THE ESTABLISHMENT

 Let's talk about 'the establishment'. Lately it seems like now we call it the swamp; same thing. The Establishment has always been a swamp. Spooky movies with monsters hanging out in dirty little ponds or rivers, looking for people to eat or dismember, or some combination of the two. I can't remember any of their names but they were mostly made in the 1950's and 60's and they had horrible everything; bad acting, bad script, bad directing, lighting, sound, basically everything. But TV was pretty new still. Many of us still had small black and white TV's with a huge wooden box housing filled with tubes of varying sizes that had to be replaced periodically. Technology has changed for the better, but the swamp creature will never change. I never saw the connection before but it is almost unmistakable, politicians are swamp creatures. It seems that occasionally a good swamp creature would be part of the story and someone would be rescued from the swamp, usually some beautiful young woman. 

They operate in the dark, they destroy people's lives when they can and they rarely tell the truth. The 'good ones' get elected and enter the swamp thinking they can clean it up, but they can't. They decide that politics is just not for them and they leave. It has been that way in the United States ever since George Washington set the example by serving one term. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were honorable men until they decided they had to be president. I believe Jefferson ran the dirtiest campaign, but I doubt that Adams was all that clean either. And close allies became life long enemies because they had such a huge thirst for power. And ever since there have been some very mean, dirty campaigns. Power hungry men would do anything to get a taste of exercising power over people's lives. 

And that's politics. Sadly we still have to survive with imperfect systems and people. We make mistakes and tragically there are very few George Washingtons in the world. He could have easily become the King of America and we are very fortunate that he had higher ideals than that. Ideally candidates for a political office would stick to their particular vision for the future, and equally ideally American people would be smart enough to know when they are being sold a swamp instead of something of value. I have never understood why we are so quick to believe what one person says about another when all we have to do is listen to each persons vision for solving a particular problem or providing a service. It has caused me some sadness and frustration to realize that the American people really aren't very smart. They love to have opinions but they don't like to take the effort to find out if their opinions have any merit. It's like they are telling themselves, "Well, I'm pretty smart, I must be right!"

That is pretty lazy and demonstrates a closed mind. You cannot reason with that person, but you can flatter and persuade that person, "Yes Grasshopper, you are very wise!". So politicians also must live in that environment where it is all but impossible to educate people who already know everything so you must resort to making up stories about your opponent. In my humble opinion that is just plain stupid and only stupid people would fall for such obvious ploys to flatter and defame instead of educate and enlighten. So how do we measure stupidity? Democrats say that the measure of intelligence is in the number of scholastic achievements a person has attained, but I've know a LOT of people who somehow wrangled a Ph. D. but were dumber than dirt. They read certain books and other pieces of literature, but their focus is usually rather narrow and they read things that make them feel good about their view of the world. Very few people read a wide variety of topics and in my experience those of them who do don't have any academic plaques on their walls or any other so-called evidence that they are smart. And yet they are smart. 

That is how The Establishment was born. There have been many political parties over the history of this country, but usually only two could be considered dominant and currently those two are the Republican and the democratic party. Republicans have tended to be tight fisted people who want to help others but don't want to go bankrupt doing it. And democrats have traditionally looked at a problem in the community and decided that the best way to help is to marshal the resources of he entire community and help those in need. Sounds good, but there are always going to be some people who either never want to help anyone, or they don't see why people cannot help themselves. Republicans and democrats have a completely different view of problem solving and the ultimate goal of each side is to get more votes. Neither side really cares about helping others; they are concerned about helping themselves. In fact a minimal amount of digging will reveal that neither side even understands anything about the issues they are pretending to solve.

Republicans typically will want to find a way to help people solve their own problems. It could be that the people in need simply need to work a little harder or maybe they need a little education. Something that will help them understand their own problem and thus help them work out their own solution. Frequently Republicans will turn to business owners or even wealthy individuals to help someone solve their problems. Democrats look around at the community and say there is enough money there to be able to give people whatever they need to provide immediate assistance. That solution is often viewed as short sighted by Republicans since as soon as the gifted money runs out the original problem is still there, and other people in the community often are reluctant to give money to people who have no apparent ability to manage their resources. The democrats' answer is to levy a tax on the community to force them to pay the government to solve the problem. The problem never gets fixed, people keep getting money having done nothing to help themselves or the community as a whole. Worse yet, the problem becomes multi generational and more and more expensive. 

Decades later in what has come to be known as a 'Tax and Spend' scheme, we are being forced to finance programs at  universities so they can study things like how fast can houseflies make it from one room to another, or what kind of mice live in a field in San Bernardino California, we send money to other countries for who knows what reason, and we have relinquished control of our country to a group of men and women whose only goal is to maintain a strong grip on the reigns of power.  The Establishment, and therefore the swamp is not made up of Republicans or democrats; it is made up of Republicans and democrats. Republicans have found themselves outsmarted buy the democrats in one important way, they are now in a position where democrats have created such a huge welfare state that when Republicans talk about reducing government payouts we can almost hear the collective gasp from all of the voters who are receiving government handouts and Republicans cannot win an election on any platform that involves balancing a budget or cutting back on runaway spending. And if they can't win an election they can't even argue with their colleagues about unnecessary government spending. 

Too many people in this country are receiving some form of 'free' money from the government. Over time Big Guv will weaken the country and lower our standard of living. We used to believe that everyone in America had the ability to succeed or fail according to their own hopes, dreams and abilities, and sometimes no matter how hard a person worked and dreamed their dreams never materialized, but they had the opportunity to try and most of them were able to make a decent living without ever becoming wealthy. Minimum wage laws were a good way for college kids to be able to at least feed and house themselves until they found something better to do. Those days are over since the cost of housing makes it impossible for the minimum wage earner to provide even minimal housing. 

Somehow organizations like OSHA, The Coastal Commission, and a lot of other offices that were formed as advisory groups have morphed into legislative bodies that even have the power to pass and enforce their own laws. They even have been given the authority to levy fines, and confiscate private property. Some of them even have the power to carry firearms to help them enforce their illegal edicts. Too many public and even some private schools fail to educate our kids about the importance of the constitutional rights we enjoy. Or used to at least. Americans are giving up their rights willingly, I suppose out of a misguided sense that somehow they are protecting the community. Every time we give up a right, or allow unelected officials to pass laws we are endangering our community. There is very little public information about how these agencies enforce their rules, but the fact is that most of them, if not all, have an armed enforcement component and that is a danger to all of us. We need to get better control of these agencies that steal people's property when they feel like it and the political party in charge has a lot to do with how brazen these unelected, illegal organizations operate. 

During the reign of King Barry I knew a man who was part of an effort to get a church built. Democrats were screaming about how sacred wetlands were and at the time were fining a man in Idaho ridiculous amounts of money because he wanted to build a house on his own property, but due to an unusually wet year puddles of water had accumulated in some places, so the EPA declared his land off limits. He had been ordered to remove any machinery used for building and he had to comply with other illegal EPA requirements and was being fined a five figure amount per day until he complied. Ultimately he won in court, but at a huge cost and for no good reason. Because of that abuse of authority my friend was out at four in the morning throwing large chunks of concrete into mud puddles that had accumulated on the property due to heavy rain that season. So at four o'lock in the morning he was out on the land where the church was to be built because there was about to be an inspection conducted before building could begin. He asked me to help so I did. What a rebel I am. The church survived the inspection and is doing well today.

Our constitution is the best the world has ever known. Our way of life and high standard of living is envied by every country in the world. We need to be more active in the activities of our politicians and make them accountable for the decisions they make. Apathy will lead to our destruction. We need to learn how to talk to each other and recognize the perils of overheated rhetoric. It is inaccurate to describe democrats or Republicans as "Anti-America" or "Opposed to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights". It is inaccurate and dangerous. It is also dangerous to take a stand on certain causes that are controversial and proclaim. "We are right and everyone who disagrees with us is wrong!" And continue by stating that, "Those who disagree with us aren't just wrong they are dangerous to our democracy!"  

There is usually a way to find common ground on an issue we disagree with unless we paint ourselves into a corner. People, especially people with the responsibility of introducing legislation affecting all of our lives, need to carefully weigh the words they choose when discussing topics that could cause injury to certain groups of people or the nation as a whole. That's why they need advisors and publicity assistants, not necessarily because they are fundamentally dishonest, but they need to realize that their first response may not be the best response. And there is no need to answer every question immediately; taking time to study an issue shows maturity and the ability to care about everyone involved in the issue. 

Since the brave men and women who framed the foundation of this nation decided to have a system that would allow us to exercise a democratic method for electing our representatives, and to give all people a say in who would become the country's chief executive, it was natural that people would have differing opinions about just about everything. America was a brand new country founded by people who naturally distrusted monarchs because they had suffered so much damage under that type of ruler. This country was not going to have a monarch. Not ever. Yes a Republic is a lot of work and requires people to work together sometimes putting their personal desires aside, at least for awhile, so the good of all people can be considered. After all someone may have a great idea, and it might even need to be implemented at some point, but does it necessarily have to be now? For the health of the country as a whole sometimes even good ideas have to wait until we can afford to make them happen or until we can build a consensus on how important the problem is.

No one was better than the next person in the New World, at least not by virtue of their birth. Here anyone could succeed if they worked hard. Except for the black population. It would be another 65 years before they gained their freedom, and another hundred years after that that they began to enjoy actual equality. And today they have every right that every other American has, but in order to keep the Black vote democrats keep telling black people that this is, and always will be, a racist country so black people believe they need to keep the democrat plantation strong in order to ensure that people who don't want to work don't have to. The truth is that every race has a percentage of indolent people in it and those people also benefit from black guilt. 

The Swamp was born out of a desire to break down our societal norms. The Establishment could be annoying, but it was also useful. The Swamp is a dark place where politicians from both major parties get together and decide whose lives need to be  destroyed for the good of the country. They decide which laws they can each agree on and they always work undercover of darkness where no one is watching. Power is their only goal. They want to hold onto the reins of power for as long as possible and reap as many personal rewards as they can. And the Swamp has taken the place of the establishment. In the Swamp laws are discussed and people are targeted. Laws are passed for the betterment of the large corporations who now operate all over the world where the American people have little or no influence. They can afford to buy politicians all over the world and they decide what will happen to the little guy.

And American Swamp Creatures are dancing to their tune. Young people in many American states don't earn enough money working for the big companies who own everything to even be able to afford to live in a studio apartment. They have to spend almost half of their meager pay to rent a room in someone's home. The new full time work week is 30 hours thanks to obamacare. Although the obamacare exchanges may make some insurance plans almost affordable it would be nice if a person needing a place to live could earn enough money to be able to afford even minimal accommodations. And I refer to obamacare as almost affordable because I just spoke to a man who had knee surgery and now he has to pay the hospital almost ten thousand dollars. That is a lot of money to pay for insurance that King Barry promised would be affordable and cover all of our expenses. The biggest fraud ever committed against the American people was done by an American president. Sorry Barry, you can't be a king, just a lowly president, and insult of insults you were supposed to serve the people, they weren't supposed to serve you. 

Employers in many cases are forced by law to provide health insurance to full time employees and in today's democrat Utopian world that means more than thirty hours. Minimum wage hovers around $13.00/hour. Even a Swamp Creature should be able to see that what obamacare did was make it necessary for people to work multiple jobs in order to be able to afford minimal housing for one person. Once again democrats are taking America backward toward the substandard way of life endured by most developed countries of the world. Democrats want us to live the European Utopia where home ownership is a dream, but just about everyone can afford at least a small apartment, and larger families can cram themselves into slightly larger apartments. People over there also have the privilege of living in a society where the wealthy class can afford to seek medical care wherever they wish and everyone else is assigned a physician and a clinic where the government pays the bill, but the doctor may be a drunken fool with a guaranteed income and guaranteed patients. No thanks I'll take our substandard medical program any day. Swanp Creatures are trying to turn America into a land of 'haves' and 'have nots', that is the Utopia they envision, we used to aspire to a goal of "Two cars in every garage and a chicken in every pot!" Now it't tiny homes, a bus pass, and you're lucky if you ever can afford to eat chicken. Most Americans don't care because they've been duped into believing they are saving the planet, and of course a woman can always get an abortion. 

Americans used to dream big, but while the European Utopia democrats like to promise us may look good from across the ocean, up close you will find that it is a mirage. A Democratic Republic takes effort to maintain, but it is worth the effort. The Establishment used to be composed of politicians and corporations who would get together and agree upon laws and work toward their implementation, but today the establishment is no longer adequate. Even with the global warming scam in full force not enough people are buying into it. The Constitution is too strong and the majority of Americans still like it and want to live by the freedoms it protects. For billionaires intent on ruling the world that is not good. 

They need absolute power and the United States of America is a danger to their cause. We've entered a new era that probably began during the reign of King Barak Obama. I don't believe he ever saw himself as a mere president. In his eyes he was much larger than that. He was the first president to ever publicly state that the Constitution of the United States is fundamentally flawed. Fortunately he was kind enough to share his insight into why he didn't like our constitution. In his opinion it was a document that put too many limits on the powers of government. It is a set of laws limiting what government can do to people and doesn't give  government officials enough power to force us to do certain things for the good of the whole. 

King Barry used to complain that Congress didn't work fast enough to suit his agenda for our country's future. On at least one occasion and probably more than that I heard him say that he had a pen and a phone, referring to his power to author executive orders that become binding on the country somehow. The most damning thing he said in my opinion was, "If Congress won't act, I will!" The Executive Office has the power to veto laws but not pass them. Even then Congress has the power to override a presidential veto. But if you are a king that isn't necessarily the case. Most kings in the world today are only heads of state with no authority to pass laws. They are tolerated as members of the Royal Family as long as they behave themselves and let prime ministers and members of parliament run the country. Not a bad job if you can get it. There are very few, if any, kings in today's world with the power over life and death. Democrats would like to change that unfortunate change in the monarchical form of government. After all if you can't order someone to murder your enemies what is the point of being king?

But I digress. The establishment has been replaced by the Deep State. The deep state is made up of men and women of power and influence who are actively attempting to overthrow our government. Their chief objective was to take over the U.S. Supreme Court. The Judicial branch of government is potentially the most dangerous to our Constitution. They sometimes pass laws to cover things they don't like such as the Supreme Court ruling in 1973 that declared abortion to be a  Constitutional right. It never was and now it isn't again. States have the authority to regulate what goes on within their borders, not the central government and certainly not a group of judges appointed by the president for the rest of their lives or until they decide to retire. 

When the Supreme Court rules on a matter it is not easy to to get them to overrule themselves. Probably the most cited example is the 1856 Dred Scott decision. Dred Scott was a slave who wanted to file a suit in a court. Scott was a slave whose owner took him to a neighboring state where slavery was illegal. Freedom looked pretty good to Scott so he sued claiming that taking him to a 'free' state entitled him to sue for his freedom. Ultimately in a 7-2 split the Court ruled that as a slave Scott was not a citizen of the United States, and in fact was not a human being. He was property to be used as his owner wished. Democrats saw that as a huge victory and thought they were safe until a Republican, Abraham Lincoln, intervened and started working to free all slaves in America. In 1860 democrats seceded from the Union and ignited a war that lasted five years, caused the deaths of about 600,000 people, forced a similar number into homelessness, and cost billions of dollars in damage. 

When democrats throw a tantrum they don't care who gets hurt; they must have their way. The American Civil War was another test of our Constitution launched by democrats who in those days wanted a weak central government so they could protect their right to buy and sell human beings. King Barry wanted a strong central government that had the right to bypass Congress if the king needed the power to force Americans to drive a certain type of vehicle, or live in a certain type of house and to purchase medical insurance even if they didn't want to. He wanted the power to take over the entire system we use to provide medical care to people by assigning people to certain physicians by geographical area, and telling them which hospitals they could use. 

He hated the fact that he couldn't force us to do whatever he wanted us to do. In addition to his fraudulent medical insurance scheme that ensured that millions of Americans would lose their health insurance coverage overnight he joined another fraudulent movement that he hoped would further help him and his Deep State comrades weaken then destroy our constitution; man made global warming. Man made global warming, which goes by many different titles, is another attempt to subvert the Constitution and destroy the rule of law. Democrats hate the concept of a free society. What right do we have to decide where we want to live and work, or to purchase whatever car we like, or how large a house we can live in. Once Deep State has convinced a majority of Americans that the sky is falling and we are all in grave danger of drowning in rising seas, the government can create a 'solution' to this impossible scenario. Panicky the Global Warmers start printing flyers and distributing them all over college campuses and tacking them to street signs and walls of buildings. 

For over thirty years Deep State has been telling us the oceans are going to bury huge portions of coastal cities in ten years if we don't start paying the Central Government to save us all. And every ten years we are still here. The oceans aren't rising. Lately they've added a new dire warning; if we don't do something about carbon emissions the earth will heat up as much as two degrees in the next hundred years. I've been here seventy years, living near the coast the entire time. I've been sailing and surfing for most of that time and guess what; all of those beautiful houses are still there, all of the boats are still tied up at the same docks, the piers are all doing fine, the Global Warming loonies are off their rockers. Deep State has people so confused and scared that they are willing to ignore the evidence and give up their freedoms to wealthy individuals intent on ruling the world. 

The Deep State is run by people with no legitimate authority telling our lawmakers what to do. Insurance companies wanted to sell more insurance so they got lawmakers to pass a law forcing all Americans to purchase health insurance unless their employers provided it for them. While they were at it they also were able to get lawmakers to lower the numbers to qualify as a full time employee from 40-30 hours. This 'helped' the working people earn less money while at  the same time forcing them to purchase a product that they couldn't afford and many of them didn't need. Twenty year olds tend to be pretty strong and healthy so if they need to see a doctor it's cheaper to just pay the office visit. Democrats don't like that so they ordered the IRS to collect a fine on anyone who couldn't produce proof of health insurance when they filed their taxes. And the new minimum wage allowed businesses to abuse their employees by making them work fewer hours which in turn allowed businesses to avoid the necessity of providing them with medical insurance. 

Deep State opposes anyone who believes in the protection of the individual or who supports the Constitution of the United States. They are behind all of the draconian laws forcing all of us to pay to fight the war against climate change, something that can't be done. They are behind the laws that protect banks against consumers. If you think your deposits are protected think again. The FDIC only gets involved if a bank fails and since the Federal government won't allow banks to fail the FDIC is safe. Hollywood likes to portray bank robbers as the good guys who only steal from the banks and not the individual depositor. A typical movie line goes something like, "Hell, I only rob from the banks and those deposits are insured! I never steal from the little guy!" So say the bank gets in financial trouble and has to be purchased by a larger bank; do you think your deposits are protected by the FDIC? That's what the government wants you to believe, and that's what Hollywood big shots tell you, and most of the actors probably think it's a good line because they think it's true. There is no law protecting the consumer in the event of a theft. Some banks may refund some stolen money if that is their policy. 

Deep State backs any candidate that will help weaken the laws of this country. The goal is to take America down, and with it the rest of the world. They support the United Nations and want to turn that into a world governing body, they want the world bank to control the world economy and the world court to somehow regulate the laws of the world. Members of the Deep State are billionaires like Bill Gates who want to ultimately become a cabal that runs a giant world military. I have no idea how they plan to do that, they probably have so much money that they have lost all grasp of reality. 

And that is the reason why Donald Trump is being so persecuted by the FBI and the DOJ. He does believe in individual liberty and the law. He believes in the foundation of the United States of America. He is opposed to One World Order, he knows it is a bad idea and it cannot be obtained or controlled. The Deep State has a lot of power over our government. They control the FBI and the DOJ and the democrat party, along with several republicans. In an era where Deep State is hitting us hard with global warming concerns, teaching our children that there are more than two genders and that a child's parents shouldn't be involved in the child's education unless the parents agree with the Deep State B.S. and unbelievably parents are agreeing with them.

The establishment was about setting a national norm for people to follow. Dress a certain way, talk a certain way, get educated and find a job in corporate America. It was actually beneficial in a lot of ways and it was relatively civil. People could disagree without worrying that they'd be fired or beat up. Today I'm not sure corporate America even exists since now money is flowing from all over the world and many conglomerate corporations operate under the laws of many different countries. Certainly corporations today aren't burdened by worries about employee loyalty. Corporations are making so much money today and business is so automated that people are way undervalued. Unions aren't helping as much as they used to and the American worker is poorer today than ever before while corporations that now operate all over the world are wealthier than ever before. Low wages and inflation are killing everyone who isn't making at least 80k a year. 

We need solid Americans who want to make America strong, but also want to make sure the average American worker is treated right. The Asian model of stuffing a couple hundred thousand people into cramped high rise apartments and working 12 hour days cannot become the American ideal. Deep State is a real threat to our survival and we have to be on the lookout for good people to run for political office. And Deep State hates Donald Trump so they are using their enforcers at the FBI and DOJ to send him to prison if possible. One of the best presidents we've ever had and the FBI is trying to manufacture evidence to have him arrested. 

We can do better. If we're going to hate someone we should have a very good reason. The Constitution of the United States has to be protected at all cost, especially the Bill of Rights. Bureaucrats at offices like the EPA, DHS, IRS and others need to be defanged. They do not have any legal authority to impose fines or pass laws. They dang sure shouldn't have their own well armed army. 

Stop voting away your rights. Stop making your whole future about abortion. You can get an abortion if you want. Some states may have outlawed the procedure but that doesn't mean you can't travel to one that does. Always vote pro America. Stand for the flag don't be foolish. A lot of men and women gave everything they have and then some for you. Show them respect. Live happy dream big and enjoy the benefits of being an American.