Let us never forget Waffler admitted to working for the IRS until he retired on a comfortable government pension.  He also boasted of his Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia and public school education...

And we find ourselves today proving James Madison's warning as absolutely true.  Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Once again, Waffler manages to top himself. 🤣

There were no atheists among the Founding Fathers and members of the Constitutional Convention. There were many sects represented among them, but I don't recall an avowed atheist appearing until the progressive liberals (i.e. socialists) showed up.

The socialist religion of communal power (governed by a dictatorship) has been anathema to the foundation upon which the American republic was built. The laws of nature and of nature's God is not a religion, it is the basis of reality. It is the job of humankind to discover them and live in harmony with them for the good of all for their own sake.

The Truth is not a religion — it simply IS. Get with it, or live in delusion and inherit the wind.

'The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.'  Nothing is new under the sun.  If we do not pay attention to history, we are bound to repeat it.  The rulers absolutely know this and count on the ignorance of the populace in order to lord over them.  Once again, WAKE UP!

We should remember that all the money Congress spends goes to private contractors.  The government cannot own businesses, so all these welfare programs are disbursed via organizations that profit from the programs. Even though they call themselves non-profit orgs (because they don't actually produce anything), their salaries often exceed those in commercial businesses.

These recipients of government funding will also kick-back substantial amounts to political campaigns and/or employ spouses and family with little to no real responsibilities and/or make contracts with businesses in which they have a stake. 

Face it, all this unconstitutional spending results in wealthy congressman — this certainly looks like a racket to me.  And now, the level of fraud that has been discovered by the Trump admin is absolutely staggering.

As far as welfare specifically is concerned, it is nothing more than buying votes.  Welfare payments are kept just low enough to keep their dependents dependent forever in poverty.  It's like paying farmers to keep their lands fallow.  Statism's purpose is to indenture the people following tried-and-true tactics.  The solution is to return to the republican pillars upon which the USA was founded.

🤣 Better!

I was raised with several religious influences in my youth.  I particularly liked 'Christian Science.' A definition of science: Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge through testable explanations about the natural world and society.

Christian Science could be compared to a systematic discipline that builds and organizes knowledge through testimony of its practitioners about the metaphysical world and the Bible, particularly as demonstrated by Christ Jesus.  What physical science is to physics, Christian Science is to metaphysics, and the acknowledgement of Divine Intelligence behind the Creation.😁 

I like it!  Our 'natural rights' are inherent and a faculty of birth.  How can we come to know 'who we are' without the liberty to do so?

Yes, that is my experience, too.  This was my experience with going to church and school.  I would ask myself, "Does God want to hear the same old things over and over just being repeated without any individual spark?"  Can we not be 'real'? 

😎 Yeah, freedom and democracy actually don't mix... And that's one of government's best kept secrets!

Or like the leftist trick of accusing the other side of what they in fact are doing?

Yes, for the most part.  I agree with Mike.  A republican form of government is a government of laws, not of men.  The representatives have no more power than that of the common people that elected them, and specifically, no more power than what is enumerated in the Constitutions.

Excellent point, Mike!  Love it. 👏

This didn't happen overnight.  It has been a long haul since at least the 60's when the Ivy League schools that were founded as seminaries became hotspots for secular progressive liberalism.  Yale is but a shadow of its former self, and has become a bastion of Marxist thought.  

The politicization of college education is primarily fueled by government grants and guaranteed loans which have compounded the expense of education beyond any possible return in value to the students except for indoctrinating them with leftist ideals.

Another often overlooked fact, is that with a fiat money system enthroned by the FDR progressives, all the money in circulation is 'minted' by 'borrowing' it — i.e. credit/debt.  Student loans make up a considerable percentage of the money in circulation, along with mortgage debt, credit card debt, auto debt and good ol' government debt.  This has been another banker's trick to expanding the money supply without an equal backing of labor/capital in return, thus more inflation.

Ever-expanding unpayable debt is the master plan of the socialists/communists (it's a founding plank).  Which is also why not one college kid in a million knows anything about it!

It's true, but unfortunately, there are no places to exile oneself to — all are worse than the USA.  We must fight to regain our freedom here.  The virus called democratic-socialism is a scourge on the planet, and the illness only gets worse if not eradicated completely.  The only defense is abstinence of such mental retardation that takes root in the mind.  Don't be conned! 

It's really not complicated.  Let's make a distinction between 'laws' and 'rules.'  The 'law' is immutable (like the law of gravity), it is preexisting and forever.  Rules are what have been determined the best way to act within the boundaries of the law, so as to avoid the inevitable price of 'breaking' the law. 

Simply, 'the law' can be summed up as 'As you sow, so shall you reap.'  Thus the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others as you would have done unto you.' Why? Because of the Law.

When we don't clearly understand the difference between law and statute (i.e. legislation), the State becomes transformed into a god meting out judgement. 

The Common Law is more than enough to adjudicate disputes over violations of rights.  Commercial law is a set of rules for regulating commerce particularly for agreements made for commercial purposes and for regulating commercial use of the public commonwealth.  

These two jurisdictions should remain clearly distinct to prevent the common man from becoming beholden to all rules of commercial law and thus subject to its regulation. 

For the Common Man, no one may subject him to regulation, only to hold him accountable for his actions and any violation of another's rights.

When my children were growing up, I would remind them that they are only as good as their word, and if their word means nothing, then they have nothing.  Don't become good at lying, otherwise that will become what you are most skilled at doing.  Self-respect is paramount — retain your honor, no matter the cost.

I get it.  We should remember that the People were never expected to 'trust' their representatives — that's why 'checks and balances' were implemented because power can corrupt. 
The Constitution, and the Bill of Rights particularly, were written to limit government power which history provides plenty of examples of abuse by 'well-meaning' rulers.  We should never trust our elected, but 'chain' them to the Constitution.

If only 'democracy' was understood for what it is: mob rule.

In the USA, only land holders (via their land patents) were considered to be electors for Governor and President for the very reason that they understood the danger of allowing those with no stake to vote away the property of those that do.  If tenants can vote away the property of their landlords, it only becomes a matter of time before they do. 

Remember that even communist countries consider themselves 'democracies' — just don't dare to not vote for 'The Party.'

Honesty is not a matter of perception — the truth is the truth, whether it is perceived correctly or not.  My experience differs from Waffler's, the closer I have gotten to the boss, the more evident the 'act' the boss is putting on to keep the position becomes. Since 'perception is reality,' the goal is to keep up the act. 

Particularly true for politicians for whom bending the truth is the primary way to get elected — deception and mass psychology becomes clearer the closer one gets to those that practice it.  Authenticity rarely survives populist appeal.  Politicians get elected by making promises they know they can't keep — promise the world, it doesn't matter because once elected, there is no firing for breach of contract.  Power attracts the dishonest because lying pays very well.

The truth has always been the enemy of power.

The US Constitution never 'legalized' slavery.  The Constitution was established as a rule book for the government, not as law for the people.  I'm not sure the Constitution abolished slavery either.  The amendments that followed emancipation took on a different tone than previous amendments, more reflecting a statist tone in which the meaning of the Constitution shifted as a rule book for government and more a rule book for the States.

Fifteen years later, the Occupy movement proved to be nothing more than political theater that only resulted in solidifying Wall Street's power, not diminishing it.  All the while the unlawful fiat money system and making nothing but gold and silver the lawful medium of exchange is completely ignored. The next crash is inevitable.

Huh? Socialists don't support force as a method of change?(!!) I think you are confusing socialists with republicans.  Statism by its very premise is 'force' by the state of the individuals it treats as 'subjects.'