Norm, i wish you’d reconsider leaving.
hearing arguments like yours, a few of the blind like myself (thanks to our Lord opening eyes), must still be waking up. otherwise, i reason that this world would no longer be.
Thanks, but I have had it. MANY of us have made this exact argument. Many still do almost daily. I see plenty of those who believe as I do. And I hope for all our sakes, they continue. But I have lost almost all faith in my fellow ‘conservatives’. And it’s in quotes because the people I am talking about are anything BUT conservative.
I told this story several times on FR, but if you missed it, here it is...
In the late 90s/early 2000s I was senior ed at www.off-road.com. We were then and for many years the #2 motorsports site second only to NASCAR.com. Our readership was in the millions globally. Thats a fact anyone can look up.
We took the lead in fighting land closures by the BLM/Sierra Club and their merry band of communists. We warned people, told them, showed them facts and evidence...all the same things many of us do here. you might think off-roaders would care about such things.
You would be wrong in many cases.
A significant number trashed us, demanded we ‘compromise’ and all she SAME THINGS you see these idiot ‘conservatives doing with the GOP.
In the end, there was ‘compromise”.
Lesser evil” was chosen by the majority of the off-roaders as the way to go. Proof? Tale a look at the BLM’s own stats for western land closures since about 2001.
Many of those people refused to fight. And they lost it all. Here, in a somewhat more important issue of our constitutional and God given rights, the same mentality holds sway.
I am tired of beating my head into a wall. These people deserve exactly the hell their inaction and outright sabotage of conservatism will result in. Sometimes you just gotta sit back and let people experience the result of their choices. They refuse to learn, but pain is a good teacher.
So rather than contribute to the chaos, I am just going to stand back and watch history repeat. Maybe we can pick up the pieces later and maybe not. Either way they brought it on us all. and they can choke on it.
Bottom line: You cannot fight a battle, much less win a war when your OWN troops are supplying the enemy.