JB!98 said:
Cassius said:
We don't do anything. We obey. Just like we've obeyed all the idiotic rules of the covid lockdowns that have devastated lives and wealth. There are no more Thomas Jeffersons, Patrick Henrys, et al.
Even "conservatives" are totalitarians. Hope Abbott falls into a river.
There in lies my question and problem. Who would be the TJ and PH? Look, Trump is not really an effective leader due to his absolute ability to piss people off and make bone headed statements. Is the the right man for the job policy wise, absolutely! The eloquence of a TJ is completely lost on him.
Look, I eat this crap up and spend more time than I should reading about it. My wife is very conservative and so is my 12 year old. The time that I have to spend explaining the nuisance of what Trump says and how the media portrays it is sometimes exhausting. I think Cruz is more in line with someone who can explain conservatism and is the leader that we need in the future.
Here is to hoping Trump can pull this one off and we get a Cruz in the future.
I agree on Abbott. The problem is that as conservatives we are left with only bad choices sometimes and we have to hold our nose when we vote. The other alternative is less tolerable. I admit to doing this when I voted for Trump in 2016. I think we are in a rigged system and way too comfortable.
At the end of the day, I think Federalism is what we are really looking for. Those guys back in the late 1700's had a cure for all of this crap, but we may be too far gone on the centralized fed govt side to bring that back.
Good thoughtful post actually. Here's a different way to be thinking about this. Even if Trump wins, he represents a holding action, till you can figure out what the next step is. The reason so far this, is history says this is very valuable ---- its worth the tension to slow a transformation. You get something better out of it.
To explain. Evil always comes out of a straight up Marxism and revolutionary redistribution fervor--- nightmares like the French Terror or Mao's Cultural Revolution. But look to a different example --the Anglo Saxon invasion of Roman Britain ----- it was slowed down by what is called the `Arthurian Fact' ---- the part of the King Arthur story that is clearly true: that a Romano Celtic Britain slowed down the invasion long enough to force an intermingling of ideas and values, that helped create the great culture known as England.
Increasingly, I have been seeing Trump as a King Arthur--- all he can do is slow down the Regressive Left's desire to make America into a great two-class version of Venezuela at the beck and call of the UN. Slow down or prevent the worst of the Left's ideas, while having to give way on things like more conservation and particularly health guarantees. (I never grew up with guarantees, but many of the Right expect insurance too, so that ship has sailed)
However, if he does this long enough --- it can buy time for Liberals to start weeding out radical Leftists- -- if our youth insist on socialism, they can have it. But maybe it can be a socialism that doesn't try to purge the memory of Jefferson and Washington or make ridiculous claims about the origins because it recognizes that EVERY man-made nation in history "botched it" since the dawn of time--whether you think that is Eden or Olduvai Gorge.
TLDR: The way forward is for the Right to use its remaining power to smash Marxism, to suppress the CRT and anti-American/Western agenda and white-bashing of the "The Left" at the expense of giving way on many of the more `liberal' ideas. Like fiscal irresponsibility about safety nets--- since no one is willing to just let the uninsured lump it.
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Leftist Democrats "have completely overplayed the Racism accusation. Honestly my first reaction when I hear it today is to assume bad intentions by the accuser, not the accused."