Greetings my fellow Americans!
I recommended near the end of a recent article that we all focus more on our local communities, both in voting for people who understand and accept our republican form of government under our national Constitution, and in getting more directly involved in groups and activities geared toward both finding those people and holding them accountable once elected. I’d like to take that notion a step further here, and submit that re-establishing our individual States as sovereign republics in and of themselves may indeed be our best hope for thwarting the ambitions of those who seek to abolish America, in favor of the one-world order they advocate and are now working to implement by way of big centralized governments, big media conglomerates, and big global businesses (aka, The Great Reset).
We (myself included) have, since at least the days of the Ronald Reagan presidency, been primarily focusing on renewing and restoring America as a nation. While preserving national unity is important for several reasons (defense being a big one), I think that, in our discourses over how we need to reform Washington D.C., we’ve overlooked the importance of restoring and renewing American principles within our own direct spheres of influence, from towns and villages, to cities and counties, and at the capitals of our respective States. One of the most beautiful, and revolutionary, aspects of the original United States was its federation of governmental oversight between and among those individual States, and the national government provisioned (and limited) by the U.S. Constitution. This republican foundation was the bedrock upon which the entire western world was built, and served as the main deterrent to government overreach for most of the first 150 years of our existence as a nation-state on the global stage.
The power and sovereignty of the individual States were intentionally and explicitly preserved under our Constitution because our Founders, being the excellent students of human history they were, knew that the more that governmental power and control could be centralized, the more corrupt it was likely to become over time. Prior to passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913, State legislatures elected U.S. Senators; this was intended to ensure that the concerns of the individual States were duly represented in the national Congress, and to offset the temporal (and often rash) passions of a general electorate who were likely to not only be less informed on specific issues affecting the entire country, but who could also be more easily inflamed to vote a certain way on those issues by news media also populated with fallen, and corruptible, humans. The House of Representatives was to be “the People’s house,” and be the more direct voice of that electorate.
Since the 20th Century (and especially in the latter half during my lifetime), much election focus and emphasis has been placed by the media on the candidacies for national office, be these elected for the President and Congress, or nominated for the Supreme Court or the Cabinet. A multitude of bureaucrats have been “hired” under the radar of that same media, and appear to have at least as much, if not more, power than the former who are supposed to be representing our interests.
But enough about the national government for now. I submit that this national focus by the media (at all levels, since much of what gets “reported” locally now is syndicated, and regurgitated, from a national media conglomerate) is a red herring to distract us from where we can still make a difference—in our own back yards. What would be the best way to thwart the apparent takeover and dissolution of our country? I believe it would be by renewing our local communities, towns, cities, counties and states. We have a national Constitution which is intended to serve as the supreme law for all of us, and explicitly restricts the overreach of our national government in the affairs of our daily lives; we all live in States which have similar constitutions to both reiterate what is already stipulated in our supreme document, and to address any concerns specific to their respective states. If we accept our national Constitution as the codification of negative liberties that it is intended to be on our governments, then why do we allow our local governments to continue to implicitly violate those foundational statutes by falling in line with whatever comes out of Washington, D.C.?
I know the main objection to this approach is going to be along the lines of all of the statutes and SCOTUS decisions which have read things into the Constitution, and empowered D.C. with much more than was explicated in that document via the 14th and 16th Amendments, among others. I’m also not suggesting that we can just flip a switch and declare that all States may hereby ignore all statutes not explicitly documented in the Constitution; what I am, however, is that we who love America, and all for which it has ever stood in human history, start our renewal process at the bottom of the government food chain, rather than the top. We are all beating ourselves senseless trying to figure out who to send to our nation’s capital to “drain the swamp” while relatively ignoring what is going on with our mayors, city councils, school boards, county commissioners, sheriffs, attorneys general, etc.
If we’re ever going to undercut the behemoth we’ve created in D.C., we need to start taking a stronger stand against them where we can be of the most immediate influence and impact. Why are our local officials so quick to say “how high” whenever someone in D.C. says jump? How seriously (beyond financially) are the concerns, best interests, and well-being of our families, the communities in which we live, the schools where we send our kids, and so on, being considered whenever a so-called mandate or guideline is passed down from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, or 1600 Clifton Road in Atlanta (CDC HQ)? Is any critical thinking or skepticism at all applied to these directives, and/or the motives or agendas of those issuing them ever questioned?
Want to Make America Great Again? Let’s start in our own neighborhoods
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Over the last couple decades, local politics has been the place that sets the stage to win in the national elections because it has grown to support more local ideas and similarities are the glue that come to pass.
Like the successful football team, its strength is in its depth, and the local elections, from the ground up, are where our depth is punishing the left’s radical ideas, with better gains, making first downs, only sometimes not scoring points because of all the pushing from places that should never been allowed to influence us. The media, the orgs, NGOs and people like George Soros are somewhat immune, because they can afford to be the quarterback you never saw coming. They can also lie in political ads, smear campaigns that are unfounded in reality.
We have a lot of work ahead of us, just with that handful of miscreants and criminals. Zuckerberg, Soros, Bill Gates, and many more are sticking their noses into local elections. Look at how Zuckerberg bribed politicians in Wisconsin, a state that has laws that don’t allow what was allowed because of a “Pandemic”. Zuckerberg should be jailed over what he did, just for his crimes in Wisconsin. If this is what a republic allows, we are in trouble.
How many more are doing that? Look around. Bunches of them.
Everything starts with our local elections. Let’s start protecting them.