Born out of Reconstruction

Let’s begin today’s discussion by ending our previous discussion. Which was on the Andrew Johnson President during Reconstruction. subject of “Cryptocurrency.” (CC)

There is so much more I could say about CC, and you also, but it’ time to move on. But, for a closing shot, “the shot across the bow” so to speak, different folks will have different opinions and expectations about the subject, each based upon their acceptance and tolerance of politics and government. But for me, over the many years that I have been around observing politics and governments, CC is very scary. I see it as one more step toward having complete control over the people, you and I. My opinion is, if you hate as I do, this politically manipulated inflation that has placed and additional burden on the backs of the American workers and the young families who represent the American worker, then we should all, consider how easily politicians will be able to manipulate the wealth and poverty of all of us, not just the worker, by simply controlling and manipulating the value of your currency. EG; Purchasing power. It is enough that government can change the value of the dollar by flooding the populace with unearned dollars, which, always and eventually, migrates upward toward the manufactures and suppliers and the politically entrenched, as in Nancy P. and Paul P. Will the electorate ever learn?

Let’s end here our discussion of CC. From here on it gets very complicated, and as it is coming and will intensely effect your life, I encourage you to continue with personal and private research, even group discussions.

Let’s go from here to a hands-off subject; Wealth and Politics. Or, maybe; “One Man, (woman) One Vote.”

I struggle with the idea of “One Man, One Vote” as I try to understand exactly what the designers of the Constitution meant when they said it. I say that because it seems, and is proven out by observation, that the phrase is disillusionary because even if every legitimate voter voted, and only voted once, the ability of States to district and move and redistrict voting boundaries, that is, to explain the term; When I prepare to vote, I can only vote for those persons who represent the district that I am registered to vote in. So each political party, especially the party in control of the legislatures at the time, use the power of majority control to move voting boundaries to favor its cause.

But it’s not always for biased political reasons that voting district boundaries are changed or moved, more often it is because demographics have changed. An example of this is when one of the populace States of the Northeast found that because more and more people had moved from the farming rural areas to the cities, that Districts with only a few residents left in them were sending Representatives to the State and Federal Congresses with equal authority as the Representatives from large population areas. Meaning, as you can see, the “One Man, One Vote” idea that the Founding Fathers intended was not working. Is there a solution to this quandary? We’ll come back to it later.

Another issue about the 14th Amendment, the issue that caused the 14th to be proposed in the first place. If you noticed, the 14th was confirmed by the United States Congress in 1868. What was happening in 1868? Well, all of us old guys know – it was Reconstruction. (Do they teach this stuff in school anymore?) I’m glad I can throw in a little history now and then.

“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. July 9, 1868.”

“Reconstruction” (1865-1877), the turbulent period following the Civil War, was the effort to reintegrate Southern states from the Confederacy and 4 million newly-freed people into the United States. Under the administration of President Andrew Johnson in 1865 and 1866, new southern state legislatures passed restrictive “Black Codes” to control the labor and behavior of former enslaved people and other Africans. It seems that the slave owners of the south were not willing to give up even after being defeated and the act of Emancipation was enacted by the US Congress. A thing to remember is that the slave states had withdrawn from the union and Congress was trying to come up with a plan to reconstruct the nation along its former boundaries. Hence the term “Reconstruction.” What a terrible time to be President.

So it was under these constraints that the 14th Amendment to the original Constitution was conceived and enacted and even if it was one hundred and fifty plus years ago, it still holds all of the power and intent that it ever had, until a superseding amendment is adopted or a more current interpretation of its parts are made by the Supreme Court.

Out of all of this background, our discussion will continue on the concept of “One Man One Vote” and how the Politicians of the country manufacture vehicles to drive around the true meaning of the phrase.

That’s My Opinion