{"id":523,"date":"2015-06-26T21:18:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T21:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-05-04T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T23:29:52","slug":"to-the-left-and-the-right-troubling-times-are-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"To the Left and the Right&#8230; troubling times are here&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this draft blog post today after seeing another attempt of the Obama administration using coercion to try and override the Democratic process.  Things haven&#8217;t changed in over a year.  smh.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/michellejesse\/breaking-justice-department-makes-huge-ruling-on-transgender-bathrooms<\/p>\n<p>[cont. from almost a year ago]<\/p>\n<p>This quote I ran into this afternoon is worth pondering&#8230; put the\u00a0most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/26\/politics\/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\">recent ruling<\/a> aside, because no matter which side you are on, you should smell\u00a0danger.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the most recent areas of contention: marijuana, Obama Care and equal rights\u00a0based on sexual proclivities\u00a0underlines a growing pattern: when the government overrules the democratic process, how long will it be before the\u00a0people rise once again to say &#8220;enough is enough&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Today, I can think of only one thing that is providing the glue that keeps us in a cohesive\u00a0bond across this country&#8230; and that alone, is scary, given its ephemeral, coercive nature: money and the federal reserve bank. \u00a0How long will states allow their constitutional sovereignty to be overridden based on the color of printed paper? \u00a0How would the government respond if states decided to secede\u00a0from the union?<\/p>\n<p>We need to find a democratic way to bring us back to our democratic roots, because, based\u00a0on history, our republic is not really &#8220;our&#8221; republic,\u00a0and &#8216;our&#8217; government, created by the people and for the people, will not hesitate to take unilateral action to remain in control&#8230; it&#8217;s the nature of humanity.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely worth pondering&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It appears the American Experiment (i.e. can man, acting in concert with his Maker, govern himself free of despots and tyrants) has largely terminated after only a couple of hundred years. I am thankful to God to have been given a fleeting glimpse of the tail end exiting freedom&#8217;s door.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this draft blog post today after seeing another attempt of the Obama administration using coercion to try and override the Democratic process. Things haven&#8217;t changed in over a year. smh. http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/michellejesse\/breaking-justice-department-makes-huge-ruling-on-transgender-bathrooms [cont. from almost a year ago] This quote I ran into this afternoon is worth pondering&#8230; put the\u00a0most recent ruling aside, because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;To the Left and the Right&#8230; troubling times are here&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diary","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":561,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions\/561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darthjedi.logiodice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}