Glenda Collins

[Data before Drama @Texamigo]

*Montesquieu v. Socialism*

Most Americans have never heard of Montesquieu. Yet, this brilliant French philosopher was the quiet architect behind the very blueprint of our government. When Madison and the Framers sat down to design a system that could withstand the corrupting nature of absolute power, it was Montesquieu's radical concept of the separation of powers they weaponized into the U.S. Constitution.

They favored Montesquieu's insight, which was mechanical, not sentimental: stable governments cohere through honor—internalized duty, rule of law, civic virtue. These principles make up the load-bearing structure of how a society gets people to behave.

Most Americans no longer have this concept in their heads at all.

With the rise of socialism, most Americans have forgotten what honor, duty, and Montesquieu's framework actually demand of a citizen. Neither Montesquieu nor the Founders ever conceived of government as a provider that sustains the populace. That idea would have struck them as a betrayal of the entire project.

At the core of the Revolution was a rebellion against Britain's overtaxation and overreach — the Crown extracting wealth from the colonists and micromanaging their affairs. That's the opposite of socialism. The Founders didn't fight a war to replace one controlling authority with another; they fought to build a government constrained enough that no single entity, king or bureaucracy, could dictate how a man lived or what he owed the state.

Socialism inverts the entire architecture. It replaces honor with entitlement, duty with dependency, and civic virtue with the expectation that someone else will foot the bill. Montesquieu's system assumed citizens who governed themselves through internal restraint — a republic of adults. Socialism assumes citizens who need to be governed through external provision — a nursery of wards. You cannot run Montesquieu's machine with that kind of fuel. The gears don't turn. The load-bearing structure buckles, because it was never built to carry a population that no longer believes it owes anything to the system that sustains it.

This is why the Republic feels unfamiliar to itself. We are running 21st-century entitlement psychology through an 18th-century machine built for self-governing men. Montesquieu didn't design a system to hand out comfort — he designed one to distribute power thinly enough that no man could seize it whole, trusting that virtue and honor would fill the space the law left open. Strip that out, and what remains is a Constitution with no citizens fit to operate it. The document hasn't changed. We have.

Take up the fight against the Islamo-Socialist regime. Take it up today. Fight relentlessly. Never back down.

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Ricky Rouse

[Seneca Scott @SenecaSpeaks21]

Stop letting rich trust fund kids cosplay as the oppressed working class.

Call that shit out.

[Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 @ScooterCasterNY]

NOW: Large Crowds Chant "USA" and sing Star-Spangled Banner as they pour back into the National Mall for America250 Fireworks and Speech by President Trump

Video by @noturtlesoup17 | Licensing @FreedomNTV [email protected]

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@McCulloughFund @jathorpmfm If that doesn’t make people fight for their Freedom, what will?

[Only In Boston @OnlyInBOS]

As lightning delayed the Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular tonight, hundreds of people sheltering under a tunnel on Storrow Drive sang "America the Beautiful" together.

❤️

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@mother_tx @KenPaxtonTX Right with you. 💔

[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

During this day of celebration, please take time today to remember and say an additional prayer for the Heaven’s 27 lost in the Camp Mystic flooding. One year later, the pain remains, but so does our faith. We pray for the families who carry this unimaginable loss every day and ask God to surround them with His peace and strength. May God bless their memories forever. We remember.

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

Too bad people will no longer be able to read old letters. Like ones written by their grandparents. Not even birthday cards or inscriptions in books (also passe). Lots of family as well as historical connections will be lost. Even more so than now. And also, there is something neurologically and psychologically different that goes on in reading and composing the written word…it’s also a kind of stamp of a person’s individuality. Seems a shame to some of us.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

So glad they didn’t say “well, we don’t have 60 votes, so let’s recess and then move on to something else.”

Who’s with me?

[Ted Nugent @TedNugent]

Freedom has never been free.

Thank you to every warrior, patriot, hunter, rancher, worker, law enforcement officer, first responder, and veteran who keeps the American Spirit alive.

Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country on Earth.

God Bless America. 🇺🇸

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@chiproytx Grateful for your support, Chip.

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@atxurbanist @chiproytx The runners and cyclists were all out early this morning.

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@MarioNawfal What is the third plane?

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

You know what I could do without? Rich, sniffy, overclass fancy pants big shot bureaucrats in urban areas grabbing microphones and giving shade to this country and its history, with knowing dog whistles about how much they hate Trump and those who voted for him. I'm sick of it.

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@TheCriticalDri1 @grok when and where was this recorded?

[Texascorgimom 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇨🇱🇨🇱 @texascorgimom]

Just wow!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

Also, woe to those who would try to take this idea, and God bless America.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.

[Glenda Collins @TXFreebird]

@RLee19783678 @PeterTatchell Just there in Kusadisi in May. Lovely, clean and no graffiti- unlike the other Mediterranean countries we visited.

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

America's most influential pediatric vaccine organization has been hit with a federal RICO lawsuit for operating a vaccine racketeering enterprise.

The American Academy of Pediatrics unlawfully deceived parents into injecting their children with large batteries of untested vaccines by issuing FRAUDULENT vaccine recommendations.

The AAP rakes in cash from Merck, Pfizer, and Moderna to push maximal vaccination for maximum profit, despite NO safety data on injecting 72 doses by age 18.

Even worse, NONE of the routine childhood vaccines were licensed based on a long-term, placebo-controlled trial.