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- We the Deplorables
- Frederick Douglass to Governor Blackface - Don’t Take My Guns
- The Grasshopper and the Ants (a fable)
- If You Can't Win, Impeach
- Thanking Our Volunteers
- Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid
- Seeing Through the Fake Narratives of the Left - Three reasons socialism will never succeed
- The Problem with ‘Red Flag’ Laws
- African Americans Don’t Need Reparations. We Need To Take Responsibility For Our Lives
- America, America, I Love You, Let Me Count the Ways
- Social Security and Medicare Still in Actuarial Deficit on a Long-Term Basis
- Do the rich pay their fair share?
- Are You a Tea Partier and Don’t Know It?
- Ending Civil Asset Forfeiture Abuse in Tennessee
- The Rhetoric of Ronald Reagan
- Even a Bad Investor Can Beat Social Security
- Celebrating Freedom in a Country That Seems to Be Throwing It Away
- Making the World Safe for Democracy – One Therapy Dog at a Time
- A Graphical Update on the National Debt
- In a Perfect World, the Government Would Protect Our Rights, But....
- Why I Oppose a 'Single-Payer' or 'Public Option' Medical Plan
- Leftist Battlecry: “No Borders! No Walls! No USA at All!”
- D.C. Sights for Tea Partiers
- Social Security and Medicare Trustees Issue Yet Another Warning
- Enough with the Government Dependency, Already!
- What If You Had No Right to Life, Liberty, or Property?
- Insider Reveals How the Media Distort the News on Guns
- U.S. Becoming More Economically Free, and That’s a Good Thing
- Why Do We Have the Second Amendment Right to Bear Arms?
- The Forgotten Black Patriots of the Revolutionary War
- Let the Opportunity Society Work Its Magic
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We the Deplorables
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
January 2020
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Scrooge described them as “surplus population” in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. Later, Henry Potter described them as “rabble” in the Frank Capra movie It’s a Wonderful Life. In the 2016 campaign for President, Hillary Clinton refereed to them as the “deplorables”.
But the United States Constitution refers to them as “We the People”. Despite this, there is a long history of average people being overlooked by certain members of the government. Their only opportunity to count was written into the Constitution by our founders who, despite their wealth in some cases, wanted this country to be governed by “the people”.
Over the years it has become so expensive to even run for office that only the very rich could hope to do so. Wealth can be made from business, but also from politics. But one has to ask “How do they become millionaires with a salary not representative of that figure?” The Clintons became excellent examples of this with the Clinton Foundation being used to raise millions of dollars for extravagant living and to give them the funds to be involved in politics. They were basically broke as a result of their personal efforts, but getting them into public office and running for President has changed all that. They are now part of the “ruling class”, and destined to run our lives, they thought.
They are all a part of the swamp that is imbedded into our government that runs it all, including the news media. But how can someone who generally cares about the average person ever have the resources to get into office and turn the situation around? Enter Donald Trump - a man with a reputation for effective negotiating skills, but he always had time and an ear for the average person. Truly he is an exceptional person. And what does he get for it? - absolute lies and attacks from the ruling class who see him as a threat to them. For this he takes no salary and has cut White House staff dramatically compared to his predecessor.
Why is he such a threat? Because he does care about the average person and owes nothing to the ruling class or the media. He believes that turning a person loose with economic opportunities will make this country better and his or her life better than it ever could be when run by the ruling class. The ruling class does not want this seen. The superiority of our system of individual freedom will outshine the socialist system promised by the progressives every time. When the average person sees his or her success without government intervention, the liberal philosophy of socialism will die a natural death as all people want to be free.
© Robert Harrison 2020
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
January 2020
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Scrooge described them as “surplus population” in Charles Dickens’ 1843 novel A Christmas Carol. Later, Henry Potter described them as “rabble” in the Frank Capra movie It’s a Wonderful Life. In the 2016 campaign for President, Hillary Clinton refereed to them as the “deplorables”.
But the United States Constitution refers to them as “We the People”. Despite this, there is a long history of average people being overlooked by certain members of the government. Their only opportunity to count was written into the Constitution by our founders who, despite their wealth in some cases, wanted this country to be governed by “the people”.
Over the years it has become so expensive to even run for office that only the very rich could hope to do so. Wealth can be made from business, but also from politics. But one has to ask “How do they become millionaires with a salary not representative of that figure?” The Clintons became excellent examples of this with the Clinton Foundation being used to raise millions of dollars for extravagant living and to give them the funds to be involved in politics. They were basically broke as a result of their personal efforts, but getting them into public office and running for President has changed all that. They are now part of the “ruling class”, and destined to run our lives, they thought.
They are all a part of the swamp that is imbedded into our government that runs it all, including the news media. But how can someone who generally cares about the average person ever have the resources to get into office and turn the situation around? Enter Donald Trump - a man with a reputation for effective negotiating skills, but he always had time and an ear for the average person. Truly he is an exceptional person. And what does he get for it? - absolute lies and attacks from the ruling class who see him as a threat to them. For this he takes no salary and has cut White House staff dramatically compared to his predecessor.
Why is he such a threat? Because he does care about the average person and owes nothing to the ruling class or the media. He believes that turning a person loose with economic opportunities will make this country better and his or her life better than it ever could be when run by the ruling class. The ruling class does not want this seen. The superiority of our system of individual freedom will outshine the socialist system promised by the progressives every time. When the average person sees his or her success without government intervention, the liberal philosophy of socialism will die a natural death as all people want to be free.
© Robert Harrison 2020
Frederick Douglass to Governor Blackface - Don’t Take My Guns
by Potomac Tea Party
January 11, 2020
(h/t KCarl Smith - LibertyMessengerUSA)
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last few weeks, you must have heard about the Gun-Quake in Virginia by now. As of this writing, 126 Virginia counties, cities, and towns have passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions. Ralph Northam, can you hear us now?
After his blackface scandal, Governor Northam has been on a charm offensive to woo back black support. He might do well to heed the wishes of women and minority gun owners to back off the Bloomberg-funded assault on gun rights that the Virginia Democrats have planned for the legislative session.
The Governor should atone by taking his cue from Frederick Douglass who was a big advocate of gun rights.
by Potomac Tea Party
January 11, 2020
(h/t KCarl Smith - LibertyMessengerUSA)
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Unless you’ve been living in a cave the last few weeks, you must have heard about the Gun-Quake in Virginia by now. As of this writing, 126 Virginia counties, cities, and towns have passed Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions. Ralph Northam, can you hear us now?
After his blackface scandal, Governor Northam has been on a charm offensive to woo back black support. He might do well to heed the wishes of women and minority gun owners to back off the Bloomberg-funded assault on gun rights that the Virginia Democrats have planned for the legislative session.
The Governor should atone by taking his cue from Frederick Douglass who was a big advocate of gun rights.
- “A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” (source)
- "...while the Legislatures of the South can take from him (the black man) the right to keep and bear arms, as they can ... the work of the Abolitionists is not finished." (source)
- “Frederick Douglass wrote in 1854 that a good revolver was critical to staying free: ‘Every slave hunter who meets a bloody death in his infernal business is an argument in favor of the manhood of our race.’” (source)
In 2019, Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposed a wealth tax.
The Grasshopper and the Ants (a fable)
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Once upon a time, there was a happy-go-lucky grasshopper who lived only to have fun. All through the long summer days, he would sing and dance, and laugh at the industrious ants who were busily preparing for winter. But then cruel winter came, and the grasshopper was starving. In desperation, he approached the ants' nest and begged for food. "You should have danced less and worked more," the ants scolded him, but then, being basically kind-hearted creatures, they decided to give him a few of their hard-won crumbs.
The next summer was exactly like the one before: Once more, the ants worked without pause, while the grasshopper sang and danced. When winter came, he appealed to the ants again, only this time, he brought his 10,000 children along with him. "It's thanks to your kindness," he said, "that I made it through the winter, and was able to father these little ones. Surely, you won't let us all starve to death."
The ants convened a meeting of their Council to decide what to do. On the one hand, they felt a certain responsibility for the grasshopper and his huge brood; on the other hand, feeding 10,000 growing grasshoppers could make a serious dent in their winter provisions.
Finally, one Council member had a brilliant idea. "Let's just take some food from the hardest-working ants. They've got more than enough, and won't mind sharing their good fortune with the needy grasshoppers."
The Council-of-Ants thought this was a splendid plan, and quickly acted on it. As a result, the grasshoppers survived the winter, the ants congratulated themselves on their compassion, and hardly anyone noticed that the hardest-working ants, whose food had been seized, left the nest in disgust.
Summer came around once again, and once again the grasshoppers danced and sang, while the ants toiled and saved. But without the hardest-working ants to do the heavy-lifting, the ants did not get very much accomplished, and barely accumulated enough food to get themselves through the winter.
And then, one cold and snowy day, the ants heard an ominous rumble approaching ever-closer. It was the sound of a million grasshoppers, all converging on their tiny ant-hill. "Since time immemorial," Grandfather Grasshopper solemnly declared, "the ant people have shared their winter provisions with the grasshopper people. We demand that you do so now, immediately, or we'll destroy your nest, and take by force what is rightfully ours."
- This fable is posted various places online. The nub of it goes back to Aesop and expresses an eternal truth about human nature. Today, we hear “the sound of a million grasshoppers” growing ever louder in our country.
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Once upon a time, there was a happy-go-lucky grasshopper who lived only to have fun. All through the long summer days, he would sing and dance, and laugh at the industrious ants who were busily preparing for winter. But then cruel winter came, and the grasshopper was starving. In desperation, he approached the ants' nest and begged for food. "You should have danced less and worked more," the ants scolded him, but then, being basically kind-hearted creatures, they decided to give him a few of their hard-won crumbs.
The next summer was exactly like the one before: Once more, the ants worked without pause, while the grasshopper sang and danced. When winter came, he appealed to the ants again, only this time, he brought his 10,000 children along with him. "It's thanks to your kindness," he said, "that I made it through the winter, and was able to father these little ones. Surely, you won't let us all starve to death."
The ants convened a meeting of their Council to decide what to do. On the one hand, they felt a certain responsibility for the grasshopper and his huge brood; on the other hand, feeding 10,000 growing grasshoppers could make a serious dent in their winter provisions.
Finally, one Council member had a brilliant idea. "Let's just take some food from the hardest-working ants. They've got more than enough, and won't mind sharing their good fortune with the needy grasshoppers."
The Council-of-Ants thought this was a splendid plan, and quickly acted on it. As a result, the grasshoppers survived the winter, the ants congratulated themselves on their compassion, and hardly anyone noticed that the hardest-working ants, whose food had been seized, left the nest in disgust.
Summer came around once again, and once again the grasshoppers danced and sang, while the ants toiled and saved. But without the hardest-working ants to do the heavy-lifting, the ants did not get very much accomplished, and barely accumulated enough food to get themselves through the winter.
And then, one cold and snowy day, the ants heard an ominous rumble approaching ever-closer. It was the sound of a million grasshoppers, all converging on their tiny ant-hill. "Since time immemorial," Grandfather Grasshopper solemnly declared, "the ant people have shared their winter provisions with the grasshopper people. We demand that you do so now, immediately, or we'll destroy your nest, and take by force what is rightfully ours."
If You Can’t Win, Impeach
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
December 2019
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Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution states plainly that the President can be “removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
What the Constitution does not say is that if you can set up a false court-style hearing that violates every element of the constitutional protections offered by the Constitution to the criminally accused, then with the total cooperation of the news media spreading false allegations as facts, you can impeach any President as soon as the polls show you have the needed percentage of sampled voters.
In 1974, the Democrats learned they could remove a popular President from office, despite his landslide victory, by use of the threat of impeachment. This was not done through the impeachment clause, but with the threat of impeachment. The Constitution is written to make such impeachments very difficult because each branch of government is designed to function independently.
The current impeachment effort is coming from the Democrats who spent most of the Obama era making sure the Republicans would not initiate impeachment actions against that President for his many impeachable acts.
But why this obsession with President Trump? As the Democrats go down a list of violations with which they have charged the President and each one collapsing under scrutiny of the facts, the compliant media has been totally humiliated. It has been a losing battle all the way.
Why do the Democrats continue down this losing road? It is simple. They cannot defeat President Trump in an election, either the last one or in all probability the next one. They cannot defeat his great economy and opportunities he makes available to every citizen. These successes are unmatched and offer much more hope and possibilities to every citizen of this great country than the government dependence offered by the Democrats.
© Robert Harrison 2019
by Robert Harrison
Special to Potomac Tea Party
December 2019
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Article II, Section 4 of the United States Constitution states plainly that the President can be “removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”
What the Constitution does not say is that if you can set up a false court-style hearing that violates every element of the constitutional protections offered by the Constitution to the criminally accused, then with the total cooperation of the news media spreading false allegations as facts, you can impeach any President as soon as the polls show you have the needed percentage of sampled voters.
In 1974, the Democrats learned they could remove a popular President from office, despite his landslide victory, by use of the threat of impeachment. This was not done through the impeachment clause, but with the threat of impeachment. The Constitution is written to make such impeachments very difficult because each branch of government is designed to function independently.
The current impeachment effort is coming from the Democrats who spent most of the Obama era making sure the Republicans would not initiate impeachment actions against that President for his many impeachable acts.
But why this obsession with President Trump? As the Democrats go down a list of violations with which they have charged the President and each one collapsing under scrutiny of the facts, the compliant media has been totally humiliated. It has been a losing battle all the way.
Why do the Democrats continue down this losing road? It is simple. They cannot defeat President Trump in an election, either the last one or in all probability the next one. They cannot defeat his great economy and opportunities he makes available to every citizen. These successes are unmatched and offer much more hope and possibilities to every citizen of this great country than the government dependence offered by the Democrats.
© Robert Harrison 2019
Thanking Our Volunteers
Potomac Tea Party
November 30, 2019
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Our volunteers stepped up again this year, enabling Potomac Tea Party and its spin-offs (Anticommunism Action Team, Constitution project, Eagle News, and Liberato.US) to:
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Potomac Tea Party
November 30, 2019
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Our volunteers stepped up again this year, enabling Potomac Tea Party and its spin-offs (Anticommunism Action Team, Constitution project, Eagle News, and Liberato.US) to:
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- Create videos on dynamic Tea Parties, historical sites, and the Constitution (these were a LOT of work - special thanks to our videographer for his outstanding work!)
- Publish articles on PTP’s website on patriotism, American history, red flag laws, etc.
- Engage the public on our core values at a conference in Pennsylvania, the Irish Festival in Old Town Alexandria and the Art on the Avenue festival in Del Ray (also Alexandria) (thank you, Booth Brigade!)
- Finish assisting the Virginia Tea Party with its local government project
- Reach out to Tea Party groups in Michigan
- Add to our list of D.C. sights for out-of-town Tea Partiers
- Suggest action items for PTP members
- Push back on enemies of the Constitution 5 times (attacks on free speech, electoral college, etc.). Volunteers in 12 states contributed their ideas and spread the pushback posts to their networks
- Hold a national conference call on Defending the Constitution
- Hand out hundreds of pocket Constitutions to the public on Constitution Day and at our festival booths and exhibitor tables (conferences and a gun show)
- Administer our Constitution Quiz at our festival booths and exhibitor tables
- Stay up to date on threats to free speech in Michigan and people fighting back against attacks on free speech around the country
- Influence pop culture with movie reviews
- Publish unique articles on ACAT’s website on China, New Soviet Man, America through the eyes of survivors of communism, etc.
- Take the powerful message survivors of communism have to the Heritage Foundation, Daily Signal, Leadership Institute, Breitbart, LevinTV, a Tea Party Patriots rally on Capitol Hill, GOP groups, liberty groups, and student groups in Georgia, California, and Detroit (thank you ACAT Speakers Bureau!)