We have to save our constitutional republic

We Have to Save Our Constitutional Republic

By Clinton E. Crackel, Signature Sponsor May 10, 2021 - A few months ago, I stopped in at a local business and struck up a conversation with the two individuals working behind the counter. During our discussion, I mentioned I write articles on energy. One of the individuals asked: “What’s energy?” I pointed to a light fixture and explained the electricity powering the light was a form of energy. I wonder if this lack of knowledge reflects the failure of today’s public educational system.

From my perspective, many of our public-school systems are promoting Marxist theory because the two largest national teachers’ unions are saturated with leftists seeking to convert our constitutional republic into a federal socialist republic. The leftists are promoting a devastating racial divide to undermine the unity of American society through anti-American brainwashing, even to the point of convincing white students to apologize for being white.

This is due to the Marxist, anti-American Critical Race Theory. They are also promoting political correctness and instilling a cancel culture mentality among virtually all sectors of our society, even the military.

Although I am mostly white, thanks to Ancestry.com, I found out I am also part Native American. So, I guess that means I do not have to apologize for being white. Yet, even if I were 100% white, contrary to the demands of the Critical Race theorists, I still would not apologize for being white.

I did not come from a privileged background. Quite the contrary. For most of my pre-teen years I lived in what I consider to be little more than a shack, with a single coal-burning stove in the living room that provided heat to two bedrooms and the living room. My parents slept in one bedroom and my two sisters shared the other bedroom. I slept on the couch, and during cold weather, I would sleep on the floor, close to the stove to keep warm. We even had a coal/wood-burning cast iron stove in the kitchen for cooking until we converted to propane, and it was not until I was about the age of seven or eight years of age that we replaced the living room stove with a propane-fired stove.

My father had health issues and could not hold down a regular job. His financial contribution to our family consisted mainly of a meager railroad retirement and some supplemental income. My mother had to pick up the 1

financial slack by working minimum wage jobs, stitching quilts and making rugs to sell. We even planted a garden for vegetables to can for year-round use and had a henhouse for fresh eggs and chickens to eat.

We did not receive such government funded assistance as welfare, food stamps, housing assistance and Medicaid. However, these benefits are perceived by many as being the only source of support for a large portion of the impoverished inner-city minority populations, especially among single parent families.

What we did have was a traditional two-parent family unity, disciplined children, and respect for our elders, the law and other people’s property, and a true sense of American patriotism. We also had pride, a strong work ethic, personal integrity, encouragement to excel in school and rearing in the Christian faith.

Once I was old enough to work, I worked various minimum wage jobs such as gas station attendant, short order cook, shoe sales and produce packing. I even worked as a part-time janitor while on active duty to support my family for, as I recall, $1.53/hour starting. For that matter, if I did not have military tuition assistance and the G.I. Bill available, I most likely would have never completed my degrees.

In addition to my Vietnam-era and Cold War military service, my three sons served in the military. My oldest son served in the regular Army and was killed in action in Iraq in 2005, my second son served in the regular Army, and my youngest son served in the Army National Guard. Further, all three of us are classified as Special Disabled Veterans.

Recently there has been a spate of attacks against our Asian American population, supposedly in retaliation for the COVID-19 pandemic as promoted by the leftist media. To the contrary, I suspect the attacks are instigated out of jealousy toward the Asian American community because of the cultural differences between the Asian Americans and some of the others in what many would deem as the impoverished minority sector. Also, some reports indicate most attacks on Asian Americans are committed by members of the African American community.

From my perspective, most Asian American families are comprised of twoparent units with children raised with discipline and engrained with a respect for their elders and the law. The family units promote pride, a strong work ethic, integrity, prosperity, achieving academic excellence, and rearing in their respective faith even though some Asian Americans march with leftist protestors.

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I believe in telling history as it happened, not as the lies and half-truths our Marxist, anti-American educators are indoctrinating our government, industry and society in general with, especially our children. We deserve the truth and clarity regardless of anyone’s opinions.

It is a fact that the white southern Democrats implemented “Jim Crow laws” once they regained political power in the South at the end of Reconstruction.

White southern Democrats comprised the bulk of the slaveholders, but not all.

Several slaveholders were prosperous “free men and free women of color” who were either born free or bought their way out of slavery. For that matter, a grandson of one prosperous former slave who was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy served in the South Carolina Field Artillery during the Civil War. Granted, the grandson was of mixed race and considered white, and the Artillery of the Carolinas was commanded by a wealthy Cuban immigrant.

From a military perspective, African Americans have served our nation in peacetime and war since the Revolutionary War. In the numerous wars they fought in throughout our nation’s history, they have served nobly, and with courage, honor and conviction. Yet they often do not receive the credit or appreciation for their military service to our nation they truly deserve.

Contrary to the false premise of the 1619 Project that the American Revolution was fought to preserve slavery, it was fought to free the original 13 colonies from the tyranny of British rule in order to establish a free and independent nation. Besides, what slave or free black would have volunteered to serve in the Continental Army to simply preserve the institution of slavery?

During the Great Migration of African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest and West, most of them came from traditional two-parent families that instilled sound Christian principals, discipline, respect for the sanctity of marriage and their elders, and a strong work ethic. Many even had technical and scientific degrees.

Their work experiences in various trades obtained in the South made them highly marketable in similar trades in their new locations. Such trades included agriculture, construction, and light and heavy industry, and transportation.

Regrettably, with the onset of the rise in suburban expansion and the relocation of numerous industries to the suburbs, the inner-city black communities became isolated with fewer skilled and semiskilled jobs available.

Detroit, once a proud, prosperous city with the thriving automobile industry, is a prime example of what can happen when a once prosperous industry goes into decline and the city experiences a dramatic economic, social and moral decay, especially among its inner-city African American community.

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A few decades ago, the Democrats recognized such depressed, impoverished minority communities were an ideal setting for implementing their scheme to pull blacks from their Republican roots and ensure they would become a solid, perpetual voting block for the Democratic Party. I believe this is especially true as evidenced by the ability of the Democrats to easily manipulate so many in these communities into accepting any political and social programs the leftist wish to promote. Such programs include Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Critical Race Theory, Political Correctness, Cancel Culture and any other nationally divisive program they can implement.

The original Marxist revolution succeeded due to being able to utilize the overwhelming numbers of the working class against the wealthy and powerful upper class, but that strategy will not work today because of a strong middleclass infrastructure. Therefore, the current Marxist revolution in the United States is based on creating racial tensions within our society to undermine our unity as a nation in the Marxists’ efforts to create a federal socialist republic.

A federal socialist republic would consist of a single party rule in the form of a politburo, and a two-class society to principally benefit the wealthy, greedy and corrupt political and corporate elites. This federal socialist republic model is like the one in the People’s Republic of China. It could also include forced labor camps for political dissidents, members of the clergy, petty thieves, rioters and anybody else deemed unworthy of living in the communist society.

Anarchists, hardened criminals, captured armed revolutionists and others posing a clear threat to the state will be executed without the benefit of a trial since constitutional protections will no longer exists, and all citizens will live in a perpetual state of martial law.

The leftists will not address issues plaguing the inner-city black communities such as drug addiction, alcoholism, many single parent families, malnutrition, a high percentage of teen pregnancies, a high number abortions, mental illness, prostitution, marginal public education (because school choice is politically discouraged by the powerful leftist teachers’ unions), the highest school dropout rates, increasing gang violence, a greater reliance on government assistance, a general feeling of despair, rejection, and hostility toward other groups deemed more privileged. These despicable conditions are of no concern to fulfilling the leftists’ political agenda but seem to be essential in maintaining their ongoing control of the impoverished inner-city black communities, and most black voters still support the Democrats.

Now the leftists intend on implementing a national program of reparations to provide additional substantial financial assistance to descendants of black slaves. I suspect it is merely another means of bribing African American 4

communities to retain their continued loyalty during the ongoing racial crisis created by the leftists’ intent on eradicating our constitutional republic.

Undoubtedly, many special interest groups are eager for the financial distributions to begin. Such special interests could include casinos, state lotteries, the drug cartels, Planned Parenthood, local drug dealers, gangs, the liquor and tobacco industries, marijuana growers and sellers, and others who consistently profit handsomely off the impoverished inner-city communities.

Maybe even local undertakers expect to profit from this scheme.

Now the leftists are targeting the inner-city Hispanic communities in virtually the same manner in the hopes of gaining the absolute loyalty of the Hispanics, which appears to be succeeding.

I believe the recent court verdict of guilty on all three felony charges against a Minneapolis police officer is a sign of how influential and politically powerful the Black Lives Matter movement has become. I suspect fear of retaliation by anarchist against the city influenced the jury’s decision to find the accused guilty of all three charges. I also believe the defund police movement is really intended to abolish state and local law enforcement agencies. Doing so would convince Congress or a future politburo to create a national internal security force such as the KGB to fill this void.

It has been reported that Bill Gates owns 250 thousand acres of farmland. I suspect he plans to grow marijuana once a national recreational marijuana law is passed, which should be soon.

If this is his intention, then I also suspect Americans will not be hired to work his fields because they would have to be paid at standard, negotiated hourly or piece rates and benefits. I suspect his future labor force is streaming across our southern border now, and they will be forced to work for substandard pay and without benefits in order to maximize profits. Plus, they will accept such compensation out of fear of being deported if they do not.

On another issue regarding jobs, President Biden has boasted his jobs’ plan will create millions of good union jobs. Well, under the pandemic relief schemes devised by Congress to entice people not to work because they are getting paid more than many employers can afford, millions of job openings are available, but by far, they are not union jobs. So, guess who is going to be filling those vacancies for a minimum wage or less?

Even if these workers are denied the opportunity to join a union, if a federal law prohibiting right-to-work laws at the state level is instituted, I am confident they will still be required to pay union dues.

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Along these lines, many politicians are stating the Democratic leadership in Congress does not understand why the COVID pandemic relief efforts are encouraging people not to work. To the contrary, I am convinced the Democratic leadership knows exactly what it is doing. It just had to devise a scheme to ensure enough Democrats would get elected to achieve a majority in both houses and control of the executive branch in order to implement such a plan; and the public fear of the COVID pandemic appeared to provide one of the critical avenues of success for their election victories.

The bottom line is that our nation is being destroyed by the pursuit of wealth and power, and if we do not soon stand as a unified American society, regardless of race, against the onslaught of the domestic, anti-American, Marxist extremists, our constitutional republic is doomed.

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