Save California: After the Flag Waving, a Serious Look at Our Troubled Republic

 

Hi Arthur, For those of us who have witnessed the steady slide of societal decay and have watched with alarm the ever-increasing occurrences of godless, animalistic anarchy, celebrating the 250th birthday of our country is more like celebrating an ideal than a reality. For if the Constitution of the United States of America guarantees you freedom of speech and freedom of religion and freedom of self-defense and the right to be fairly judged in the courts, and your guaranteed pre-constitutional, God-given, natural liberties are parental rights and property rights and medical freedom, yet today's American culture threatens, oppresses, punishes, or eliminates your rights and liberties, we must ask: Is our constitutional republic alive or dead?

Since most Americans are government-schooled, with today's universities teaching young people to hate America, we're now faced with many "Americans" who actually hate the wonderful goodness that our U.S. founding fathers gave us. According to a CNN poll released June 17, 2026: Only 29% of Democrats are "very proud" to be an American Only 27% of Democrats said they'd fly the U.S. flag on Independence Day And a June 19-22 survey by The Economist/YouGov found only 8% of Democrats think the United States is the greatest country in the world. As Breitbart reported June 29: Opinions vary significantly among political parties. Republicans are far more likely to describe America as the greatest country – 52 percent – followed by 28 percent of Republicans who said it is “among the greatest” countries. Democrats, however, do not feel as proud. Only eight percent of Democrats describe America as the “greatest” country, while 16 percent said it is “among the greatest.” Stunningly, a plurality of Democrats, 23 percent, describe America as “worse than average” compared to other countries, and 15 percent said the U.S. is “among the worst.” Four percent said America is “the worst” altogether. And to top it off, a June 30 - July 2 YouGov survey found Democrats value the "Black Lives Matter" flag more than the American flag (74% to 72%). So, did America really reach 250 years, or is that its "body" only, and the "mind, heart, and soul" of America actually died decades ago -- but with God's grace and patience, has a chance to return and be restored? This question is neither radical nor cynical. Because historically, the average "life" of a civilization is either 200 or 250 years. As researcher Michael R. Cronin wrote: The Tytler Cycle warns that democracies tend to follow a predictable path from liberty to decline due to human nature and fiscal irresponsibility, with a commonly cited average lifespan of around 200 years. Sir John Glubb’s later research on empires suggested a slightly longer but still finite average of about 250 years. Both frameworks are frequently used today to analyze the trajectory of the United States as it approaches and passes its 250th anniversary in 2026. In 2016, writer Reginald Pulliam quoted historian Alexander Fraser Tytler's solemn observation that a civilization's decay begins with forgetting God, triggered by the love of money replacing the love of God: According to Lord Tytler, a Scottish Historian, the average age of the world's democracies is around 200 years. After two hundred years, the nations collapse due to various economic policies and [are] followed by a dictatorship. Lord Tytler identified "Eight Stages of a Democracy", from beginning to end. The eight stages go from bondage to spiritual faith; from spiritual faith to great courage; from courage to liberty; from liberty to abundance; from abundance to complacency; from complacency to apathy; from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back to bondage. Life and our universe moves in cycles, and history is no different. So, in our Democratic form of a Republic, which stage do you suppose we are in? Another valid question is, if the United States of America was founded as a constitutional republic, is it still that today, and if not, when did we lose it? Our U.S. founding father and 2nd U.S. president, John Adams, a strong Christian, wrote these solemn words: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." If Adams' words are true, it's arguable and logical that America ceased being a constitutional republic in the early 1900s, nearly 150 years after its founding. Here's evidence suggesting it: 1. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat who was the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921, disliked how the Constitution limited the federal government, so he brutally attacked and redefined the Constitution. Judge Andrew Napolitano explains the damage that Woodrow Wilson did: America from its founding to the early part of the 20th century more or less enjoyed the James Madison model for the federal government. Under this model, the federal government could only legislate, regulate, spend and govern in the 16 discrete areas of human behavior that the Constitution delegated to it. All other areas of human behavior were left free to individual choices or governance by the states. From and after Wilson’s presidency, the Madisonian model was replaced by the Wilsonian one. Under this model, the feds could legislate, regulate, spend and govern in any areas of human behavior for which there was a national political will, except for those areas that are expressly prohibited to them by the Constitution. It would take another generation before the courts fully caught up to this, during which they gradually permitted Congress basically to write any law, regulate any behavior, spend any money, tax any event and intrude upon any relationship so long as it did not confront an express constitutional prohibition. 2. Then, Democrat Franklin Roosevelt became president in 1933, and quickly grew a mammoth-sized federal government and eliminated the gold standard. As Conservapedia reports: ...FDR remains a hero to liberals and heavily criticized by conservatives for shifting the nation to the Left, growing the federal government, imposing regulations on business, following a no-growth economic policy, catering to labor unions, and building a permanent New Deal Coalition. Conservatives further disagree with Roosevelt's concealment of his declining health from American voters in the 1944 election, and Roosevelt's weak stance towards the Communist Soviet Union which enabled it to gain control over Eastern Europe for the following half-century. His New Deal was a very large, complex interlocking set of programs designed to produce relief (especially government jobs for the unemployed), recovery (of the economy), and reform (by which he meant regulation of Wall Street, banks and transportation), as well as Reelection (in 1936, 1940 and 1944) and Realignment of the Fifth Party System. Conservatives strongly opposed many, but not all, of the New Deal programs. Conservatives abolished most of the relief programs when unemployment practically ended during World War II. Most of the regulations on business were ended about 1975–85, except for the regulation of Wall Street by the Securities and Exchange Commission, which still exists. The major surviving program is Social Security, which Congress passed in 1935. Conservatives at the time denounced his bids for presidential power, including building a national political machine through the WPA (it lasted from 1935 to 1943), attempting to take control of the Supreme Court by adding new liberal judges (an attempt which failed, 1937), and trying to purge the Democratic party of moderate-to-conservative congressmen (an attempt which failed in 1938). The failures of those attempts can be attributed to the Conservative Coalition which emerged in Congress in 1937 as a coalition of most northern Republicans and most Southern Democrats. 3. And then in the early 1960s, the Democrats and RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) on the U.S. Supreme Court killed off corporate Bible reading and prayer in American "public school" classrooms. Is it any wonder that theft is rampant today? For the majority of American schoolchildren, through the 1950s, were taught the Ten Commandments from Exodus 20:1-17 -- until the unconstitutional SCOTUS redefined "establishment" and "religion" in the First Amendment. As accurately reported here, in 1947, the U.S. Supreme Court redefined "establishment" in order to begin banning Christianity in the laws: On June 25, 1962 and a year later on June 17, 1963 this country has staggered from a wound that it has never really recovered from. You might scratch your head and wonder what that might be. These two dates will live in infamy in this nation along with one from February 10, 1947. These dates are when Christianity in America was rejected in the public square and in the schools. In February 10, 1947, the US Supreme Court decided the case of Everson v Board of Education. It changed the Establishment Clause in the 1st Amendment’s meaning from not establishing a National Religion to the current interpretation. The way the US Government treats religion is that one can’t practice it in public. The Court used 8 words out of context of a President Thomas Jefferson Letter that was written to the Danbury Baptist Church in 1801. This decision is one that the US Supreme Court needs to overturn along with the ones above from 1962 & 1963. On June 25, 1962, the US Supreme Court decided that a 22 word prayer was unconstitutional in the case of Engel v Vitale. “Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our country.” — the 22 word prayer that was the subject of the school prayer ban. On June 17, 1963, the US Supreme Court decided in Abington School District v Schempp that Bible Study could not occur in Public Schools. Since those cases SAT & ACT scores have taken a nose dive. So, as we celebrate the 250th "birthday" of our country, let's remember the Bible-based founding of America, which made America great -- and blessed by God. Because the Bible defines “freedom” to mean a) freedom from the bondage of sin, and b) freedom to obey God without punishment.  This second definition was the rallying cry of our U.S. founding fathers, who desired biblical values rather than the tyrannical theft committed against them by the British Crown. Our founders called this independence. So, Americans don't need "freedom" as the world defines it (which is to do whatever you want, which is the modus operandi of criminals and anarchists). Instead, we need freedom from sin. Because, for this nation to be protected and blessed by God again, people need to see the Bible as their standard of truth, confess and repent of their sins, trust in Savior Jesus Christ to forgive them, and experience true freedom from the bondage of various sins. And then, if most Americans, as John Adams described, become "a moral and religious people," they can give us back our constitutional republic. It's definitely worth fighting for!

A lady asked Dr. Franklin Well Doctor what have we got a republic or a monarchy—A republic replied the Doctor if you can keep it. From Secretary of War James McHenry's journal of the 1787 Constitutional Convention Jesus answered them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed." Jesus Christ, Savior of the world and God in the flesh, in John 8:34-36

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Brown Supremacists Getting Taste of Their Own Medicine (David De La Tierra)

The Brown Supremacists who harrassed me at the Fourth of July Event  in Santa Ana are starting to get scared.

They do not like the fact that I have called them out on their abusive behavior

David De La Tierra was one of the hateful harrassers at the event:

I would like to remind everyone reading this post that the Brown Supremacists in the above vide recording, as well as in other recordings which I made of the event, said the following things about me:

1. Racist
2. Terrorist
3. Hated "Brown children"
4. Child predator

All of these perverse names fall under one banner: libel.

Another one I can think of: slander.

They also screamed at parents and children that I was a criminal. I was arrested in Huntington Park, but it was an unfounded set of charges still being litigated.

They smeared me. I am now exposing one of them right now the same one who has now gotten even more fearful about being exposed in turn for his hateful rhetoric as well as activities.

Here is one photo of David de la Tierra:

 Here is another:

Here is from the July 5, 2017 Huntington Park City Council meeting:

Below you will find the message he sent to me by Facebook about two week ago:

Here's my answer:

Careful what you do to others, brother, especially around me.

Careful what you say about me in public in a vain, hateful attempt to shame me.

Careful what you think of the movement to Make California Great Again for all Americans--we are no longer intimidated by your petty, hateful, lying smear tactics.

So ... deal with it!

What I Learned About John Adams

Here are all the notes I took when I was preparing to teach parents and children about one of our nation's Founding Fathers, John Adams:

1.       Born October 30, 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts, one of only 4 Presidents to be born in Massachusetts.

The city where he was born was later named after his son, John Quincy Adams

2.       He held many jobs in his youth. He wanted to be a farmer, but later became a lawyer

3.       He hated slavery, and wanted to see it abolished over time.

4.       He was a nice man to his friends and family. People who met him for the first time though that he was arrogant and aloof. The truth is he just had a hard time meeting new people

5.       He was outspoken about right and wrong.

6.       He would get angry really easily, and he knew that he was vain—but he tried hard to change that.

7.       He married the love of his life, Abigail Adams. She reminded her husband John not to forget about the rights of women in the United States. Their marriage was a life-long romance.

8.       Adams defend the British soldiers accused of murdering 5 American colonists in The Boston Massacre. He successfully fought for their freedom. He firmly believed in everyone’s right to legal counsel and the protection of innocence for all.

9.       He helped write the Declaration of Independence, one of his nicknames was “The Atlas of Independence”.

10.   He helped even his most bitter rivals when they needed it—for example, dousing the fire engulfing the home of his worst critics.

11.   He was there to negotiate the final Treaty of Paris in 1783, which ended the American Revolutionary War for the Americans to be a free nation.

12.   Throughout the Revolutionary war and afterwards, he was minister to France, England, and the Netherlands

13.   He was the nation’s first Vice-President, serving under George Washington

14.   He was the second President of the United States, the only President who ran as a member of the Federalist Party

15.   He appointed John Marshall, the first United States Supreme Court of real note.

16.   He created the first military band.

17.   He founded the American navy.

18.   He started the first military hospital for our veterans.

19.   Two of the biggest issues that happened during his Presidency:

a. XYZ Affair—the French Government tried to get bribes in order to end attacks on American ships. Adams later negotiated peace with France.

b. The Alien and Sedition Acts: lengthened the time for immigrants to become citizens. Allowed for prosecution and arrest for saying bad thing about the government. That law was Adam’s biggest mistake

20.   His son later served as President, who was an outspoken opponent of slavery. One of only two Presidents who would see his son serve as President, too.

21.   In retirement, he reopened his law practice.

22.   Despite many tragedies in his life, including the deaths of his wife, daughter, and grandson—he remained sharp in mind and heart and cared about the fate of his country.

23.   John Adams died on July 4^th, 1826 (50 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence), one of the longest-lived President. His one-time friend then rival and later President Thomas Jefferson died the same day, but only a few hours earlier!

24.   John Adams last words? “Thomas Jefferson survives.”

Fourth of July Celebration in Santa Ana: Huge Success for Me (or, John Adams)

July 4th, Independence Day.

I was invited to play John Adams at the annual history walk at the Santa Ana celebration.

The event takes place at Centennial Regional Park every year for the last seven years.

Lupe Moreno, a hard-core patriot who loves our country--and a big fan of John Adams, invited me to come.

I was not sure if I wanted to dress up and play one of the Founders of our country. Would there be enough time and resources for me to get ready?

Thankfully, I agreed to attend, and the rest of the team were glad, too. Other historical figures in the History Walk included Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Betsy Ross, and Lady Liberty.

All of us are proud of our country!

I ended up having more visitors than expected.

This cohort of desperate Brown Supremacists tried to drive me and other Americans away from our celebration.

But we were strong and refused to move.

Brown Supremacists (Lakota second from the left
was another petty protester)

Check out their intermittent acts of desperation against our event:

and also

Can you imagine these grown children acting like this?

In  public forum at an Independence Day Celebration?

Unbelievable, yet true.

The unelievable hurt which they perpetrated again

Here are the offenders:

These are the desperate anti-American, anti-youth, anito-family bigots who attempted to intimidate and shut down an Independence Day Celebration.

But they failed!

Lupe Moreno is a strong woman, and she knew that I could handle anything--as did they other historical figures who attended the July 4th event.

I have never felt so proud to be an American, and so many young people learned about John Adams!

One young lady came to my booth and told me that John Adams was her favorite President!

I met a few high school students, too, and some of them knew the basic information I wanted to share about

Check out my good friend who took care of Abigail Adams' booth!

In spite of the screaming and yelling from the La Raza racists, I had a great time!

So many young people came in spite of the hate around them.

The worse thing that happened turned out to be a welcome victory for all of us. One young boy believed some of the lies presented on the posters and flyers that they were passing out. He said to a group of kids: "Don't let him sign anything of yours! He's a racist!"

The kids ignored him, and the adults kept guiding their students to my booth to learn more about John Adams.

During the intended conflict, I mediated tn two verse of Scripture:

"No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD." (Isaiah 54:17)

and

"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want."

The rest of my friends prayed with me, and everything went better than expected.

Despite the desperate shrills of "Racist go home! Get out of here! It's getting dark, so you better get to your car!" I did not care.

Parents and volunteers helped out, as well. Some of them helped find more young people to attend and learn about John Adams!

They could not stop us from celebrating our country and the Second President of the United States.

We also had Santa Ana police on hand to protect us from their hostile advances:

Again, I was so proud to celebrate in a real way at the Fourth of July Celebration in Santa Ana!

It worked out really well, and young people of all backgrounds and ages learned about one of the Founders of this country!

Eugene Delgadillo: Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day to all Pro-Family advocates.

True liberty is based on training in truth, and there is no better training for men and women than the family.

With a Mom and Dad, young men and women become the new leaders, movers, and shakers that make our culture strong and whole!

Thank God for the Public Advocate for the United States!

It's time to fight for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

There is no better institution to ensure these rights than the family, one man and one woman married to each other in a sound, sanctified commitment before God!


Arthur,

This week America is celebrating our history of fighting for Christian values and our God-given rights.

Happy Independence Day!

All those centuries ago, American patriots fought for rights like Religious Liberty and the freedom to speak freely in support of our deeply held convictions.

As you know full well, the Homosexual Lobby and their radical Leftist allies are on a jihad to subvert and destroy these rights.

Already, Christians are facing crippling legal consequences for exercising their First Amendment Rights.

Businesses have been destroyed and churches muzzled.

So this Fourth of July, I'd like to encourage you to set aside a few minutes from the fun and festivities to ponder one simple thing:

What do we owe those who fought and died in defense of Christian liberty and our inalienable rights?

They didn't lay down their lives all those years ago to see churches persecuted and real marriage outlawed.

They didn't sacrifice their lives for the "right" of predatory men to barge into the ladies' rooms.

America must honor the memories of those brave soldiers -- and doing that means defending the rights of all Americans.

So this day, as we remember our brave past, let's also remember just what it was they fought and died for.

And let's all ask ourselves what we are prepared to sacrifice to continue their fight.

But mostly, I wish you a wonderful Fourth of July full of excitement and quality family time.

God bless America.

For the Family, 

HON. EUGENE DELGAUDIO
President, Public Advocate of the U.S. 

Redeclaration of Independence

It’s the Fourth of July. Happy Independence Day! I embrace the opportunity to share necessary insights on our country’s sovereign legacy, and the sobering challenges facing it.

Our American culture is getting overrun, sadly, by radicals determined to displace or redefine Independence. Instead of recognizing liberty as protection from arbitrary force, the term has become a benefit, an entitlement from the state, something which must be taken from others then granted to us—by force. In other words, a disturbing contradiction is wiping away our political culture, the values we uphold, and which uphold us.

Liberty is not something we need to gain, as much as realize that we possess. The only thing that we can give one another in regards to liberty is a greater awareness of it. The most deafening (yet thankfully defeated) criticism of this true, negative (i.e. removal of something) conception of liberty occurred during my college days. I went to UC Irvine (the same school where students recently deemed the American Flag an offensive appropriation of nationalism or something like that).

I was a French major, and had my fill of French theory, too. Mostly snobby, convoluted, suffused with chronic rejections of power, confused with truth. Interesting discussions ensued, all in a nice accent, though. From Foucault, Barthes, and Derrida (a distinguished professor at my Alma Mater UC Irvine, where I am writing this essay now), the French “critical theory” mindset would laid out to me and others a moral relativism based on challenging every context and value within text, a speech, or any other form of communication. This literary theory was called “deconstruction.”

Sadly, its overly Marxist (and ultimately abusive) overtones indicated a subversive rejection for what is true, and what is not true. Like I said, it was moral relativism. If no morals, then no mores, and then there would be no more civil society. No civilization, and no liberty, even the liberty to challenge the notions of truth and error, right and wrong, good and evil.

So, permit me to deconstruct the deconstruction (read, anti-American) mindset, which is set on turning minds away from the wonderful revelation found—and founded—in the Declaration of Independence, the signing of which we celebrate on July Fourth. One of deconstructionist Derrida’s first articles “Declarations of Independence” took on the stunning power and yet controversial uncertainty of the phrase “and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies”.

Who were these “people”, and really, can there be a final meaning to define this singled-out group?

Legal scholar and literary critic Daniel Matthews writes:

Derrida assesses the status of “the people” as the sovereign guarantor of the constitution. Derrida asserts that the people is not only radically indeterminate and internally differentiated but also temporally deferred and so can never be presented as such.

A few problems. The Declaration of Independence is not our Constitution. Too many liberals make this elementary, uneducated mistake.

Second, “the people” are not deferred as much as redefined, and only because We the People, whether you and me today, or generations to follow, must lay claim to the extravagant yet real promises outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

The understanding of natural rights—freedoms of speech, the press, and religious; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—these values were handed down in doctrine long before, but would take generations of erudition and conflict to crystallize. The Declaration of Independence did not create our rights. It merely spelled them out (with John Hancock’s elaborate signature at the bottom) to a roguish empire grown too large for its preeminence. Jonah Goldberg rightly indicated that the political figures who signed the Declaration merely responded to the cultural understanding of Englishmen, who had understood their rights and authorities from Magna Carta to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 to the Declaration of 1776.

What differed, though, in the American Revolution from the previous assertions of natural right against the artificial state?  Patrick Henry, who himself had declared “Give me Liberty, or Give me Death”, articulated a deeper resonating source for the bold pronouncements of the American colonists:

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here."

What is the Gospel? Paul the Apostle declared to wise yet unaware men that “through this man [Jesus], you are justified from all things that you could not be through the law of Moses” (Acts 13: 38-39)

Powerful! Our rights do not depend on man. They exist outside of some created context. They are divinely inspired and available to all, regardless off unjust, unfounded hierarchies.

Because our rights are God-given, not man-granted, we have power and authority. Yes, we need to reaffirm this. Throughout our current political discourse, entitled adult children are dictating to their elders that our rights come from the government. Don’t agree? Review this terse interview between ABC’s Chris Cuomo with Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore. Their attacks are growing varied and dangerous, too, from foppish, unwise professors, to #BlackLives(Don’t)Matter activists and anti-social in-justice warriors.

We need to revisit and reinvigorate our understanding about why we celebrate Independence Day in this great country, a Redeclaration of Independence. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker summed up it effectively at CPAC 2013: “True freedom and prosperity comes not from the fist of the government but from empowering the people.”

We the people have so much to celebrate today: an open society where even the most oppressive of Presidents is facing a backlash from the sovereign states and people; the proliferation of ideas and options, even in the midst of economic turmoil; the opportunities to relearn and relive our liberty. So, while you enjoy the fireworks, the barbecue, the fun with friends and family, recall the deeper meaning, and the surfacing conflicts which face our cherished independence as American citizens.