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frost73ite

Member Since 13 Mar 2016
Offline Last Active May 08 2016 08:54 PM

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In Topic: The United States Presidential Election of 2016 [Brohoof Edition]

06 May 2016 - 11:36 AM

I agree, which is why I recommend voting for Constitutionally aligned candidates in all levels of the government. Change can only be made if the majority will take action this election, and have a true revolution, by placing in power people who will protect and defend the Constitution, and overthrow the laws and regulations that subvert, infringe, or deny our Constitutional rights.

 

This election cycle, the only people who will be on the ballots that are Constitution friendly are the Libertarian candidates. While I don't advocate parties in general, and am hesitant to say any one party as a whole better supports the Constitution, for now, the best choices are in that party.


In Topic: The United States Presidential Election of 2016 [Brohoof Edition]

05 May 2016 - 06:09 PM

The fact of the matter is that Washington, Jefferson, and all of the rest of the northern delegates were wanting slavery abolished as part of the ratification of the Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation as the foundational federal law, upon which the newly formed nation was founded. The southern states representatives refused, until a compromise was agreed to that they be granted 100 years to give them time to find ways to replace slave labor in their extremely labor intensive main crops of tobacco and cotton.

Furthermore, Africans were not the only people who were slaves during that period. In fact, Irish men and women would be sold into slavery as well, and often treated worse than their African counterparts.  Slavery was not about race. It never has been about race or hate. It was always used as a means to reduce the cost of producing goods or maintaining sizeable property.

There is nothing about the founders of this country to indicate that they hated the indigenous people of this land. Were there conflicts? Yes. Were there battles? Yes. That, however; is where the story during the founding and before the westward movement diverges from the claims of the anti-constitutional movement. The truth is that the majority of early American colonists and the leaders of each state had relatively good relationships with the natives. It wasn't until much later when the idea of "manifest destiny", and the drive westward that the "native American hating racists" began to come into power.

George Washington himself worked side by side with the natives multiple times, both before and during the Revolutionary War during battles and afterward. Furthermore, according to accounts, he freed the people he had held as slaves, and those who continued in his service were paid fair wages according to the contemporary standard. According to those accounts, most stayed on.

 

The people who are feeding the public the lies that slavery was about hate or race, or that the Founding Fathers hated Native Americans are the very same people who want to strip us ALL of our rights and freedoms, so they can establish a totalitarian government, and rule us, rather than govern according to justice and equality.

 

As I said, skin color had nothing to do with it.


In Topic: The United States Presidential Election of 2016 [Brohoof Edition]

01 May 2016 - 09:07 PM

For now, the best option is homeschooling, as the system is so messed up. Programs like the "no student left behind" act, and such only aim for an equality of outcome, rather than an improvement in education. As I don't personally have experience or training as an educator, I can't offer any specifics. I know and understand the problems and the concepts that can overall fix the problems, however; lacking the appropriate specifics, I can't offer a solution. I'd certainly recommend talking to teachers as well as homeschooling parents to see what steps would best overcome the problems we face.


In Topic: The United States Presidential Election of 2016 [Brohoof Edition]

01 May 2016 - 12:15 PM

Squint, The color of the Founding Fathers skin has nothing to do with it. As for them being "old", the oldest among them (Benjamin Franklin) was in his mid forties. They were all between 30 and 45(+/-). They were also very enlightened. Read their writings, and you will see just exactly how much they knew and understood. I get that you disagree with my view points, though I have no idea why. All I see is that you are angry that I'm saying anything that contradicts your feelings. Express your point of view, and give your reasons, or just leave the discussion.

 

Trotsky, I completely agree with you (on most points)! That is why I take every opportunity (here and elsewhere), to advocate that people look at what is happening, and educate themselves on the history of the country, and become involved by voting in favor of the Constitution.

On education, the system didn't actually fall into decay. It was designed to decay by the early "progressives" in the country during the height of the anti-communist fever here. Until education was federally mandated, teachers taught all their students according to their individual needs, and the general public was very well educated indeed. There were indeed those who were illiterate, and uneducated, because they chose to abandon studies to find work, either because they couldn't afford or lacked the interest in furthering their education. The moment the government put their noses into the education of our youth, the education system began to break down, to the point where across the board, publicly educated high school graduates today understand less of what they are "taught" in school then those with what would now be considered a third or fourth grade education at the time of our nation's birth. Many of the men who founded this country learned by private individual study after the end of their third to fifth year of formal education. The system of education needs to be redesigned to the needs of the students, rather than fitting everyone based almost entirely by the year they were born. Some learn slower, some learn faster, and all have different approaches to learning from everyone else.

 

One of the great principles included in the Constitution was the ability of the voting public to have a completely non-violent political revolution every number of years. If we don't like the decay of this nation, we need to have another revolution, by voting out the politicians on both sides of the aisle, and place in their stead those who will bring the freedoms and progress of this country back into high gear. We The People founded this country. We The People made it great, and We The People can reform it, taking it back to its Constitutional roots, and make it great again.


In Topic: The United States Presidential Election of 2016 [Brohoof Edition]

01 May 2016 - 02:21 AM

I didn't copy-paste even a single character. All of that is straight from my own mind (as extrapolated from my study of US history, US government, actual readings of the Constitution, and Declaration of Independence, and conversations with many people of a great many political and socio-economic points of view; with a healthy dose of philosophy and theological perspective thrown in). I was estimating. As I said, "give or take".

 

edit: PS, I am not in favor of any party. I am completely in favor of following the Constitution in the context of the Declaration of Independence, and Revolutionary War.