Liberal States are threatening to ban Donald Trump from running citing the 14th Amendment as their justification. It is only one more example of where they twist the law for their own purposes. The 14th Amendment bars Senators and Representatives who have committed rebellion or insurrection from serving in those offices. First, it states that it applies to Senators and representatives. It does not mention Presidents or Vice-presidents so it cannot be applied here. You can’t bar someone from office using a law that does not apply to that office. In addition, Donald Trump has never been tried under the provision. You can’t simply proclaim someone guilty, and then apply the law to them. They have a right to face their accusers in a court of law. For that reason, the law is probably unconstitutional since it does not require someone be convicted, only that they have supposedly committed the act. That opens the door for anyone to exclude someone from any office because an election official decides that the person has committed some act which they feel qualifies as a rebellion or insurrection. Once you open that door, you have abolished any appearance of the rule of law. You basically have a dictatorship.
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Marriage-III-H
Beginning with the hippy movement in the 1960’s, there has been an open attack on marriage. (DOMA) The Defense of Marriage Act of 1995 was a bipartisan effort signed by President Bill Clinton to protect marriage. It delayed the efforts of liberal politicians until it was overturned by the courts nineteen years later. We cannot take the institution of marriage for granted and assume our representatives will protect marriage. We are facing increasingly liberal courts that ignore the laws of this country and promote their own agenda. In addition, we are facing an increasing number of liberal politicians who ignore the rights and well-being of the voters who vote them in, in order to promote their own agenda and that of the special interest groups who fund their campaigns. Sadly, the voters are asleep and are not holding their representatives accountable, allowing politicians to vote in laws restricting the rights and threatening the well-being of their voters, without any fear of being held accountable. Politicians are increasingly avoiding discussing their programs, which they know the voters will reject, in favor of personal attacks against politicians who still seek the rights and well-being of the voters who voted them in. It is therefore important for voters to track the voting records of their politicians and vote out those who refuse to respond to the will of the voters.
Voting-I-A-C
Democrats have been pressing to remove any requirements to require ID’s of people voting and the Obama Administration even filed lawsuits to force States to drop their voter ID laws saying that it discriminates against poor people. However, those who don’t drive can get State ID’s and they have to have ID’s whether they want to get welfare or to get a job so there is no reason for them not to have one. The only reason to try to vote without an ID is if you are an illegal alien or are trying to vote multiple times at different locations under different names. That also explains why the President has been so reluctant to shut our southern border. The more illegal aliens in the U.S., the more they can register illegally and get to vote. Of course, we could always compromise and allow people to vote without an ID if they allow themselves to be fingerprinted to allow the voter registration workers to verify they aren’t trying to vote twice and provide verification of residence and citizenship to verify that they are eligible to vote.
Voting-I-L-A
One of the main questions today is if our elections are safe. While Democrats claim that there is no evidence of fraud, repeated instances have been uncovered and numerous people convicted. However, the media has censored any instances of widespread fraud by Democrats while exploiting minor instances where Republicans were involved. For instance a mailman caught with several bags of ballots was hardly mentioned but a person taking several ballots from a nursing home to the election office was blown all out of proportion. While Democrats have spearheaded efforts to loosen voter laws and open the doors to fraud, unscrupulous Republican candidates have not been above exploiting those possibilities. America used to have the safest election system in the world. You had to go to the election board, present picture ID, and register to vote at least 30 days before the election so they could send your confirmation to your address to verify you lived there. Then you had to appear in person at a voting poll in your neighborhood, present a picture ID to a Republican and a Democrat election worker from your neighborhood, before you could vote. Since then, Democrats have sought to tear down those protections by allowing registration a wide variety of ways, allowing voting by mail and computer where there is no personal verification, and allowing you to vote anywhere so you can vote in multiple places without being recognized. Those open a wide variety of opportunities for fraud by both Republicans and Democrats, jeopardizing the safety of the ballot box. Americans need to press for returning to more stringent laws to protect their vote.
Values-D
The fourth lie is the one that says everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It is a lie because they obviously don’t believe it, not because it isn’t true. They say everyone should be free to believe what they want. They feel differently and feel they should be able to hold their opinion regardless of what others believe. They claim they should not be punished for going against the majority. While there is basically nothing wrong with that, the problem is that they feel society should accommodate their beliefs. They use it to justify their actions which violate the rights of the majority of people. Transexual men feel they should be able to use the women’s bathroom or play in women’s sports because they feel they are a woman and feel society should allow them to. If they want to believe they are a woman, that is their right, but they violate what they say they believe when they try to force society to accommodate them. According to what they claim, society should be free to believe what it believes just as they claim the right to believe what they believe. If they want to go to a deserted island and practice what they believe, nobody will stop them, but they should not force their beliefs on society.
Values-C
Another lie is just as serious. They say that it doesn’t matter what you believe. You are free to believe whatever you want and it won’t affect your life. Decisions are based on the problem you face and not on any pre-set feelings about right and wrong. It is often referred to as situation ethics. That is closely related to the belief that there won’t be any consequences. It releases the person from the need to figure out how that belief will affect their life. Someone can change their beliefs whenever they want and not have to analyze whether it is good or bad because it won’t make any difference. It allows people to do things that create all kinds of problems and dismiss them as not their fault. It allows people to claim that telling women to kill their unborn baby because it will get in the way of their happiness is not responsible for someone shooting his boss and coworkers because they stand in the way of his happiness. They claim that the problem stems from the fact he had access to a gun. If he didn’t have a gun, he wouldn’t have done it. The problem is that they have to ignore when someone uses a knife or a bomb because it can’t be blamed on the fact that they had access to a gun.
Values-B
When I was young, the church was actively teaching God’s values and they were open about them in public so most people accepted them, even if they had no church connection. There was a clear understanding of what was right and what was wrong. Our society had its ups and downs but overall, it ran fairly smoothly. Over the last fifty years, liberal media and politicians have been pushing another set of values. Those values are relative and subject to individual interpretation. They are based on four primary lies. Two of them have been around for a long time and were the ones that Satan offered to Eve. The first is that laws are relative. God said not to touch the tree but Satan tried to confuse Eve about what God had really said. He implied that God was withholding something good. We see this on our highway where the speed limit says fifty-five, but it is a clear day and an open road so people feel that they can do seventy. Its more fun and you can get there faster. However, without a set speed, the faster drivers are constantly weaving in and out of traffic, passing the slower vehicles which increases the danger of accidents. The second backs it up. You can enjoy it and there won’t be any consequences. We see this in abortion. They push you to enjoy free sex and not worry about consequences. If you have an accidental pregnancy, you can always abort it and take care of the problem. Unfortunately, saying there won’t be a problem, does not make it so. Abortion may take care of one problem but opens up others. We are seeing the consequences of a relative set of values today. Once you allow people to make up their own rules, nobody is sure what the rules are, and some will choose rules that cause more harm than good. We are reaping the consequences of a relative set of values.
Immigration-VI-Q
It is interesting to watch Democrats deal with migrants who enter their cities and States. They encourage the migrants to come and prevent any attempt to stop them, knowing that the Republican border States are going to bear the burden of taking care of them. They stick their heads in the sand and ignore the problems they are creating because it does not affect them. Now the border States have gotten smart and have begun shipping a few of them into Democrat controlled cities and States. The number being shipped is only a very small fraction of those pouring into Texas and Arizona every day, but it is enough to give them a taste of the problems they are creating for the border States. All of a sudden, Democrats are having to face the problems they are creating and they don’t want to deal with them. They are trying to prevent the migrants from being shipped to them and are even threatening to send them back to the border. They want the migrants to come to the United States as long as they don’t have to deal with them, so they are trying to prevent them from coming to their cities and States. They want to destroy the economies of the Republican States that are prospering due to low taxes and few business regulations to make their cities and States look good, even though they are struggling under failing economies due to the high taxes, uncontrolled government spending, and heavy government regulation of business forced on them by their leadership of Democrats who are anything but Democratic.
Immigration-VI-P
While President Biden continues to complain about the influx of illegal immigrants, he has done nothing to stop them. In fact, by pushing for them to stay once they get here, he is encouraging them to come. He ended President Trump’s policy of sending them back if they crossed illegally and instead releases them into the country where they disappear and never show up for their hearings. Unfortunately, the huge influx of illegal immigrants is overtaxing immigration authorities and preventing them from protecting our borders from other threats. Over a million pills laced with Fentanyl were intercepted in California coming in from Mexico in a recent drug bust. Fentanyl is the number one cause of death in those age 18-45. It is not known how many pills have slipped past border agents busy rounding up illegal immigrants. Border agents have also spotted an increased number of terrorists slipping over the border. Our President is responsible for protecting us from foreign threats and this certainly qualifies as a foreign threat. President Trump built large segments of the border in spite of opposition from liberals but President Biden put an end to it and striped it of the funding that was allocated under President Trump. Now he complains he can’t do anything because he can’t get the funding from Congress. We need a president like President Trump that will deal with the problem and not encourage it and then bellyache about it.
Politics-AB-AL
I get tired of top liberals constantly claiming that Donald Trump is a dictator that is destroying democracy. Trump sought to restore the family and the rights of parents. Liberals want to push Gay privileges and abortion by preventing parents from interfering in the decisions of minors to get abortions and gender transition therapy. Liberals are forcing schools to teach critical race theory, Gay privilege, gender fluidity, and sexual play, by threatening lawsuits, and forcing them to hide it from parents. President Obama made numerous executive orders that violated the Constitution and the rights of American citizens. Trump revoked them when he got in office, but President Biden restored them when he got in office. While executive orders do not have the force of law, President Obama tried to enforce them by threatening to file lawsuits against States and schools that did not comply. Some executive orders directly required States to violate the laws of the United States passed by Congress which is an open violation of the Constitution and his oath of office to uphold the laws of the United States. Trump tried to get States to clean up their voter rolls and enact laws protecting the voting process. Liberals have continually tried to enact laws that would open loopholes allowing massive fraud in voting and would prevent States from enacting laws to protect their voting process. Several liberal States have already enacted laws that will nullify the votes cast in their State. Their electors will cast their vote for whoever wins the national vote, regardless of how the people vote in that State. It is entirely possible for the electors of that State to cast their vote for a candidate who was not even on the ballot in that State. It bypasses the Constitutional safeguards that prevent voters from a few heavily populated States from determining the outcome of an election. A dictator is someone who forces people to do things against their will and it is obvious who the real dictators are. It is time for voters to stop listening to the rhetoric and start looking at the facts.