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How about you can't run for office at all unless you only have a US citizenship?
Honestly, we should have a "super citizenship", and only super citizens can serve in any government role and vote. You can't be a super citizen and be a citizen of any other country, and you must swear an oath to this country and her people.
Socialism lies and says "Oh, we are not communism!" It is, because government controls the businesses.
But in reality, it's not about who control what. It's about the people in control. Communists are trying to destroy everything. They will eventually take over any system with power that can be used to destroy. So we must destroy any system that can destroy any other system. That's the key.
The government that can feed its people can starve its people. Therefore, government should NOT feed people!
How would we feel if it happened?
The world has endured far worse evils than anything we are experiencing today. They used to feed Christians to lions. Pol Pot murdered millions of his own people.
Keep things in perspective. Our faith is in Christ, not anything in the world. He has overcome the world, and through him, we too shall overcome the world.
For those who don't know: Here's WHY price controls NEVER WORK.
The PRICE is determined by SUPPLY and DEMAND.
There are people willing to sell, and if the price goes UP they will make and sell more. If the price goes DOWN they will make and sell less.
There are people willing to buy, but if the price goes UP they will buy less, and if the price goes DOWN they will buy more.
Where the two curves meet is the MARKET PRICE. At that price, the amount sold equals the amount bought. Or rather, the optimal quantity is bought and sold.
IF YOU FORCE THE PRICE TO BE LOWER... then there WILL BE SHORTAGES. People will try to buy more, but the sellers won't be able to sell more.
IF YOU FORCE THE PRICE TO BE HIGHER... then there WILL BE SURPLUSES. Suppliers will overflow with stuff they want to sell, but buyers won't be buying.
YOU MUST LET THE PRICE SETTLE TO ITS NATURAL STATE. And the only way to get to the optimal price is to let buyers and sellers choose their own prices with NO controls.
We tried this with gasoline in the 70s. People lined up for miles to buy gas because the price was set low and so there were massive shortages. We also set the price of milk to be high in the past, which meant massive surpluses of milk, more than the people were willing to buy and drink. That's where "government cheese" comes from.
If you want more details, read about Adam Smith and the Invisible Hand. He noticed that price controls only cause problems, and allowing people to choose their own prices created an abundance of goods and an abundance of wealth.
The descendants of Judah who became Christian no longer referred to themselves as descendants of Judah, but children of Christ.
It is true that the word "jew" in the KJV often refers to the Greek word "judean" meaning someone living in that part of the world. In the OT, I think references to the descendants of Israel are way more common than specifically the descendants of Judah.
I think what surprised everyone was the sheer scale of it all.
Like, we thought that a certain percentage of homosexuals were pedophiles, but we had no idea it was so high.
Now it makes sense why they had to make gay marriage a thing. If they are a married couple, they cannot be denied access to young boys.
Most of the jews in Jesus' time converted to Christ and renounced their heritage. For instance, Paul wrote that his lineage as a descendant of Benjamin was as dung.
The only jews who stayed jews were the pharisees, scribes and sadducees who hated Jesus from the beginning because he spoke the truth. Emperor Titus destroyed Jerusalem and banished the (true) jews permanently because they were caught doing human sacrifice in the temple.
Those who fled ended up in Babylon. And a few hundred years later, they codified their oral traditions.
In a very real way, Judaism is a heretical branch of Christianity. Paul spoke very conclusively how all of the ancient prophets were Christian and looked forward to Christ, especially Moses.
Thus, the "real jews" are the Christians. The persecution prophesied against the jews is happening now against Christians who have not fully embraced Christ. They cannot return to take Jerusalem until they have fully embraced Christ. The people living in Jerusalem are not actually jews.
This is why it is so important to read the Bible fully.
It doesn't work like that in real life, though.
Say you are a king, and you have dukes and lords, and they have considerable power.
Say you know that Duke A is the ring-leader for taking your throne. Do you go after him directly? No, you have to shut down his power structure first. When he has no money, no friends, no allies, no troops, then you move in and shut him down for good. So you get to work doing what he was doing, but in reverse.
These things take time, and you can't rush it. Play your hand too early, you risk losing permanently.
- You don't put people in prison for murder and rape. You execute them. That way, you don't have to worry about your neighbor being a child rapist.
- If they don't hold up their end of the business deal, you don't deal with them anymore.
- You don't loan money out to people you don't know. That's retarded.
LET ME BE CLEAR
YOU SHOW UP TO A POLLING PLACE
THERE ARE YOUR NEIGHBORS! HI NEIGHBORS! HERE IS YOUR BALLOT! VOTE AWAY!
OH LOOK A STRANGER!!!
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, WE DON'T KNOW YOU!"
"OH I LIVE AT SUCH-AND-SUCH"
"OH NO YOU DON'T BECAUSE WE KNOW WHO LIVES THERE AND YOU DON'T"
"I AM GOING TO TRY AND VOTE ANYWAY!"
"YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!"
Does that make it clear?
It used to be that everyone voted in their PRECINCT. Precincts had like 100 people in them. EVERYONE KNEW EACH OTHER. THERE WERE NO STRANGERS.
What civil liberties do you imagine they have?
If they are living in the woods by themselves -- they have no "civil" to have civil liberties in! Do you think the bears or coyotes care whether they are here in the US legally? Or maybe they care whether they've had too much to speak?
When it comes to voting, people forget that votes are not magical. It is the physical presence of a man who declares that not only does he support something, but he has the military arms to back that decision up. Go back to Athens and Rome and go look at what voting meant for them.
The idea that people who exclude themselves from society should have a say in how that society is governed is ridiculous.
I believe there are only 2 options.
- ANONYMOUS voting. No one knows who voted or how.
- PUBLIC RECORD VOTING. Everyone knows who voted and how.
The is no "in between". You can't know who voted but not how they voted.
In terms of who is allowed to vote -- every polling place I ever visited had an election judge right there to determine who is and is not allowed to vote. If you think someone shouldn't be voting, you can sit yourself down in one of those polling places and point to them and challenge them then and there.
It's right after the section where it says that the constitution grants rights.