Is it just me, or does anyone else get the impression that there is a plant from TOS that plants an endless stream of material curated from TOS and only really comments to himself on the material posted...?
In February, over there, they had a "Trump Family Ping", and basically assembled to focus on driving Cruz supporters into silence or away from the site. They even plotted pile-on attacks.
All of this stuff seems terribly familiar. It is the same rhetoric, the same sort of disruption of virtually any discussion, the same tired crap. It is also the tinder from which flame wars begin, and will turn virtually any site into what TOS has become--an echochamber of bitter people who will turn on each other when they run out of real enemies to fight.
Well, the difference is that we do have real enemies. Hillary is one, but so is the machine of political operatives that permitted, aided, and abetted the hijacking of the GOP by hucksters and international con men, whether they are doing it solely for profit, or whether enslavement on a global scale is their aim. Those who snark at our refusal to support either side in such a scheme are the petty thieves and pickpockets of the syndicate that is stealing our Constitutional Republic away from us and our progeny, the low level dealers of a cartel of subjugation. Meh.
The major parties offer us a choice of a corrupt pay to play politician and a guy who paid to play, ends of the same foul stick. That turd has no clean end, and those of who refuse to handle it need not be the least bit apologetic for not swimming in that cesspool.
The alternatives we are left are to either build a political party which will give us the government we crave, or to step out of the arena and take what scraps we are thrown. I opt for the former, and do not find that government in the contradictions of the Libertarian party (itself hijacked by libertines), but have found what looks like a return to the type of government the Founders envisioned in the platform of the Constitution Party. That is where my future efforts will go until such time as either I become disillusioned with that effort (not easily done), or a verifiably better option comes along.
This isn't about the rejection of my favored GOP candidate by other members of the GOP, that is a symptom of the larger problem. It is about the rejection of an entire way of life by a political party I had supported, one which paid lip service to that America the Founders envisioned, and then set about to subvert it. I see no relief in either that Party or the Democrat Party, and place no faith in those manipulators of media and the masses who have brought us to this juncture.
If we find statesmen, by all means support them if they are in agreement--vote your conscience, but do so out of support rather than fear. Bad outcomes can sometimes do more to prove a position untenable than mediocre ones, and we Americans are a people who will suffer the yoke of tyranny while it is sufferable rather than throw it off. If the masses vote for an unbearable burden, it only hastens the day when that yoke is discarded.
In the meantime, in order to prevent a worse government from replacing that, we had best put our collective nose to the grindstone to have an alternative to replace the corruption of the government we once held dear, with a return to the basics, the vision of the founders with some extra safeguards written in, and an admonishment to our prosperity to never again permit the expeditious discard of those balances of power which were inherent in the original.
The power is inherent in and the unalienable property of the People. It is only granted to any just government by us to secure our prosperity, our rights, our person, and our property, and only so far as we, the People, see fit. Government is a human construct, and as such devoid of any inherent Rights, and without the power granted to it by the people, void. That those people within it would seek to subjugate the rest of us is cause enough to revoke that grant, if the means and powers granted to the Government are used to the ends of subjugation, at least until such time as Government once again serves those ends of securing our Liberty. No one, no party is entitled to my vote, nor that grant of power, except by my approval for their statements of intent, backed by their actions, and without that my vote will remain mine to use or not as I please. If none pass muster, I will withhold that assent.
We are, by unalienable Right, free people, and as such can determine our own future as we best see fit. If government no longer serves those ends, we have the Right to alter or abolish it, and the duty to our progeny to do so, so long as we do not in doing so infringe upon the Rights of our fellow citizens.
