Don't Tread On Me: Dealing With Ignorance

You know, it is very difficult to deal with rumors. I feel confident that anybody intelligent enough to surf to this blog has lived enough life to understand what I'm talking about.

Perception is reality. Especially in the political world.

I go from link to link, blog to blog, and I keep running into this moronic myth. It doesn't seem to matter if it is a conservative or liberal blog, but this most damnable concept keeps getting promulgated by the most well meaning souls.

As an aside, let me just say that George Orwell was a prophet, par excellance because he understood the nature of language and its affect on people. If you redefine terms in a slow and subtle way, you really can influence people. He was trying to warn us of the danger of how those who seek and seize power would convince us that it was all for our own good.

First of all, no individual, no citizen has a right to vote on who the president of the USA is going to be. Ah, Ah, Ah, . . . before you start fussing and fuming, pull out your copy of the constitution and read it thoroughly.

Pay attention boys and girls, the president is elected by an electoral college of delegates. An ingenious method to make sure that popular vote by more populated urban centers could not dominate and squelch the rights and the voice of more agrarian and rural areas and states.

The constitution was written to allow States to choose their own method of selecting delegates to represent their own best interests in selecting a federal president. Any state legislature could pass a law that deemed the selection of their delegates to the electoral college in any manner they see fit.

Let's dispense with another awful, horrible, nightmarish idea. This country was not designed to be a democracy.

Don't just parrot the stupid crap you were told in the government propaganda centers ("Public Schools"), show me one mention of "democracy" in the founding documents. Read the Federalist Papers. Nothing good said about democracy. My favorite line from Mel Gibson's "The Patriot": "Why would I trade one tyrant 2000 miles away for 2000 tyrants one mile away?"

"Certain unalienable rights" can only be assured with a CONSTITUTIONAL republic. A democracy is a sure way to tyranny of mob rule.

The founders, by their own writings, envisioned a weak federal government that only served to protect the interests of several states when necessary, in the affairs of international issues and in settling minor disputes between the several states.