TheWiseOldFart

  In 2024, the Supreme Court destroyed the most important part of our Founding Father’s creation. Our system of a Democratic Republic was intended to have three “separate but equal branches.” However, in order to prevent any form of monarchy, or autocracy, the least powerful of all three branches was the Executive: the presidency. This all changed in 2024. In 2017 Moscow Mitch McConnell and Trump began to “stack” the Supreme Court with what would become three unqualified justices who had promised to support the right-wing’s extremist agenda. This 922-page fascist manifesto is called “Project 2025.” The first major blow to democracy came on June 24, 2022. This dark day in our nation’s history will be remembered as the most vicious attack on women’s rights in a lifetime. Repealing a decision by a legitimate Court, 49 years in the past, removed a woman’s right to make decisions about her personal physical and mental health. Roe v Wade, federal protection for a woman’s right to...

The Electoral College is the least democratic law in America. It prevents the concept of “every vote must count,” and allows the states to choose our presidents, not the people. It is also one of the primary reasons red and blue states exist, and why our nation is divided to a degree not seen since the first Civil War. Red and blue states are detrimental to democracy but advantageous for presidential wannabees. Their reelection campaigns need only to make perfunctory visits to red or blue states, depending on your party affiliation. The majority of the efforts are focused on swing states, and red or blue states whose social and political demographics experienced a significant change over the previous four years. Although the population of America is approximately 340 million, the only number that matters for a presidential candidate is 270. This is the number of Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. Something you will never hear from an elected official or the mainstre...

  Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart I encourage everyone to vote. I continue to read responses like, “my vote doesn’t matter,” or “why should I if my vote doesn’t count?” I understand how some voters feel. I live in a “purple state.” However, if I lived in a red state, I would have no reason to vote. Electoral votes in deep red states usually go to those calling themselves “Republicans.” I admit that when I was first allowed to vote in 1968, I knew nothing about the Electoral College. I assumed that the candidate who received the most votes would be our next president. Little did I know that the states actually choose our nation’s leader. When I did understand the truth, more than 10 years later, I was extremely upset. I had grown up in California, but what if I had been a resident of Mississippi or any other red state? THERE IS BUT ONE WAY TO DEFEAT THE UNCONSTITUTIONAL ELECTORAL COLLEGE First, there would be no “red or blue states” if the Electoral College did not exist. This i...

Op-ed by TheWiseOldFart   The most f**ked up law in America is Income Tax. The Income Tax Code Book consists of 6871 pages. Few of these pages involve the average working man . Most include ways for the wealthiest Americans to avoid paying their fair share. This is the only reason why our nation is more than 30 trillion dollars in debt in 2024.   At the end of the Constitutional Convention there was no provision which required an individual to pay taxes directly to the federal government. All American citizens would pay taxes to the state in which they resided , and the states would pay taxes to the federal government.   On July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a law which would become the Internal Revenue Service. Today, we know this was a big mistake by our nation’s second greatest president. However, it was necessary. Confederate states were no longer paying taxes to the federal government, and fighting the First Civil War was costly, ranging from 28 millio...