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four extra senators there in the count, and make us (Republicans) a permanent minority.” Johnson added, “You would see massive re- strictions of the 2nd Amendment, second amendment rights, you would see them (De- mocrats) federalize elections, so they could take over and manipulate things in the red states. There are a lot of abuses that could come.” So, the Democrats in power could do all that, Johnson? You are saying Republicans, the Supreme Court and the Constitution would be powerless to stop them? Really? If the only re- strain of one-party oligarchy is the filibuster, then our constitutional republic is already dead. to destroy that gun!” Later in his exchange with Cabal, Theoto- copulos yelled, “We don’t want you in the same world with us!” (again, sound fa- miliar?). “We’ll hate you more if you succeed than if you fail.” I always think of that last line when I hear Left- ists rail against
getting reforms passed can now can say to angry voters, “Well, we couldn’t get enough Democrats to help us pass this legislation in the Senate. We couldn’t get sixty votes. What do you expect us to do?” How convenient. Think back, friends. Did you hear any GOP senate candidate in past Senate races in your states saying to voters at campaign stops, “And remember this November, my friends, it’s not enough to get us Republicans a simple majority. You must turn out at the polls to get our party a filibuster-proof majority?” (billofrightsin- stiute.org).” Kelo and some others didn’t want to sell. The article added, “The city then invoked its power of eminent domain in order to take the land.” The case KELO et al. v. CITY OF NEW LONDON et al. No. 04–108 was heard by the Supreme Court, which, on June 23, 2005, ruled 5-4 against Kelo. No, Republicans will never say that while campaigning because they will come across as ungrateful and demanding. Instead, you heard GOP candidates say, “Help us take the Senate back from the Democrats (meaning a simple majority vote).” Speaker Johnson said, “They (Democrats) keep saying Republicans are in charge of the government. We aren’t. Not in the Senate. Sixty votes control the senate, not a bare majority.” Johnson and other Re- publicans place the burden of getting a filibuster proof majority on con- servative and independent voters who already gave the GOP majority control of the House, Senate, and White House simultaneously over the years. So, you will never hear me, or anyone from the Constitution Party, say that capitalism is perfect or that it has never been misused or perverted by businessmen for their gains. Nothing created by sinful men is perfect. Just to say that capitalism, flaws and all, has lifted more people out of poverty than any other eco- nomic system, and it is the economic system of our nation (at least, for now). Under capitalism, I’ve heard Democrats out of power say that we cannot allow the tyranny of the majority to oppress the minority. They have no problem with using the filibuster and their few votes as the minority to prevent the majority – and the will of the electorate – from getting things done. Democrats in power also decry any Republican Senate minority when they use the filibuster, saying, “The voters spoke very clearly last No- vember. We won. Our government and the will of the electorate is being thwarted by a vocal minority of alt-right extremist Senators. Democracy is on the line because of Republican selfishness and authoritarianism.” Filibuster defenders make it sound as though there are only upsides to the filibuster, never any downsides. They fail to mention the filibuster also gives the minority party veto power over their majority, such as the recent prevention of a continuing resolution from being passed in the Senate. So, Republicans, are you saying to the voters who helped you retake the Senate that needing sixty voters, not just a 50+1 majority, to get things done is not a downside to the filibuster? ConstitutionPartyOfWisconsin.com (608) 561-7996 • No entrepreneur can force anyone to buy their products or use their services. • No entrepreneur got rich by taking other people’s possessions from them, as socialists claim. No one making millions a year is doing so because they stole it from middle or low-income peo- ple. • No entrepreneur forces anyone to work for him. Anyone can quit any job at any time they wish, and the employer is power- less to prevent them from leaving. • No entrepreneur must hire anyone or create any jobs, but when they do, they become the reason why people have a roof over their heads and food on their tables. If creating a business were easy, everyone would do it. hotel, a confer- ence center, and new condomini- u m s It’s easy for politicians in Washington, D.C. to demonize wealthy corporations and their owners. Federal politicians can raise the revenue they need by raising taxes, printing fiat money, or borrowing from other nations. Private businesses cannot tax their customers or competitors or print money if they face finan- cial hard times. No matter how wealthy a business is, if it can’t make a profit, it will go under. There were well-known corpora- tions, once wildly profitable, employing hundreds of thousands, that no longer exist (K-mart, Circuit City, Borders Books, Wool- worths, Polaroid). Their name recognition and past financial suc- cesses didn’t save them. Unlike governments and bureaucracies, corporations aren’t guaranteed a taxpayer- funded existence. And when politicians, elitist actors, podcasters, and college professors cry out about how the average person is “struggling to make ends meet,” why do they never blame the federal gov- ernment for siphoning away trillions in taxes and fees every year from the several states? How many actors are millionaires because of people parting with their hard-earned money to go see their films? Socialism didn’t produce those movies; entrepreneurs seeking to make a profit, investing their money in films that could have failed at the box office, did. I don’t want to leave anyone with the impression that I believe success is only wealth or power. If someone says all they want is a nice house, to find a spouse to have a couple of children with, run a family restaurant, and restore vintage cars, and they achieve those goals, then that is success too. ConstitutionPartyOfWisconsin.com (608) 561-7996
By Andrew Zuelke, State Chairman Constitution Party of Wisconsin Year-End 2025 As of this writing, we are into the longest government “shutdown” in his- tory. The good news is the shutdown is exposing the evils of government-funded welfare and how many people could work but refuse to. Welfare, intended to be temporary and for those physically and mentally disabled, has been abused by February 2026 In all my working years, I always knew that every employer I ever worked for was making far more money from my labor than they ever paid me, but I was OK with the trade-off of my time and physical labor because I was getting some-
the able-bodied for decades in levels we can scarcely afford. I long knew there are dependent Americans who actually feel entitled to other peo- ple’s money, but the levels of entitlement shocked even me. One SNAP recipient actually said online, “It is the responsibility of taxpayers to feed my kids.” People online have said if they do not get their food stamps, they will just steal food from the stores…or people. I don’t doubt they will. This is the expected outcome of government-funded charity and the destruction of the work ethic and self-reliance it causes. This shutdown will hopefully force massive entitlement reform, more so than we saw in the 1990s. This shutdown also reveals that our federal government is involved in way more than it should be, judging by how many things we are being told are not being funded now. Once, while working at a paper converting company, I wanted a raise. Rather than say, “Pay me more because I’ve been here two years,” I wanted to show my employer why I should get more. First, I wrote down all the skills I had acquired since work- ing there to demonstrate the value of my continued employment. Then I asked for a $1.50-per-hour pay raise; my employer gave me $2. I worked there for several years after. Had the employer said “no,” I would have taken my work ethic and skills elsewhere; I didn’t need the government to force the employer to pay me more. Senators say the filibuster is necessary, that it forces the two parties to work together in the Senate to get sixty votes. Of course, if both De- mocrats and Republicans had been obeying the written (enumerated) US Constitution all these decades, it would not matter which party was in the majority because they could only vote on certain things allowed by the Article 1: Section 8. Recently, House Speaker Mike Johnson was asked about President Trump’s call to use the “nuclear option” to get rid of the filibuster. John- son said that the GOP has traditionally seen the filibuster as a safeguard. GOP Senators said it “holds us back from the Democrat’s worst im- pulses.” Johnson asked, “What would Democrats do if they had no fili- buster impediment, no speed bump at all? They’ve already told us. They would pack the Supreme Court, go from nine to thirteen or fifteen or sev- enteen or however many liberals they could pack on the Court. You would have D.C. or Puerto Rico be made into states, which would give When the time came for the space gun to launch the capsule, the leader of the mob, Theotocopulos, standing with his stirred- up agitators, yelled to the movie protagonist, Cabal, “We mean thing I wanted — pay and benefits. I once watched the 1936 movie “Things to Come,” based on H.G Wells’ novel. In it, war breaks out over England, devastating everything, as war does. The movie skips to the future, where underground cities are built with many innovations, including the creation of a space gun to launch a manned capsule into orbit around the Moon. In the movie, characters resisted the order and progress, including one protestor who formed a mob seek- ing to vandalize and destroy (sound familiar?) the space gun.
Republicans are assuming that if they keep the filibuster while they are in power, Democrats in the majority will too. That is wishful thinking. The restrain We the People will have on any Democrat Senate majority – besides holding both parties to voting on only what the Constitution allows going forward and voting into office Constitutional alternatives – is that Democrats in power always, always go too far, promoting radical, communistic legislation for things most Americans will never support (transgenders in women’s locker rooms and sports, voting rights for il- legal immigrants, federal investigations into and arrests of angry parents at school board meetings and other political opponents, universal basic income, etc.) and within a few years, Americans vote them right back out of power. The Constitution allows for both House and Senate to choose their own rules. I am not debating that. As I have asked before: 1) What good does it do to give the Republicans the numerical majority in the Senate if they are going to keep the filibuster? 2) Why did Senators revoke the filibuster for Supreme Court nominees, reverting to a simple majority vote in the Senate to confirm them, if need- ing sixty voters is such a good thing? Could it be that both parties knew that if they kept a sixty-vote majority, they would never get their nomi- nees approved for the high court (i.e. – could not get things done)? So, apparently, the filibuster is “badly needed” to check the majority party, except when it comes to Supreme Court nominees? capitalism. Rather than emulate the wealthy, learn from them and study how they succeeded. Leftists long ago adopted the attitude, “If we don’t have wealth or successful businesses, no one should.” When an entrepreneur starts a business in his home or garage, and it fails, Leftists don’t care. When an entrepreneur succeeds, creating the next Amazon or Facebook, these same Leftists who didn’t risk any of their money to help start and grow the business now act as though they are entitled to a share of it. They pressure legislators and governors to step in with new laws and taxes to force the business owner to share his profits with them. Of course, there are wealthy employers who don’t care about their workers or could pay them more but won’t. There are
Also, with the filibuster, elected Republican senators in power not wealthy employers who commit fraud. We Constitutionalists say they should be prosecuted and, if found guilty, sentenced just like anyone else. However, most employers are not rich and would pay their workers more to keep them happy so they don’t go elsewhere, but they often cannot afford to pay more due to tight profit margins. Constitutionalists don’t support corporatism or what is called “crony capitalism.” Taxpayer monies should be used for pub- lic purposes (paying public workers, maintaining roads, sidewalks, bridges, etc.), not given to businesses as incen- tives to open a plant in a com- munity or to “encourage” them not to leave. Corporatism is not real capitalism; businesses shouldn’t be subsidized. As I said when I ran for Ripon City Council in 2010, “A business should rise or fall on its own merits.” Business owners should be responsible for any mess they make or any laws they break. There are times that, in the name of capitalism, entrepre- neurs want politicians to misuse eminent domain to steal some- one’s property for their private development, saying it is consti- tutional because their develop- ment will generate more tax revenue. A classic example of this abuse is Kelo v. New Lon- don (Connecticut). Developers wanted to tear down Suzette Kelo’s and “…100 other houses in order to allow private devel- opers to revitalize the area — there were plans for a resort
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