The View from Afar

Writings by retired newspaper publisher Stephen Waters

Political Lies and what they tell you.

By Stephen B. Waters September 15, 2024

The situation:

Lies are the death rattle of the the Democrat/GOP leadership Uniparty bent on bypassing the Constitution to permanently install top-down rule.

The Democrat/GOP Uniparty is less afraid of Donald Trump than they are afraid of you. If you catch on to their lies&emdash;to how much they disrespect you and everything your individuality stands for&emdash;they’ll have lost their one big chance to permanently steal the country.

Across history top-down rule has always failed because it cannot manage dynamic society.

The evidence:

  • President Joe Biden claimed the border was secure while issuing scores of executive orders to assure it was porous.
  • Senate Leader Chuck Schumer pushed for immediate citizenship for the millions of illegals they let in the country to vote illegally, overwhelm government services, and work cheaply.
  • Republican Leader Mitch McConnell claimed the country could not afford government shutdown as policies increase our debt an unsustainable $1 trillion dollars every 90 days.
  • Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi led contrived impeachment theater against Donald Trump and later orchestrated away the process to examine election interference by, reducing security, claiming insurrection, and empaneling a bogus committee to shape the outcome.
  • Speaker Mike Johnson acted as if he supported the SAVE Act to assure only legal votes were counted that the congressional leadership was about to negotiate away.
  • Vice President Kamala Harris purposely ignored corrections to misrepresent dozens of candidate Trump’s positions to steal the Presidency.
  • Along the way government officials pressured corporate media to leave known false claims by Harris unchallenged during the recent Harris debate.
  • Federal agencies have been weaponized. The Dept. of Justice has selectively enforced the law, the Dept. of State has funded operations designed to obstruct the flow of information and to pay for the influx of non-citizens. The Dept. of Homeland Security has surreptitiously infiltrated the country with foreigners. The IRS has “investigated” political opposition. Military forces have had their command structure weakened. The FBI and the CIA have resisted oversight. Other agencies have been used to misuse the regulatory process.
  • President Dwight Eisenhower warned about a military-industrial complex infiltrating politics and visa-versa to the detriment of American policy. That process escalated to the point corporate influence colors policy and threats of imposing policy manipulate corporate activity in all areas, including legacy media, broadcast media, social media, and wire services.
  • The executive and legislative branches have weakened constitutional federalism attempting to impose on states rulemaking the Constitution specifically forbade.
  • Together they threaten to dilute the Supreme Court’s ability to call constitutional balls and strikes.
  • They work to undermine constitutional checks and balances moving control outside the country to the United Nations, NATO, WHO, IMF, WEF and others.

Why the misguided power elite fear you:

The Democrat/GOP Uniparty is less afraid of Donald Trump than they are afraid of you. To repeat, if you catch on to their lies&emdash;to how much they disrespect you and everything your individuality stands for&emdash;they’ll have lost their one big chance to permanently steal the country.

Parties were never part of our Constitution but were built up over time to their current Uniparty excess to serve special interests.

They fear that you will dismantle their top-down rule and reinstitute bottom-up governance, clip the wings of Party leadership, reclaim responsibility, throw censorship into the dustbin of history, replace gatekeeper corporate media with Community Notes, restore honesty and integrity to election procedures, remove rule-making that agencies stole from Congress, institute zero-based budgeting, restore constitutionally required federalism, reject judicial creative law-making, return schools and curricula to local control, throttle excessive federal funding used to bypass states-rights, liberate the economy from excess regulation, end entangling international alliances, terminate nanny state programs used to buy votes, restore charity to the people where it belongs, and, finally and foremost, reject unworkable creeping collectivism that undermines and destroys character, individuality and the community individuals share with each other.

Stephen B. Waters

In early 2021, with 46 years in the business, I retired as publisher of the Rome (NY) Daily Sentinel

After five generations of family ownership, despite an unsettled economy, we keep on. We understand that although we may own the newspaper, we hold it in stewardship for the community.

Across my career, so many other small newspapers were purchased by media chains, large newspapers sold their integrity, and broadcast news outfits fell back on superficial entertainment.

They put journalism in this country at risk. The best antidote is for individual readers to arm themselves to recognize the danger to their community, culture, and society itself.

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