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Marxist Philosophy and an Article V State Convention

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This is a great time to be alive.

My 18-year old-daughter is jealous of me that I lived through the 80’s and graduated from high school in1985. I find it humorous that my daughter romanticizes the culture of the 1980’s and loves the music from that era.

I find it totally strange that my children love the music I grew up with since I always hated the music from my parents’ generation and thought it sounded parochial or even childish.

Decades or even centuries from now, generations of Americans will look back to this time in history with fascination as our nation is rejecting the advance of Marxist philosophy propagated in the public square in favor of reality based Judeo-Christian virtues.

The inevitable march toward socialism was on the rise, but civilization was being abruptly confronted with the simple realities of life and human nature. Having been confronted by anti-God and anti-capitalist philosophies, young people are choosing to embrace truths which conform to reality.

Now is the time for the older generations to embrace young people looking for something real, eternal, and transcendent to all times and cultures.

The wisdom of the ages will empower them and give them hope amid the promises of Marxism, which only lead to misery and despair.

Alexis de Tocqueville came from France to the United States in the early half of the 17th century to discover what made America unique among the powers of the world. His findings highlight American exceptionalism – what made us the exception among the nations?

Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America

As Democracy in America revealed, de Tocqueville believed that equality was the great political and social idea of his era, and he thought that the United States offered the most advanced example of equality in action.

He admired American individualism but warned that a society of individuals can easily become atomized and paradoxically uniform when, “every citizen, being assimilated to all the rest, is lost in the crowd.”

He felt that a society of individuals lacked the intermediate social structures—such as those provided by traditional hierarchies—to mediate relations with the state. The result could be a democratic “tyranny of the majority” in which individual rights were compromised.

Alexis de Tocqueville was impressed by much of what he saw in American life, admiring the stability of its economy and wondering at the popularity of its churches. He noticed the delicate balancing act formed through our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution which allowed for democratic elections of public servants combined with regard for protecting the rights of the individual and the minority.

Alexis compared our Constitution where rights came from God with the French Constitution where rights came from the state. He noted that the Declaration claimed that governments were instituted among men for the protection of those God-given rights and were retained by the people.

In America, the government worked to protect the people. But in France, the government was supreme. France had not completely repudiated the notion of the “divine right of kings” to rule the people. In America, the people were the sovereign king lending their voice to representatives.

Alexis de Tocqueville noticed that America attributed its rights to God and not the state. This point is the key reason Communism has not too completely infiltrated the United States.

Fast forward to the modern era where Marxists are trained to believe that there is a genuine struggle between oppressed and oppressor.

The Progressive era perpetuating the framing of a struggle between workers and owners, resulting in the formation of unions to intervene and protect the rights of workers.

To be certain, some owners were abusive and tyrannical towards workers. Our federal government intervened with laws to protect workers from such abuse. We all benefit from those reforms in our workplaces. Eventually, however, some unions used their power over the workers by becoming tyrannical themselves.

Detrimental to the free market economy, the government's role in the workplace grew.

Marxists altered prior failed strategy for promoting revolution, and morphed its strategy by targeting the weak spot in the societal fabric: racism.

Instead of dividing the population between oppressed worker and oppressor owner, they intentionally promoted the narrative that black Americans were forever born into oppression. And whites were born to be oppressors.

This became the Marxist philosophy which led to the 1964 Civil Rights Act which promised that the federal government would intervene to protect African-Americans from discrimination. Ultimately the Civil Rights act was used to include protection and preference for anyone who was not white.

The Civil Rights Act was good in that it ensured that black Americans would be able to vote. But the specific wording left a gaping hole for the government to expand its budget and authority to “help” people.

While admirable in intent, the Civil Rights Act has been used extensively to create a larger victim class of citizens. Soon everyone who wanted a government hand-out (instead of a hand-up) was provided money to survive. Government had now replaced the roles of God, native ability, and hard work.

This was precisely the ambition of the Marxist agenda.

Marxists couldn’t mount a Marxist revolution since the federal government had sided with the unions. They had changed their strategy to convince minorities they were oppressed in order to enslave generations of Americans into the “government plantation” of dependency.

Only by national motto, “In God We Trust” and through our frequent church attendance have we avoided the Marxist plan to succumb to violent revolution and the Communist Manifesto.

We are not a perfect people, but we intend to develop, “a more perfect union”. We aim to fulfill the will of the people while protecting the rights of others. Where some see only hatred, I see hope.

The Marxist worldview without God and his inalienable rights are in a battle with our historic Judeo-Christian worldview.

Marxism allows the overthrowing of the “oppressor” by force, whereas the Judeo-Christian perspective accepts reality and the nature of man as explained in the Bible, and the 2nd commandment to “love thy neighbor.”

Politically, there is only one answer as big as this divide between worldviews: Federalism.

The “one size fits all” prescription of federal governance keeps half of the nation frustrated and the other half rejoicing. Continuing down this path is a recipe for civil war. Been there, done that; its ugly and no side really wins.

I suggest a more peaceful solution.

I suggest that authority to divine solutions be restored to state governments as the Tenth amendment states. Our national Constitution has set the limits of congress, the chief executive (President), and the courts (supreme court).

Let the states operate as intended as powerful, sovereign entities. Their governance is closer to the people, less impenetrable to the federal government “one size fits all” decree.

It is high time that the several states pass Article V resolutions calling for a state amendment proposing convention. It is only by this method that a true restoration of the proper balance between the parent states and their ornery child - the federal government - can be realized.

The Convention of States organization has been lobbying state legislatures for years in an effort to pass a consistently worded resolution calling for an Article V convention of the states to propose amendments in the following 3 areas:

* Set term limits for Congress, including federal officials,
* Promote fiscal responsibility in Washington,
* Restrain the scope and jurisdiction of the federal government

I profess our national pledge, “…One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

We have a peaceful path. Will you join me in choosing to embrace our constitutional option?

My daughters hope you will.

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Created:	2025-09-23 01:41 GMT
Updated:	2025-09-24 23:26 GMT
Published:	2025-09-24 18:37 GMT
Converted:	2025-11-11 12:06 GMT
Change Author:	Diana Telles
Credit Author:	Steve Jones, Ohio Regional Captain