END OF THE TRAIL
photo by Bob Bandy
End of the Trail by James Earle Fraser
WHEN PEOPLE FIND OUT THEY CAN VOTE THEMSELVES MONEY, THAT WILL BE THE END OF THE REPUBLIC – Benjamin Franklin
What Benjamin Franklin, and other early writers, saw was a potential weakness in the Republic as founded that would allow Congress to prostitute itself by rewarding those who would vote for them with funds from the public Treasury. In other words, voters can vote money from the Treasury into their own pocket by simply voting for the “right” members of Congress. (Voting – Achilles Heel of Democracy? Jan. 2019 – SPTW)
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ARE WE THERE YET?
As I approach the end of my own trail I am reminded that I should have acquired some perspective and sound reasoning along that trail.
At this time, The United States as I have known and cherished since childhood, hangs on the ragged edge of oblivion and becoming a relic in the dustbin of history.
It appears to me now that we have sold our Birthright of Freedom for a bowl of lentil stew just as Esau sold his Firstborn Birthright to Jacob. Genesis 25:29-34.
With this just held election, if one is to trust the voting results (count me out), a majority of voters seem to have succumbed to the siren call of a Socialist promised Utopia.
History seems to have purged itself of the fact that every time this has been tried in the past it has failed and the great unwashed masses end up being enslaved to a chosen few small ruling class that governs by force. Cuba, Venezuela, USSR, etc. etc.
With the Mainstream Media, Academia, Hollywood Left, “Big Tech” (Google, Facebook, Twitter etc.) and various “Deep State” Government Agencies firmly in control of censorship and allowing you only to read and hear what they deem as correct, George Orwell’s 1984 Big Brother is becoming firmly entrenched, just some 36 years later than he predicted.
Another weapon being used is so-called “Political Correctness” and “Social Justice” being implemented under use and threat of violence. “Accept what we demand or we will burn your cities then move out to your suburbs with demands you comply”. Scary stuff to most citizens.
I am long past just being concerned about what is coming. The “Radical Left” is in the process of closing all the doors to Freedom that this country was founded on.
In just the last couple of days, Charles Schumer – New York Senator – said “Give us two more Senators and we will change America”. Those two Senate Seats are hanging in the balance in Georgia in a run-off election in January.
Those who still believe in Freedom as spelled out in our Constitution need to rally together with the slim hope it can still be salvaged.
Are you scared yet or do you want to welcome a Socialist States of America?
Bob Bandy – November 2020
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