(09-02-2024, 07:32 AM)727Sky Wrote: The fix is in and expect more insanity from the vote and election fixers
https://lists.theepochtimes.com/links/jc...6DApJh9TGI
Quote:... makes clear the state has exclusive jurisdiction when it comes to the voter verification process.
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An interesting turn of phrase, and a tacit admission of guilt. Whatever happened to "of the People, by the People, and for the People"? This "law" removes authority from the People, and transfers it to the State - just another example of the increasing centralization of power occurring in America, just as it did in the Soviet Union and ALL other Communist enclaves around the world in the 20th century.
"The Dwarf" in "Shibumi" says "dangers comes neither from the Right nor the Left, but it comes from the Center". What is being referred to is the Centralization of power, it's removal from the subjects and concentration in an increasingly alienating governmental body that no longer cares for the People, but exists solely to perpetuate itself and maintain - and increase - it's hold on power over those same "People". We see the same thing happening currently in the US, where states are seizing power from their constituencies, and the Federal government is, in turn, seizing that power from the States and gathering it to themselves, concentrating that power in Washington DC to the detriment of everyone else across the nation. While they claim it is to "defend OUR democracy", it does not involve any "democracy" at all, it is pure authoritarian totalitarianism. A "democracy" gives power to the People involved, allows them to make decisions over their own lives. Centralization of power does exactly the opposite.
In the example of California, there is a sizeable, but dwindling, representation of "Right wing" or "Conservative" peoples, which the Leftists live in abject fear of. So, in order to shift the balance of power to their own favor, they make sure "the State" controls all, with the support of a sizeable, but concentrated, knot of Leftists, which are invariably concentrated in urban strongholds and live like ants in a nest. In effect, small areas of the state control much more vast areas of it, really those small enclaves control the entirety of the state.
They make the rules that ALL have to abide by, and to insure that, they pass "preemption" laws that take away the ability of localities, which may be far removed from the decision makers and almost certainly disagree with them, to make their own rules and govern their own jurisdictions.
One of the problems of that, apart from disenfranchising everyone NOT in the government from having any control over their own lives, is the question of what happens when the opposition seizes control of the political machinery and power structures the Leftists have built to insulate themselves from the consequences of their own actions? What happens when the Right takes over the machine the Left has built and centralized, and decides to promote their own draconian changes from on high down through the pipelines the Left has built?
What happens when the Right uses the Left's own machinery to force the LEFT to toe the mark just as the Left is right now doing to the Right? Will they be as giddy about "Our Democracy" then as they are now?
After all, it's still "Our Democracy", isn't it? The same sham of a democracy that they themselves built... only now being used against them...
The only way to prevent such travesties of justice coming "from neither the Right nor the Left, but instead the Center", is to de-centralize power. Give more of it to the local governments, and to the People themselves, and remove it from centralized "Authorities". That is the ONLY way to prevent central authorities from running roughshod over the People at will - by taking away their power and putting it back into the hands of the People.
You know, by re-structuring governments into the forms that the Constitution mandated that they be in in the first place! Small, weak Central governments, with the authority increasing the more locally you went - "All powers not expressly delegated to the Federal Government are to be reserved for the states themselves, or to the People"... we've gotten a long way from that mandate in the time that has passed since the Civil War.
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