Some thoughts on history, political parties and voting… For the fourth time in my voting history I did not conform to the rhetoric of the Republican party by voting a straight party ticket. I have always asserted my right to vote, ever since the age of 18, but ashamedly I was often just motivated and informed by the party line and the election rhetoric, instead of the truth weighed out by my own investigation, beliefs and conscience. For many years I lacked information, knowledge of the truth and due diligence in finding both. Instead, I voted a straight party ticket because it was easier than thinking independently on these matters, candidate by candidate, issue by issue. To do so, Ive learned, requires digging through a whole lot of stench, a whole lot of mud, when frankly, there are other things I would rather be doing. Due diligence requires one to verify the rhetoric of these politicians with what is true. Such truth is rarely found in their radio/tv spots, their direct mail, or even parting their own lips. So where is the truth to be found? The voting record never lies and it is through this record, pursuing truth and accountability to this foundational exercise, that we determine the constitutional virtue of those elected to serve, uphold and defend the Constitution of these United States. Through every vote of my elected servants in government I can know if they have served faithfully and true first to the Constitution and then to the people they were elected to represent. Therefore, never again will I support a Republican just because he or she is a Republican. Instead, they must prove through their votes that they are both conservative and constitutional, marks of what it once meant to be a Republican. A liberal crony with an R beside their name will never vote conservative and constitutionally when the special interest dollars bank rolling both parties, Democrat and Republican, keep rolling in and the body politic keeps reelecting them again and again without regard to duty or ethic of these men and women. Consequentially, many people still wonder, as did I not too long ago, why nothing seems to change on the issues that really matter—nothing is solved or resolved even when the dominant party in power changes hands. There are too many examples to list of the charade that is played in government from immigration, to education, to foreign policy, to healthcare, to economic policy, to our fiscal solvency, to the sanctity of life and marriage, to the lives of our men and women charged to defend this nation at home and abroad. From the lunacy of bailing out businesses too big to fail to 2,000 page bills we must pass before we can read them, to the Republican cronies who support these things and more, who continue to vote for welfare state implosion of government again and again, in addition to out of control spending and repeated debt monetizations just to keep the ship of big government afloat—when do voters wake up and say ENOUGH!! And respond with what is due such dereliction of duty, I will vote not by what you say or promise, but by WHAT YOU DO!! There are no freebies or oopsies or necessary compromises for the greater good. You vote right and true in accordance with the Constitution and the principles you espouse or you get a new job!!!!! I hope we the people can in my lifetime regain this practice of stewarding our government. Were not there yet, not even close, but the seed is being sewn. The reality is, while the two Constitution party candidates I supported this election more than likely will not win this time, we have to start somewhere in rooting out the corruption in our government, all levels. This election will be a win for the principles that formed this nation if more people this election than last voted for principle over party. Folks, we do not win the battle of truth and principles vs. lies and corruption by reelecting the later every single time, nor by sitting at home and not voting because we believe there is no one worth voting for that can actually win. Every military leader knows that some battles may need to be lost in order to win the war. The fact is General George Washington lost more battles than he won, but he won the war! Moreover, the history of our nation shows us that standing for principle even in the face of majority opposition can change the tide towards the good. At one time the Democrats and Republicans existed in one party, the Democrat-Republican party, and a man named Andrew Jackson securing the nomination of this party caused it to split into two separate parties. Jackson ran his campaign with the promise of destroying the hold of central banks in our nation to include another promise, paying off the national debt. He did both and split a powerful political party in the process. You see, back then the people of that party were not governed by the fear of the Whigs winning if the Democrat-Republicans split, for they knew their principles were larger and more important than party identity. In doing so, two things never done before or since were accomplished, President Jackson fulfilled his campaign promise of killing the banks and paying off the national debt! Chew on that for a moment. Republicans tell you to vote for them so the Democrats wont win and Democrats tell you to vote for them so the Republicans wont win and fear is what keeps both political trains largely moving the same direction on most every issue. Fear is a dreadful thing. It is the enemy of faith, the enemy of reason, the enemy of freedom. Yet, fear is a friend to bondage, to deception and to tyranny. Know this, what we fear will ultimately rule over us!! Please stop believing and saying a third party can never win! Such small-minded thinking is not the brilliant, independent spirit and intellect that in the providence of God helped to shape this young nation and I use the word young specifically, because that is what we are in comparison to the nations of this world. For a third party to begin winning elections what we need is the recognition that the movement is growing and it is. What we need, as well, is a growing resentment of the INJUSTICE the process has become. In our state, maybe yours as well, third party candidates are not allowed in the televised debate between the Rs and Ds. This is wrong!!! They should be allowed to participate; we must demand it; we must expect it to be so for doing this honors the process of free and fair elections. Furthermore, for a lesser known candidate to win at the federal level, lets say for a legislative position, they must have some pretty deep funding personal or otherwise to even compete with the incumbents coffers that will be into the millions. How can you compete with the political establishment and their deep pockets when they own the radio and TV spots and direct mail is an extravagance for the budget of the lesser known candidate? Guaranteed, our Founders never intended this to be the case. Neither did they intend politics to be a lifelong profession. In fact, they warned about this very thing to include the dangers of a two party system. Here are a few quotes to show that the history of the United States of America is on the side of principle over party, a system of free and open debate, not controlled by the dominance of two party factions, but by our Constitution and a government of the people, by the people and for the people. —> Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. —John Quincy Adams If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin. —Samuel Adams Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature…. If the next centennial does not find us a great nation … it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces. —James Garfield, the twentieth president of the United States I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves, (A)nd if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. —Thomas Jefferson If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. —Thomas Jefferson There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution. —John Adams George Washington, a portion of his farewell presidential address: —— The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty. Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. There is an opinion, that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a Monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume. ——
Posted on: Wed, 05 Nov 2014 02:23:26 +0000
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