I have some questions I want to ask every American… are you an American? Do you recognize the US Constitution to be the law of the land? Do you believe in the rule of law? If you answered yes, that’s good. Now let me ask… are you a Republican or a Democrat? Think about that before you answer. Can you be an American and participate in divisive partisan politics? The simple answer is yes… but, the answer is not that simple.
Hi folks! I found a very interesting article at the Washington Examiner regarding Julian Assange and his take on the Democrat Party. Greetings… this is your host Phil Glass.
On Saturday, June 24, 2017, there was a Headline in the Washington Examiner that caught my eye which stated this:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange explains why the Democratic Party is 'doomed'
by Daniel Chaitin | Jun 24, 2017, 1:59 PM Saturday
Please stay with me. What I'm about to discuss has relevancy to the Washington Examiner article.
The Examiner stated this:
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Saturday predicted the demise of the Democratic Party.
In a post online, shared by his Twitter account, Assange argued that the party has been "consumed" by "hysteria about Russia," something he called a "political dead end." It is upon this "narrative" that the "party's elite" attempts to keep a hold on power, he said.
"Without the 'we didn't lose’ ‘Russia won' narrative the party's elite and those who exist under its patronage would be purged for being electorally incompetent and ideologically passé," Assange said.
In other words, what Assange is saying is that the Democratic Party is incompetent and obsolete.
The article goes on to talk about how WikiLeaks is responsible for the publication of stolen documents from the DNC. It also says that based on intelligence reports, WikiLeaks and Guccifer2.0 were used by the Russians to undermine the 2016 elections in favor of Trump. Assange says that the "Trump-Russian collusion narrative" being investigated by a number of probes and consistently reported by the media is unfounded, and "we are left with the Democratic establishment blaming the public for not liking the truth about Hillary.
Now… here it is with respect to the democrat political party.
According to the Examiner article, He (Assange) ended his post by calling on the Democratic base to start a new party...
Assange said in his post, "The Democratic base should move to start a new party since the party elite shows no signs that they will give up power,"
Here’s a news flash… neither the Democrats or Republicans want to give up power.
Now… here’s where I weigh in with regard to addressing Constitutional Enforcement and the Divisive Nature of Political Parties.
At the close of the Constitutional Convention, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given us. Ben Franklin replied by saying: "A republic, if you can keep it."
Now, what did Ben Franklin mean by those words, “If you can keep it”? He said, “You” have to keep it! You, the American people are the keepers!
Keeping the Constitution doesn’t mean we sit around listening to the politicians, the news anchors and the political commentators deciding for us, the course of America. How is it, that you, the American people have any input or influence by watching and talking to the television, or… voting for the lesser of two evils? Americans have forsaken their most basic civic duties. By default, the politicians, the news anchors, and the political commentators have been making ...