Cute little ditty.
Ain't it though?
You're talking like a Trumpkin if you're calling myself, Norm, and others like us, quitters and losers.
All y'all are my political and largely philosophical brethren - I respect the opinions upon this thread as highly as any others - Certainly over the years, more so than any average far-right blogger.
But all this whining and crying and throwing dirt in the air is sure as hell beneath y'all.
My position is quite simple. "Get over it", as you said. The GOP is lost. The "conservative movement" has been eviscerated.
Quit concatenating 'GOP' and 'Republican' with Conservatism. That much has not been true for better than a decade. The Conservative movement is largely standing outside of the Republican party, and has been for years.
In military terms, we foot soldiers answered the call to battle, fought the war and fought it well. We left it all on the field, only to have our "leaders" forward turn over their swords to the enemy, and abandon the field, while our "compatriots" to our rear, directed "friendly" artillery on our own positions.
To dial your analogy down to something I have more experience with: When you are laying on the bar floor, having been kicked in the teeth, it's exactly the wrong time to give up the fight - The next kick is coming, sure as God made little green apples. You better move your ass and get in every lick you can. And more than once in my life, I have been in that position, and got pissed off enough to do it, and tore the bar down.
It ain't over till it's over, and it grieves me to see such erudite minds throwing in the towel - and that just when we find a place of refuge where we could reconnoiter.
If Palin, for example, felt compelled to support Trump as the only effective alternative to Trump, and then went back to Wasilla to wait out the action, I could understand, given what she's been through. But she's enthusiastically joining the "Lyin Ted" Trumpkin train. People who
supposedly "had our backs" fired at our backs.
Sorry, but my opinion has always been less than most wrt Palin - She was ever the populist, and I would submit the same siren song came out of her that came out of Trump. I know that at last, Pissant jumped the shark (his final comments were atrocious) - But he was right about Palin in great measure, as we all can see now.
We're saying "no mas". Not playin' by your rules anymore. I can't tell you how many conservatives have opted for new cold weather retirement homes, like Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and so forth, FLEEING THE INSANITY that this country has become. I'm talking about fighters, too, both military combat veterans as well as civilian veterans of the cultural wars. We've chosen an organized retreat, and to protect our families, over some quixotic battle to restore this once conservative country back to a Constitutional Republic.
I'm already here in MT, in the Flathead Valley - I probably know more about it than you do. That doesn't mean you quit fighting. Do BOTH.
As Norm has alluded, and I have previously written, it takes considerable personal privation to turn this culture around, and in my Judeo-Christian perspective, nothing but a turn towards historic Christian ethics will make a difference. The change has to happen in the personal, not simply the economic, philosophical, or political. I don't see that happening in this country any time soon, and neither, I believe, does Norm.
Well the banks are ready to fall down in a fashion that is epic in scale - And no one can save them this time. Privation is at our door, even now. So regardless of the election, your prayers are soon to be answered.
If the Constitutional Party makes a run at it, if Ted Cruz, for example, suddenly became the standard bearer (and there are others who could do it), I'd be on board with both feet. Otherwise, I'm going to make my vote count to hurt Donald and his supporters.
(Social Conservatives + TEA Party Patriots) + Constitution Party == CHOICE.
But all y'all are content to sit on the sidelines and cry about it. It's going to take a monumental action to kick the Constitution Party in it's a$$ and make it's lungs work... They need to be properly vetted. They need grassroots uprising, they need connections to big donors and endorsements (Pro-Life, GOA, etc) - They need to be hauled up out of the cheap seats and put front-and-center.
That's ALL the stuff of online activism... That's the kind of stuff of old school FReeper fame. It's what we DO. But all y'all have got to WANT IT - It's a Bonsai run, no doubt - But it will never ever happen if the most adamantine among us don't have the stones for it. If no one will come together with a plan and encourage the rest, all is for naught.
If you call that "quitting", so be it. I call it orderly retreat, consolidating forces, redirecting fire, and "going to ground" in the face of forces with superior numbers.
America was won with 30% of the people in favor. We've got way more than that.
Get up and push. We need a plan and we need it now.
