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Elections Can’t Fix the Fundamental Transformation of the United States


February 22, 2014
By Sara Noble

Our Julius Caesar

Elections can’t fix what has happened here in the United States. We are fundamentally transformed, but we can still alter the course of events. It will take more than simply appearing at a polling station and, if we don’t work to change it now, we will end up like so many other nations existing under tyrannical rule.

Putin is rebuilding the Soviet Union. He has already seized part of Georgia and he wants the Ukraine. The people of Venezuela are rioting in the streets and Cuba is embedded in the government of president Nicolás Maduro. Iran is continuing their enrichment and Syria is hiding the chemical weapons they promised to destroy while working hand-in-glove with Iran. Egypt is infiltrated with both the Brotherhood and al Qaeda.

Totalitarianism is streaking across the world and there is little to stop it.

Freedom is a fragile thing and it is fragile even here, especially here, in the United States.

In the United States, the very things Ronald Reagan fought for are the very things Barack Obama fights against.

We see what is going on in the world and we have a false sense of security because, after all, we live in the United States. It couldn’t happen here. We say that as our country is being fundamentally transformed with a president who rules with a pen and phone and this so-called “strategy”, is to lawlessly ignore the separation of powers. It is lauded by our “free Press”.

We now live in a country where every freedom is under attack by the forces of totalitarianism in the most subtle and dangerous ways.

Totalitarianism is the stronger force because it’s adherents can use deception and they can circumvent the law. The end justifies the means. There is no law. The law is relative.

They can use thugs to do their work. When my friend was setting up a table for Hillary Clinton during the 2007 election, the Obama thugs harassed them, turned their table over, and cursed at them. My friend and her group were forced to leave out of fear.

Totalitarianism of any kind is an arrogant ideology, its advocates know what’s best and feel free to get it done however they can.

Totalitarians can violate election law. They can lie and say you can keep your insurance if you want to. They can pretend to be one thing while doing the opposite because their ideology is based on relativism and secularism, not morality. Morality is what they perceive it to be and its ever-changing. There are no absolutes like the Ten Commandments or God. yet, they will hold their opponents to the letter of the law.

It is up to us, the adherents to the law of the land, the Constitution, to undo their work, while they continue to freely pursue their totalitarian agenda in every sphere of society, unchecked. If you call them out, you are a racist, a conspiracy nut, a hater, and so on.

They are patient people. They were willing to spend decades changing the thinking of the young, even if it means rewriting history. We recently saw an example of it in a social work textbook that told a story of a racist, sexist Ronald Reagan though he was not that and quite the opposite. Whole pages in the book were dedicated to generalizing the portrayal of conservatives and the rich as selfish and cruel while liberals were depicted as caring.

The Brotherhood failed in Egypt because it wanted absolute power. We see that insatiable thirst for absolute power within the Democratic Party in the United States today. The party has changed and moved far-left. It won’t go on forever without a fight. At some point there will be a clash of cultures and it could end in violence.

Mr. Obama has flouted the law continually with:
1.NLRB appointments during a recess that wasn’t
2.28 changes to his own ObamaCare law
3.ignored the War Powers Act and went to war in Libya on his own
4.killed US citizens without Congressional approval or any due process
5.spies on US citizens
6.ignores immigration law and state laws
7.ignores federal drug and immigration laws
8.politicizes government agencies so the IRS can attack conservatives and religious groups. The EPA can now prevent people from developing their own land, destroy coal power in the United States, declare the air we exhale a poison. Obama is attempting to use the FCC to control the media. He sent armed guards in a guitar factory on a false charge to raid and seize, and he uses the Interior Department in other ways to terrorize and enforce laws they themselves are creating outside of Congress.
9.illegally wiretapped reporters
10.shielded AG Holder from a Contempt of Congress finding for perjury with an Executive Order
11.continually refuses to comply with congressional subpoenas
12.Mr. Obama is writing legislation from the White House
13.awarded  80 percent of a $16 billion program (green energy) to his campaign bundlers and contributors, leaving only 20% to those who did not contribute
14.and the list goes on.

The Democratic Party, with its nuclear option in the senate, its lies about ObamaCare, its lauding of dictatorial rule using a not-so-innocuous pen and phone, is operating like a radical leftist party with no moderate influences to keep their lawlessness in check. They will eventually bring us to violence and rebellion. Is that why they have government workers in all departments of government armed to the teeth? Is it why they want us disarmed?

Americans are better educated than many believe and, despite high unemployment, most citizens who want to be employed are employed, we have food and water, and we live a decent life. For that reason, we do not see ourselves living under a tyrannical government nor do we see the urgency as they do in a country like Venezuela. I just saw a video of police in Venezuela shooting blindly at everyone in the street. That is where Totalitarianism must eventually lead.

While we are not Venezuela, the increasingly militant left is growing stronger and angrier while the right feels diminished and powerless. The middle class is suffering thanks to the redistributionists and a sense of hopelessness is growing.

The Two Party system has worked in keeping extremists at bay but the leftists hope to destroy that too with voter fraud – refusing to allow voter ID and allowing illegals and underage youths to vote among other illicit practices – and initiatives like the National Popular Vote which seeks to install a permanent Democratic majority in the electoral college. Unions are mobilizing their forces and spending hundreds of millions to buy votes and control politicians. Almost every large union in America today is controlled by communists or socialists.

Unions, large corporations and the financial sector, social institutions such as Planned Parenthood and even some religious organizations, the media, the energy sector, and the educational system are coming together to form a totalitarian whole with a far-left agenda, with no room for traditional thinking or the Constitution.

The other day, NBC said Olympian David Wise’s love of God, wife and child is an alternative lifestyle. The Totalitarians are not only after our money, they want our souls, our very belief system. That is why they are attacking the rights of conscience with the HHS mandate.

We are told Congress can do nothing about this lawlessness and we have to show up at the polls. It is so far beyond just voting.

Obama has been installing his judges, his military, his commissioners, his tax assessors, his educational system, and he is reprogramming us through media, entertainment, teachers, and a suffocating bureaucracy of laws.

Common Core has the potential to nationalize education quickly and with it, as we have discovered, comes intense indoctrination.

He has made welfare, food stamps, and disability into an entitlement and has even encouraged people to not work, smoke week, and pursue their dreams on the government dole. Every agency, every facet of our lives is being politicized. Politicizing something makes it into an agent of totalitarianism. It will take so much more than an election or two to change this.

Totalitarians identify populations to control and use, destroying them in the interim. They have done this with blacks and are attempting to do the same with Native-Americans and Hispanics. The totalitarians have continuously made everything about race instead of the issues and, having done so, they have segregated us. Some among them want a race war. They have done the same with LGBTs, women, and any other group that feels oppressed or unrecognized.

They want our children. The government is assuming more and more power over our rights as parents and they hope to sign a UN treaty which will give them unfettered power, mandating how we educate and raise our own children.

They find a common enemy or invent one and they use the lure of a better life which only they can provide. They hope to destroy private enterprise because they take power from them and they give hope to the populations who seek a better life and who they seek to control.

Totalitarians exaggerate issues like climate change, formerly global warming that stopped 13 years ago, and they create crises to further their agenda. Healthcare was a crisis. It wasn’t then of course but it is now. Libya was a crisis. It wasn’t then, but it is now.

An election won’t fix that. We have to fix that.

Totalitarians seek absolute power. They are the very breadth and scope of tyranny.

We can’t just vote to rid ourselves of the tyranny already entrenched in our government. We must adopt a lifestyle that rejects their indoctrination. We can’t go see the movie Noah which distorts the bible, we can’t buy their products, and we must speak up – loudly – when they rewrite history or denigrate venerated institutions and practices or differing opinions.

We need to find ourselves again. If in our hearts we believe in God or a spiritual life of some sort that rejects lies, late-term abortions, spying on everyone, and so on, then find that person and be that person. If we believe in freedom for everyone, not simply people who agree with us, stand up for it.

We have already been fundamentally transformed but the fat lady has not sung. We must extricate ourselves from our comfortable existence, gather courage, speak up, and fight for what we believe in before it is too late. If we don’t, we will one day be the Ukraine or Venezuela or Egypt and there will be fire in the streets.

You think it can’t happen here? It is happening here.

http://www.independentsentinel.com/elections-cant-fix-the-fundamental-transformation-of-the-united-states/

 
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Re: Elections can't fix the "fundamental transformation" of the United States
« Reply #1 on: February 23, 2014, 12:03:45 pm »
Americans obviously have nary a problem with it.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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« Reply #2 on: February 23, 2014, 01:56:17 pm »
Americans obviously have nary a problem with it.

So it would seem.  I think those who reside in cemeteries are the leaders of the "I don't care movement." :whistle:

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« Reply #3 on: February 23, 2014, 02:51:41 pm »
Americans obviously have nary a problem with it.

I disagree.  Lots of Americans have problems with all of this, but who you gonna call??  The same guy who caused the problem in the first place??

Elections are fundamentally the way to fix all of this.

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« Reply #4 on: February 23, 2014, 03:25:05 pm »
I disagree.  Lots of Americans have problems with all of this, but who you gonna call??  The same guy who caused the problem in the first place??

Elections are fundamentally the way to fix all of this.

If there was response commensurate with problem, there would be riots.  There are none.  There are countries on this planet that people riot over cooking oil or the price of rice.  Americans are fat and complacent which equals no problems.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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« Reply #5 on: February 23, 2014, 04:03:26 pm »
I disagree.  Lots of Americans have problems with all of this, but who you gonna call??  The same guy who caused the problem in the first place??

Elections are fundamentally the way to fix all of this.

Elections are the only way to fix this, politically; the only other alternative is currently on display in Ukraine.

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« Reply #6 on: February 23, 2014, 09:14:30 pm »
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Totalitarianism is the stronger force because it’s adherents can use deception and they can circumvent the law. The end justifies the means. There is no law. The law is relative.

This describes the Obama regime in a nutshell.


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Re: Elections can't fix the "fundamental transformation" of the United States
« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2014, 09:21:22 pm »
Americans obviously have nary a problem with it.

This regime has been SO lawless on SO many fronts that I think the American people are overwhelmed.  I fear we (the American people) are becoming politically paralyzed because we don't know where to start to stop this monstrosity and turn it around... and few political leaders are leading in this area.   

I'm also afraid we are right where Obama wants us.

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Re: Elections can't fix the "fundamental transformation" of the United States
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2014, 09:32:23 pm »
Americans obviously have nary a problem with it.
Take a simple look at how the views of homosexuality, for example, have changed in the past decade alone and you will see how quickly this country is being blatantly brainwashed.
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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2014, 10:13:59 pm »
Elections are the only way to fix this, politically; the only other alternative is currently on display in Ukraine.
Agreed in full.

And for all the hand-wringing on the right, I feel we were closer to breakdown in America during the late 60s-early 70s.

The right has to sharpen its game. Attack Obama's policies and outcomes, not the person.

Keep it short, simple, factual and verifiable. Avoid ridiculous fringy claims, and fringy people.

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« Reply #10 on: February 24, 2014, 04:29:12 am »
Oceander wrote above:
[[ Elections are the only way to fix this, politically; the only other alternative is currently on display in Ukraine. ]]

It pains to say it, but I don't think elections are going to "get the fixin' done" any more.

Too much of what is wrong has become "institutionalized" into government agencies and bureaucracies that are under little influence from "elections".

And the very integrity of elections in this land is under attack, not only from the party of the left and the left itself, but is being undermined by newfangled procedures that fundamentally corrupt the elective process.

Nope.

What alternatives does that leave us?

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« Reply #11 on: February 24, 2014, 05:04:01 am »
Agreed in full.

And for all the hand-wringing on the right, I feel we were closer to breakdown in America during the late 60s-early 70s.

The right has to sharpen its game. Attack Obama's policies and outcomes, not the person.

Keep it short, simple, factual and verifiable. Avoid ridiculous fringy claims, and fringy people.



I wasn't around for the 60s and wasn't much aware for the first half of the 70s, but from what I've read and gathered over the years, I would tend to agree.  I think the atmosphere, the zeitgeist, was much more apocalyptic back then.

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« Reply #12 on: February 24, 2014, 05:14:50 am »
Oceander wrote above:
[[ Elections are the only way to fix this, politically; the only other alternative is currently on display in Ukraine. ]]

It pains to say it, but I don't think elections are going to "get the fixin' done" any more.

Too much of what is wrong has become "institutionalized" into government agencies and bureaucracies that are under little influence from "elections".

And the very integrity of elections in this land is under attack, not only from the party of the left and the left itself, but is being undermined by newfangled procedures that fundamentally corrupt the elective process.

Nope.

What alternatives does that leave us?

One can always vote with one's feet.  There are other countries out there that aren't quite like the US.  E.g., with Australia, notwithstanding the generally prog/lib tendencies in much of the country, there is so much blasted country, and so few people, that one can get a more real independence just by moving inland from the coast a hundred miles or so; don't even have to be in the badlands.

Were I footloose and fancy free, and could rack up enough immigration points, I'd move there in a heartbeat right now; I've got a few friends there who'd help me land on my two feet and get set up, and I'd be right as rain.  Might even see if I could hook up with Greg Craven again and get some sort of con-law comparative studies program going (yes, I'm name-dropping, but dropping his name here isn't likely to get any points, so I can do it shamelessly and openly).  Places-wise, I'm not completely settled on any one place.  I'd avoid Canberra just on general principles.  The weather in VIC and NSW is likely to appeal to me most, although parts of southern WA are nice too.  Brisbane is about as far north as I'd care to go weatherwise (once had a really beautiful gf in Ipswich).  The cities (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth) have their perks, but I'd just as soon stay far away from 'em and just go in for a visit now and then.

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« Reply #13 on: February 24, 2014, 02:17:47 pm »
I wasn't around for the 60s and wasn't much aware for the first half of the 70s, but from what I've read and gathered over the years, I would tend to agree.  I think the atmosphere, the zeitgeist, was much more apocalyptic back then.

That was because the clash of cultures was much more pronounced back then-- kind of like the Andy Griffith Show vs. Woodstock.   Moreover, it was easier for this country to come back from the precipice because there were a LOT more people around with common sense who had sacrificed and/or gone to war to preserve and protect our freedom (WWII had only been over 20 years and those veterans were running the country at the time). 

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« Reply #14 on: February 24, 2014, 02:44:01 pm »
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« Reply #15 on: February 24, 2014, 02:48:05 pm »
One can always vote with one's feet.  There are other countries out there that aren't quite like the US.  E.g., with Australia, notwithstanding the generally prog/lib tendencies in much of the country, there is so much blasted country, and so few people, that one can get a more real independence just by moving inland from the coast a hundred miles or so; don't even have to be in the badlands.

Were I footloose and fancy free, and could rack up enough immigration points, I'd move there in a heartbeat right now; I've got a few friends there who'd help me land on my two feet and get set up, and I'd be right as rain.  Might even see if I could hook up with Greg Craven again and get some sort of con-law comparative studies program going (yes, I'm name-dropping, but dropping his name here isn't likely to get any points, so I can do it shamelessly and openly).  Places-wise, I'm not completely settled on any one place.  I'd avoid Canberra just on general principles.  The weather in VIC and NSW is likely to appeal to me most, although parts of southern WA are nice too.  Brisbane is about as far north as I'd care to go weatherwise (once had a really beautiful gf in Ipswich).  The cities (Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth) have their perks, but I'd just as soon stay far away from 'em and just go in for a visit now and then.

Yes they can but if the USA falls to communism no other place will be safe for long!
 
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"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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« Reply #16 on: February 24, 2014, 03:03:57 pm »
Yes they can but if the USA falls to communism no other place will be safe for long!

Perhaps at one time but that was part of the lie too.
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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« Reply #17 on: February 24, 2014, 03:06:07 pm »
Perhaps at one time but that was part of the lie too.

Are you willing to risk testing the theory? I'm not!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2014, 03:16:06 pm »
Are you willing to risk testing the theory? I'm not!

As much of an over-rated film "Metropolis" was, it exposed a truth.  Well two truths.  The first, there is a preterclass of humans who live far above the rest of us.  I mean beyond Trump, Kerry and probably even the Kennedys.  Beyond the Bilderberg attendees.  On the order of the Rothschilds and probably not many other.
The second, that there is freedom.  In truth, there is none.  Freedom is an illusion.  Ronald Reagan was an anomaly.  Not another like him has existed since before the "Civil War".
Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2014, 03:31:07 pm »
As much of an over-rated film "Metropolis" was, it exposed a truth.  Well two truths.  The first, there is a preterclass of humans who live far above the rest of us.  I mean beyond Trump, Kerry and probably even the Kennedys.  Beyond the Bilderberg attendees.  On the order of the Rothschilds and probably not many other.
The second, that there is freedom.  In truth, there is none.  Freedom is an illusion.  Ronald Reagan was an anomaly.  Not another like him has existed since before the "Civil War".

I will not argue with any of that. In fact, I will tell you that before the ink was dry on the Constitution there were tho9se who sought to undermine and destroy it. Those people and their descendants have gotten far down the road to accomplishing their goals but haven't completely gotten it done yet and fpr as long as there is breath in my body I will do whatever I can to ensure that they never do!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2014, 03:52:04 pm »
I will not argue with any of that. In fact, I will tell you that before the ink was dry on the Constitution there were tho9se who sought to undermine and destroy it. Those people and their descendants have gotten far down the road to accomplishing their goals but haven't completely gotten it done yet and fpr as long as there is breath in my body I will do whatever I can to ensure that they never do!

There was something I read the other day that really piqued my interest.  Regarding the grandson and nephews of Queen Victoria.  The Kaiser, the Tsar and King George V, all heads of state in the Great War.  The Tsar and the King, friends.  The Kaiser, not.  A family feud played across the world.  The outcome would set the stage for the Russian Revolution, fascism and WWII.  That is too much power in too few hands.
I hadn't thought of it in familial terms until that.
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Why?  Well, because I'm a bastard, that's why.

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« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2014, 04:07:27 pm »
Yes they can but if the USA falls to communism no other place will be safe for long!
 

Bah.  It won't fall to communism, it'll fall - to adopt your term - to European, specifically French, style socialism.  Communism as such no longer exists as a dominant force anywhere, other than, perhaps, Cuba.  The North Koreans aren't communists, they're Pol-Pot style dictators and tyrants.  The Chinese are communist in name only, having evolved into more or less a hard left corporativist socialism.  And should that fall take place it will, in fact, make other places more safe, not less safe, because part and parcel of that fall will be a reduction in the ability of the US to coerce other nations, economically or militarily, to toe the political line favored by the US (which would at that point be Euro-socialism).

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« Reply #22 on: February 24, 2014, 04:12:16 pm »
Bah.  It won't fall to communism, it'll fall - to adopt your term - to European, specifically French, style socialism.  Communism as such no longer exists as a dominant force anywhere, other than, perhaps, Cuba.  The North Koreans aren't communists, they're Pol-Pot style dictators and tyrants.  The Chinese are communist in name only, having evolved into more or less a hard left corporativist socialism.  And should that fall take place it will, in fact, make other places more safe, not less safe, because part and parcel of that fall will be a reduction in the ability of the US to coerce other nations, economically or militarily, to toe the political line favored by the US (which would at that point be Euro-socialism).

Two words!

Bull Sh*t!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
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« Reply #23 on: February 24, 2014, 04:17:08 pm »
As much of an over-rated film "Metropolis" was, it exposed a truth.  Well two truths.  The first, there is a preterclass of humans who live far above the rest of us.  I mean beyond Trump, Kerry and probably even the Kennedys.  Beyond the Bilderberg attendees.  On the order of the Rothschilds and probably not many other.
The second, that there is freedom.  In truth, there is none.  Freedom is an illusion.  Ronald Reagan was an anomaly.  Not another like him has existed since before the "Civil War".

Just because your freedom of action is not totally unrestrained does not render "freedom" illusory.  In an earlier age you, I, and everyone else here would have played serf to those few whom you say live so far above us; serfs had precious little freedom compared to the freedom you enjoy.  In days of yore, serfs were regarded as, and legally were, possessions that went with the land they toiled on, as much a part of that land as the cabinetry is of today's houses.  Today, we ordinary mortals possess land; the land does not possess us.

In fact, you probably enjoy greater freedom than did many minor nobles in the middle ages; consider the amount of power available to you for a few thousand dollars:  you can purchase the means to travel several thousand miles in a few days, from the east coast to the west; you can even purchase the means to fly halfway 'round the world in less than 24 hours - making a mockery of that gent who traveled 'round the world in 80 days.  And consider the quantity and quality of food available to you for a relative pittance; not even the nobility of old ate so well as you.  And consider the state of your health; notwithstanding the current attempt to control your health care, your health, and that of most of us, far surpasses that of even most nobles of old.

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« Reply #24 on: February 24, 2014, 04:17:48 pm »
Two words!

Bull Sh*t!

straight back atcha.  Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, of which you have produced none.