The only way to prevent the planned and profitable destruction of the American Republic is for the American people to defend it themselves. Delegating their authority to one of the liars destroying it (while claiming to be the only way to defend it) will keep the destruction ongoing. There is no other mechanism whereby Americans can keep their free republic than robustly securing it with their personal arms.
American governments have been corrupted for as long as they have existed, and the largest and oldest the most. The more wealth jurisdictions have the more more vigorously they are infiltrated and commandeered, and the longer they have existed the longer corruption has been eating their innards. The smallest and least financially endowed governments have the least to offer criminals and are the best observed and audited by civilians, thus the least corrupted governments are small towns.
America doesn't have any Blue states. It has a few dozen big blue cities trying to sink their fangs into the financial veins of jurisdictions that are less corrupt. Democracy in this way is a threat to our republic, because big cities of corrupt criminals can outvote many small towns on statewide issues. Voting won't do any good. The lesser evil is still evil, and there are no good choices when corrupt criminals control who gets to be a candidate.
The only thing that stops evil is well armed good men. That's the only thing that made America, kept America, or can keep America free, prosperous, and secure. Voting works great in places where everybody knows each other and work together to build their community. Above Dunbar's Number (~150, IIRC) election fraud, lies, and corruption take over. The more laws there are, the less free people are, and the longer lawmakers have been making laws, the less able good men are to defend their freedom, because laws are cumulative and pile up on law abiding people.
This is why cats are more free than people, any people anywhere, and not just Afghani girls. America needs to be more like a herd of cats, and less like Afghani girls, IMHO. It's a lot harder to take food from hungry cats than the food is worth, and that's how Americans should be about freedom. Freedom is priceless, so we need to defend it with extreme vigor because it's worth a fortune to criminals that can take it away.
Yep, we can agree on this much:
Over 30 years ago, as a political activist, I was literally in the homes of over 200 people (minimum) in soliciting help, with my ... "pitch" ... starting with this simple question:
Sadly, the answer was a more or less emphatically stated, "Yes!" every single time. Every ... single ... time ... Remarkable how effective the "progressive" Left had been in "wiping" the collective memory of our people about all of the vitally important details of why our Founding Fathers created a Republic ...
P.S. My upvote is meaningless, as I removed +$20,000 from the Hive blockchain following my post here, before it lost +50% of its value ...
It is good that I am not the only American that recognizes the importance of our form of government, and not only the process of informing it of our wishes.
I don't concern myself with weight of someone's stake. Upvotes indicate agreement, appreciation, and things like that I value more than money. You have a prudential duty to manage your financial affairs, which it seems you have tended well regarding Hive tokens.
Yes, it is not very modest, I suppose, but I view my knowledge of our heritage to be far beyond most of my fellow countrymen. Hard won, given the effort I had to invest in developing it, once I became politically active. I very quickly became aware of how poorly my education (by design, I would passionately argue ...) had served me in providing answers to even the most basic questions.
As a result, I can tell you or anyone else that has even a modicum of interest in the topic, there is no mystery behind why our Founding Fathers provided us with our form of governance. And what kind of people would be required for it to succeed over time.
They were prolific writers. With a command of ... "the King's English" ... that far exceeds our own.
Water under the bridge. We (collectively) are so far downstream from the original intent of those who wrote ...
... that we can only imagine what they might say to us, if they could walk among us and see what has become of the country for which they gave so much.
I can well imagine such excoriation, well deserved, and exhortation to better stand for rights of vastly more value than mere money. I do not know what they might make of the incredible opportunities opening to free men of courage and ambition, of 3D printed rockets, pneumatic inflatable habitats, aquaponics, solar panels, and supercapacitors, but would bet such potential would strike them as the call of Providence to build the prophesied paradise that men might be sovereign to the limits of their ambition, for the duration of their lives.
I know that is what I see coming, and I am a far lesser man than were they.