And that @catfish1957 , my friend, is what governs the Right. The fear. And in that, EVERYTHING gets thrown under the bus in order to 'stop the Democrats'. I have seen it over, and over, and over again.
And every time the Democrats grow stronger.
How hard is that to see?
I will not play that anymore.
I want real, conservative solutions that do not require the sacrifice of any other part of conservatism.
And I will settle for nothing less.
Because every single time we settle... Every single time we cave in and sacrifice principle to fear, our liberty is eroded. And we put up with more. And then more.
Y'all are going the wrong way. I mean that constructively, and without malice. I mean to point to the hard lines that were drawn long ago that provably lead in the right way, and to show that we are far from those marks, and getting farther.
I will go no further. Not one more bloody inch.
I could make a long list of things I want that I will never have nor live long enough to see, and that isn't just in the way this country is governed.
The question is one of whether my grandkids will live long enough to see them.
Provided there are no major celestial impacts, the greeneweenies don't find a way to block sunlight from the Earth, our governments don't come up with a bug that really will kill us all, we aren't overrun by a foreign power, or we have a total nuclear war, nor the Second Coming of Christ, (which, at least for some of us, might be the best of those options), about all we can do is to hope to set things on the right track before we're done here.
Sadly, those seem to be the only sort of events that would stop all we do not like about government.
After decades of working directional and horizontal wells, where you end up, and what direction you end up going isn't something that happens at right angles. The final direction of that wellbore is changed by small, incremental shifts, a matter of a degree or two at a time,over short distances. You start off going vertically down, and end up two miles down and two or three miles away from where the wellhead is,and making that trip at some steady angle and direction isn't in the playbook.
Likewise, our government was designed to only change direction in small bits rather than sweeping change, although it has gone farther down the shitter faster in the last 20 years than at any time since the States were 'reunited' at gunpoint. The mechanisms of checks and balances have broken down as one branch usurps power while the other has abdicated it, and both only try to find a way around the branch that is supposed to keep them in check and going by the ground rules. I love our Constitution and the language it was written in. Both have been systematically attacked, the latter in order to attack the former, and our people made ignorant of both.
Whether you like the count of ballots and feel there was some criminal misdeeds conducted in reaching vote totals, especially in six of the states, the bottom line is that a manufactured disease was used as the excuse to permit going around the Constitution and letting those states executive branches set the election rules rather than adhere to the Constitution and make the Legislatures make any changes.
Those ballot counts were achieved through unconstitutional means and should be void. No other argument, nor proof or denial of criminal acts is relevant, really. Altering the election rules by any means other than the State Legislatures is unconstitutional, therefore, the results are no good. Period. Whether people think the election was stolen or not.
In the instance of keeping things in line, the SCOTUS, charged with primary jurisdiction in cases between the states, summarily dismissed the case Texas brought, and with it, it failed to do its duty. So, here we are. The masses generally are ignorant of the Constitution, and the incremental changes that make its daily violation possible happened long ago (The Federal Reserve Act, the Income Tax, for two).
We aren't going to get what we want. Not in this life. If that doesn't come from the POTUS, then the Congress will see to that, and the court won't fight it.
No one is doing the job we sent them there to do.
That needs to change. But it isn't going to change overnight unless one of the items in the short list I opened this comment with happens, and then, not likely for the better, unless someone digs up (literally) a copy of the Constitution and decides to try again.
Short of that, the changes will be small and slow and mainly one of which direction we are headed in. We're likely to agree that we're going the wrong way. There will be, as a matter of practical fact, not one of principle, two different directions things will head, represented by their respective candidates. One is completely wrong. That path leads to bloodshed, eventually, or complete subjugation and the official rejection of all we hold to be right and true. The other turns away from that somewhat, relying as much on hope as it does on stated policy. One of those candidates has done little, which means they have had little to deter them from making the mistakes that are their stated intent. The other has made mistakes, in situations no one had experienced (a manufactured pandemic with all the panic the media could gin up, and the censorship of any who claimed panic was not necessary, for the pecuniary enrichment or increase in power of the players). Some still will not believe that is the case, but all the evidence leads there, just as with the unconstitutional acquisition of electoral votes from six states.
You can choose, or choose not to choose, which is a choice in itself, but one of those two is likely to be the next POTUS. Which of those is more likely to lead the country in a direction that will leave hope of a re-established Republic in our Grandchildren's lifetimes?
I will vote as I have voted 90% of the time, not
for someone, but in an effort to keep that greater evil from taking over, and pray my vote is fairly counted.
