The Pendulum or political wind has always swung back and forth over time. The Progressives starting in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s started the push to remove the checks on government that is that Pendulum. The Founders gave us in the Constitution a separation of power that prevents “Tyranny of the Majority.”  It prevented take over by one faction.  They gave us a Representative Republic rather than a pure Democracy. They understood the dangers of a Pure Democracy.

The Federal government had to go to the States for funding. That was changed with the 16^th Amendment. Now the Government can tax us at will and buy votes with our own money.

The House of Representatives was the voice of the people.

The Senate was the representative for the States. This representation was stripped from the States and handed to the People with the 17^th Amendment in essence killing the idea of States Rights enshrined in the Constitution and expressly referenced in the Bill of Rights specifically the 10^th Amendment.

The Electoral College was designed so that every state and person was represented when choosing a President. Each state sends electors equal in number to their combined Representatives and Senators. This prevents small sections of this vast diverse Nation from picking the President. This ensures that the so called “Fly Over Country” matters and their interests must be taken into consideration.  This is increasingly under attack in recent years.

The Supreme Court was supposed to be the protector of the Constitution and was until FDR attempted to “Pack” the court because the sitting members of the court wouldn’t say his policies were Constitutional. This attempt was stopped by his own party who still believed in the process and the Constitution. This led to the 22^nd Amendment that limits the President to a maximum of two terms.

This attempt is attributed by some to the “Switch in Time that Saved Nine.”  Woodrow Wilson and other Progressives had for years pushed the idea that the Constitution wasn’t designed for more modern times and coined the term “Living Constitution.” The “Living Constitution” they envisioned was one that was reinterpreted, modified by the Court rather than following the Amendment process. The Amendment process was too slow and required the input of “The People” who were unlikely to grant the Federal Government the power it desired. Today any Justice who does the job as intended by the Founders is labeled an “Originalist” or “Textualist” as if it is a bad thing. The Supreme Court has in some ways become a pendulum within the pendulum when it was intended to be a Firewall for the Constitution.

This Pendulum has been under attack and has been successfully weakened but there is a real danger that it may be destroyed in the very near future. There is a movement with a real possibility of success, to end the Electoral College and effectively remove the rural mind from the Presidential election process. The second part of this pendulum killer is to add states to the union either by dividing existing states or adding new ones. This would have little impact on the House but it would effectively lock the pendulum in the Senate to one side with little chance of it ever moving again.

This pendulum effect is what has allowed us to last as a nation for as long as we have. Once a major portion of a society no longer feels they have a say, bad things happen.

Save the Pendulum and save the Nation

If there was a single ounce of Journalistic Integrity left in this country this race wouldn’t even be close.

There has been a full on character assassination against President Trump from the moment that he won the last election.

We know, if we chose to step out of the hate Trump echo chamber, that Hillery Clinton concocted the Russia story to divert attention from her email server issues. With the knowledge and support of President Obama and VP Biden.

We also know that they politicized the Justice Dept. having it spy on Trump when he was running for office and worked to keep information from his transition team after the election. We also know that General Flynn was set up to keep him from discovering the acts and cleaning house.

We also know, if you chose to look and listen, that there were some serious shady dealings going on in the Ukraine and Hunter Biden along with the Obama Administration were involved. When the Ukraine government started to investigate Burisma including Hunter Biden, VP Biden had the Prosecutor fired. There is video of VP Biden bragging that he told them they wouldn’t get promised money from the American Government if the individual was not fired. Now Hunter Bidens laptop with email correspondence between himself and the Ukrainians show he was selling influence to them. The fall back response…Russia did it. This was quickly shut down by the Intelligence community, No Russia connection. Will the media cover it. Probably not. They haven’t covered anything else that might hurt the Biden Campaign. Instead of asking troublesome questions they want to know what flavor milkshake he got. They have become the de facto marketing arm of the Biden for President campaign.
Not to mention the corrupt shady dealings with China.

Obama/Biden told us that 4.5 or 5% unemployment was the new normal and the jobs would never come back. Under their policies that would be a true statement. Trump brought many of those unrecoverable jobs back and gave us the lowest unemployment in decades. Especially in the minority communities. Not just unskilled low wage service type jobs either. The household income rose under Trump. Everywhere you look you see new construction, houses and businesses are going up.

As for the Corona/Covid virus response. The only mistake he made was not sticking to the initial “Flatten the Curve” plan and allowing the media to scare people into extended mass shutdowns. This set an otherwise booming economy back significantly. It is coming back and faster than many expected. It would be much better if not for a few Governors and the media constant drum beat that the sky is falling.

If I were President Trumps advisor, I would tell him to pretend that he is talking to his grandchildren during this last “debate.” The cards are stacked against him once again. From the topics to the moderator. He needs to show a tremendous amount of self control and speak directly to the American people. Not the “moderator” and not VP Biden, just the people. He needs to reassure them that the worst of the virus is over. He needs to remind them that a vaccine is on the way for all who want to take it. Not by some Government Dictatorial mandate. He needs to look into the camera and say how he understands that our country has lost a step since the virus and ask everyone watching to think back a few short months ago to February and ask your selves were you better then than 4 years ago, because that is where we are headed and then some with a Trump reelection. That needs to be the last thing the American people need to see and hear from him on Thursday night.

For several weeks Steve Deace has been picking apart the polls. He claims the metrics don’t add up. The questions and who is being asked are suspect. Some just flat don’t match reality. For example The latest rasmussen poll would have Biden doing better than FDR near the end of the War when we were fulling in coltrol. It would also have us believe that Trump is only going to get about 75% of the registered Republican vote. It means that Trump is going to pull less Republicans support this time than last when guys like Deace and Glenn Beck were very vocal Never Trumpers and now they are all in for Trump. Not likely.

Next lets look at the push from the left for mass mail in voting, trying to change the voting rules in many states in the 11^th hour, and ignoring the fact that in any normal election about 20% of the votes are tossed for irregularities. In some places they are trying to get the requirement for a signature and postmark removed. Nothing could go wrong with that, right? This has planned disenfranchisement written all over it and the possibility of wide spread fraud. Take a look at www.truethevote.org to see the rules in your state.

So we have questionable poll numbers and the potential for a long wait for results and a lot of disenfranchised voters. What could go wrong or maybe it is going as some have planned.

Take a look at this. It can be found on several websites but I’m including the link to MSNBC since some of my friends don’t trust conservative sources. I’m including a lint to Glenn Beck’s page with the same document and additional information for those of you who don’t trust MSNBC.

Pay specific attention to some of the wording and then the “War Gaming.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/read-the-transition-integrity-project-s-full-report/ar-BB17x0w3

https://www.glennbeck.com/blog/documents-everything-you-need-from-glenns-election-war-game-special

Then ask yourself honestly are we being setup?

Go vote in person if at all possible. If not request an absentee ballot and return it as soon as you can. Don’t be part of a delayed count.