Democrats Taking Special Elections in Heavy Republican Leaning Districts
Special interim elections have yielded results that individuals who cherish individual liberties detest. Democrats have taken another seat in the House with Democratic challenger Childers overtaking incumbent Republican G. Davis. This is the 3rd this year, the other most notable in Louisiana where the Democratic challenger replaced a Republican seat held for nearly 6 decades.
Republicans have really brought this on themselves. Republicans are no longer the party of individual freedom, low taxes, small government, and non-intervention overseas.
It is a shame to see the direction America is heading. Our Constitution is being taken apart government program by government program and activist judges dedicated to the creation of a socialist society. Our education system is declining rapidly because of government control. Social Security is heading for bankruptcy, a program Chile copied from us and then scrapped for personal retirement accounts. Taxes are set to increase for more government programs designed to take care of us because our government views us as to inept to take care of ourselves and in turn removing our individual liberties, violating the Constitution, and eliminating personal choice. The founding principles of our country are being lost. Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis, 1928, stated "The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."
Thomas Jefferson (1801) hit the nail on the head when he said, "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."
Power is being stripped from individuals and states and moved to an all-knowing and all powerful federal government. Thomas Jefferson noted that "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 & will become as venal & oppressive as the government we separated from."
If all of that does not affect your thinking consider this quote from Alexander Tytler's [i]The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic[/i], "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until voters discover...they can vote themselves [generous benefits] from the public treasury. From that moment, the majority always votes for candidates promising them the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship." Every new government program is one step closer to the oppressive government America declared independence from on July 4th, 1776.
A change back to the founding principles of our country is desperately needed to remain the beacon of freedom in a world of dictatorships and imprisonment. Else we shall face the fate that Alexander Tytler noted and Ben Franklin correctly sumarized "When the people realize they can vote themselves money, it will herald the end of the Republic" and bring forth a dictatorship.
