I know I tend to think a little bit differently than most other people engaged in politics. Most people engage in politics on an issue by issue basis. This is what the subject of Political Science is. On border control the Demoncraps think this and the Republicans think that. On guns the Demoncraps think this and the Republicans think that. On abortions Demoncraps think this Republicans think that. On healthcare Demoncraps think this Republicans think that. Taxes, spending, energy, issue by issue on an everyday basis these guys beat each other up vying for our attention and support. This is the two party system hard at work, trying to divide the People and persuade them, usually on an emotional basis, into their own point of view so that the government will enforce their views on other people.
I tend to look at things more from a Political Philosophy point of view. To me there is a difference between liberals and Demoncraps, as there is a difference between conservatives and Republicans. Because of the dancing around from position to position and political gamesmanship with regards to the ever shifting sands of the above named political issues, plus any more that may come along the way, the lines have become rather blurred between the political parties. Thus we have the existence of RINOs.
Republicans and Demoncraps are political parties. They are groups of people joined together with some agreement on the many issues who want to see their point of view enforced through the national government as policies on the States and People.
Liberal and conservative are not political parties. They are political philosophies. They are what people believe with regards to how the government should or shouldn’t interact with themselves and other people. And really, when you study all of the possible variations and combinations according to all of the different political philosophers that have come and gone throughout time, they are the only two that make any kind of logical sense to the average person who is just trying to get along with his own life.
Thus their common use in political discussions in the modern day.
The illustration is an example of a gradient scale. On one side we have blue. On the other side we have red. All through the middle we have various shades of pink and purple.
Easy enough.
Liberal versus conservative is just like that. There are only two real possibilities along this gradient scale. blue and red. Everything in the middle is just some blend of the two.
Now let’s say that pure blue is 100% government control over the People’s lives and red is 0% control over the People’s lives, and we now have a workable definition of what liberalism is versus conservatism. It’s not really about borders, abortions, healthcare, taxes, redistribution of wealth, military or any other issue you can name, although the more of those issues you want the government in control of has everything in the world to do with it. It is about the degree of government control over your life.
This is how some Republicans are also very liberal.
Modern Republicans have a tendency to be more conservative than the Republicans of the 1860s who were very liberal. The Demoncraps of today are very different than the Democrats of the 1860s who were the real constitutional conservatives of the time. As the events of time changes so do the issues. And with the changing of the issues so changes the positions of the political parties on the scale above. They have very clearly switched sides on the spectrum several times.
They don’t do it according to any concept of ethical or philosophical right or wrong. They do it according to how they think they will gain the most support among the people as the people’s political interests change according to the issues. The Republican Party (previously the Whigs) has been all over this scale. So have the Demoncraps/Demoncrats.
“Yes Brett,” I hear you saying, “but what does that have to do with what liberals think the Constitution says?”
Well, dear reader, I’m very glad you asked!
This is what liberals think the Constitution says:
There is an obvious problem with this. This isn’t the representation of a republic. It’s not even a representation of a democracy. What this is is an oligarchy. All real power rests upon the decisions of the Supreme Court. The votes of five, six, seven, eight or nine people can override everything and anything and decide what ultimate truth is for the entire country.
If there are no objections from the clowns in the Court then the clowns in the White House and Congress decide what everybody below them are and are not allowed to do.
The federal government rules over the States which are just organizational divisions of the federal government, and the States in turn rule over the People.
One might be tempted to say with an obnoxious objection that because the People and the States elect the clowns in the federal government that the People are really in control. No, no, no, no. Once a ruling is made by the clowns in the Court, and those rulings are not made at the consent of the People, or a law is written and signed by the president, decades, lifetimes or even centuries can pass under this model before the objectionable situation can be corrected. And as I’ve shown in my Supreme Court series the clowns in the Court can decide on anything they want and don’t even have to use the Constitution to support it.
This is what the Constitution really says:
The reality of the Constitution is that it very literally and explicitly says what is and is not constitutional. Nobody needs to decide anything further. It’s already there and everybody in every level of government has agreed that that’s what they will do. They’ve sworn their oaths to do it. We and the governments of our respective States are in charge of them. They don’t tell us what to do. We tell them what to do. Their only major power is that they, clowns as they are, are representatives of the People and the States to other countries in the world and make the decisions on an international level.
There are very few valid powers listed in the Constitution to deal with the Citizens of the United States on any direct personal level. There are only a very few valid powers for the federal government to tell the States what to do. There are very few restrictions on what the States can do. The powers and restrictions are listed (mostly) in Article One, Sections Eight, Nine and Ten, plus the Bill of Rights, which are the First through Tenth Amendments.
Supporting my suppositions is the actual text of the sections of the Constitution named above. Additionally, and for those smart-ass liberals out there who disagree, I can provide this quote from the guy who wrote it; James Madison.
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. … The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people."
Now I know that there’s going to be some wise guy liberal comment that the 14th Amendment now gives the federal government control of the People’s lives. Yes. That would be true but if you study the rest of the Constitution, particularly the 10th Amendment, and how the 14th Amendment was illegally and unconstitutionally ratified, that, as a valid argument falls flat. The 14th Amendment is a tyrannical, liberal abomination and should be repealed immediately. In my four decades long study of politics I have never seen a bigger and more blatant act of unconstitutional political corruption than the 14th Amendment.
But I digress…
The Constitution as written, plus the first twelve amendments, is almost totally on the red side of the gradient scale of liberal versus conservative above. The Constitution as the liberals understand it, and as it has been taught to the American People, is almost all of the way to the blue end of the spectrum. There is very little in our lives in these times that is not regulated in some way by the whims of federal government.
So here’s the big twist; the entire Demoncrap Party believes in the liberal version above. That’s no surprise. But every time a Republican goes along with the premise he is also showing himself to be a liberal. What he is really saying is “the Demoncraps are right regarding the Constitution!” His only objection is that he himself does not control the power.
Right now I would say that, along with the Demoncraps, half to two thirds of the Republican Party agrees with what the liberals think the Constitution says regarding the construction and operation of the federal government. That puts those of us who believe in the federalist, constitutional republic model of the country clearly in the minority.
You can however elect people to serve you.
That model of the United States under the Constitution gets my vote every single time.
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