March 28, 2024 10:58 AM
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Opinion: Ignorance Breeds Tyranny – Buz Williams

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“A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.” – Benjamin Franklin

It is important if citizens are going to vote, that they educate themselves on the issues and the candidates. The wise person will read the campaign material that overflows our mailboxes. That citizen will check with the political parties for their views on propositions, issues and candidates. He or she will attend candidate forums, debates and events that highlight the important issues. If possible, the voter may be able to speak to a candidate or a person involved in promoting a ballot measure.

Both political parties have committees that put out information and their recommendations on candidates and ballot measures. In addition, there are internet websites for every candidate and almost every proposition or ballot measure. It is incumbent on voters to study and research before they vote. The Founding Fathers knew this and stated it often. Thomas Jefferson said, “If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.”

During every election cycle, pundits and partisan party officials claim that the next election is the most important in our history. They do this to motivate the citizens to vote. But this 2022 midterm election really is the most important in our time. The Biden Administration, with Democrat majorities in the House and the Senate, have caused the highest inflation in decades. They left the Taliban 80 billion dollars’ worth of military weapons with the ill-advised, uncoordinated, incompetent withdrawal in Afghanistan that left more Americans dead and abandoned our allies there.

They purposely ceded our energy independence to the progressive “green new deal” ideologues. They have politicized the FBI, the Intelligence bureaucrats and the IRS. They are buying guns and ammo for non-law enforcement government officials. When the left, progressives and Democrats accuse the MAGA Republicans of “threatening our democracy”, of subverting the Constitution and to being an existential threat to our way of life, anyone who is aware of reality knows that that is exactly what they are doing.

The voters must educate themselves because much of the media shares the aims and goals of the progressive left. Unfortunately, the low information voters depend on the mainstream media for their political information. This is so dangerous. James Madison stated, “A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps, both.”

The Presidential and Congressional elections in 2020, appears to have been the “prologue” to the farce and tragedy we are living through now. As educated, well informed voters, we can start to turn things around in November. Learn about all the issues and the candidates at the federal, state and local levels, (don’t forget the very consequential school governing board elections), and vote. Don’t believe any polls that say a candidate is going to win by a landslide. Go out and vote for the best candidate regardless of what the polls predict.

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8 Responses

  1. Excellent advice. However , are we seeing such advice on the major alphabet TV stations? In the large circulation news papers or popular magazines? The church I attend was afraid of the IRS and would not let me make an announcement I would be registering voters after the service. Many businesses and public service locations still have covid markings and mask notices posted.
    Our schools are not teaching fundamentals such as true American history and deep study’s of our founding principles and detailed study of our constitution and how it was argued out; principle by principle in Philadelphia the Summer of 1787. Also remind the young about our 156 years of agricultural capitalism economics that led to our Declaration of Independence in 1776.

  2. We also need to guard against the Democrats buying votes with taxpayer money.

    Denver, CO will give $12,000 to homeless people and you can be sure that the money will be handed over with the words “vote Democrat” hurled at the recipient multiple times.

    Activist DA’s all over the US, most funded by George Soros and other criminals, will let violent criminals off to wreak their havoc over and over again. The words “vote Democrat” will be hurled multiple times at the criminals as they head out the door, free to commit crimes yet again.

    Democrats steal taxpayer money and give it to people who foolishly took out student loans to study useless subjects that were made up by universities for the sole purpose of stealing student and taxpayer money. The words “vote Democrat” are hurled multiple times at the recipient.

    FACT: the Democrat Party steals taxpayer money and uses it to buy votes. Between that and election theft, they maintain their highly destructive influence on American politics. This is the true existential threat to our beloved Republic.

    Remember this during the midterms. Vote against The Space Clown. He steals our money. He does nothing to protect the border. He voted for every insane spending package put forth by Chuck “Hey look there’s more money to steal” Schumer. The same is true for Blondie the Fake Firebrand. She too is a money thief.

  3. Ryan, You wrote “Activist DA’s all over the US, most funded by George Soros” , how exactly does Mr. Soros “fund” a District Attorney?

  4. Heeeeeeeeeere’s Deputy Dawg, self appointed Comments Policeman scoring big Radical Left Brownie Points Saturday before lunchtime (looks like they closed early last night at the Revolution-in-the-Air Cafe) and increasing the reading on my Radical-o-Meter from 8.5 to 10.7 MegaAlinsky. Keep up the good work!!!

    Heeeeeeeeeeere’s the answer to Deputy Dawg’s question:

    GEORGE SOROS SENDS THEM MONEY. Duh.

      1. FACT: George Soros has given millions of US Dollars to fund Kim Foxx, George Gascon, Chesa Boudin (recently recalled), Larry Krasner, Alvin Bragg and many more DA’s that, of course, have a long record of letting criminals out of jail.

        But then again, you won’t hear the facts from DNCCNNLOL, Whoopie Goldberg, MSDNC, Don Lemon, Chris Wallace and all the other clowns in the mainstream media. That might explain your puzzling claim said donations “…would be illegal!”

  5. Many Americans are too lazy to seek out information. For them ignorance is bliss. They allow themselves to be brainwashed by the fake news media and then around election time they rely solely on the deceptive political ads produced by the candidates and special interest groups to make their choices at the ballot box. At the same time the fake news media reminds viewers that it is their civic duty to cast their ballots in an election.

    There are voters who know the statistics for every player on the Arizona Diamondbacks roster by memory or who know all the latest gossip about their favorite Hollywood celebrities yet they don’t have the time or won’t make the effort to study the candidates for public office and the issues. When it comes time to cast their ballots they are uninformed or more likely misinformed by dishonest political ads. There are no laws against putting false or misleading claims in political ads so most of them should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism.

    The political parties rely heavily on these apathetic voters. They know that these sluggards will sit back and allow themselves to be spoon fed by the producers of political propaganda. Why bother to seek out information when it is readily available via the mailbox or the boob tube? For these voters it is more likely that the candidate with the most money to spend on political propaganda will garner their votes.

  6. Yes, ignorance breeds tyranny.

    CASE IN POINT, THE MV50
    Joe Biden and the rest of the Democrats are spinning around in circles and howling at the moon because of the 50 (very well fed) illegal alien Venezuelans flown to Marxist’s Vineyard by the no-nonsense, America-First Governor of Florida. The Radical Left clowns that run MV called it a “humanitarian crisis”. Horse Face called it “crimes against humanity”. Good grief, you’ve never seen such a fine example of SELECTIVE OUTRAGE.

    But of course, when 10’s of thousands of illegal aliens swarm over the border into Del Rio, TX, you get dead silence from all Radical Left Democrats. When millions of people enter the US illegally because they were invited to do so by the Biden Administration what do you get? Dead silence.

    FACT: the people coming over the border include Venezuelan criminals sent to the US by the filthy murderous dictator MADURO, and people that are infected with unpronounceable diseases and people that have absolutely no legitimate claim for asylum and people that will game the system and rip off the US Taxpayer. Sure, not all of them, but many of them. Crimes will be committed against innocent Americans.

    When the MV Clowns (you know, the ones with the signs that say WE STAND WITH IMMIGRANTS) force the MV50 off their precious island in less that 48 hours, what to you get from Horse Face and all the other clowns in the Democrat Party? NOT A WORD.

    But it’s true, if the general population doesn’t see through the filthy lies and deceptions hurled at us every day by the Radical Left, we very well may turn into a dangerous third world dictatorship as is the ultimate goal of the Democrat Radical Left Money and Election Thieves. But I think Donald Trump is right, the Radical Left Clowns have awoken a MAGA SLEEPING GIANT and said Giant will soon lace up the heavy Frankenstein Boots and do The Bristol Stomp on the people that steal elections, steal money and try every filthy trick in the book to control other people’s lives.

    In the midterms, be sure to vote against The Space Clown. He steals our money. He does nothing about crime. He does nothing about stopping the outrageous socialist spending by the Democrat Party. He just capitulates and does exactly what Chuck “Money Thief” Schumer tells him to do. The same is true of Blondie the Fake Firebrand. Be sure to vote against her in 2024.

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