Guest Post by Ron Paul
Tomorrow is election day and polls suggest that Americans are going to overturn Democratic Party control of the House and Senate. Politicians and the media always say that this is the most important election ever, but all too often once the voting is over and the smoke has cleared, not much changes. The Washington uni-party takes over and makes sure the status quo is maintained.
It doesn’t have to be this way. An incoming Republican House and Senate, for example, could take early steps to reassure their supporters that their votes weren’t wasted on Tweedledee vs. Tweedledum in Washington. Here are three suggestions to get things off to a good start.
First, Republican Party Leadership must vow to end the massive money spigot opened by the last Congress for Ukraine. By some estimates some $60 billion dollars have been authorized for Ukraine to fight a proxy war between the US/NATO and Russia.
This would be a move strongly supported by the Republican base. A recent Wall Street Journal poll showed that only 37 percent of Republicans support sending more US aid to Ukraine. Republican firebrand Representative Marjorie Taylor-Greene said recently that under Republicans, not another penny will go to Ukraine. While I am skeptical that her party leadership would support such a move, it’s clear Republican voters would.
Plus, ending this proxy war would carry with it the benefit of reducing the dangerously high possibility of global nuclear war. That’s not a bad trade-off.
Second, Republicans can signal that they will de-fund the Department of Homeland Security. At the time this monstrosity was created, I said this on the House Floor:
“The list of dangerous and unconstitutional powers granted to the new Homeland Security department is lengthy. Warrantless searches, forced vaccinations of whole communities, federal neighborhood snitch programs, federal information databases, and a sinister new ‘Information Awareness Office’ at the Pentagon that uses military intelligence to spy on domestic citizens are just a few of the troubling aspects of the new legislation.”
Unfortunately all of these things came to pass…and more. As we recently learned, the DHS has been colluding with social media companies to try and prevent Americans from being able to say or post opinions the government doesn’t want others to hear.
They promised that a Department of Homeland Security would keep us safer, but there is nothing that makes us less safe than the destruction of our Constitution.
Finally, the third task an incoming Republican House and Senate can take is maybe the easiest one: pass the Audit the Fed bill. Ten years ago the US House voted in a bipartisan manner to pass my Audit the Fed legislation only to see it stall in the Senate. With Republican control of both houses of Congress there is no reason a broadly-supported bill to open the books at the Federal Reserve cannot find its way to President Biden’s desk. We all support transparency, right?
Inflation is out of control and causing real harm to the American middle class. The Biden Administration seems determined to lead us to a potentially life-ending war with Russia. The Department of Homeland Security has turned into a weapon mobilized against the American people and our Constitution.
A Republican-controlled House and Senate can actually do something to fix these problems and thus make us more safe and more free. Will they?
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This is from the Babylon Bee…..right?
No, from a guy who, despite decades in Congress, still has other than complete and utter contempt for the excrement that infests our government.
Perhaps a bucket of cold water is needed….
The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them To Save It
The bipartisan project of dismantling our democracy, which took place over the last few decades on behalf of corporations and the rich, has left only the outward shell of democracy. The courts, legislative bodies, the executive branch and the media, including public broadcasting, are captive to corporate power. There is no institution left that can be considered authentically democratic. The corporate coup d’état is over. They won. We lost.
The wreckage of this neoliberal project is appalling: endless and futile wars to enrich a military-industrial-complex that bleeds the U.S. Treasury of half of all discretionary spending; deindustrialization that has turned U.S. cities into decayed ruins; the slashing and privatization of social programs, including education, utility services and health care – which saw over one million Americans account for one-fifth of global deaths from Covid, although we are 4 percent of the world’s population; draconian forms of social control embodied in militarized police, functioning as lethal armies of occupation in poor urban areas; the largest prison system in the world; a virtual tax boycott by the richest individuals and corporations; money-saturated elections that perpetuate our system of legalized bribery; and the most intrusive state surveillance of the citizenry in our history.
In “The United States of Amnesia,” to quote Gore Vidal, the corporate press and the ruling class create fictional feel-good personas for candidates, treat all political campaigns as if it is a day at the races and gloss over the fact that on every major issue, from trade deals to war, there is very little difference between Democrats and Republicans. The Democratic Party and Joe Biden are not the lesser evil, but rather, as Glen Ford pointed out, “the more effective evil.”
https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/06/the-politicians-who-destroyed-our-democracy-want-us-to-vote-for-them-to-save-it/
That would be a good start but don’t get your hopes up !
The CCP is already purchasing any and all in DC direct and indirectly.
Check in on how well their friends and family are doing while average middle Americans circle the drain
Speaking of the election, remember when states would constitutionally run their own elections? Well, that’s all over.
Your interests and rights were disenfranchised before you were born.
The only question now is, “would you like butter or Vaseline, since they cost YOU about the same per ‘pound’ “?
Per pound, get it?
Yeah, we all get it, good and hard too.
That’s just rich! The guy who couldn’t do it for 24 years is now telling freshmen how to do it.
O M F G ! What’s next? How to please a woman by Elton John?
Cutting off the Ukraine would be good, but what would be even better would giving weapons TO Russia to pound the Ukies. The Ukraine would be like “what the fuck?” and we’d be like “joke’s on you!”.
Man, where did you buy those smokes?
#4 break up the FBI / ATF / and the CIA and NSA.
Never happen in a million years, but we will suffer for not doing this.
Nah…starve them into a RIF (Reduction in Force).
It will happen when the country splits up, which will be rather soon…Who’s going to pay them?
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Sacred Cowmr. paul,https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/mark_twain_103535
oh look there goes Ron Paul, pretending he isn’t one of them…
Gee Ron, you forgot about closing the Border! That’s the single most important thing that has to happen, or we are toast….
Wait! Didn’t they say the same damn thing when Obama was in office? “If you give us control of both houses we’ll overturn Obamacare. THEN we gave them both the legislative and the executive, and what did they do with it? NOTHING! The only way to change the path we’re on is to wipe the slate clean with an Article V convention of the states.