As a Master of the Obvious, last year I often opined how the Presidential race would suck all of the oxygen out of everything for all of 2024. I failed to predict the O2 would be replaced mostly with the noxious gas of all things Trump. The constant lawfare from the Left, narcissistic whining and barking from Trump and his cult, and the media circus from both sides makes politics repugnant to normal folks.
Yes, this long election year is excruciatingly tedious and disturbing. Two of the worst ever candidates for President are painful to see and hear. The worsening calamities at home and abroad won’t be fixed by either candidate. The potential for even worse outcomes – bringing war home to the U.S. grows. Our October 7th Massacre is coming. And, there’s the growing threat of a devastating Cyber, EMP, bio, chem, or nuclear attack.
So, now what? Normal people work hard to catch up with inflation, have a busy family, and an active life. They just want to live as best they can.
If what passes for politics is disgusting and the real danger is beyond control, what should Americans do?
Take this red pill.
Politics Is a Business. It’s called a blood sport, but it isn’t a game. Like all businesses it has an incentive structure, career path, and unique rules. It means mastering one and only one skill – how to get elected. The career Pols may not know anything else, but they’re voting on all sorts of complex issues. Lateral entry for outsiders is usually reserved for the very wealthy who can buy their way in.
Politics, as a business, runs on money and votes. And money buys votes. Every citizen or group is seen as their worth in money and votes.
There are very few ideologically “Movement Conservative” politicians. There are many campaign Conservatives who are Establishment Republicans. They’ll spend the US into bankruptcy while bragging about “lowering the rate” of spending increases.
The Establishment Rs and the Presidential candidates are what the business process delivers. Want a different result? Master the process or change it.
Politics Attracts Venal, Feral People. People run for office for big ideas or to become big shots. The overwhelming majority of them are in it for themselves. Politics, like religion, attracts nutcases on the fringes and truly feral people who seek power over others. Cunning is more important than intelligence, principles, or integrity. Follow the money, always, in politics.
Consequently, “Trumpenstein” is the guy created by the gutless, feckless Establishment Rs. Americans voted for someone who would counter-punch and not quit.
“Forrest Trump” is the leader of the MAGA movement that he didn’t really create but claims as his own. The successor to the Tea Party movement, a frustrated, visceral, pragmatic populism searched for a champion, but got a charlatan.
“Humpty, Dumpty Trump” is the incompetent, uber super-narcissist, unscrupulous, reality TV celebrity who will lose again unless lightning strikes twice in the same spot.
Don’t put your trust in men or women. Elected “leaders” are your employees. Make demands on them. You owe fealty to the Constitution, not Pols.
Politics Cares About You. You may not like politics. You can hate it. Doesn’t matter. What happens in governments at every level because affects you, your family, and your future. Every penny of inflation is because of what government is doing wrongly.
Remember the test run for tyranny under Covid despotism? The governments were wrong about everything. Furthermore, they forced a shot which is more deadly than the disease for everyone except Seniors. A government that closes your business, church, and schools, while restricting your movement and commerce by diktat is a power to be restrained.
Politics is the way to limit governments.
It’s Not Politics As Usual. The Great U.S. Culture War widens the divide between the antagonistic worldviews of the French Revolution – the Cultural Marxists – and the American Revolution – the Conservatives. Furthermore, the Cultural Marxists ideas are Human Secularist Totalitarianism. Every time governments run on these ideas they fail. Socialism, Communism, National Socialism, and Fascism don’t work except for the ruling elites. They’ve killed over 100m humans.
These Cultural Marxists aren’t your parents’ Democrats. There is no common ground. They’ll use the law when it suits them and abuse it when it doesn’t. They’ll destroy the Rule of Law to gain and keep power.
The swing seats in every election are what matters. Red is red and blue is blue and becoming more so as divisions deepen and widen.
Don’t even use their language. “Migrants” are illegal aliens, etc.
All Politics Is Local. Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill’s catch phrase is more truth than poetry. Especially so, because one citizen can make a difference. Constitutional resistance to the Federal abuse of power is incumbent on states and localities. It can begin with School Boards reforming schools to educate and not indoctrinate.
Politics Means Freedom or Death. Covid restrictions and edicts, Confederate history cultural cleansing, social media censorship, DEI/CRT throughout government – especially in schools, more of the same and ESG in business, Trans insanity as minority rights, taxes, regulations, and the 7m and growing illegal alien invasion are only a partial list of threats to your individual rights. They are deadly threats to your freedom.
The Islamist Totalitarians and the Cultural Marxists seek to destroy Western Civilization. Muslim or Marxist rule means literal death to many and the death of freedom for all Americans.
Live your life through this lousy political year. If Rs can hold the Senate, the worst won’t happen. If Conservatives can win the Senate and House in 2026 and add POTUS in 2028, then the 2030 Census can be kept clean and fair. The Republic can survive for another decade.
Help your local and state governments limit the Feds. Be part of a transformative majority of Conservatives, Libertarians, and pragmatic, common sense citizens to preserve your freedom, restore America, and even make it greater than ever.
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