The enjoy your freedoms and culture being taken away by the Dems. If apathy's your excuse, then you deserve what you'll get.
Republicans lost in Virginia for the simplest of reasons - they were divided and Dems were united. Sure, the Dems were united for negative reasons - opposition to Trump - but too many conservatives appear willing to refuse to participate out of some warped sense of "principle" when the GOP candidate isn't ideologically perfect.
Maybe we need the wake-up call of a progressive sweep in 2018, and the real pain that will cause, to get conservatives to remember the life-lesson of solidarity. Because it's the lack of solidarity - in Congress and at the polls - that is killing us.
My country, one which my ancestors and relatives had a material role in founding, which has, despite our protests through centuries now, strayed from those concepts in action and spirit is dying of a cancer from within. That cancer is a combination of moral rot, corruption, and socialistic greed.
It really pisses me off when some jackass bound by their philosophical false dichotomy and loyalty to the party of not the other party presents that slithering ichor as the only alternative to drinking the pus that is the other.
and then tells me to ENJOY it!Personally, I didn't make this mess.
I have campaigned against it.
I have railed against it for decades, in person, in newsletters, in letters to editors, most of which were not published at all or were so heavily redacted by some editor that they became gibberish--which is why I stopped using that approach, and finally on the internet fora I have participated in.
I have counseled all within earshot, a humble collection of ordinary people which only includes a few of the influential, to divert from this socialistic course and return to the path of Constitutional government, and the answer has been to redefine words in common discourse to try to hammer the star shaped red pegs of Communism (Stalinist Marxism) through the round holes of our government.
I have watched as events, facts, and logic have been twisted into Gordian knots of "reasoning" in some perverse attempt to justify the destruction of this Nation, and tried to point out the fallacies, the LIES, the motivation (where clear enough) and have been called most everything for my efforts, but little of it nice.
ENJOY? Oh, Hell NO! I'm NOT having fun watching people tear down what nearly 20 generations of my family have worked to help build and maintain as a legacy for our progeny. It is like watching wild animals shred and destroy the contents of a museum full of fine art, using the shredded bits of illuminated manuscripts for nesting material.
Enjoy?
Are you nuts?
Republicans lost in Virginia, partly because of a smarmy attack ad conflating historical preservation with racism and even violence against children. It was the ultimate victim card, an implied threat against innocent children manufactured from the stygian imaginations of the pit that substitutes for morality in the Democrat Party, where "WINNING!" is their only goal, where nothing, and I mean nothing is so sacred as keeping their tight fisted hands on the lash of power.
It used the visual symbolism of the native Virginian against them, the pickup (an icon of "rednecks"), powerful, black (ever the color of the reaper), flying the Confederate Battle Flag (by now turned by relentless campaigns of lies into a symbol of racism and oppression for the historically illiterate who fail to realize it was a standard under which armies fought, not a political symbol), the 'eeevil'
white guy in sunglasses, the powerful internal combustion engine emitting all that nasty stuff little pissant internal combustion engines do, just at a little faster rate, without regard for Gaia and the whole fricking planet, and only missing swerving to run down some little furry critter in the road because the big, mean, evil, black, truck with the white guy at the wheel was supposedly hunting an improbably diverse assemblage of terrified and fleeing innocent children (of color, natch) to... ??? Leaving the fate of those waifs to the demented and tormented imagination of the viewer, primed as they are with the whole concept that "whitey" (remember, the people who "didn't build" this, the country to which these folks emigrated, willingly for the most part--and which they remain free to return from to wherever else they would care to call home) is out to "GET YOU", whatever that entails.
That ad is the Democrat Party's
Triumph of the Will, something Riefenstahl and Goebbels would have applauded as a masterpiece of the propagandist's art for its visual and visceral message. A message of lies, psychologically projecting the very hatred Liberals feel onto those who are not liberals. Funny thing about that projection, what they accuse you of, they dream of themselves.
As political crap goes, it doesn't get much lower than that, although Steyer's impeachment ad is a contestant, simply for its level of projection and prevarication. Despite its fireside chat format, it fails to deliver the vivid visual and visceral message and lacks the psychological impact of the anti-Gillespie ad.
For all this yadda yadda about how the Republicans have some attack dog for the boss, I'm seeing a bunch of complacent, lazy, people counting on being the Party of "Not Them" getting them elected, counting on votes from people who do not like the Democrat policy because, well, where else are you going to go? (like we Conservatives have been treated for the past few decades, this has come to the rank and file 'moderate' Republican, now).
That.
Just.
Isn't.
Enough.
We are dealing with dynamic and energized, well organized opponents who would screw their own mothers on national television if they thought it would gain votes, and do the re-runs on PPV for funding.
The sad part is that their strategy (versus talking big and doing nothing) is working swimmingly with their base, and the only rebuttal is coming from a scattering of pundits and folks on the web. Where it needs to come from are the Conservative actions of those who have long made promises to set things straight, who have kicked the can down the road, one more time, one more term. We don't need to hear what
might be implemented by 2035, we need to know what the GOP has accomplished TODAY, and
every day to restore this Republic.
Without that, people aren't going to get out and vote in numbers to overcome the fraud, the illegal votes, the miscounts, recounts, and legions of self-interested voters nuzzling at the Government teat.
