The Pharisee And The Publican- The Connecticut Democrat Version of 2026

Most people are familiar with the Biblical tale of the Pharisee and the Publican.

It goes something like this: Two men went up to the temple to pray: one a Pharisee (a member of a Jewish religious group known for strict observance of the Law) and the other a publican/tax collector (a figure often viewed as a sinner and collaborator with Roman authorities, despised).

 

• The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: “God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.”
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• The tax collector (publican) stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven but beat his breast and said, “God, have mercy on me, a sinner.”

In the Bible, two men came before God seeking him and one was able to approach God for mercy, being of a sincere heart. In the political theater of Connecticut, two men came before members of their party seeking primary votes. Sadly, both failed miserably as both projected no sense of sincerity whatsoever.

 

Welcome to the 2026 Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. 

 One, Josh Elliott wants to be the Governor of Connecticut so badly he can taste it. He demands your vote as any good Communist/Socialist Young Democrat demands. He confronted the Taxpayer funded Capitalist evil, enemy Governor Ned Lamont in a 45-minute debate held on July 22 on WTNH News 8 for all to see (https://www.wtnh.com/news/elections/lamont-elliott-spar-over-taxes-utility-costs-and-ice-mask-policy-in-news-8-debate/). And what a stale, scripted debate it was.  The same old, same old, tired failed Democrat policies echoed repeatedly. The agreed-to, (or network prepared?) questions were out of central casting.   No new ideas or logical thought provided.

Here are some interesting and as expected quotes from this fight between two Democrat Party brothers in corruption. (https://ctmirror.org/2026/07/22/lamont-and-elliott-clash-politely-in-only-tv-debate-before-primary/)

 Elliott:  “We’re the second-most reliant state on the property tax, which is deeply regressive,” Elliott said Wednesday. “The only way we can fix this is through a fair tax structure, asking the wealthy to pay a commensurate amount, a fair amount.”  Hey Josh! how much are you going to charge the wealthy in taxes?  100%? 200%?  At what point do you think they will move out of your state and thus pay zero in Connecticut taxes as they have done in every other state except your own?  Have you seen anyone and or any business move into state to pay Connecticut taxes in your ten years of damaging public service as a State Representative? In fact, what businesses have moved in state, excepting those receiving 2% taxpayer-funded sweetheart loans from our should-be-abolished Department of Economic and Community Development? What experience do you have with said loans? Why don’t you ask your opponent Mr. Lamont about this type of 2% forgivable economic assistance as he is well familiar with multi-million-dollar fundings advanced to his wife’s investors via Sema-4 and the Digital Currency Group?  What have you done about any of this?  

Not much as your record of accomplishments in unrecognizable.

Elliott also stated: “When I see that I’m up against somebody who takes my message and does the Temu version of it, I find it deeply frustrating,” “The fact is, I’m glad we’re rowing the same direction, but not quite the same, and not quite the same velocity. We could do so much more here in Connecticut, and the fact is, we have to fight for fairness up and down the board.”  What is this fairness he is talking about? Political nepotism for Connecticut Democrat Party operatives as in Bridgeport? More low-income jobs, multi-unit housing, and supporting dependency on the backs of the remaining legitimate taxpayers in the state? More gender-affirming care for innocent children?

Lamont:  “He (Elliott) doesn’t have much of a track record to talk about,” Lamont said. “I could talk about minimum wage. I could talk about economic growth. I could talk about the money we got for education and what we’re doing for health care. So, it gave me a lot of material to work with.”  Corrupted Capitalist Lamont could answer questions on how much did his family's hedge fund profit from Infosys Limited, Digital Currency Group and its affiliates, "ADVANCECT", Boston Consulting Group, UNITE US (CT), Mt. Sinai Genomics, "Thermo Fisher Scientific", "Sema 4", " Core Informatics", "Ocrulus", "Urjanet", "1life Healthcare", "Galileo Health", "Castlight Health", "Paladina Health", "4-CT", and "VillageMD ““The Horsebarn Hill Investment Fund”, McKinsey, “CT Next”, and the Tidal River Fund, 'Baby Bonds portfolio, the UCONN Foundation, to name a few?  I wonder why the moderators of the debate nor Elliott did not bring these areas up. Also, why does the Boiler Room of Connecticut ("Connecticut Innovations") steadfastly refuse to release any information whatsoever on their portfolio holding “Yuma Asset Management?” Is it because it is directly related to that same Digital Currency Group, and neither you nor your wife ever really “got out” of that deal and you lied to the citizens as you are wont to do?

Or how about both candidates disclosing their Income tax returns? (Hey Josh! Be sure to ask for Annie’s separate return, especially the part of Schedule “B” that asks for locations of foreign investments such as the tax-free and secret Cayman Islands, an integral part of the Sema-4 debacle).

Lamont also added: “We’re getting our fiscal house in order, and we had some surpluses to allow us to pay down some of the pension debt,” Lamont said. “Now we have the resources we need to make some of the big investments to really make a difference in people’s lives.” But what are exactly these investments? More 2% loans? More throwing money in exchange for votes and gimmees? More picking of winners and losers? But who cares about Connecticut and its  $100 and $150 billion dollars in short and term debt along with unfunded liabilities? What is the plan to pay that off? Why are so many legal and illegal citizens on state taxpayer funded social aid? Why do you never seem to care about any of that?

 You could have predicted the rest of debate. More rhetoric, more theatrics, and more spins on one of the worst performing states economically in the country.  Are you excited about either Democrat Party candidate? I would venture to say no as both will end up increasing state spending, increasing taxes, do less to try to combat crime and take away more of your personal freedoms. It’s the same garbage force fed to you by the Connecticut Democrat Party and its state-run media since time immemorial. It is the same rhetoric and the same lies over and over again. And most insultingly, they believe that no one sees (or cares).

Yes, both candidates are "insincere" about representing Connecticut. Both candidates represent the powerful economic and social self-interests that have made them career politicians with zero accomplishments. One candidate desperately wants to be important and be a good socialist helping to tear apart our country and its very fabric of being. The current Governor is desperately trying to keep his family's Connecticut Taxpayer funded increase in wealth, through the biggest bunch of shell companies with zero transparency and the stock deer-in-the-headlights look whenever he is confronted with a question of self-dealing or leveraging the state for personal gain. Both are inept and both are unfit to serve the Connecticut Taxpayer. 

It is the 2026 Connecticut Democrat Version of the Pharisee and The Publican. The difference, is, neither Elliott or Lamont promises to repent, straighten up, and fly right.

 

Democrat Mission Statement 2026: Hide The Red Jackass

How much more progressive can the new Communist/Socialist Democrat Party veer to in 2026?  As we see a daily assault on traditional American values peppered by the lies of progressive Democrats, any people of common decency wonder why there has not been a greater outcry against this attempted governmental overthrow, especially by the remaining moderate Democrats in the party, followed by establishment Republicans who mistakenly are treating this concentrated evil as a flukey joke at most?  Why is there a great delight by a small minority in our political system to hate Jewish people, hate the police, defund the police, hate free-enterprise, eliminate our sovereign borders, eliminate the rule of law, eliminate prisons, eliminate personal freedoms, eliminate personal and real property, hate religion and hate God? And how do those in this twisted minority feel they have the lawful right to force their sickening views on the rest of us Americans who vehemently disagree with them?  Do they understand how many millions of Americans lost their lives defending freedom so these radicals within the failed Democrat Party can bellow their hatred of our country on a daily basis?  Are those lives lost in vain?  Do they understand that they are functionally nonproductive for any purpose, and that the only way these people can exist from day to day is by relying on the largesse of others? It is ostensible that they understand very little about anything whatsoever other than the psychobabble that has been drilled into their heads by evil adults and authority figures having twisted Communist agendas.

It is no secret these truly evil of the left wing wish to clean house of all of the rich, fossilized career establishment Democrats populating Congress. Perhaps it may be the personal wealth of the Frozen Chosen that irritates these evil people.  The decrepit anti-wealth Bernie Sanders is worth $4,000,000 plus.  Nancy Pelosi tips the scales at a mere $245,000,000.  Vietnam Veteran Dick Blumenthal, a warrior to the core, sports a modest $85,000,000.  Mark Warner, another assailant of wealthy billionaires, shows he is not one of them,at $206,000,000.  Barack Obama, a poor community organizer from Chicago is now worth $70,000,000.  Rosa De Lauro is a relative piker at $5,000,000, which certainly is enough to provide for purple hair dye.  Ilhan Omar is alleged to be worth $30,000,000, and she has yet to prove otherwise. (Open Secrets.org) Do a search on Democrat politicians’ wealth and it might surprise you to see these same multi-millionaires decrying our free market system and capitalism while they profit off it.    Why aren't these same Socialist Democrat multi-millionaires  giving away their money to help to right of all the supposed social wrongs that they bitch about on a daily basis? Why aren’t they funding this new cadre of renegade Communists to assail America with more energy, vim, and vigor? The answer is that the established group of Democrat fossils sees this new Demo-communist as a threat to their position, power and financial endowment.  In fact, the old guard hates these Communists more than you and I might. What a sickening example of hypocrisy this is. 

I wonder how many more examples of socialism and communism failure must be discussed to counter the rose colored glasses view of these horrific ideologies? It would be a wonderful world if these same communists/socialists were forced to study the following atrocities; (the) Bolshevik Revolution, Bataan Death March, Chinese Communist Revolution, Pol Pot's Communist Party of Kampuchea, (resulting in the Cambodian genocide) and the Holocaust.  How did any of these atrocities against humanity benefit freedom?  Russia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba, Zimbabwe and North Korea have all changed for the worse under Communist influence, yet they are glorified by this generation of deranged idealists.  

 

Through it all, we are thankful that President Trump realizes this assault on our freedoms and stated in his July 3rd speech at Mount Rushmore; “There is now a resurgence of the communist menace in our land, including from newcomers to our country who embrace ideas totally opposed to our way of life and our great success. These are not mere political disagreements like differences over taxes or regulations. Communism is a mortal threat to American liberty. It is the greatest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11. We're not gonna let this happen to us. Believe me, we're not letting it happen. Because communism is the enemy of free people everywhere, everywhere in the world. Never works. It's the enemy of the Constitution.  Above all, it's the enemy of July 4th, 1776. It is the enemy indeed. Even while the radicals and extremists attack our incredible history at every turn, they are silent on the miserable history of communism itself because it never worked. Thousands of years, if you look at it under different names, under somewhat different ideologies and systems, that system has led to more death and destruction than any system ever tried. It killed 100 million people just in the last century alone. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil. The godless communist morality states that anything is justified to bring about inhuman visions and a pro- -- and to really propose what's good. They don't want good. They don't love God and they don't want God. They don't love religion and they don't want religion, and they won't have it, but we will not let them win. They have no chance against us. They have no respect for law, justice, principle, tradition, or your God-given rights. It's an ideology of mass theft, mass control, mass lies, and mass murder...You can be loyal to Karl Marx or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both. As for those who pedal Marx's lies about our heritage, who tell our children that we live on stolen land or that our heroes were oppressors." (https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-mount-rushmore-250th-birthday-semiquincentennial-july-3-2026/)

I highly recommend all sides of the aisle to read this speech, and to watch it again, several times over.  Please digest and truly understand what President Trump is actually saying.  And if you are a Republican running for public office at any level, you must quote from it in your pro American/Freedom/anti-Communism/Socialism speeches if you are called upon.  It is unquestionable that our free country and our personal freedoms are worth fighting for once again, as they were in 1776.  

The political pap and crap that is force fed to us by an out of touch with reality Socialist Democrat Party embracing this communism/socialism is continually enabled by an obedient docile, and inept media. This toxic mess needs to be confronted once and for all.  The time and money we have to invest in this fight defies logic as we do live in the freest and greatest country in the world.  If this small minority of Communists/Socialists do not like living here, then please get the hell out of America once and for all.  Your system has never worked and will never work, contrary to your lies. Better communists than you have failed miserably in this endeavor and you are not equipped to succeed. Most of you cannot even explain the difference between Pol Pot and a Coffee Pot.  Stop infringing upon my and millions of other Americans economic, personal and religious freedoms.  We are the majority, and your sickening doctrine you are trying to shove down our throats is best left ignored.

In closing, may the complacent and comfortable elected members of the political system take this situation to heart with urgency, and not with the usual stubbornness and incompetence. If this class of individuals fights Communism at least half as hard as ordinary citizens are, this fight will be over very quickly.

May God Save The United States Of America from all enemies, both foreign and domestic.

 

Connecticut: The Land Of Steady Failures

 What should be the caption title of the State of Connecticut? In the past, we have seen “The Constitution State,” “The Land of Steady Habits,” and “The Nutmeg State” used to describe a relatively small state bordered by three other ones. However, I submit unto you that a much more apt and descriptive name for the state of Connecticut would be “The Perpetual Debtor State” as politicians of all stripes have done little but spend and bond the way to Connecticut’s economic oblivion for the past thirty-five years.

Does more state governmental spending of taxpayers’ dollars solve social problems? A simple look around will tell you that Connecticut does not solve anything, nor offer any resolutions to the state's social problems with the vast sums of cash being spent by its state government. Kindly note that Connecticut spends $28.1 billion dollars yearly, with the adoption of its new budget and spends over $11 billion dollars on social welfare programs. So why do conditions perpetually worsen?

As we examine more closely, we see that Connecticut being a state of roughly 3.3 million people, spends 40% of its budget on social welfare programs. If one reads even slanted state-run media reports regarding all the social welfare problems the state has in 2026, one could logically assume that the state is throwing away this money with no positive results in solving all these issues. As just one example from a recent article by the left-leaning, oft-quoted, and Democrat friendly nonprofit “Connecticut Voices For Children,” it is stated that, “Connecticut ranked 29th in the nation for the percentage of children living in high-poverty areas. At 7 percent, Connecticut reports a higher share of children living in concentrated poverty than most New England states." (https://ctvoices.org/press_releases/connecticut-ranks-7th-in-the-nation-for-child-well-being-but-economic-inequities-continue-to-hold-too-many-families-back/). Many wonder if the state is spending over 40% of its budget on social welfare programs, how could poverty increase? yet it does.

As much as it wants to spend, Connecticut never rids itself of the social problems of illegal drug use, deaths due to these same illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum-like living conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by numerous food banks throughout the state and increases in child poverty. If one multiplies the ever-increasing state spending on social welfare since the 1991 implementation of the Utopian State Income tax, billions of dollars, (many matched by Federal funding), have been spent in the last 37 years with little or any positive result. It becomes more evident daily that Connecticut has refined a state perpetually financed with taxpayer-paid spending on welfare, poverty, crime, illegal drug use, hopelessness, hopelessness, and penury. And again, one must realize that Connecticut still is a top five highest taxed state in the country having a poor economic and business climate with $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt along with unfunded liabilities, and massive industry and corporate losses. Where has all the money gone to produce such poor results? Or is this the intended consequences of attempting to strip a productive economy of its past vibrancy. and replace it with failed socialism and control of its youth?

Much to the chagrin and to the resistance of just about every Connecticut state office holder and candidate being afflicted with the debilitating disease of Trump Derangement Syndrome, there have been several plans and provisions under the Trump Administration to change this way of welfare life. My colleague Tony De Angelo has talked numerous times about the economic benefits for young people of the 530A Trump accounts, and is now in the process of challenging (if not, embarrassing) these same politicians asking why they wish for children in their districts to remain in perpetual poverty (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXoj4oZgvW8&t=2132s) However, and in fairness, this program is doubly despised by Democrats in liberal states such as Connecticut. The same “Connecticut Voices For Children” (funded by angry, older,wealthy Liberals) also condemns them; "Proponents frame these as “freedom-based” fiscal tools. While all of this sounds good—for clarity, there can be value in these types of accounts—this policy may exacerbate racial inequality. Unlike Baby Bonds, a policy we’ve been championing, Trump accounts are not equity-based by design. What’s more, Trump accounts are private, market based investment vehicles intended as a diverted payroll tax
alternative to traditional Social Security." (https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Candidate-Briefing-Book-2026-6.23.pdf). How could the revered lunatics in this Liberal “Think Tank” ever arrive at such nonsensical conclusions? How is this investment intended to a baby or a child who is 5 years old or less be tabbed as a “Social Security” alternative? Are these children working a job paying contributions under FICA? Do the “Voices” (along with the equally mentally bereft Connecticut Treasurer Erick Russell) feel that “Trump Accounts” are for “white kids only?”  Why is it wrong with teaching young people the value of savings (tax free), and creating the desire to build wealth and economic freedom? With all that Connecticut spends on child welfare, why are so many kids in poverty? I will note that the Executive Director of Connecticut Voices For Children, Emily Byrne received $160,776 in Compensation in 2024 along with "Other" Compensation of $17,486. (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/61435280). That is an awful lot of money to pay to someone who has no concept whatsoever of how economics really work.

Maybe before one more Connecticut Taxpayer dollar is spent, a complete punitive audit/review of all these $11 billion dollars in social welfare spending is in order. because it is obvious to many that the funds are not correcting these various social atrocities found in Connecticut. Maybe candidates running for state office this year could actually offer real solutions rather than just spending even more money to get even poorer results, year in and year out. If there were any political courage whatsoever, illegal drugs, rampant crime, slum like livings conditions in its cities, homelessness, hunger not satisfied by enormous food banks throughout the state and increase in child poverty can be alleviated through major changes in the state-run bureaucracy that embraces it. Maybe candidates can take Tony’s hint and while they are out door knocking, take a moment to explain how a Republican-designed Trump Account can provide more than enough money for their children’s education at Age 18 rather than their precious child becoming a welfare recipient or a lifelong debtor at that juncture, irrespective of the color of their skin. Or, conversely, will the brainless perceptions and prejudices of ignorant adults operate again to snatch failure from the jaws of success in what we now understand to be "The Connecticut Way?" Connecticut Taxpayers quickly need to see solutions from their failed government. They are tired of supporting this litany of failure. 

Will 2026 finally be the year of boldness and change that taxpayers have waited to see? It must be so, for there will be no other opportunity.

Today is the first day of our 250th year of American Freedom and Exceptionalism

 

May it be to the world, what I believe it will be … the signal of arousing men to burst the chains … and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form, which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. …For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.” –

Thomas Jefferson, June 24, 1826, Monticello

 

Freedom is not free, nor ever has it been free. I guess that difficult to understand for some in our country today. Socialism has been a failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Communism also has been a miserable failure in the world in the countries that force its citizens to obey its failed principles. Why are some in our country embracing the losses of personal and economic freedoms along with reverting back to tyrannical type of government? Do they not understand the consequences of the dictatorial actions of murderous leaders such as  Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Chairman Mao and Saddam Hussein to name a few?  It would be educational for those paid protestors and Democrat Socialists of America members,  who have a hatred for our country to read over what these socialist/communist dictators did to their countries that they ruled with no regard for the sanctity for human life let alone personal and economic freedoms. Is this what the younger generation wants for their future because of all of the "free" things that are being promised to them that in reality they never will receive?

Today's Communist/Socialist Democrat Party shows itself to embrace the dismantling of personal and economic freedoms at all costs.  It sickens many Americans to have watched the wretched turmoil of non-stop rioting and destruction of personal property go unchecked. It sickens many Americans to have watched the blatant lies of an obedient state run  media echo all the failed talking points of failed socialistic and communistic government mandated programs in lock step. It sickens many Americans to have watched a mass of illegal immigrants just walk into our country and do whatever they wanted to for four years. It sickens many Americans to have watched the constant condemnation, personal attacks, assassination attempts and impeachment attempts of President Trump since 2016. It sickens many Americans to have watched Police and Law Enforcement officials be told not to enforce the laws of our country, or if they did there would be consequences for their actions. It sickens many Americans to have watched a small minority of our country attempt to force fed us their incoherent socialistic gibberish while hiding under masks. It sickens many Americans to have activists Judges create laws out of rhetoric to fit their political agenda. Americans are tired of the  Democrat Party encouraging these failed ideologies and their disgust for our country to go unchecked.

Today's Democrat Party represents the hypocrisy and double-dealing to enrich themselves and those politically connected to them. If they are so worried about people in "need" then why is avowed Socialist  Bernie Sanders net worth over $4 million dollars? Yet he bellows about how bad capitalism is? But it is fine for him to be worth that much. I wonder how many "homeless" people does he living in his two homes that he owns?  Look at how much "wealth" many local, state, and federal Democrat elected officials have and then wonder why they hate economic freedom so much?

President John Adams stated, "Liberty, once lost, is lost forever."  I grew up watching the Vietnam War protestors with their burning of the American flag, illegal drug use and hatred of our country. And I now watch history repeating itself 60 years later now with paid protestors who protest about anything and everything with no clue as to their consequences of their actions. I despised the disparaging of America back then; I despise it now and I know many of you reading this do also. We as a country need to strive for excellence and self-sufficiency once again. Today, let us all start working on this first day of our 250th year of American freedom and exceptionalism to make sure Liberty and Freedom live on for the next 250 years and eliminate for the last time the fetid tentacles of socialism and communism entrapping America in 2026.   

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.  It has to be fought for and defended by each generation." President Ronald Reagan July 6, 1987 

God Bless America and let Freedom ring today, tomorrow, and forever for the United States of America.

250 Years of Freedom July 4,1776 - July 4, 2026

 IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated  Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

— John Hancock

New Hampshire:
Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton

Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry

Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery

Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott

New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris

New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark

Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross

Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean

Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton

Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton

North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn

South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton

Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

The Deconstruction Of The American Social Contract

The United States of America is arriving at its 250^th birthday. The birthday of the Land of the Free, and the Home of the Brave. The birthday of the land of opportunity. The birthday of the country where anyone could achieve at his or her desired level provided, they worked hard and used what was provided and available to them. The land where Americans were permitted to accumulate capital and property and leave wealth to the objects of one’s bounty. A land more than worth keeping, preserving, and fighting for.

And fight we did. Hitler. Tojo. Mao. Hirohito. Mussolini. All tried to assault the American way of life and force their will upon Americans. All failed. And the assaults on freedom and liberty were not all from foreign shores. Covid-19. Vaccine Mandates. Manufactured racism. Governmental abuse. The Administrative state's abuses. The Deep State. All as devastating and dastardly as a foreign assault. But still, and to this day, Americans fought. And why do they fight? Because America is a land more than worth keeping, preserving, and fighting for.

However, a strange thing has happened in America over the past decade or so. “Downwardly Mobile” young individuals who were children during the financial crisis and the morass of the Barack Obama administration, attended colleges and received useless degrees with laughable titles that came with an inhumane amount of debt, a debt that could not possibly ever be repaid given the employment prospects with one having such a useless degree. However, on the way to that degree, these young and impressionable individuals were browbeaten by practically useless self-aggrandizing professors and instructors who continually told them that their debt, their practical uselessness, and their rage was all the fault of the evil and rotten American system, leaving these malleable students with no hope. In fact, they were told that their only hope rested in a powerful and benevolent State that would take from the evil and redistribute to the hopeless, and then, the very fabric America could and should be reworked into the warmth of collectivism, where no person would ever go without.

Through it all, it is an astonishment that none of these people on the downward trail have ever been taught the evils of Communism and totalitarian oppression, leading many to be that new breed of true believer Communists that we see today in places like New York and Los Angeles.

Again, I cannot understand this. My grandparents on both my mother’s and Father's side of the family immigrated from Socialist/Communist countries in Eastern Europe in the 1900's. They became United States citizens, sought employment, and raised families. My parents would relate stories of their suffering under the harsh regimes they were forced to live under. They heard stories of the greatness of a United States of America where they would be free. My Father and Uncle both served for the country during World War II in the Army and Navy, respectively. I grew up with an oral history of the war and as I got older, they both described in greater detail the atrocities during that war. Atrocities that my father stated were beyond comprehension and bothered him until the day he passed many years later. To remind readers World War II saw the slaughter and a total lack of respect for human life especially for Eastern European and German Jewish people. The Holocaust did occur contrary to liberal, incoherent history revisionists. Innocent people were gassed, abused, and murdered. This is just a part of why I cannot comprehend Communism as being a benefit for anyone at any time.

But what is Communism? We can define Communism as a doctrine based on revolutionary Marxian socialism and Marxism-Leninism theories, whereby government controls all aspects of life from the economy, and the elimination of personal freedoms is the norm.  Socialism can be viewed as a series of economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership of all goods and property with the end of personal property. In Socialism, the “warmth of collectivism” means that Government is the sole means of production and distributor of goods, thereby eliminating free markets, choices, and capitalism. Those living in “captured states” such as Connecticut and California can relate to the fact that Socialism is a totalitarian system of government ruled by one party and one party only. Those who lead in the party have special privileges to private property, better food and drink, better medical care, and can operate on a plane where they are above the law. Incompetents and abusers remain in office. Drunks make laws and are provided mercy and compassion for operating vehicles while impaired. Political favor is purchased by using tax money. Pushback is met with scorn and ridicule. A simple question to ask is why would some people want to live under this system? Because only a depressed and mentally weak person with no hope and outlook for their life would ever find such prospects attractive. Perhaps, the answer to that question is present in the question itself.

As it has devolved, many of these mentally disenfranchised individuals that were raised in much better circumstances have taken up residence in the wrecked and poisoned cities of the country. New York City, along with its paid political protestors elected Bowdoin college graduate in African Studies, Uganda born Muslim, Zohran Mamdani as their Mayor. Out of a supposed 2,194,204 votes Mamdani received 1,114,184 votes, Andrew Cuomo received 906,614 votes while Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa got 153,749 votes. Only 41.6% of New York City registered voted in the 2025 election. But to an ignorant person with no hope and knowledge, Mamdani is a Socialist’s dream. For example. Mamdani was asked; “What areas of public policy are you personally passionate about?," Mamdani wrote, "I know that we'll never win the rights we all deserve - rights to healthcare, housing, education, nutrition, childcare, and public power - without a grassroots movement of the working class rising up to demand them. “Mamdani describes himself as a Democratic socialist. In a 2020 campaign video, he said, "I’m a Democratic socialist, and what socialism means to me is a commitment to dignity, a state that provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life." During his mayoral campaign, Mamdani said he wanted to "freeze the rent for all stabilized tenants," "permanently eliminate the fare on every city bus," "implement free childcare for every New Yorker aged 6 weeks to 5 years," and "create a network of city-owned grocery stores. (https://ballotpedia.org/Zohran_Mamdani). Most of these “promises” have ended up in shambles. But people continue to believe the Socialist bromide that all is in reach. It is just a matter of time to manifestation.

To show the power of the misplaced beliefs of Socialism, three Democratic Socialists of America candidates this past week in New York City received a grand total of roughly 125,000 votes. endorsed by Mamdani. Here are the very low vote counts:

Claire Valdez (NY-7), 36,961 votes 

 Brad Lander (NY-10) 55,060 votes

 Darializa Avila Chevalier (NY-13), 32,790 votes

All of the above individuals are members of the Democratic Socialists of America (“DSA”). Not to be redundant, It is difficult to understand the love for these, and all Democrat Socialists of America candidates and their registered voters given their platforms.

As stated, The (DSA) advocates for the abolition of capitalism and the transition to a democratically controlled economy where working people dictate production and societal resources. Their platform emphasizes collective liberation through grassroots organizing, centering on systemic anti-oppression and major expansions in public welfare.

Economic Justice: The establishment of an economy that serves human needs, not corporate profit. This includes proposals for a Green New Deal, a 32-hour workweek, strengthened union power, and steep taxes on the wealthy.

Health and Housing: Universal, single-payer healthcare (Medicare for All) and guaranteed housing for all individuals

Abolition of the Carceral State: The demilitarization and defunding of police, the abolition of mass incarceration and pre-trial detention, and the closure of local jails in favor of community-led care and reparative justice.

 Deepening Democracy: The establishment of a multi-party proportional representation system in Congress, elimination of the Electoral College in favor of the popular vote, reducing the power of the Supreme Court, and securing universal suffrage for all. 

 International Solidarity: A working-class foreign policy that rejects imperialist expansion, advocates for free movement of people, and emphasizes demilitarization and a free Palestine.

  (https://www.dsausa.org/)

Thus, socialists expect our country to eliminate law and order, end religious freedoms especially for those of both Christian and Jewish faiths, eliminate Capitalism, charge even more/higher taxes on wealthy (except for those who are DSA members) and other assorted failed Communist policies. This really should be a red flag to the Democrat Party however sadly it is not. Democrats in New York, California, Illinois, and Connecticut are embracing them and their poisoned policies and failures, as Democrats play the ball wherever it is hit, no matter how dirty the ball happens to be.

If voters choose to ignore this small minority of voters and their insane hatred for our American way of life is doubtful, as many in the liberal state run media love these ideologies (so long as they are not impacted by them).  I do not understand why the Democrat Party is allowing themselves to be hijacked by these Communists/Socialists unless it by design and that they really feel that they will become the only political party because of this? Perhaps. For as we well know, Democrats play the ball wherever it is hit, no matter how dirty the ball happens to be

We have heard all of these Communist/Socialist lies before. We see firsthand the failures of Communism and Socialism for many years, fighting many wars over totalitarian rule. Look at Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, and others.   I also wonder why Communist/Socialist Democrats like Bernie Sanders, Hasan Piker, and others who do not give their wealth away but keep it from the masses they are supposedly helping and are never held accountable by their own people by amassing wealth utilizing good old-fashioned capitalistic principles? This adds to the mystique and confusion as to how one accepts this wretched failure as a means to success.  

Sadly, this incoming Communist and Socialist onslaught has brought the political world to its knees. Established Democrats, many of whom are Trump-hating left wingers, are being pushed aside without respect or regard by those far more evil. Republicans, clueless in another direction, would be wise to communicate that Communism and Socialism fails because its incentive structure contradicts what are human nature is. I am not terribly hopeful that either political party really grasps the severity of this matter at hand and will be able to act upon the serious nature of the same.

But as is always the case, we are driven by incentives in this society, especially in financial terms.  Communist and Socialist Democrats who utilize capitalism to build personal wealth while demanding redistribution from others without sacrificing their own fortunes is hypocrisy at its best.  However, wealth redistribution as they protect their own assets is the obligation to be paid by the lackeys and peons. Thus, once again history repeats itself. If the downwardly mobile hate America as much as they say, then they should leave the country once and for all. If weak and ill-equipped politicians and office holders cannot see the chasm and culture war between America and its aspirational overthrow that is to come, they should leave office and do the rest of us a favor. For as we are quickly approaching our 250th birthday of our country, the choices have never become clearer. 

It is time to silence the death knell of Communism and Socialism so that Freedom may reign for another 250 years.

CONNECTICUT: The House That Political Hacks Built

 At the close of the Second World War, there was a great migration from the southern states of the country to the coasts, along with a postwar baby boom. This influx of additional people caused well-meaning and thoughtful civic leaders to try to find ways to house this overflow of people and family growth. One solution was rental “projects housing,” creating small apartments of many sizes with attractive landscapes to give the residents a feeling of home. And the projects sprung up everywhere. Father Panik Village in Bridgeport, CT. Southfield Village in Stamford. Arnold Court in Greenwich, and the masterful Cabrini Green in Chicago, IL. Starting with visions of success, failure came. Combinations of the welfare system, the destruction of the nuclear family via that same welfare system, drugs, alcoholism, crime, and abandonment caused these projects to meet the wrecker’s ball, crumbling into the dust of needles and shell casings left long before. Families that stayed together followed the original intention of the projects and saved money and moved out to homes of their very own. City mismanagement caused the buildings to wear out much sooner than expected. Overall, it was a pitiful debacle, and the wrecker's ball was the punctuation ending this sad and failed chapter in history.

After this wasteful disaster of epic proportions, one sad lesson was learned: Housing provided without the opportunity of ownership and preserving one’s investment was invariably headed to ruin. However, developments such as New York’s “Co-Op City” and “Cooper Village” provided ownership and equity and have succeeded for decades. So, one would think that to provide success in housing other than abject failure, one would not try to do the exact same approach that failed decades ago and expect a different result.

However, Welcome to Connecticut! 

A place where a chorus of political hacks always have a better idea!

A place where the wrong solution is chosen about every time, and where failure is gift wrapped to masquerade as success.

A place where the failed approaches of the recent past are brought out to the sycophantic and ignorant as "unprecedented".

A place where cries of an “affordable housing shortage”  have caused the serial building of monstrous apartment developments that stamp out any semblance of local zoning and community character, as we find these housing monstrosities are entirely unaffordable due to dead business and salary growth in Connecticut. Therefore these developments head to the express lane to be the Cabrini Greens and Father Panik Villages of the future.

A place where no decent and durable housing can be built as the combination of a dead economy, a welfare-state environment, contaminated zoning laws, and the sheer cost of doing so makes all that a losing proposition not worth the risk for any builder or contractor in his or her right mind.

But never fear! Whenever there is a social or community need that good old economic principles are not permitted to deal with, you can rest assured that a combination of politicians, community activists, “religious leaders”  grossly overpaid “nonprofit heads” and “housing advocates” will step in to make a bad result, even  unthinkably worse.

And worse leads to what we already know.

Housing affordability? For things to be affordable, people must be able to produce sufficient income in order to afford them. “Connecticut gets an "F" on housing affordability screams a recent headline so states a recent report by Realtor.com.”   Connecticut ranked 46th out of 50 in the report. The median household income is just over $95,000 per year in the state, and the median listing price for a home is just over $500,000. “We need more homes, we need more multifamily homes, those missing middle options. But really, we need a combination of all those strategies for Connecticut to catch up to our peers,” Chelsea Ross with Partnership for Strong Communities said. (https://www.wtnh.com/news/connecticut/new-haven/connecticut-receives-f-for-housing-affordability-and-availability-in-new-report/)

The report itself should be must reading for those running for office in the November election, presuming they possess the basic comprehension skills in order to do so. Housing is a complete debacle for Connecticut, in contrast to the billions of dollars that have and will be spent on the guise of "affordable housing". "If the top of the class reshuffled, the bottom barely moved at all. Connecticut (No. 46, F), California (No. 47, F), Hawaii (No. 48, F), Massachusetts (No. 50, F), and Oregon (No. 45, D-) all hold the same rankings as last year...These states face structural challenges such as high prices, constrained land, restrictive zoning, and building costs that far outpace what middle-income buyers can afford.     (https://www.realtor.com/research/state-report-cards-2026/)

What I find interesting is that the "non-profit" Partnership for Strong Communities” organization is quoted in the above news report. "The Partnership" has been in existence since 1998, and their website states the following: Since our founding, the Partnership has successfully advocated for more than $2.6 billion in public funding in Connecticut. These investments have helped build homes and deliver services to increase housing affordability, supply, access, and stability. We have engaged community, civic, and elected leaders to come together and imagine, plan and execute effective change and to create a new paradigm of thinking about housing. (https://pschousing.org/our-history/). Their finances are interesting also. Their Executive Director, Chelsea Marie Ross received $132,271 in compensation along $5,762 in "other" compensation in 2024 (their last published financial statements) (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/200882009). Executive Compensation along with other Salaries and wages of $454,488 account for 54.3% of all expenses for this "non-profit". 

Many social-media users asking questions of, or making criticisms of "The Partnership" are quickly blocked because "The  Partnership", is imperious, and shame on us for not knowing that. Meanwhile, The State of Connecticut spends more than $1 billion dollars a year for programs such as the “Housing Trust Fund” and the “Time to Own” homebuyer program. After all, no amount of money is too large in order to deal with a "crisis".

Many find it fascinating that with the amount of Connecticut Taxpayer funded programs and "nonprofits" for "affordable housing" through tax credits, subsidies to municipalities and other programs, Connecticut continues its race to the bottom of both a shortage of housing and the affordability of housing. It is also important to note and is left out of the debate, is that Connecticut has one of the highest property rates in the country, with such rate increases attributable in many cases to waste, fraud, abuse, and duplication of services as opposed to consolidation. It is ranked third in the country for highest property tax rates with a real estate tax rate of about 1.54% to 1.66% of a property's assessed value. The logical question would be wouldn't the lowering of property tax rates in turn lower property and rental costs? That simple question seems lost in the race to control zoning by an elite political few, who, while living in their Greenwich mansions, demand a lower standard of housing that they can profit from in the guise of "affordable housing" while, (like Ned and Annie Lamont with Annie’s equity interest in benefit provider “Unite Us”), can sit back and reap the benefits of this obfuscation and exploitation of the relative underclass.  

There are many free-market solutions to lower the costs of housing and rents in Connecticut. The solutions have worked before and will work today. However, since the "non-profit affordable housing" industry is drive by profit and control and facilitated by overpaid bureaucrats, professional panderers. and Executive Directors, these solutions will never be mentioned. Connecticut's ruling Democrat elite savor and profit by bottom-feeding off the pitiful economic conditions that exist in the state while not paying the debts they create, thereby adding to the $100-150 billion dollars in short- and long-term debt and unfunded liabilities. Meanwhile a cacophony of activists, do-gooders, and suffering Sams and Sallies are quick to call anyone a racist, (or even worse, a Trump supporter), for calling this horrific mess to task.

 

One really does not need to read a report or listen to the comments of this chorus of failure to understand what is really happening. Just see what is happening around you. And to the cacophony of the hacks, just keep it up.  For it is certain that if they keep it up, housing will never be affordable in this state.