@BasedSamParker: 1/ THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS A...
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Jun 08, 2025
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1/ THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS A SECEDED ENTITY
While @DataRepublican's analysis on the 17th amendment below is correct, I've found a much better & clearer way to say it:
▶️ The Federal Government *SECEDED* from the States with the 17th Amendment (1913). ◀️
The 17th amendment removed the tether keeping it connected to, and under the control of, the States because the state legislatures had appointed Senators up to that point. For all intents and purposes, this was literally a secession.
This rogue "Seceded Entity" uses the 16th Amendment (1913, income tax), the Revenue Act (1913, income tax, beefed up/police-state IRS), and the Federal Reserve (1913) to fund itself, bypassing The States and The People (while abusing both).
We live under a completely new government and tyranny since 1913. This cannot be understated.
🔻DETAILED EXPLANATION FOR WONKS (Bookmark this essay 🔖) 🔻
▪️Senate
Whereas Senators were once appointed by State legislatures, they're now voted on directly by the people. What this did was shift power from the Sovereign States to the Big Money who funds campaigns. Before, to buy a Senator, you had to buy an entire State legislature--which was then accountable to local voting constituents. Now, the real backers of Senators just buy media coverage and votes.
Because the bar was so high to buy a Senator, it rendered members of the House not worth much: if you don't control the Senators' votes from a particular state, the votes of its Representatives were of far smaller value. This took money out of both Senate campaigns (which were conducted inside state legislatures), and House campaigns (which were worthless without controlling the Senators, too. A very high bar.). Previous to the 17th Amendment, congressional campaigns were *SIGNIFICANTLY* less expensive.
The 17th Amendment changed all that, EXPLODING the money it takes to run campaigns. This puts Big Money Interests firmly in control.
▪️House of Representatives
The Senate was not the only Federal entity re-engineered, so was the House. The Apportionment Act of 1911 set the house size at 433 (2 more would be added for the newly created states AZ & NM in 1912, bringing it to 435), which all took effect for the first time in 1913! (There's that year again).
This 435 size was then formally & perpetually set in stone with the Reappointment Act of 1929. It's all unconstitutional, since the Constitution calls for 1 Representative for every 30,000 people.
What this means is that the House is now unresponsive to the changes in American population, essentially disconnecting it from the The People and placing it, too, under Big Money elections, as I noted above.
▪️Supreme Court
While the 16th & 17th Amendments are technically "Constitutional," the Reappointment Act is not. Why hasn't anything been done about it? Because the Supreme Court has ruled it "non-justiciable," meaning SCOTUS says it's something they can't rule on. 😂 They rule on all kinds of stuff when they shouldn't. Never stopped them before!
Basically, the Supreme Court has decided to collude with its 2 Federal Counterparts--The Senate & The House--as part of the runaway, rogue, Seceded Entity known as the "US Federal Government." And we can't stop it, either, because the State legislatures are no longer in charge of approving Supreme Court justices or removing them via the impeachment process! (Thanks, 17th amendment!)
▪️Executive (POTUS/Cabinet Depts)
The Executive of this Rogue Seceded Entity now is essentially given ever-expanding powers, kept in check only occasionally by its Colluding Partners in the House, Senate & Supreme Court when they want a bigger piece of their power-loving secessionist pie. The President's campaign is powered by the Big Money, who buys the election, buys the Cabinet (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), buys the Supreme Court (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), and buys the laws in Congress and the policies in its authorized bureaucracies.
The Electoral College, which elects the President, is now ever more firmly under the control of Organized Big Money (addressed more at length in another thread linked below).
CONCLUSION
The Constitution was torn up, US Founding Federalism destroyed, and a coup d'état perpetrated in 1913--and we're all just pretending we still live under the government our Founders created. We do not. A foreign entity now rules us.
You can couch it in abstractions like "it changed how Americans relate to their government," but that misses the point: it changed how we relate to the government because it literally replaced our government!
We are the "United States Of America" in name only. But that's not really what we are. We're actually the "Vassalized States and Enslaved People Of The Federal Government Of America Owned By Transnational Big Money Interests."
They swapped out the government, swapped out the locus of power, and kept the name. That's the tea.
🔻SUMMARY🔻
The 16th & 17th Amendments + the Federal Reserve Act & Revenue Act + The Frozen House--all done in 1913--seceded the Federal Government and shifted the locus of power from The People & The States to The Big Money Interests.
▪️The 16th enslaved The People.
▪️The 17th seceded the Federal Government from the States and made The States vassals.
▪️The Fed & Big Money became the new locus of power, buying elections, the cabinet, laws & policies, & the Supreme Court
▪️The Supreme Court is firmly on the side of the Rogue, Seceded Entity
▪️All 3 branches work together to expand their power and reach because they're no longer checked by The States or The People.
It cannot be understated how fundamentally the 17th Amendment helped transform America.
(more threads below)
While @DataRepublican's analysis on the 17th amendment below is correct, I've found a much better & clearer way to say it:
▶️ The Federal Government *SECEDED* from the States with the 17th Amendment (1913). ◀️
The 17th amendment removed the tether keeping it connected to, and under the control of, the States because the state legislatures had appointed Senators up to that point. For all intents and purposes, this was literally a secession.
This rogue "Seceded Entity" uses the 16th Amendment (1913, income tax), the Revenue Act (1913, income tax, beefed up/police-state IRS), and the Federal Reserve (1913) to fund itself, bypassing The States and The People (while abusing both).
We live under a completely new government and tyranny since 1913. This cannot be understated.
🔻DETAILED EXPLANATION FOR WONKS (Bookmark this essay 🔖) 🔻
▪️Senate
Whereas Senators were once appointed by State legislatures, they're now voted on directly by the people. What this did was shift power from the Sovereign States to the Big Money who funds campaigns. Before, to buy a Senator, you had to buy an entire State legislature--which was then accountable to local voting constituents. Now, the real backers of Senators just buy media coverage and votes.
Because the bar was so high to buy a Senator, it rendered members of the House not worth much: if you don't control the Senators' votes from a particular state, the votes of its Representatives were of far smaller value. This took money out of both Senate campaigns (which were conducted inside state legislatures), and House campaigns (which were worthless without controlling the Senators, too. A very high bar.). Previous to the 17th Amendment, congressional campaigns were *SIGNIFICANTLY* less expensive.
The 17th Amendment changed all that, EXPLODING the money it takes to run campaigns. This puts Big Money Interests firmly in control.
▪️House of Representatives
The Senate was not the only Federal entity re-engineered, so was the House. The Apportionment Act of 1911 set the house size at 433 (2 more would be added for the newly created states AZ & NM in 1912, bringing it to 435), which all took effect for the first time in 1913! (There's that year again).
This 435 size was then formally & perpetually set in stone with the Reappointment Act of 1929. It's all unconstitutional, since the Constitution calls for 1 Representative for every 30,000 people.
What this means is that the House is now unresponsive to the changes in American population, essentially disconnecting it from the The People and placing it, too, under Big Money elections, as I noted above.
▪️Supreme Court
While the 16th & 17th Amendments are technically "Constitutional," the Reappointment Act is not. Why hasn't anything been done about it? Because the Supreme Court has ruled it "non-justiciable," meaning SCOTUS says it's something they can't rule on. 😂 They rule on all kinds of stuff when they shouldn't. Never stopped them before!
Basically, the Supreme Court has decided to collude with its 2 Federal Counterparts--The Senate & The House--as part of the runaway, rogue, Seceded Entity known as the "US Federal Government." And we can't stop it, either, because the State legislatures are no longer in charge of approving Supreme Court justices or removing them via the impeachment process! (Thanks, 17th amendment!)
▪️Executive (POTUS/Cabinet Depts)
The Executive of this Rogue Seceded Entity now is essentially given ever-expanding powers, kept in check only occasionally by its Colluding Partners in the House, Senate & Supreme Court when they want a bigger piece of their power-loving secessionist pie. The President's campaign is powered by the Big Money, who buys the election, buys the Cabinet (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), buys the Supreme Court (no longer accountable to the State legislatures), and buys the laws in Congress and the policies in its authorized bureaucracies.
The Electoral College, which elects the President, is now ever more firmly under the control of Organized Big Money (addressed more at length in another thread linked below).
CONCLUSION
The Constitution was torn up, US Founding Federalism destroyed, and a coup d'état perpetrated in 1913--and we're all just pretending we still live under the government our Founders created. We do not. A foreign entity now rules us.
You can couch it in abstractions like "it changed how Americans relate to their government," but that misses the point: it changed how we relate to the government because it literally replaced our government!
We are the "United States Of America" in name only. But that's not really what we are. We're actually the "Vassalized States and Enslaved People Of The Federal Government Of America Owned By Transnational Big Money Interests."
They swapped out the government, swapped out the locus of power, and kept the name. That's the tea.
🔻SUMMARY🔻
The 16th & 17th Amendments + the Federal Reserve Act & Revenue Act + The Frozen House--all done in 1913--seceded the Federal Government and shifted the locus of power from The People & The States to The Big Money Interests.
▪️The 16th enslaved The People.
▪️The 17th seceded the Federal Government from the States and made The States vassals.
▪️The Fed & Big Money became the new locus of power, buying elections, the cabinet, laws & policies, & the Supreme Court
▪️The Supreme Court is firmly on the side of the Rogue, Seceded Entity
▪️All 3 branches work together to expand their power and reach because they're no longer checked by The States or The People.
It cannot be understated how fundamentally the 17th Amendment helped transform America.
(more threads below)
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2/ Thread that delves more deeply into how the 17th Amendment destroyed the Senate and American government:
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5/ Extensive thread describing the problem with the House of Representatives and strategies for fixing it:
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6/ We need to split up many states. I advocate for a new total of about 125.
We used to create new territories & states in order to accommodate growth & maintain representative gov. But the US has done NOTHING to accommodate a century of growth.
We used to create new territories & states in order to accommodate growth & maintain representative gov. But the US has done NOTHING to accommodate a century of growth.
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