Freedom is something that needs to be protected and valued.

Voting should be earned, not guaranteed, but the devil's in the details.

true. Frankly all I expected from Trump was to slow down collectivist movements, not stop them totally. the deep state is just too much to expect Trump to move mountains

Yeah, too many people are like the black dude seated on the ground in Miami a night before the Super Bowl who Jessee Waters, mic and hand, approached
and asked, "What do you think about the impeachment?" just to hear, "What impeachment?"

It's the "why" that is important in the lecture.
Calling it "the 4th" is an insult to the people who pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to win the freedom we take for granted.
Calling it "the 4th" is demeaning of the reason we celebrate. "The 4th" is a celebration of bar-b-que-ing meat, drinking beer, and nothing else.
Those who want to have us under their control, need us to forget why we celebrate and to forget what freedom really is.
We must never forget why freedom is of such great value that we must be willing for pledge our lives to protect it. Against enemies foreign and Domestic.

Thank you for adding excellent additional content to my comment. Griffin is a true patriot. His work has exposed a conspiracy that is only denied by the brainwashed or guilty.

I believe that Collins is up for election this year but I don't see her getting primaried. Murkowski isn't up for another two years. Romney not for four.

While I'd love to have more Constitution-loving Senators, I'll take even a RINO over a Dem. It may not seem like much, but at least there's the possibility of a vote in the right direction rather than simply a rubber stamp by the DNC talking heads.

if the dems keep the house in 2020, they will for sure look for anythign that trump does as basis for impeachment once he is re elected.

we realy need 60 real votes in senate supporting what trump wants to do. Not just republicans, some of which like Romney, Collins, Murkowsky and perhaps a few others are closet democrats

Me dino not surprised but BRAVO.

Me dino will start doing that, though I think just saying "Independence Day" would be enough if in part due to that space aliens invasion flick.
Should anyone make a face and ask a "Say what?" I'd be more than happy to educate.

I have been banned from some forums for pointing our that the US is supposed to be a Republican form of government, and how a democracy is barely better than a dictatorship.

Same here. My relatives and friends have all received the "Independence Day lecture" from me.

60 votes in the Senate to avoid all this nonsense "filibustering" by avoiding cloture would be awesome.

Another habit that I have tried to promote -- instead of saying "The fourth of July" -- I state fully, "Independence Day in the United States" -- it is quite a bit to say, but it also makes clear the date instead of the gradual watering down of the date and its meaning.

The interviewer, G. Edward Griffin, is also the author of The Creature from Jekyll Island -- a history of the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Mr. Griffin is still alive and sharing his message. I recently attended his Red Pill Expo in Mesquite Nevada where he, and others, gave presentations regarding topics of interest to members of The Gulch.

The next Red Pill Expo will be held June 6-7, 2020 on Jekyll Island, Georgia -- the location of the creation of the Federal Reserve Act.
https://redpillexpo.org/

Well said!

I watched the Norman Dodd video which is incredible. It fed my revolutionary fervor. The revelation by Todd amplified my belief that the entire government bureaucracy and the US public educational system has been and still being corrupted by those foundations. I thank my college professor who heavily influenced my inner rebelliousness to learn the history of revolution. I still believe that either a full-blown revolution or civil war will change what is happening in this country. I'm sorry, Ayn Rand's philosophy will not work until such a scenario happens.

In defense of a republic not a democracy:

Suppose your vital organs could be harvested to save two or more lives. Then the seriously ill people who need them, and who outnumber you, would have more votes to have you killed and disassembled for transplant parts than you would have to oppose them and stay alive.

Therefore, a pure democracy is fatal.

A republic offers a defense, albeit not a perfect one, of life, liberty, and property. Here, we have a strong argument that pure democracy is incompatible with life. Enslavement of the talented per popular vote, if permitted, would rescind liberty. Tax-the-rich already is known as an attack on property.

The most damning and arrogant thing Pelosi said during the impeachment hearings was that she regarded the House as the supreme branch of government, because it represents "the people," and that the President should obey the will of the people. That single statement throws out completely how our government is structured, ignores the fact that the House and the Senate together are the legislative branch, equal in standing with the Executive and Judicial branches, and essentially declares herself a monarch, able to issue decrees to which the president is subordinate.

Democracy is like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum, or the employees in charge of the twentieth century motor company. There are just more people on the left side of the IQ curve than on the upper part of the right side, such that there will be a dumbing down of a true democratic culture.

I have read a number of articles about the rise and fall of civilizations and the conclusion is that typical ly they last 250 years +-. 1776+250= 2026. Assuming Trump gets elected in 2020 and leaves in 2024 to a far left democrat, this prediction would just about fit for the USA.

Agreed!

A lot of conservatives need to get into the habit of referring to the USA as "a Republic."
Methinks lots of times conservatives refer to the USA as "a democracy" due to lazy thinking~~for I've seen this happen time and time again.

Democracy is exactly what the Founding Fathers wanted to avoid. They had studied ancient Athens and the rise and fall due to democracy.