The Patriotic Code of Honor – “One nation, under God” – “In God We Trust” – A Prayer for Thanksgiving

I grew up in the Midwest, the breadbasket of the world.  We never learned how to sit around pissing and moaning and being angry with everyone who dared oppose any view we may have or embrace.

Long ago, thanks to our brother Samuel Clemens from Hannibal, Missouri, better known as Mark Twain, he captured our particular views through his masterful words.  Twain said we should never be upset with anyone just because they thought they knew better because, “everyone is entitled to their own silly ideas.”

We are about to begin the fourth year of Donald Trump’s presidency so I thought it is a good time to issue a report card on Congress and the News Media.  We, the people, have high standards for our elected officials since they volunteered to be our eyes and ears in public office.  They also promised that if they were elected, they would serve all the people.

There is nothing in the Patriotic Code of Honor that says political parties have the answers to anything let alone everything nor that parties should direct those officials elected by the people on how they must vote.  As far as we are concerned the elected officials work for us, not the political parties, and they must do what is best for the state or nation as a whole.

The Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Pledge of Allegiance and other pertinent American documents do not mention political parties, Democrats or Republicans.  So, what did our Founding Fathers know that we seemed to have forgot along the way?

There are a couple of things they knew about politicians and politics.  First, you can throw everything you know about America to a simple test.  According to our Founding Fathers, America must follow a course of political evolution “Under God,” with liberty and justice for all.

In other words, our wise old Founding Fathers said, “in God we trust,” would be our motto and stand before people, politicians, political parties and popular fads.  They were a lot smarter than we are today.

But we can fix it, our stupidity that is.  We already have to some extent.  You do not need to spend thousands of dollars on polls, focus groups, town halls or advertising to know what the people think.

What we also do know, the news media and Democratic party leadership are united against our nation that does trust in God first.  Guess what, we could care less what the pious and self-indulgent squishy politicians or the gadfly news media thinks.

According to the latest national polls, eighty-seven percent (87%), of Americans do not believe nor trust the news media and over seventy percent (70%) do not trust Congress.

‘No One Believes Anything’: Voters Worn Out by a Fog of Political News

Paying attention to the impeachment inquiry and other developments means having to figure out what is true, false or spin. Many Americans are throwing up their hands and tuning it all out.

When it comes to the news media, the irony of where Americans get their news about the government, and what sources they rely on to deliver news about the government they can trust, was exposed in a survey published this month by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Opinion Research and USAFacts.

It found that 54% of Americans say they get government-related information from social media at least once a day, compared with 52% who said they get information about government daily from local TV news, 50% from national TV news, 47% from cable news and 19% from nationally circulated newspapers.

Yet the survey found only 11% of Americans say they trust information about the government they see on social media a great deal or quite a bit. Nearly two-thirds said they have little to no trust in government news they find there. Of all the potential places to find news about the government included in the survey, social media was the least trusted.

You have to go back 10 years in Gallup data to find a single poll in which Congress' approval rating was at 30% or above. That's by far the longest stretch that Congress has had a sub-30% approval rating since polling on this began.

The decline in congressional approval is almost certainly linked to the decline in trust of government in general. According to the Pew Research Center, only 17% of Americans currently trust government always or most of the time.  While trust in government has generally been on the decline since the Vietnam War, it's never been that consistently bad

Recent polling could be a warning sign to House Democrats that they failed to convince the public that President Trump should be impeached when they held hearings on the matter last week, Washington Post reporter Rachael Bade said on Tuesday.

"I do think that this polling, is sort of a warning sign for them. I mean, if they’re not able to move public sentiment at all with those five hearings with ... a dozen State Department or [National Security Council] officials coming forward and testifying against the president," Bade told CNN. "I mean, that's a problem for them. I mean, this should be a high point for them in terms of making the case to the voters."

CNN's John King reported on polling that showed 40 percent of Americans believed Democrats were abusing their constitutional powers.

HOUSE DEM SEES NO 'VALUE' IN IMPEACHMENT, AS POLLS SHOW FAILING SUPPORT AMONG INDEPENDENTS

Polling has shown that both independents and Democrats have started to lose interest in impeachment.

Meanwhile, 50 percent of independents questioned in an NPR/PBS/Marist  poll conducted Nov. 11-15 did not support impeaching and removing Trump from office, with just 42 percent backing such a move.

Americans trust God first, and most all Americans do not trust our sources of news information about the government or politics.  That does not say much for the elected officials nor the news media, self-proclaimed defenders of freedom.

Nonsense.

Once upon a time the media might have been the defenders of freedom or watchdogs over the government, but not in recent memory.  When the news media stops fact checking itself it has thrown honesty to the wind and nothing could be more apparent than the genuine bias, hatred and loathing of certain members of the media toward President Trump.

No matter how high of an opinion the news reporters, anchors and politicians have of themselves, they are still just people like you and me.  We make mistakes, have silly opinions, get greedy, hunger for power, hate or are tempted by a host of other equally idiotic ideas.

It is very clear the media and extremist political parties and politicians are not operating “Under God” by any stretch of the imagination.  Nor do they demonstrate any understanding of the motto “In God We Trust!”

Someone or something stole their spiritual, ethical, and moral foundation and it is more than obvious to those of us outside of the media and political circus - they can be trusted no more.

No matter how many times you tell lies, how many lies you tell, distractions you promote, self-serving interests you embrace and how much hate you may spew, we know better.  You cannot be trusted.

You have self-destructed and become the lunatic fringe of society, and no one cares what you think, do or say.  Just look at the flight away from TV news viewing on broadcast and cable.  Look at your fading Nielsen ratings.  Look at your failure to win the trust of the very people you represent if you want the truth.

It is not Republicans or Democrats that are bad.  People know there are just bad and good Democrats and Republicans.  Unlike the press and politicians, the people know who they can trust.

Remember the Spirit of Thanksgiving, that most American of American holidays!

It is Thanksgiving, a time for family and friends to remember the beauty and good of America, and the symbol of freedom we project to the world.  There are times when it seems to the outside world that we are beating ourselves up.

Do not underestimate the resolve nor patriotic spirit embedded in Americans.  Our Flag rose from the flames of revolution to become the beacon of freedom to the world.  We may disagree, even carry our spirit and emotion too far on occasion.

But in the end our Founding Fathers left us a most sacred gift, a Constitution that has weathered the most difficult storms and attacks from inside and afar ever conceived by an evil force in the world.

We have stumbled but never failed to protect the principles of our rich heritage, “One nation under God” and “In God We Trust.”  So, while you are being thankful remember to thank God for the gifts he gave us and pray to God to give you the knowledge to know how to use your gifts to help others.

The final report card…

The News Media - Grade [F]    The Congress – Grade [F]

The Melchizedek Chronicles – Colossal Changes coming to Political Systems - Trump wrecking ball crashes onward!

After his dance with the leaders of the dark side Trump somehow managed to punish them all with his tariff war.  China, Russia, North Korea and Iran all are near economic collapse.  Throw in Venezuela for good measure, also strained to the near breaking point.  The politicians and political activists are aghast at his not politically correct words and actions.

In fact, if you listen to news accounts you might think he just started Armageddon, the final battle before the Apocalypse and the End Times.  Amazing to what lengths the news media is prepared to go to destroy Trump.  Long gone are the days of ethics and fairness in news reporting.

As for the professional political crybabies on television, they are screaming demons and one should take the time to ask why?  What is it about our corrupt, archaic, political system and institutions that is so precious to the radical left and radical right they will do anything to still stop Trump?  By the way, how quickly the Mueller Report disappeared from the front pages and lead story on the cable networks. 

Melchizedek says we entered a three-year period of “colossal changes coming to political systems.”  I say it is about time.  The radical liberals and conservatives, the Democrat and Republican parties, the hysterical Trump haters and the so-called news media, are the puppets and pawns of a much darker force than Donald Trump.

Have we forgotten that America is the boldest and grandest experiment in the history of mankind?  We are the only major nation on earth in which 95% of our population are immigrants or descendants of immigrants.

Truly we are the only true melting pot in the world where people of any race, religion, ethnic background, political persuasion or culture are all guaranteed the same rights, protection, and equal opportunity.

By our very nature, promise and Constitution we are protected from dominance by any one philosophy, culture or movement because individual freedom and equal opportunity are the bedrock of our existence.

Since we are the only true melting pot our Republic is built on a foundation of respect for differences and compromise for accommodation for all.  The people reaffirm this right in elections every two and four years.

When special interests demand one ideology be dominant in our land, whether it be liberal or conservative, Democrat inspired or Republican, and when people attempt to usurp the power of the people by imposing a single philosophy on others it is doomed and results in polarization and eventually fails.

Today we have lost the ability to communicate.  Hatred and fear have overridden all possibility for compromise and progress.  Without compromise there can be no progress.  When that happens, and it has happened many times in our short history, the Constitution provides a mechanism for the people to save our government from special interests and unfair laws.

Once again, we face the same dilemma.  People are concerned with control and dominance, not fairness and justice.  Those advocates of control and their supporters have no place in a house built on compromise, individual rights, and guaranteed equality for all.

When our Fourth Estate, the news media, lose their sense of objectivity as it has and starts trying to promote one side of a policy over another the media no longer functions as a watchdog for the people, all the people, but as an advocate for special interests.  One wonders if maybe biased media should be required to register as a special interest lobbyist to show their true colors.

In the past presidents have always worked with Congress, majority and minority parties, toward compromise in order to solve problems.  That ended in the Obama years.  Unfortunately, he had neither the foresight nor experience to forge political alliances and preserve this presidential function.

When leaders want to impose their agenda on the people, rather than carry out the agenda of those who elected them, they are doomed to failure in a Constitutional Republic designed to prevent dominance by any one person, group or party.

Any crisis America faces will be solved when the people decide what is needed and they use the ballot to force change on the system.  Once again, we have reached the crisis stage, and once again only the people can say what America must do.

The shocking victory of Trump in the GOP primary, the only non-politician among political giants, was the first sign of a major political overhaul of our system.  His subsequence election victory over the overwhelming favorite Hillary Clinton was the people’s stunning reaffirmation that enough was enough, our political house must be disassembled and rebuilt in order to return to a Constitutional Republic as envisioned by our Founding Fathers.

                    

Unfortunately, it seems memories are short in our nation’s capital.  Both the news people and politicians seem to be suffering from hysterical amnesia.  They are no longer twisting the media spin to their benefit but are living the lies they manufacture to justify their hate-filled rants.

As the news media parade an endless stream of former intelligence officials and national security “experts” to trash Trump before the cameras, I noted the incredible hypocrisy of the anti-Trump legions.  Just a decade ago the same people were trashing Presidents Bush and Obama because of the massive and illegal actions by the very same intelligence agencies, including many of the current TV stars being interviewed from those agencies, for the greatest invasion of privacy in history and trampling over of our individual rights.

Not only was every American citizen a victim of the insidious “Big Brother” action, so were the heads of state of every major nation in the world including our closest allies.  Their private phone lines were illegally taped and monitored by US intelligence agencies.  How quickly we forget the truth.

Yesterday’s villains are today's heroes, at least in the minds of the news media and misguided followers who actually believe their brand of nonsense.  Never have I seen so many people so hysterically embrace hatred, bias, distortion and misdirection with such passion, possibly since the time of the persecution and murder of Jesus of Nazareth, and that job was botched up as well.

By now, as we approach the end of the third year of the Trump presidency and with all the power and resources of the intelligence agencies, the Justice Department, the news media, the Democratic and Republican parties, and their friends and benefactors who control much of our wealth, their relentless effort to throw out Trump has failed miserably.

No politician in our history has been under a more massive and coordinated attack for such a sustained period of time yet Trump continues his own relentless campaign to clean up the mess we call government.

Why, because he is not a politician.  He is an outsider who happened to succeed without the help of big bankers, big corporations, political parties and Wall Street.  Trump was not bought and paid for like Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or Bill Clinton.

Funny, all three became multi-millionaires because they were president or nominated to be president.  Trump did not need a government job and power to make millions, he earned it before he ever ran for public office.

Make no mistake, Trump is far from an endearing president but perhaps he is just what was needed to reign in the power of government, stop the corruption at all levels of government, reform laws and regulations not in the public interest, and to realign our position in the world.

No professional politician stood a chance of bringing about such badly needed reform.  There was no accountability in government nor responsibility for the actions of the government.  The financial predators and sharks controlled the money for campaigns and leveraged it to buy off enough elected officials to maintain a system that was rotten to the core, not just in America, but around the world.

Yet people, the voters, understood, at least the vast majority of people who were not part of the partisan political cesspool.  This did not happen overnight.  Way back in 1972 Ross Perot, a businessman and Independent, got 20% of the presidential vote costing George Bush his re-election and thrusting Bill Clinton to the presidency with barely 41% of the registered vote.

By the time Barack Obama was first elected in 2008 nearly 50% of all eligible voters refused to even register to vote, such was their disgust with politicians.  When Obama was re-elected in 2012 it was the first time less than 50% of eligible voters participated in an election.  In truth, only about 25% of eligible voters voted Obama president.  Still it got worse.  By the end of Obama’s presidency in 2016 for the first time in our history there were more registered Independents than either Democrats or Republicans.

One need only ask Bernie Sanders how honest the political system was when he faced Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary campaign.  Secret deals between Obama and Clinton were made to bankrupt the Democratic National Committee (DNC), then allow the Clinton campaign to secretly bail out the DNC while giving Hillary control of the actions and resources of the DNC.  She was in a tightly contested primary battle with Sanders when this took place.  Bernie never had a chance to win the primary because the DNC super delegates were already secretly pledged to Hillary.

By the way, in light of the media hype about how Putin said he wanted Trump to win against Hillary, you might have noticed what the media forgot to ask.  Why did the media not ask if Putin wanted Trump to win or Hillary to lose?  Why do they forget to mention the Russians also wanted Bernie Sanders to win the Democratic primary against Hillary?  No matter who won the GOP primary, they would be the prefered favorite for the Russians.  

Putin and Hillary were mortal enemies ever since she was Obama’s Secretary of State and used her office to condemn him and place sanctions on Russia.  Trump was not even a viable candidate at the time Hillary was hacked, and Trump was given no chance to win anything.  There is also some story involving a feud between Putin and the Clinton Foundation to add to the mystery.

When Trump stunned the world and won the primary there was no other choice for Putin but to hope Trump won against Hillary, against all odds.  Make no mistake, no one’s hands were clean during this election campaign.  Trump knew nothing of the political process and it showed.  Still, he was the last one standing and the only non-political outsider available to the people.

No one gave him a chance to win right up to election day when all the media predicted a solid Hillary victory.  No one, that is, except me when I predicted a Trump victory several weeks before the election and posted it in the Huffington Post as a Huffington Post Contributor.

My conclusion was based on a multi-decade trend of increasing distrust of all politicians from both parties born out by the polls.  In addition, I watched the increasing flight of Democrats and Republican voters switch to the Independent registration.  Finally, I expected Hillary to dominate the Black vote, but fall far short of the total Obama received when he barely won his two elections.

Trump’s victory had nothing to do with Russia, Russian collusion, or Putin's pat with Hillary.  It had everything to do with voter frustration over partisan politics in Washington, D.C., the cozy relationship between professional politicians and financiers, and institutional corruption.

Blond Brexit Brothers - Boris Johnson and Donald Trump

Today, the losers from both ends of the political spectrum, Democrats hating Trump and Republicans afraid of Trump, sense the death knell of their quest to deny Trump his presidency.  As do the losers in the media who are in danger of losing all their anonymous sources of classified government information.

With the consistent collapse in news media ratings, the loss of millions of viewers, and the loss of millions of newspaper subscribers, not to mention the huge loss of advertising revenues, the news media has paid a dear price trying to undermine the Trump presidency.

Trump is no saint, but he certainly is an agent of change who was given a chance to fix what the politicians could not fix.  He was also given a chance by the American voters to show us what he can do to clean up the mess.  His opponents are fueled by blind hatred of the outsider.  They ignore the Constitution and will of the people.  In truth they are the protectors of the status quo.

To succeed they ignore their own religious beliefs and the teachings of Jesus and embrace a very dark and toxic attitude.  They will fail.  Trump will easily win re-election in 2020 and may finally get the chance to show us what he can do.

At that point we can give a great big sigh of relief in knowing our Constitution is intact, it worked as expected, and once again the People have spoken.

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