We get into this topic at the end of Friday’s America’s Third Watch segment but I wanted to address the issue more thoroughly. The level of constitutional illiteracy held by US Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) – not to mention US Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Ed Markey (D-MA) – in their proposed legislation to force a private sector company to abide by governmental edict is beyond stunning. It is grotesque.
Walgreens, the Deerfield, Illinois-based pharmacy chain, recently closed a location in Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, which happens to be in Pressley’s district. Walgreens has closed three store locations in the Boston Area since 2022.
The reason for these closures is simply. Because they existed in high-crime neighborhoods and were routinely targeted for robberies, it became economically unfeasible to allow those locations to remain open.
Add to that the fact that Boston – a Blue urban area – has adopted the intellectually stunted policy of decreased police response and rate of prosecution under the guise of “equity” and the matter becomes one of economic survival and employee safety. It isn’t profitable or safe for these locations to remain functional.
But, wouldn’t you know it, Pressley – perhaps one of the most egregious race baiters elected to federal office, almost broke herself getting to the microphone to play the race card:
That Warren and Markey decided to coattail on this absurd protestation stands as testimony to how little our elected officials understand the laws of economics, the Constitution, and the many forms of government in the world.
The United States was founded – and thrived to become the greatest economic power on the face of the planet – on the employment of a free market system. People produce products and/or offer services and the market determines the rate of compensation by establishing a level of compensation agreeable to all parties.
That’s the way it was supposed to be. But ever since the US federal government raped the Commerce Clause and twisted the Supremacy Clause into origami to give the federal government much more authority over our daily lives than originally attended, we have moved away from a free market system.
Today government interference is prevalent across what was once a free market. Executive Branch regulatory authority means we have to ask permission from the government to do anything in the marketplace. You need a license to:
Collect rainwater
Go fishing
Own property
Start a business
Renovate your home
Build a home
Operate a vehicle
Get married
Hunt
Own a weapon
Cut hair
Sell a product
Protest
Grow food on your property
Sell food
Set up a lemonade stand in many places
The list goes on and on and now, evidently – according to Pressley, Warren, and Markey – the government is now assuming the authority to tell you where you will operate your businesses and when you can close them.
The definition of fascism is:
“...a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”
Understanding how intrusive our federal government is in the private sector allegedly “free” market, it is hard not to check the box next to each one of those qualifiers. All you have to do is replace the word “dictator” with “oligarchy” and we are there.
The solution to this despotic power grab is not to “vote them out” – although it would be a great place to start. Truth is because electoral party politics biorhythms like a pendulum from conservative to liberal “vote them out” doesn’t work.
No, the solution is for the 50 states to take back the power they foolishly let the federal government take from them and that can be achieved through the use of nullification.
I lay out a solid plan to implement nullification – and more – in my book, Nullification: The Case for Decentralizing the Federal Government, available on Amazon in paperback and in Kindle form.
Encouraging and aiding our state governments to tame the federal government shows neofascists like Pressley the door; the days of their ideological bullying and grifting the taxpayers at an end.
Together, we can achieve this and we can save the Republic. We just have to be cohesive in our determination to do so.
Now, Friday’s segment on America’s Third Watch, as broadcast coast-to-coast on the Salem and Genesis Communications Networks.
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The Neofascist Left’s Ignorance Of Government Is Beyond Stunning