Will this be the next thing attacked

[Ninurta]

Mind you, I'm not keen on your Last sentence  ......lol, but there lies a great deal of truth within it.

The last sentence - the United State used to be... United States. The power resided in the states, and they were in a union of convenience, with the Federal government limited to settling disputes between states, regulating actual commerce between states, controlling the common money supply, and presenting a united front in matters of foreign policy, mostly trade but occasionally war. That was demonstrated in the war against the Barbary Pirates under Jefferson. For the most part, in matters of war, we avoided foreign entanglements unless there just was no avoiding them - the Barbary Pirates, the war with Mexico, the invasion of Canada during the War of 1812, all were results of attacks on, or invasions of, the United States.

It was in the aftermath of the Civil War, during "Reconstruction", when things started going off the rails, and the Federal government started seizing power from the states. The Spanish American War, and invasion of Cuba, for example, were just plain pure foreign adventurism, without any real provocation. That was when wars of aggression rather than wars of defense started for America. That was down to Federal muscle-flexing, rather than any sort of actual defensive action.

Further power was eroded from the states when the election of Senators was seized from the state governments and given to a popular vote. That is not how it was set up to be, in the beginning. Senators were originally appointed by state governments, and their function was to represent state's interests. The House of Representatives were elected by the People, and their function was to represent the interests of the People. In that way, the interests of all parties involved in the Constitution were represented, and balanced. Further erosion of State power and representation occurred when the Senate elections were given over to popular voting - then one single party to the constitutional compact had ALL the say... more, so it seemed.

That's how it works, you know. First consolidate all the power in one centralized location, then seize that power from that location for yourself.

The Federal government then kept on seizing more and more power, and removing power from states. It got to the point that the Federal government started seizing power on how states' internal affairs were ran by such stratagems as invoking the Commerce Clause to regulate purely internal matters of states, matters that had nothing to do with interstate commerce. That occurred during the racial strife of the 1960's. Racial strife has been good to the Federal government (starting with the Civil War), and their seizure and centralization of consolidated power. It's no surprise they are making use of the same strategem again.

The Feds instituted a Federal income tax to seize wealth from the populace and the states, and then started using that money to buy further influence in states - "we ain't giving you any of YOUR OWN money back unless you do as we say" after having seized that money in the first place. 

Around the same time, the Federal Reserve was created, which is not "federal" at all - it is a group of private banks, not a governmental agency of any sort, yet it controls our money supply, which is a responsibility the Constitution delegates to the Federal government alone, not private interests. That was when the Fascism started creeping in to the Federal government, the original "public-private partnership" that gave private corporations defacto power over private citizens' lives, with the citizens having no say in the matter whatsoever.

Now they are further eroding state power by asserting that they have some kind of right - and this notion is directly against the provisions of the Constitution, a direct violation of it - to regulate how states run elections, despite the Constitutional provision that ONLY states have the power to run their own elections.

They are placing the final nail in the coffin of the states' rights, and seizing power from the People now for themselves. The election rigging is the canary in the coal mine for that power grab. They insist on running elections and taking power to do so from the states so that they can more easily rig future elections Federally, removing the actual power of the vote from the hands of the People, and will then never have to give up their power.

They are circumventing Constitutional provisions of the assurance of our Rights by making fascistic use of corporations to do the dirty work of violating them, albeit with federal blessings, to eliminate the First Amendment. They are flat out ignoring the Second Amendment in an effort to disarm the People to prevent uprisings when the People finally figure out what is going on. The aim appears to me to be centralization of all power in the Federal regime, and seizure of that power from all other parties to the Constitution.

A Totalitarian Dictatorship under the Marxist rule of the Democrat party as proxies for the CCP, who were quick to notice the seizure and centralization of power by the Federal government, and who them cut to the chase by assisting the Marxist Fellow Travelers in the DNC in seizing the Federal government and consolidating all that power under a One Party Rule, and buying or blackmailing key Democrats to insure that the power flows through Beijing in the final analysis.

So, from my perspective, there truly is no longer a "United States", and it has become, in all but name, an "American Federal Empire".

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