Non American Voters? What's Going On With "Our Democracy"?
America's Founders didn't create a democracy; yet here we are with "our democracy." John Adams explicitly said: "Remember, democracy never lasts long...There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." American citizens are finding out that anyone who crosses the border can vote. Proof of citizenship not required. Is America fulfilling the very point that John Adams was making?
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Hello everyone and thank you for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
As I'm sure many of you have noticed this week was a little bit challenging for us.
There was a hurricane down near Texas.
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We wanted to give you something fresh this week and that's what I'm going to try to do today.
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Today I want to discuss democracy, that magical word, at least in modern day America.
It wasn't magical when America was founded, that's for sure.
But today it has become like a secular sacrament, you know, for the government.
You're supposed to think that it's sacred, which is, you know, pretty funny.
The government is definitely not sacred.
They do all the unsacred things in our society that we're not allowed to do and they're not allowed to do.
But they've convinced enough people that what they do is necessary when it's unsacred and they get away with it.
I haven't voted in a long time and I don't plan on it anytime soon unless perhaps Thomas Massey or Rand Paul runs.
Then I would force myself to go out there for their benefit.
But otherwise, you know, I do not consent to anything that happens over in Washington, D.C.
It does not get my yay.
But that's just my personal opinion.
I'm not against voting.
People do whatever their conscience directs them to do.
But that's just my way of doing things.
Now, there's a lot of weird stuff when it comes to democracy.
First, they call it our democracy.
And especially in this Latest election, actually, the first time too with Trump.
You know, they say that if he wins, it's going to be the end of democracy.
Now, he did win before, and democracy did not end.
But they're going with it again.
I don't know who believes it, but apparently, a lot of people are saying it.
It's going to be the end.
It doesn't make sense because if he wins again, you know, that'll be the second time.
And many of his supporters think that he has won three times.
So here is a guy that won two to three times.
He's obviously very good at democracy.
He wins elections, if anything.
Why would somebody that is so good at democracy put an end to democracy?
I guess, you know, you're not supposed to think that far.
You're just supposed to take the slogan and emotionalize it and then repeat it.
But it really doesn't make sense why this guy who would keep winning put an end to elections.
So that's, you know, that's one thing I wanted to cover.
And again, I wanted to point out that America, our founders did not create a democracy.
They created a constitutional republic and for a good reason.
Look at the results of democracy.
If the goal was freedom and we have the biggest government in the history of mankind, then you can't have both.
You either have freedom or you have the biggest government.
We have the latter, which means our freedoms have been sliced away like a salami, you know, since our founding.
So they did not want this for us.
They wanted to keep away, you know, mob rule or crowd mentality taking over government, which is what we have today.
Democracy, the word, you know, this goes back to ancient Greece, so it's not something new.
And it was not mentioned in any of our founding documents, not in the Articles of Confederation, not in a Declaration of Independence, not in the U.S. Constitution.
Yet if you look around today, you would think America is democracy.
That's what it is.
That's its whole essence.
You know, it's obviously not true.
And people are not taught history properly today for good reason.
You know, if you want to keep what we have going today, you can't point out what we're pointing out here.
In fact, you could even go look up what the founders said.
Many of them put it in writing, how against democracy they were.
John Adams, for example, he said, quote, remember, democracy never lasts long.
There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide, end quote.
So they knew what they were doing when it came to democracy.
And when you look today at what is happening, how non-Americans are now being led into our country, and now they're insisting that they vote, they're having this SAVE Act.
And I believe most, if not all, the Democrats voted against it, which would make, you know, prove who you are, that you're a citizen to vote.
And they're against that.
So apparently our democracy has morphed into just walk into our country and vote.
Anybody.
Not sneak into our country, not dig a tunnel to get in.
Literally walk in.
The door is open.
Come on in and come vote.
So when you think about that, are we fulfilling what John Adams says, that democracy never lasts long?
There never was a democracy that did not commit suicide.
Is our democracy committing suicide?
I guess we're going to find out at some point.
But having anybody in the world walk in and vote, that seems to be pretty bad.
I don't know how much worse they can make it, but I guess they'll find a way.
But from my point of view, democracy is, you know, it's a way to elect leaders.
Big deal.
You know, much more important is what the leaders can do, not how they get there.
Today, democratic leaders are taking close to 50% of our income.
I mean, King George III, who we broke away from, he couldn't get away with 2% of tax.
That was too much.
That was a cause for a revolution.
And we just celebrated 4th of July breaking away from a 2% tax to now a 50% tax.
And that's not counting all the other.
I'm just talking about the income tax.
We're taxed every step we take.
They're taking fees here and taxes there.
And they're probably still charging 9-11 taxes somewhere, because that's what they do.
They siphon away trillions of dollars from us.
And King George III, who we declared independence from, was a radical libertarian compared to the government that we have today.
Isn't that funny?
Do Americans know this stuff?
Would they even care?
Who knows?
But that's the fact.
We separated from a lot more freedom for this.
And our freedoms are, we have to count them now on our hands.
The ones we still have left.
They're constantly taking them away from us.
So what's more important than how a leader is chosen is what the leaders can get away with.
And today, they can get away with whatever, you know, they, or they could do whatever they could get away with.
You know, and if they could just sell you on it, if they could just propagandize you on it, if they could have the same message come at you from your employer, from Hollywood, from your professor, from the television, from the internet.
If you're getting that same bombarded message that convinces you for them to get away with something atrocious, then that's how our government works.
They will do what they can get away with.
There's no limits in their minds on what they could get away with.
They're not God, that's for sure.
Not the Constitution.
They'll just bring it up if it scores a political point in the moment for themselves.
But they all break the Constitution.
Not even our votes.
We vote for one thing and we always get the other.
So to me, the fact that you can go pull a lever for people that can do this to us, this is something sacred, something to celebrate.
I don't think so.
We're constantly bombarded with people's emotions are all in every election, how it's the most important ever, how it's, you know, that the election is going to be stolen.
You know, trillions of dollars are being stolen from us every single year.
A small group of people, a tiny group of people, are able to siphon away trillions of dollars from us every year.
That's the stealing we should be worrying about.
That's the theft.
But that's not going to change.
It doesn't matter.
Biden, it's definitely not going to change under Biden.
It's almost definitely not going to change under Trump.
Remember when Trump was in office the first time, he expanded the size of government spending and debt incredibly.
So the stealing always increases no matter who's in there.
But we're supposed to worry about which one of these two guys is going to steal the election from the other.
You know, to me, that's, you know, but they're very good at getting you focused on what you shouldn't be focusing on instead of what you should, you know, because it's in their interests.
Their job is to grow and expand themselves, not you or me.
That's, you know, that's not what they're there for.
And they're also not bound by anything that they say.
They're campaigning.
You know, everything we see today, they're not bound by any of it.
There's no contracts involved.
They can say whatever they want, and they do.
Whoever they're in front of, they'll say what that person or that group wants to hear in order for them to get them to pull the lever.
And then they do whatever they want afterwards.
So it's basically fraud.
Campaigning is fraud.
If you were to go into a restaurant and it says, you know, 10 pieces of chicken and they come and give you two instead of 10, that's fraud.
They lie to you.
And people will fight that.
People will fight over a nickel.
If your coupon says $1.99 and they charge you $2.06, there'll be somebody at the service desk complaining, I want my $1.99.
But, you know, because it's fraud.
But when it comes to politicians, they commit fraud every second and nobody fights it.
It's actually expected.
Oh, yeah, the politician is lying.
He's doing that to get your vote.
He's supposed to do that.
This is a very sacred democracy we live in, isn't it?
Where you expect them to lie.
They know that you expect them to lie.
They lie to you.
And then you go pull the lever.
It's quite a thing.
So they're not bound by anything.
And they also don't even know who you are when you vote.
They see a number.
I hope I win New Jersey.
I hope I win Texas.
What's the number?
It's a number.
It's not individuals.
But here's who does matter.
The donors, the mega donors.
They matter.
While they don't know you personally when you vote, the politician, they know their donors personally.
When they're getting millions of dollars and they're expected to deliver something for those millions of dollars, they know who that is.
So those people matter.
Now, they'll come out and say whatever they want to us to get the vote, but you better be careful when somebody is handing you millions of dollars and you're saying you're going to do something for them.
So that's why when the election's over and we watch government operate again, we're always disappointed.
Oh my gosh, he said he was going to do this.
He's going to take care of his donors.
And the donors have pull.
If you're handing millions of dollars away, these are influential people.
They have pull.
They have connections.
They can make life difficult for the politician.
You pulling a lever or me pulling a lever, we have zero leverage whatsoever.
The politician can do whatever he wants and we have nothing.
Hey, you told me you were going to do this.
Sorry.
Come back in four years.
So that's what democracy in practice has become.
The mega donors, the corporations, the, you know, not the people.
The people are told one thing, go pull the lever for me, and I'm going to do all these things that you want me to do.
And it doesn't turn out that way.
But they always have a new angle to get you to go pull that lever for them.
You know, now Trump is, he's got his angle.
People think he's going to save America again.
You know, they're using that one again.
All right.
You know, I would love that, but I wouldn't vote on that.
You know, so if democracy is this bad, and it is, and our founders knew it, can it work anywhere?
I mean, is there any salvation for this thing?
Maybe, maybe in like small communities where people know each other.
You know, with this 300 million people and then all these illegals walking in, voting for other people's property, you don't care where it's come from.
I want my abortion pills.
Well, who's going to pay for it?
I don't care.
The guy in California, the guy in Montana.
I don't care where you get the money.
Just get me my abortion pills.
And the fact that we're even talking about abortion pills in the debate and everything else just shows you how far we have, you know, our society has descended.
But that's the mentality.
I want my free health care.
Well, where are you going to get the money?
I don't care.
Just get it and then give it to me.
So in this gigantic mass of people, the worst in people comes out.
In a small community where people are voting, everybody knows each other.
Your victims are right in front of you.
I want free, but it's going to come from this guy who lives down the street.
That would tame these base impulses.
When your victim is in front of you and not across the country somewhere, maybe voting can work out.
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But in this mass country of ours, it's just rob or be robbed.
And people do their best to be the robber.
In the end, we're all robbed.
There's no, only the tiny minority and out ahead.
But the people, the average citizen, doesn't, you know, whether you vote and you're getting something free, they're going to take it from you from another direction.
You're not getting anything free.
So nothing ultimately works out for the citizens.
So that's my little talk about democracy.
It's obviously not sacred.
It's certainly not the best form of government.
It's what we have today.
It's what we're stuck with at the moment.
What could be done?
You know, one person like myself can't possibly answer that.
Life is far too complex.
But at this point in the game, just understanding this stuff puts you way ahead of the curve.
You know, there are people that are so passionate about this.
It's a religious, like I said, a religious sacrament to them.
You know, they're pretty far away from understanding these, you know, this kind of logic.
But you got to try to reach them the best you can.
Try to point out all the hypocrisy.
Try to point out how they're always getting the short end of the stick.
Maybe someday they'll get it.
But it also wouldn't hurt to just go back to the Constitution, as imperfect as the Constitution is, just heading in that direction would be a breath of fresh air of getting the boots off our neck, just so we could breathe a little bit, just going in that direction.
We're still not even at that point yet of heading backwards.
That point may be coming soon, but we're not there yet.
But we've got to keep our heads up and try to practice the truth the best we can, try to spread the truth the best we can.
And then we did our part and let the chips fall where they may.
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We would not make you go into D.C. Right outside of DC.
We have this every year.
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Be around hundreds of people that are just like you.
You know, sometimes it can get lonely because most people do not think this way.
These last 20 minutes, whatever, you're not going to find on TV what I said here.
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We'd love to see you there.
Hopefully, Dr. Paul and Daniel will be back on Monday.
I hope you enjoyed this episode on our democracy.
And thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.