Commentary: The midterms - get ready!

by Martin Armstrong

November 2, 2026 - The computer is warning of chaos ahead. If there is ever an election to be challenged, this is it. Under House rules, a Member-elect can challenge another Member-elect’s right to be sworn in to Congress. If a challenge is made, the challenged member steps aside while the rest of the House is sworn in to Congress. The seated majority then votes on how to handle the challenge, which could include referring it to committee, effectively delaying seating.

Some conservative lawmakers, like Rep. Keith Self (Tex.), have floated using this maneuver to block Democratic Socialists from being seated, arguing that their platform is incompatible with the oath to uphold the Constitution.

In response, a bipartisan group of lawmakers is circulating a pledge to oppose any attempt to delay or deny seating of a state-certified election winner, aiming to head off this scenario. Speaker Mike Johnson (Lou.) has publicly rejected the idea that Republicans would refuse to seat Democrat winners, calling it a “nonsense narrative” and “absurd”.

I am surprised that nobody has proposed that the Marxists violate the freedom of religion by coveting the wealth of a selected class. The Constitution prohibits Direct Taxation. Taxes were to be only indirect such as a sales tax or import taxes. They did not require the surrender of privacy.

The 16th Amendment has never been challenged as a violation of the Freedom of Religion violating the Tenth Commandment and the entire equality doctrine of the founding of the nation. Marxist Democrats suddenly can hate people who have more than they do and the claim in their own self-interest that wealth is not deserving of rights as religion or race are.

This is a serious election. This is a confrontation that will destroy the United States all because of this class warfare that throughout history always without exception has led to the collapse of the political state that has adopted such a policy.

The policies of the Marxist are right out of Marx’s Communist Manifesto. They do not believe in God. Marx called religion the opium of the people. For thousands of years this idea of robbing people because they have more than you has resulted in hundreds of millions of deaths from civil wars. The Marxists are getting the upper hand in the Democrat camp. Even James Carville is concerned. They will not merely destroy the Democrat Party, they will so polarize the country, and we will see a rise in separatist movements while others will simply leave. We have already witnessed the great migrations since COVID-19 from Blue states to the Red. This time, they may cause the great migration from North Amerika to the South.

President Grover Cleveland understood the damage of taxation. This was when the Founding Fathers prohibited disproportionate taxation that the Marxists overruled with the unratified and invalid 16th Amendment. Politicians will never admit this fundamental mistake that undermines liberty altogether.

The definition of who this hated class of the rich is changing with time. If you gave your child stock and he or she earned $100,000 in dividends and interest, he/she is taxed at your tax rate because the government assumes you are just trying to lower your tax rate for, we are all just tax cheats in their eyes.

While the Supreme Court held that you can be discriminated against because you have something the Marxists want, they can change the definition of who they consider to be rich at any moment. To get an idea of what these Marxists view, look at the Former Prime Minister of the Fascist United Kingdom Kier Starmer and how he responded to this question.

Starmer was asked whether someone who gets additional income from assets (like shares or property) would still count as a “working person”. He replied that they “wouldn’t come within my definition”. He defined a working person as someone who “goes out and earns their living, usually paid in a sort of monthly cheque.”

I forget the politician’s name, but in British Columbia, I was shocked when she actually said that everything you earn belongs to the state, and they decide what you are allowed to keep.

This is the direction of the United States. It will cause separatist movements, and we will see that they will destroy the foundation of liberty all for their greed and coveting everybody’s wealth and their definition of what wealth is, is anything beyond a paycheck. This is why the Tenth Commandment exists. This is the dark side of humanity that historically has destroyed every government as we saw with Russia and China.