Guest Post by Pat Buchanan
Forced constantly by the establishment to choose between them, patriotic Americans may one day come to choose, as did their fathers, the country they love over the crown that rules them.
Asked, “What is an American?” many would answer, “An American is a citizen of the United States.”
Yet, at the First Continental Congress in 1774, 15 years before the U.S. became a nation of 13 states, Patrick Henry rose to proclaim that, “British oppression has effaced the boundaries of the several colonies; the distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.”
Henry was saying — more than a dozen years before our constitutional republic was established — that America already existed as a nation, and he was her loyal son.
In an 1815 letter to Thomas Jefferson, long after both men had served as president, John Adams wrote:
“As to the history of the Revolution, my Ideas may be peculiar, perhaps Singular. What do We mean by the Revolution? The War? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an Effect and Consequence of it. The Revolution was in the Minds of the People, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen Years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.”
Adams was saying that America was conceived and, as an embryonic nation, grew within the hearts of the peoples of the 13 colonies, two to three decades before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
In short, our country came to be before our republic came to be, and long before what we today call “our democracy” came to be. A country is different from, and more than, the political system that it adopts.
France was France all through the Bourbon dynasty, the Revolution of 1789, the creation of the First Republic, the Reign of Terror, Napoleon’s First Empire and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy — all the way to the creation of the Fifth Republic by President Charles de Gaulle.
And beneath the carapace of the USSR, the heart of Mother Russia continued to beat. Rightly, during the Cold War, we regarded Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria as “captive nations” and captive peoples.
The point: Neither the regime nor the political system imposed, nor some abstract idea, is the country that predates them and has first claim upon the loyalty of its sons and daughters.
In his famous toast, American naval hero Stephen Decatur declared: “Our country! … May she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”
The crisis today for those who incessantly proclaim, “Our democracy is in danger,” is that millions of patriots are coming to see our incumbent regime, “our democracy,” as faithless and failing in its foremost duty — to protect and defend our country and countrymen from enemies foreign and domestic.
Forced constantly by the establishment to choose between them, patriotic Americans may one day come to choose, as did their fathers, the country they love over the crown that rules them.
Consider.
The Biden regime that currently rules us has allowed 3 million migrants to invade our country in two years. These illegals continue to break our laws and cross our border at a rate of 250,000 a month.
Among them are terrorists, robbers, rapists, murderers, cartelists and child molesters. The Biden regime has abdicated its duty to halt the invasion that is changing the ethnic, racial, religious, social and political character and composition of our American family without the consent of the American people, into whose national home these intruders are breaking with impunity.
President Joe Biden is assuring that the future of the nation will be determined by millions of people who have in common only that they broke our laws to get into our country. Vice President Kamala Harris smugly dismisses demands to address the crisis by saying America’s southern border is “secure.”
With this invasion has come a flood of the narcotic fentanyl, which last year took the lives of 100,000 Americans, a number equal to all the U.S. war dead in years of fighting in Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Under the Biden party’s policy of softness on crime and indulgence of the criminal class, assaults, robberies, carjackings and “mass shootings,” where four victims are killed or wounded in each episode, have surged in U.S. cities.
With America’s currency and economy in his custody, Biden has, in 18 months, run up inflation, that cancer of America’s currency, to 8%, run up the national debt to where it far exceeds the gross national product, and crashed the stock market, wiping out trillions in wealth.
“The pandemic is over,” Biden told “60 Minutes” in September, a month when more than 400 Americans were dying of COVID-19 every day, a death rate higher than World War II and equal to the bloodiest war in U.S. history, the Civil War of 1861-1865.
The custodians of “our democracy” are failing in the most fundamental of duties of any political system — to protect and defend the people. No failed regime can justify its permanence by claiming some inherent superiority.
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Gang rape is democracy in action.
NOT for the victim!
Majority rules, is democracy.
Especially for the victim.
Brutal but exact description of a democracy, or as Franklin said ‘two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner’
When the half of the country that lives on free handouts labels the half that actually works and pays taxes as “the greatest threat to democracy” you know you live in a totalitarian shitehole.
Franklin was my Favorite Founder.
Named my Dog after Him.
“American naval hero Stephen Decatur declared: “Our country! … May she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!”
“Murika, right or wrong!!!” Uh huh.
Hero? My fat fucken ass!!
More like Murika’s first fucken Neocon. (He wasn’t a Joo, was he?)
We cannot applaud “wrong” just as we cannot [ must not ] by-live lies.
He did not work for the United Statss Corporation.
An old phrase comes to mind. Democracy, is 2 wolves and a sheep deciding on dinner.
Which is why the US was a republic, not a democracy…
Whatever it was it is now an oligarchy directed by a plutocracy.
USSA is a kakistocracy controlled by the Evil Fuckers.
It was also a Meritocracy (run by the best) and with the passage of the Civil Riots Act of 1964 (Reconstruction II) became a Kakistocracy (run by the worst).
Stop saying democracy, were a constitutional representative republic for a reason.
Democracy is mob rule; that’s why democrats love it so much. We need to stop using their language and playing by their rules.
Because republicans never praise “our democracy” in exactly the same way.
So you’re unaware then of Democrats touting our democracy while simultaneously destroying it, such as sending the Stasi FBI to raid citizens not charged with any crime.
So you’re unaware then of Republicans doing fuck-all about it, while also touting democracy?
They are enacting democracy, as they are currently the majority in.gov.
They use it because it lends legitimacy to an illigitimate government that is not even representative. All part of the psyop and you are right to not participate.
There is no government that has stood the test of time more durably than the Constitutional Republic that is the United States.
We have the oldest t continuous form of government.
A shame to have not worked harder to keep it.
Another article for voting your way out of this mess… tedious…
Pat is an idiot…
How to fix “democracy –
Step 1: Repeal the 19th Amendment.
Step 2: Introduce intelligence and civics tests as part of voter registration. No pass, no vote.
Step 3: Raise the voting age to 30 and limit the voting age to 70.
Step 4: Make voting compulsory with a sliding scale of fines for non-voting based upon income.
Step 5: Overturn Citizens United ruling and ban corporate money. Eliminate 501c designations.
Step 6: Initiate Voter ID and use paper ballots.
Step 7: Archive all ballots indefinitely.
The status quo alternative is a Globohomo boot stomping on our faces for eternity.
Or we could just kill everyone….
They are working on it.
That’s why they gave us Safe and Effective. For health. Trust The Science.
a more simple way… property owners with a minimum size of what a single family structure could occupy and you must be a citizen. Own property equals one vote and one vote only…
Technically the banks own most all property via mortgage liens.
Then technically the whole globe is theirs and they should have the only vote… oh wait… they’re already claiming that and are trying to implement and seal that into place… imo, they can technically shove that up their ass…
Nobody should be allowed to vote that doesn’t have skin in the game. OBVIOUSLY the dirtballs don’t want that to happen… fug’m Have your name attached to the title, you get a vote, ONE vote. Have property in more than one state or county, you can choose where to vote but you get one frik’n vote. ANYTHING more than that and you are giving those that cheat every game, opportunity to cheat.
So steps one to seven just are not needed.
You are correct – technically the banks via the issue of fraudulent fiat currency do own almost everything. All liens are listed as assets for them, but liabilities for us. People with a mortgage are in reality paying a user fee. Don’t pay the fee, get moved out. Same goes when one decides not to pay the school district taxes or the HMO fees.
And THAT right there is the problem. Those that refuse or can’t see the value in owning property, for whatever reason, should not be able to tell those that have property what they can and cannot do with their property, period.
I also think those that submit themselves and buy into a HMO are quite frankly, stupid. But each to their own. Doesn’t change the fact that even if you have no mortgage or liens against your property, you still do NOT own it. At anytime should the govt, whether local, state, or fed, or provincial here, they can ‘legally’ tax you out of it when the time suits them. Here in canukistan the ‘right’ to own property was intentionally left out by none other than baby castro’s nonbiological father…
No titled property… no vote. In fact a notice that you could bring from the lands title office could be sent to all property owners that would then need to be produced for you to receive a ballot. A simple check of states/prov voter registrations and cast ballots would reveal whether you voted more than once. If so… prison for 5 – 10 years min. KISS and solve a lot of problems…
death-gauge
give-life = jubilee cancell all Debt, you own where you live
1. Slash the power of the federal government by 95% so their actions can no longer threaten anyone, pick winners and losers, or steal from anyone. Why screw around with band-aids when the problems ALL reside with government power and control?
I’m almost 80 and I dare you to fuck with my right to vote ; you can pick knives or clubs.
Matchlocks at 10 paces should suffice, no?
rhs jr
Would you give up your right to vote in order to keep 18 year old blue hairs from voting?
No, the Empire…once a Constutional republic….is actively screwing us all.
FIFY.
Modern democracy is no longer he will of the majority, but the will of the powerful. Elections can be stolen, science can be owned and corrupted, the force of government can be used to attack and intimidate the people.
In short, democracy today is what the tyrants in government tell you it is. Democracy is their agenda shoved down your throat.
The Democracy our politicians refer to is USA, Inc. It is not The Republic for which we stand. Patriots will prevail.