https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/why-your-vote-hasnt-mattered-since-1913/

By Joe Jarvis

1913 was a bad year…

• The Federal Reserve system was implemented, cementing centralized federal control over the banking and monetary system…
• The 16th Amendment allowed the federal government to collect income taxes, ensuring a steady supply of big government funding…
• The 17th Amendment took control of the Senate away from state governments.

You could say it was the beginning of a new United States of America… which hardly resembled the old structure.

It was the beginning of taxation without representation… The complete reversal of everything Americans fought for and achieved during the American Revolution.

It began the era of the American Empire. A centralized government, large enough to do whatever it wanted without restraint.

Too large for the people to control through representative democracy.

We still have a chance to be represented in state governments. But secession is a topic for another day… Read the rest of this entry »