JAMES W. KING: America has become a socialist democracy
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The U.S. is no longer the republic it started out as
By James W. King
A recent comment in The Squawkbox stated that America was a republic and not a democracy. The squawker was emphatic that we should call it a republic. America is a socialist democracy and rapidly moving towards totalitarian socialism. America was founded as a constitutional federal republic composed of a limited federal government and sovereign states. It is said that a lady asked Benjamin Franklin, “What kind of government have you given us?” He replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
What led to the loss of the American republic? The socialist revolution in Europe led by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels failed in 1848. They saw America as an opportunity to keep their socialist dream alive. In 1849 and 1850, they sent approximately 2,000 primarily German socialists to America to New York City. They joined with American socialists to form the Republican Party in 1854, which until 1877 was similar to the modern Socialist Democratic Party. Before 1861, American socialist Horace Greeley allowed 487 of Karl Marx’s articles to be published in the New York Tribune newspaper, including the Communist Manifesto.
Southern statesmen tried to preserve the republic established by America’s founding fathers who were primarily Southern gentlemen from Virginia. The North invaded the South 1861-65 and conducted a barbaric war consisting of murder, torture, rape, arson, theft, plunder and pillaging. The socialists prevailed and the conversion of the American government from Republic to socialist democracy was set in motion and achieved in a few years. The 14th Amendment was fraudulently ratified and it eviscerated the 9th and 10th States Rights Amendments in the Bill of Rights and converted the constitutional federal republic to a centralized national government — a socialist democracy.
In 1892 when socialist Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance to the U.S. flag, he included “to the republic for which it stands” This was socialist deception. Socialism and corruption have continued to expand. Both Democrats and Republicans are at fault. Progressive and critical thinker are alternate names for socialist and communist. Donald Trump is an anomaly and I consider him the only hope for America.
JAMES W. KING
Albany
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