I have heard many people, smart people, not people in the
media or other lefties, but common, working people, ask how in the world it was
possible for a democrat to be elected dog catcher last week. That is a valid question, unless you live in
NY, CA or IL where it is a waste of oxygen.
But, rather than analyze the question, I offer you an answer via a real
life, no shit, serious conversation that I had with a US Army Colonel on Monday
night. This story DID happen, I was a
part of it, and my head still hurts.
So, it was election night.
The only humans on our floor of this huge, joint headquarters, with
tentacles around the world are me and a US Army Colonel. She makes the comment, as she is watching the
coverage, that “she cannot believe that the republicans are beating “us” by so
much. I heard that and let it go for a
few reasons; she is a colonel and I am a contractor and I do not need that crap
sandwich because I would have it force fed to me and shown the door, plus I like
the woman, she is a good person. And I
get it, she is a mixed race (black and Algonquin Indian-believe THAT or not-
and she is obviously a female and she is from Massachucetts……so there is
literally NO breaking through that leftist skull. But like I said, get past the intellectual
disconnect of serving your nation in uniform and being a democrat, she is a
good person. A few moments passed and
she said, I think just speaking out loud, “What’s the big deal about the
congress? Congress and the senate are
about the same, right?”
She should have said “those ones”, because I damned near
stroked out right there. I composed
myself and said “eighth grade civics ma’am.”
She asked me what I meant. Now,
she is a few years younger than me, but not by much. Most of my peer group is either retired or
are 2 and 3 star generals now, so as colonel would be my age junior, meaning
that she MUST have had just a little of what you and I think of or remember as “civics”.
I explained to her in painstaking detail the intent of the
lower and upper houses of “congress”, including the fact that, technically a “senator”,
like a “representative” was also a “congressman”…..a small point but one lost
on most people. I explained the
difference in intent, that one represents the interest of the state, the other
of the people OF the state, and that the house was the only part of congress
that it was specified would be elected “by the people”. I explained to her the seventeenth amendment
and why I thought that was a bad idea.
She listened, she seemed to understand, but I in no way “educated” her.
And I KNOW I in no way educated her, because before we were
done, she made the comment that she felt like the democrats offered more “freedom”
and she was committed to womens’ “freedom of choice”.
And you cannot, you CAN NOT reason with people of that
mindset. A key element of their development
is missing, has been ignored or not even addressed, and that is “edjukation”. For a leader, a field grade officer, in the
US armed forces to interpret socialism as “providing more freedom” is an
abomination…..agree or disagree you should at least UNDERSTAND. Also, to not know the difference and intent
of the two houses of the US legislature is also a tragedy, especially if you
are voting for either. AND….and, this
problem ONLY gets worse the younger the voter.
The college generation of today would be flabbergasted to know the
intent of the federal government, the meaning and the purpose, because their
whole life they have been fed a lie, if fed at all. For them, the XVIIth amendment, which makes
both houses a popularity contest among the uninformed, seems perfectly normal.
And bona fide idiots making public pronouncements showing
THEIR lack of understanding of the system in which they are in, don’t
help. Wednesday Nancy Pelosi, celebrating
the lefts regaining the majority in the House, praised the founders for
establishing the legislative branch first among the branches of the
government. Her position was that the
fact that the legislative branch was first in the constitution, it was an
indicator the importance the founders put on the legislature. However, even an exhaustive reading of the
founders papers would give no indication OTHER THAN the fact that the states
already had several, different, legislative bodies, giving the founders something
to work with rather than creating something out of whole cloth, as the reason for establishing the legislature first in sequence. The three branches of government are supposed to be, meant to be, co-equal.
But Pelosi is an idiot….and this colonel is not….you don’t
get to be a colonel by being a moron……the military actually considers that a
disqualifier (usually). The colonel is
only indoctrinated.
Most likely, like your kids….or possibly, even your family.
No comments:
Post a Comment