Compromises on the Way to a More Perfect Union: Celebrating the Semiquincentennial, Part 9

 

We’re two months past the official Semiquincentennial July 4^th celebration day. But it’s still the year of celebration.

In this series, we’ve spent several months on various parts of our beloved Constitution.

Here’s the series up to this point, if you missed any or want to review:

·        January: The Declaration

·        February: Preamble to the Constitution

·        March: Article I: Lawmaking

·        April: Article II: Executive Branch

·        May: Article III: Judicial Branch

·        June: Bill of Rights

·        July: Happy Birthday, America!

·        August: Bill of Rights Continued

This month in particular ought to be about celebrating that amazing document, since it was signed in September (1787). There’s enough good in our Constitution that we could finish the year-long series doing more and more Constitution. I do, however, plan to celebrate some other American things in the few remaining months. But not today.

Today I thought it might be useful to go through the two major compromises in the Constitution.

The Great Compromise

The first one on our list, sometimes called the Great Compromise, had to do with the question of whether representation should be based on population or equally by state.

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Principles of the Economic Sphere

There are principles we use in the Spherical Model to identify whether something qualifies as leading toward freedom, prosperity, and civilization, or in the other direction toward tyranny, poverty, and savagery.

Because of the prevalence of socialism in our time, I thought it might be a good exercise about now, two months ahead of the mid-term elections, to look at the principles. Since socialism claims to be just an alternative economic system to capitalism (the word they prefer to free-market), we’ll focus on the economic principles.

I’m taking from the list of principles here, where you can find the list for the political and social spheres as well.  And I’m taking from the list of question to ask candidates from here and here, where you can find those lists for all three spheres.  

We’ll go through the principles, and individually ask whether socialism agrees.

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Conspiracy to Overthrow the Government Is Illegal

Communism is against the law in the United States.

In theory, that has been true since its inception, and well before its first introduction to people in this country—because our law is the Constitution, to which communism is antithetical. The implementation of communism requires replacement of any existing political system. To translate, that means the overthrow of the United States government and our Constitution.

But, as we know, making something illegal doesn’t mean it no longer exists.

What I’m going to go through here today is a thought exercise only. But these are thoughts I believe we should be going through prior to any next election. There is a threat to our constitutional republic. And it is a real threat, a “clear and present danger” to our God-given rights by authoritarian tyrants.

Back in the 1950s, there was what was referred to as the Red Scare, when the Cold War was underway, and the enemy was a communist regime looking to expand its power and control around the world.

The threat was real. This enemy, the Soviet Union mainly, had nuclear weapons. The Chinese Communist Party was also a threat, although they didn’t succeed in getting nuclear weapons until 1964. But also during this time communist North Korea invaded South Korea, involving the US in the Korean War.

The ideologies of communism had been spreading in America, and indeed had infiltrated higher echelons of government. McCarthy was right about that.

So it was in response to this real threat (whether exaggerated in numbers at the time or not) that the Communist Control Act of 1954 was written—and passed unanimously in the Senate, then amended in the House to clarify definitions.

We’ll look at the law itself, and then talk about why it was (almost) never invoked, and why we maybe ought to be thinking about it today.

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BIll of Rights Continued: Celebrating the Semiquincentennial, Part 8

This is a monthly series throughout 2026, the Semiquincentennial year. You can see the other parts here:

·       January: The Declaration 

·       February: Preamble to the Constitution 

·       March: Article I: Lawmaking 

·       April: Article II: Executive Branch 

·       May: Article III: Judicial Branch 

·       June: Bill of Rights 

·       July: Happy Birthday, America! 

In our discussion of rights, back in June, we talked about what is a right, so we can recognize what we’re dealing with. Because a lot of Americans have been confused about that for a century or so.

And we covered a bit of history related to the Bill of Rights, and how we got those first 10 Amendments to the Constitution.

Then we talked about the first of the five rights in the First Amendment: the right to freedom of religion.

So that leaves the other four in that amendment, and a number of others in the remaining Bill of Rights. We’ll see what we get through today.

The other four rights in the First Amendment are:

·       Freedom of speech.

·       Freedom of the press.

·       Freedom to peaceably assemble.

·       Freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances.

Last week we talked about the pandemic a bit—and a little bit of the 5^th Amendment (which was invoked 111 times by Fauci in that Senate hearing). And it’s interesting to note that all of these First Amendment rights were abridged during the pandemic.

The Constitution guarantees us that government will not abridge these rights—and yet government did anyway.

Our discussions here are intended to inform us, so that we don’t blissfully go along with whatever government officials say. Because government is fire, and it needs to be carefully contained, or it gets out of control and burns. In real terms, rather than metaphorical, government is full of humans, many of whom are motivated by power and greed, and they work for those motivators, rather than for the good of society. Some—maybe even the worst—work for the power and money with the full conviction that they are doing it for our own good, even when they’re doing it against our will.

So, about those guaranteed rights.

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Faucian Deal with the Devil

If you’ve tuned in to independent conservative news, you know that Wednesday, July 29, was Fauci’s day to come before the Senate hearing—not to testify, but to invoke the 5^th Amendment, 111 times (probably a record), when he’d already been given a blanket pardon by the Biden autopen for anything he might be accused of going back to 2014.

He pleaded the 5^th when asked the color of his tie and whether there was a notebook on the table in front of him. Other than his opening statement, which amounted to, “Rand Paul has it in for me, a sincere and devoted public servant who never did anything wrong,” he said nothing but the same script about invoking the 5^th.

The hearing nevertheless went on. I watched the livestream Robert Gouveia had done, which included the full hearing, plus his commentary afterward (and occasionally brief commentary during). He was using the C-SPAN livestream.

There was a lot we already knew. There was a little bit new.

The diaries were new. These were not leaked. Fauci wrote these personal files on his government computer, which means they are government property, not his personal diaries, regardless of how he thought of them. He’d worked in government for something like five decades; he knew about FOIA requests for anything written on government computers.

They reveal that he absolutely knew the virus had leaked from the Wuhan lab—as early as December 2019, before it ever reached the US. Then he lied about that to the American public.

The reason for the lie seems clear: he had funded the gain-of-function research in Wuhan (and elsewhere), despite President Obama’s order curtailing any such research—because, being “the science,” he knew better than the president and acted on his own, going through some back channels to hide what he was doing.

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Still Paying Attention

When big news happens over and over, it starts to seem less big, just by comparison. One of these days maybe I’ll cover the whole list of things we weren’t allowed to talk about during the previous administration that we were right about all along. But just one of those “we told you so” things today.

Last week we had a report come out about election integrity issues. The President gave a speech. He did not say the 2020 election was stolen; he said China and other nations had the ability to do it, and there was quite a lot else, but nothing that could tag him as an election denier and therefore dismissible.

Let’s be clear on one thing, though: laws have been broken, and vulnerabilities are extraordinary—so that we have more reason to doubt election integrity than to trust in it.

The main piece is that China had stolen the personal data of some 220 million voter registrations. Note: As of April 2026 there are 204.6 million registered voters. I don’t know if that means China has all records, or all or almost all plus a whole lot of invalid ones. But they shouldn’t have the data required to, say, request a ballot by mail for every voter in America, if they happen to feel like it.

Another piece is that, while our IC (Intelligence Community) knew this in 2020, they purposely withheld the info from the President’s daily intelligence briefings.

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Socialism is Treason Against Our Constitutional Republic

Socialism is treason. But not everyone considering socialism knows that. And I’m not sure the defenders of our country are willing to say so.

If we’re not going to treat socialists as treasonous, then what?

We have to re-educate people out of socialism and back into freedom.

To those who espouse socialist ideas because of the indoctrination of the institutions, I hold out hope for them.

In sincere conversation with them, when they tell you socialism is better than capitalism, you can ask them to explain: “Do you really mean that you want to overthrow our government—a government designed to protect our life, liberty, and property—and replace it with coercion, property confiscation, and some central authority deciding whether you get to use your own money?”

If you’re reading here, chances are you already know socialism is bad. But let’s go through the thought process anyway. Maybe it will help you undo the indoctrination for someone you care about.

 

Ruler’s Law vs. Rule of Law

We have rule of law. The basic law of the US is the Constitution, which protects our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The agreement of the indivisible states, under the Constitution, is that we will abide by this law.

While people are free to disagree about political issues—and our God-given free speech right allows them to say things that are not true, that are even antithetical to the Constitution—they should not advocate for the overthrow of the Constitution without risking a charge of treason.

Above all else we could say (and some of which we will), socialism, communism, fascism, or any other Marx-based -ism is anti-Constitutional and therefore anti-American. It is subversive.

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