They Had a Right to Vote in the Ox-Bow Canyon
by Paul H. Yarbrough (March 2024)
A republic: where responsible people decide (vote) under written rules of law that necessarily protect nonvoters.
A democracy: where a gang of men rides into Ox-Bow Canyon and a majority vote to lynch other men who are in the minority.
The right to vote has given us an imbecilic cast of characters seen and, sadly, heard longwindedly, throughout our happy land. Those herded by mob rule (right-to-vote) and elected for office, for the most part, are a bevy of district attorneys, mayors, senators, congressmen governors, and even a president* here and there.
The fabricated concept of a right to vote is political fentanyl (if it is used). It will destroy any country, land, or society that accepts it. It is certainly a democratic concept and most certainly not a republican one. Such is not to be confused with Democrat concepts or Republican concepts. These two proper noun monikers are for oligarchical organizations (they brazenly call themselves traditional political parties) that have built The Deep State largely using the folly and fiddle of such a “right” to vote. Usually, such votes enrich the members themselves.
The choice between Democrat or Republican is much like choosing between the Wolf Man or Frankenstein. Either one is a monster and will tap your wallets and send your sons to die (yeah, yeah, I know: For you sissy moderns you can have your daughters killed too—be proud!) in undeclared and usually pointless, for most, though profitable for the few, wars.
And, of course, the same two monsters will destroy your life for their own feeding. They would tax your personal sweat if they could find a method to distill the salt from bodily secretions and keep you alive only to produce more. They are probably working on it now in some Deep State congressional cave.
Both sides especially hate the South, except when it has (always) been useful to disproportionately fill the ranks of American soldiers to die in Republican-Democrat foreign wars.
But, not to worry—these “American” soldiers have the right to vote before they are killed or maimed in the name of “spreading” democracy for some bureaucratic idiot who is ballyhooing about some shining light on some hill or some such childish drivel.
Our current “s-elected” president from this grand right-to-vote nonsense, seems to suffer from some generic form of dementia or a sort of mind-bender psychosis quality– although he would not be much better in perfect mental health. At least he never has been. He has told more lies over his 50 years of “public service” (you got to love that bureaucrat’s phrase) than has been told about Rasputin, who himself told many a whopper. I take that back. The current president might be worse in a perfect state of mental health. He would be lying with a clear head. An intelligent liar is the greatest danger of all. Recall that Satan (Son of the Morning Star) was (is) a brilliant being. He also, according to God, was a liar from the beginning.
Satan’s palace of hell, a kissing cousin to The Deep State, is the home of lying and deceit.
It also is a kitchen for the preparing and serving of the right to vote.
Biden and political kinsmen, Republican or Democrat, are examples of harvests of the notion of “the right to vote.” Biden’s great political god, Lyndon Johnson, loved the idea of voting rights so much that he anointed the dead with the right (Jim Wells Co., Texas). Though Lyndon was ahead of his time, little did he know that one day a current crop of pols would suggest that 15-year-olds should vote. I can just hear LBJ now, dancing around the hot coals of Hell and singing:
“Happy days are here again…”
Who Americans typically call the “Founding Fathers,” studied not only the Magna Carta extensively but the great Greek students and scholars of various governments, as well as subsequent Roman republicanism. A number of the “Founders” read Latin and Greek well. Many of the current Deep State cannot read English well (nor do their faux media kiss-ups). Many in Congress have not read at all, apparently, when congressional bills have been voted on.
But back to “The Right to Vote.” This horrible notion, often promoted by the “media” as well as many contemporary histrionic historians, ought to be called the kissing canard of the land of the free and the home of the brave. This so-called right began, sadly, after the crucible of war: The War for Southern Independence. The Yankees won and firstly, announced that forty acres and a mule would buy a vote. Mine eyes have seen the glory…
The 15th Amendment (adopted 1870) was ratified with the subtle utterance that “…the right to vote shall not be infringed…” implying (though willfully begging for inference) that there was a right to vote in the first place. Not one time earlier than the 15th amendment nor at any place presented in the often-described document as “The greatest document devised by man for self-governance,” was such a concept, written, or considered (nor was the word “democracy”).
Perhaps, more importantly, the subsequent ten amendments that comprised the Bill of Rights made no mention of the right to vote. A belief that had been established by most people of that day was that all rights came from God. “We are endowed by our Creator (with rights) …” was absolute.
And nowhere has God ever said that we could vote on right or wrong. He allowed people to govern and to form governments among themselves but never to establish right and wrong. He said, “Thou shall…” and “Thou shall not…” He never allowed qualification with His creatures’ critique. And He certainly didn’t allow them to vote on it.
Voting may have been a partial quality of self-governance but quantitatively it was a contradiction. Rights were those articles that were gifts endowed by God; not by some man-written document.
It has been this contradiction that in the name of rights, women have been misled by tortuous “leaders” who have demanded for them a right to vote. A right that has never existed and, in fact, has driven them not up but down (there is, in fact, a woman Supreme Court Justice who is so stupid that she admits she doesn’t know what a woman is).
The same tragedy that stabbed women in the back has befallen the former self-governing and sovereign states–the 17th Amendment–by considering a right to vote and therefore forging Senators, who supposedly represent their states, but are seated as single members of a mob of “voters”; voters who are often bought through monied interests far and away from a state and its legislature.
And today, what have the great masses with their swords of “voting rights” produced?
My guess is that those nitwits in Washington can’t play a competitive game of dominos. But many supposedly are about to try to outmaneuver the culture (Iran) that invented the game of chess.
And the so-called media? Roll in the aisle laughing. Most are lucky if their I.Q. matches their age.
But this ilk of “leaders” is what the majority (the mob-cry) called for. Even without corrupt elections (and there have been more than one) the majority of the voting class is monstrously pitiful, absent having its members fine-tuned through history’s great thinkers and scholars of great governmental analysis to at least a minor degree.
And never, never forget that what this ugly concept alluded to in the 15th amendment was not only to strip away the final remnants of union with the 17th amendment, but, first gave the former union, now nation, the 16th amendment (there goes the forty acres and the mule).
Praise the Lord! How could He have been so foolish as to NOT give us that precious right to vote. It did give us the Deep State and its concomitant media hacks, after all.
Maybe God knows what He is doing. How come we didn’t listen?
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* The one called the president is announced as having been elected by the “people” but technically he is elected by the states via Electors. This little piece of information by law is wrought by the republic’s rules (constitution) as a federal union of states. This was the union that old Honest (one of history’s most glorious solecisms) Abe told Congress he was saving by raising 75,000 volunteer soldiers to kill thousands of the Union’s members. Later after four or five hundred thousand soldiers (North and South) and Southern civilians had been killed and crippled he in his Godsend message at Gettysburg decided by great vision that the Union had become a “Nation.” Today this same replacement guy is not just called the chief executive or chief presiding officer according to the old pre 1865 constitution but is now called “The commander in chief of the country,” “The most powerful man in the world,” (good god) or “The Leader of the free world” (whatever the free world is).
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Paul H. Yarbrough has written for The Blue State Conservative, NOQ, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, The Abbeville Institute, Lew Rockwell, and more. He is the author of 4 novels: Mississippi Cotton, A Mississippi Whisper, Thy Brother’s Blood, and The Yeller Rose of Texas, in addition to many short stories and poems.
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