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A realization
I have always been of the ideology that it was my duty to respect the office even if I didn't respect the person holding it. I realize today that I am having trouble with this. Congress does not respect me, the incoming president doesn't respect me, why should it be my duty to respect them or even the office they hold. How can I respect a system that allows such creatures to hold these offices.
An even larger realization is that when a person like me starts to question his duty to respect the office we've traveled far from the intended path required to hold to the ideas of the founders.
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What really amazes me is how people pretty much gave their country away because they didn't like a man's attitude..his attitude..sad..and now people will suffer.. cheating isn't winning..so no respect from me what so ever...
I know a lot of people like yourself and I'm pleasantly amazed at how many of them have come to the same realization as you have recently, nearly all of them. I had my realization over the summer during the BLM riots when I saw how our elected representatives and police totally capitulated to the mobs. Then the same representatives and police cracked down hard on regular people trying to simply operate their businesses. We've been trained to believe we have to depend on the system and the government otherwise there will be danger and uncertainty. This isn't true, This is why the people in power are fighting so hard to maintain their stranglehold on power and the distribution of information. They wouldn't be fighting so hard if they weren't scared. On a positive note I believe the ideas of our founders are stronger then they've been in decades. Our founders and the patriots today fight best when we're down. Don't forget, General Washington fought the British for 8 years.
You just aren't giving him a chance. He's going to heal the nation.
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I have zero respect for Joe blow and the Ho and the entire side show , freak show riding there coat tails into offices all I see is a complete down fall of our country ,
and countless other politicians who have made millions while in office and did the same for there family and friends
to me not that we did not already know how deep the corruption ran in politics , Trump did what he could to expose to the non believers how bad they were getting shafted . the career
leachesI mean politicians hated him from from day one for calling them out pointing out how America was being fleeced and the the pocket lining of a few and taking away there gravy trainsadly I can see now how easy it was for some of history's greatest atrocities to happen under a so called leader and the sheeple just watched from the side lines
thank goodness there the party of forgiveness and friendship other wise they would be calling out for heads to roll and retaliation to all who supported trump ... Oh wait ,, they are doing just that never mind 🤐
Only the current generation of Americans would put up with this.
Not for long, they will turn on each other after there are no Trump people to blame.
I cannot imagine what any currently sitting Republican elected official could do in order to earn my vote during the next election.
Of course, they will say their plan is to "fix" the problem. My response would be that they let the problem happen in the first place.
I voted for you the last time because you were going to "fix" the problem. You did not do that.
Sorry. this is serious stuff. You only get one chance . . . to fool me.
The Parable of the Wild Hogs
Meanwhile the villagers congratulated the trapper on his accomplishment. The trapper just grinned and said, "I can subdue ANY animal I want. All I have to do, is first make them depend on ME, for a free handout."
I'm thinking the Republican party is done..I don't see how they can have a chance of winning again for years..
Our founding father NEVER said to respect the office or those holding office when corruption is present.
"When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined." ~ Patrick Henry
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~ James Madison
"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." ~ James Madison
"It is the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins." ~ Benjamin Franklin
"[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government." ~ Patrick Henry
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny." ~ James Madison
"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom - go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!" ~ Samuel Adams
"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry." ~ Unknown
"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties." ~ James Madison
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." ~ John Adams
"The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible." ~ Hubert H. Humphrey
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" ~ Patrick Henry
"When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence." ~ John Adams
"The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." ~ James Madison
"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." ~ Thomas Paine
"The great object is that every man be armed." ~ Patrick Henry
"Of the liberty of conscience in matters of religious faith, of speech and of the press; of the trial by jury of the vicinage in civil and criminal cases; of the benefit of the writ of habeas corpus; of the right to keep and bear arms.... If these rights are well defined, and secured against encroachment, it is impossible that government should ever degenerate into tyranny." ~ James Monroe
"To take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"A nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” Benjamin Franklin" ~ Benjamin Franklin
"The truth was that all men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." ~ James Madison
"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators." ~ James Madison
"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." ~ James Madison
"[T]he opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." ~ Joseph Story
"Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death." ~ James Madison
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war." ~ James Madison
"The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." ~ Thomas Jefferson
"Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned." ~ Thomas Jefferson
This is only a small sample but MANY of these directly speak of injustices we are seeing everyday.
If we accept Chairman Joe and Chinacratic rule can we call ourselves Patriots? If we allow a leader who did more for America than any President in modern times to be crucified on the alter of communism then do we deserve to live in the land of our fathers? I can only hope the Tree of Liberty holds onto life long enough to be refreshed.