remember their follow on resonsibilities. That' s the usual failure point and cause. Every right has a responsibility or it really isn't a valid right ....is it? Not in real life.
Our original Founding Fathers made an attempt at a free society, but I suspect their free society was one where they were the arbiters of the Freedom. Everything I have seen seems to show they talked a good game, but almost from the outset, the power brokers and money madness crept in, even as early as 1810, with the War of 1812 brewing. After the War of 1812, all ets were off, as the Federal Government started feeling it's oats, and then the Civil War cemented the power of the central government. The biggest failure I see in our system starts almost at the begining with the Party system almost being designed iinto it. No one could do anything wothout having a large group behind them, and communications were such that no individual had the tools to make a non party system work. I see that has changed. Today you could run a campaign almost by yourself, with the Internet and email, and the ability to get a group together via many means. The fact the majority have no longer cares to have to work at looking at their representatives, having been programmed into the Party system, means all power has been turned over from the people to the Party, and so now we have mindless voting, and powerful Party machines. I would seek to break the machines and make people have to work for their Freedom.
First think of the divine right of kings and emperors with complete power. Far beyond the time their families took control with battlefield prowess. The Aristocracy. They were blessed by various sources including philosophical. Plato's line of reasoning laid it out completely in it's present form. Like every one that followed they had their escape hatch having been annointed as 'special' by some special combination of mysticism or Gods or a God. Plato of course included the philosophers as the only one's capable of seeing the truth. The Aristocracy.
This group changed as they were forced to include others wanting a larger slice of the pie. Loyal henchmen, the Barons Magna Carta and one of the most reviled groups the money lenders in todays terms the bankers. At the top of the heap each of these groups formed the roots of todays Statists and Corporatists. Not all just the creme de la creme. The Chosen Ones
Next step was machinery and industrial revolution. Who had the money to field the transportations systems world wide and the production of goods at home. and who had the power. Kings, Barons, Bankers. And at the top the same people in control.
Gradually things changed but did they? No. Same aristocracy feudalists now neo feudalists.
the control systems following the lead of the enlightenment philosphers still folowed the Plato Plan but now something called education crept out ot the churches and into the mainstream. Reading, books, mathematics, science all of it
And up jumped a different form of philosophy fathered by Aristotle individual reason and thinking everyone part of the control group. That might have been a step too far considering but a least most given some education and some reasonable chance of advancement.
First the 1700's saw some new ideas take shape and take over part of the western hemisphere. Man Can Govern himself was just a part of it. 1777 to 1789 saw the largest offering of these new ideas. Anethma to the Aristocracy. By the early 1800's a different idea had evolved. Government of the people WITH the Plato control group in charge. Finally another form of citizen government coalesced into Socialism. One side of the ocean followed Aristotle to a point. The other side Plato. But the Aristocracy now industrial barons and inteernatinal bankers joining royalty was still busy behind the scenes. Enter Marx, Engels, and a few others and the 1900's arrived. The century of the great socialist wars. One group crossed the Atlantic at the behest of the neo- aristocrats who had taken over from the independent minded freedom loving early pioneers and settlers. Another version ended up becoming international socialists. A third the National Socialists split off and ins ome corners pure aristocracy prepared to gasp it's last.
internationalists demanded government control of everything including the shirt on your back and all your waking and sleeping hours for the greater good. The nationalists let the industrialists keep what they had build but with a very tight chain known as fascism. Across the pond Wilson through FD Roosevelt had to take a different tack. democratic socialism .
they all had the same things in common and this is where they solved their problem which is your current dilemma.
The division was in three parts. Our old friends the diveine royalty rights group became the government with in most cases the military or Statists. the Bankers became Corporatists and those most close to the citzens Labor Leaers. Different mixtures to be sure but all the same underneath. Identifying a need for an adversary system the party system was further developed . One party possibly two in the European version two or more in the western hemisiphere system. But above and behind them ever the new neo feudalistic aristocracy paid for and played puppet master. The Establishment is what we call it today. In the back rooms they were not Democrat and Republican or Populists or Whigs or Tories. They were of one accord. Take control and keep control using the party system to accomplish that and a general slow movement in the direction of Goveernment Over Citizens with complete control by any and all means. Our version easily mixed elements of the three legs of socialism and world wide the a system of left right politics was invented Except the terms and definitions were inverted, subverted and convoluted beyond any hope of being of any use.
Fast forward to the 20th century the early 1900's the tactic of incrementalism had taken over as war after war was fought behind the current of crisis aftrer crisis and war after war.
the rest is easy to figure out one side reclaim the truth and to hell with the definitions of others.
One side is government over people with complete control. The other side i people over government as the true center of power and rights. Extremists in their proper places were Communists and Nazis interenational and national socialist to the far left. To the other side lay anti government groups, anarchists and other forms of leave me aloners. in the center lay the sacred ground which was not center of those heading in directions opposed to independence and freedom.
The Real Center of a Constitutional Republic is the Constitution. Containing everything needed to grow and make changes as needed - legally.
A false center has been propagandized into being... The center of the left. That's all it is nothing more. And guess what the different parties all live under that tent IF they support goverenment control of people which they do. Inthe center the Consitutionalists and by definition the far right has no center they are the 'no government' believers.
Do not mix this up with the system in play in the 1700's That system was not left and right but vertical God, King, Nobles, Country Peasantrs. top to bottom. Their divine right meant one thing outs is different. To use a handy definition of a the same word one can examine and divine (just like finding water with a forked stick) the center is citizens who back when selected in a very small d democratic manner to prefer a large C and R Constitutionjal 'Reublic. Better to not give a fig about what the left thinks or says it will be different to morrow and therefore is meaningless. Watch and listed to wha tthey say and really do. Nothing hard about figuring them out. They want your life. frp, birth to death and redfining is a major tool to accomplish just that.
"Both parties want to hurt you?" Try the two parts of the Government Party working for a neo feudalistic neo aristocratic establishment wants to hurt you but they are not two parties. Just two groups wwith differet roles to play. And that is al lthere is to figuring them out.
Now you can go and think about what to do. Five choices and three are left wing socalist to different degrees. but it's one of the three plus the henchmen in Congress and the commercial world that want watching as well. Hard to do? DAMN RIGHT. When it was easy there was no need except fo rone absolute. For every right there is a resonsibility.
And the only way to reclaim that is in three steps.
Stop Enabling
Take Control
Make Change
To find a new way to accomplsih that one must turn their back on and repudiate that which you abhor. Hard to do when your wasting time on what ugliness the witches of the left have done this time. There isn't anything you can do to change them exept ignore them. unless you are a plastic surgeon , cosmetologist, and psychiatrist wrapped into tone.
Better to just turn your back on them and ignroe them.
America first. Not party first. Or not selfish little cushy fiefdom within the party first.
nick, me dino says you did good.
+1 both above and in the title section.
But from a purely practical standpoint, good luck with that.Things would have to be done by putting like-minded peope in place until there are enough to make some moves. However, if Clinton is elected, forget everything, and with Trump you got to just cross your fingers.
Unless, of course, you're thinking of the use of force -- also not possible at this stage.
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