Not to vote is to vote for what you don’t want;
Steve Rossiter , Bio and Archives--May 4, 2026
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As seen in the quotes below, our Founding Fathers had concerns about the future of America. As fine as the Declaration of Independence and Constitution are, both are totally dependent on the nature and ethical standards of the people administering them.
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” ~ John Adams
"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." ~ George Washington
"If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within." ~ James Madison
In less than 50 years after the founding, a young 22-year-old Abraham Lincoln recognized that America had a problem that is as applicable today as it was in his day.
“…At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.
"I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen, amongst us. I mean the increasing disregard for law which pervades the country; the growing disposition to substitute the wild and furious passions, in lieu of the sober judgment of Courts . . . . Accounts of outrages committed by mobs, form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country,…” ~ Abraham Lincoln 1838, Speech to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield
Both our Founding Fathers and Lincoln saw the enemy within the body politic as the greatest danger for the collapse of the republic known as the United States of America. Of course, we know that Lincoln faced that threat in real time and in a spectacular manner a mere 22 years later.
“Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again.” ~ Ronald Reagan
I understand that men much wiser than myself foresaw the problems America has today with the enemy within. The Marxist liberals, whether they be the Democrat Party, the Democratic Socialists of America, progressives, socialists, communists, or Islamists, are well funded by domestic and foreign oligarchs with one purpose in mind: destroy the traditional Judeo-Christian United States of America. Many of these enemies are already well established within the United States, state, and local governments. America must first fall if this small self-appointed group of elitists can put their New One World Order government in place.
This is not America’s first rodeo dealing with enemies from within. If American voter’s pay close enough attention to the problem, today’s enemy within can also be defeated. However, voters must realize that every vote for a liberal candidate, no matter what they call themselves, is a vote for national suicide.
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. Not to speak is to speak, and not to act is to act. God will not hold us guiltless." ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran Pastor executed by Nazis in 1945
Not to vote is to vote for what you don’t want.
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After a 55 year career as a professional pilot in the military, in law enforcement, in the private sector, and in federal civil service, I am now retired.
In many of these positions I repeatedly took an oath to defend the United States Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic.