Timothy Birdnow

Here is a thoughtful article that makes an astute observation:

"It seems the same citizens who voted for Barack Obama in 2012 after his disastrous first four years voted for her. Many people who go the polls in our generation are simply not thinking. They are less informed and thoughtful citizens than idolaters."

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...ruminate on the recent election with its astonishing tens of millions of Americans who cast their ballots for that criminal woman with no record of accomplishment as a senator, and a record as secretary of state of one foreign policy calamity after another; she who had been recklessly irresponsible in using a private, secret email server that surely exposed the entirety of State Department communications to hostile foreign powers; this influence peddler who stuffed her payoffs into a charitable foundation, then billed her daughter’s wedding to it. One can only puzzle over the possible reasons that tens of millions of Americans voted as they did when all this was public knowledge.

Some of her supporters, the poorest, likely voted for her in the belief that she would continue the food stamps and disability payments and any other government handouts to them.

Others, though, seemed to have voted for an image of Hillary Clinton completely divorced from who she really is. They voted for what she represented. They voted for an idol. Americans have become a nation of idol worshippers "…as seen on TV!” Entertainers, politicians, athletes. Isn’t that how Donald Trump launched his public career?..."

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Sha'i ben-Tekoa is absolutely spot on here, and America has always presupposed an informed, engaged electorate. That was the reason the Founders limited the vote to white, male, landholders; not out of some prejudicial spite against women or minorities or the poor, but rather to prevent the very thing we now have happening in America, namely, people voting entirely based on self-interest or being easily swayed by demogogues.

Case in point; my wife's sister has a Fragile X child who suffers mental retardation. In fact, he was too low in terms of social functioning to get into a group home (his parents started one for him). Now, I love the young man dearly, but should such a person be voting? Not only does he have the vote but he went dutifully to the polls this November and voted for - you guessed it - Hillary. Why? He said she has nice sikin (a most debatable claim). That his mother and was a big Hillary supporter may have played some role.

A person with his disability has no business choosing a national leader. He does not understand the issues, does not understand the implications, of voting. In short, he is the perfect Democrat; votes the way THEY want him to when they tell him. That's why the Democrats have been laboring to make voting absolutely universal; they don't want an informed electorate because they are demogogues. They want people who are constitutionally unfit to make such decisions overruling those who understand the issues.

Ben-Tekoa is absolutely correct in the fear of what has become of the electorate, because Hillary DID win the popular vote (most likely, although I suspect not by very much although her official tally is over 2.5 million. I suspect most of those votes were bogus, illegal aliens or other unqualified voters.) A nation that could knowingly put Hillary into office despite her legal issues and moral duplicity is a nation that cares nary a wit for morality or the rule of law, both absolutely critical things for the survival of a nation such as ours.

The Founders knew this. John Adams said:

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Adams also said:

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

and

"Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

And America has moved away from all these things. Morality has moved from an universal principle delineated in the Bible and fostered by religion to become merely a social convention, and that malleable to the desires of the those with the loudest voices. Knowlege for Knowlege' sake is baffling to most people these days, and we have fashioned a fictitious reality composed of easy platitudes and politically correct "facts" that are designed to promote a liberal worldview. I once argued with a black kid online and he asserted that the REPUBLICANS flooded Kansas with redneck slaveholders to make Kansas a slave state in 1856! He really believed that! He was ignorant of the fact that the GOP ran it's first candidate for President in that election, and that it was an anti-slavery party. Bleeding Kansas was a DEMOCRAT disaster and had nothing to do with Republicans, but how can you convince someone of the facts when they have been taught all their lives a lie.

Most black voters think Jim Crow was a Republican plot; they don't know the GOP actually fought it and were the guys who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. These same people vote.

That's not to pick on black voters; there are plenty of examples in the white community as well. It is unacceptable, too, in the age of the internet where a little research should lead you to the truth. But the Left owns the major internet outlets and most young people get their news from the internet age version of Pravda - Yahoo News. They are too lazy to examine the other side of the news. Google, Facebook, Twitter, The Huffington Post, all of the major names online are leftist propoganda organs, and so the modern young people miseducate themselves.

How does such a nation survive? Almost all young people believe in antrhopogenic Global Warming because they ahve been carefully taught, and when they become voters they will support international treaties that will create the borderlyess empire. I see no way of stopping that, and the Gang Green know it, too, which is why they maintain the fiction of this kabuki dance even while reality has absolutely failed to back their claims; they know if they wait long enough and keep pushing back the date for doomsday they will eventually get the brainwashed into a position to give then their program.

Until we address the social and educational rot in America we cannot reverse any of our problems.

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