Posted on 12/01/2016 7:34:54 AM PST by drop 50 and fire for effect
Absolutely. Color the map by voting precinct (smallest area short of individual votes), and you’ll see it’s an archipelago of blue urban islands amid a sea of red rural.
Historically, both moderate and conservative Republicans have written off the blue and purple areas.
Conservative groups such as CLI-Campaign Leadership Institute hold hundreds of classes each year where they teach many thousands of conservatives that they should ignore and avoid the Blue areas.
Conservatives should focus on identifying conservatives in Red areas and having high GOTV in those red areas.
As we write off areas that are 40% R and 60% D that 40% gradually declines because the Ds become the only game in town.
Behind all of this is the assumption that because all my friends vote ideologically, that everyone votes ideologically.
News flash. Most voters do not vote based on ideology.
Good resource for discreet readers. Thanks!
Urbanization is the means to Agenda 21 ends. This abomination is baked in the local and regional long-range planning processes underway everywhere. It appears to be an inclusive process, but is “facilitated” by true believers who want control of your local private property. Some of their recommendations are begged for so the locals can obtain HUD grants.
Look out for “facilitators” with interests in their proposed outcomes. Ours was Sustainable Transportation Systems, from Ithaca, NY. You can only imagine. You can count on misrepresentation to the press of the community meetings discussions. Our sessions were full, with lively probing debate. This was misrepresented as light attendance with no concerns raised. Flat. Out. Lie.
I hope Dr. Carson gets quickly up to speed to shut this down. There is evil, mischief, and profiteering behind the calls for bike paths linking crime-ridden neighborhood straight to suburban properties, increased mass transit, “sustainability,” building of mixed income housing delevopments, reduction of privately owned property.
California, Oregon, Colorado and Washington are the future of the Democratic Party.
What they are doing here is working. The public is satisfied with the status quo.
There never was a solid manufacturing base here. Much of the land is controlled by government.
Many live here in part for the environment, an issue which the Dems own.
The Dems are not gone. They just are camping out west.
I’ll add to your list:
4) Fill up the judiciary with Originalist judges and justices - not just the Supreme Court (which hears only 1% of cases coming from the Circuits), but the District and Circuit Courts, as well. It would also be nice if someone could have a nice conversation with John Roberts, and to “encourage” him to retire and spend more time with his family. That guy is dirty from SOMETHING, and it was used to blackmail him into allowing Obamacare to pass muster. That is intolerable, and he must go - but with dignity is just fine with me, so long as he goes.
5) Sign long-term leases for oil and gas companies (and coal, too) to drill/dig for our resources ALL OVER THE PLACE - leases (or even sales) that CANNOT be cancelled by the next Douche, err Dem President. This means in the incredibly rich Green River shale formation in Colorado, offshore and in the Arctic. Go whole hog on nuclear (including newer and safer technologies). We must be not only energy independent, we must earn tens of billions/year exporting energy.
6) Actually get RID of several departments. Energy, HUD, Education, etc. must just go away. EPA and BATFE must be SEVERELY curtailed as to their authority. Doing that will permanently remove a lot of onerous regulations, and do wonders for reducing the budget deficit.
7) Rebuild the military - make us the wolverine that no one wants to F&** with, ever, for any reason. It is infinitely cheaper from both the standpoint of money and blood to have a huge build-up and to thus not have to fight a war, than to fight even the smallest of wars. Added to this would be the return of various strategic stockpiles, and much improved stores of various critical spare parts, munitions and production equipment - especially that which we currently source overseas.
8) Significantly improve the electrical grid - we are not merely vulnerable to an enemy EMP attack or a coronal mass ejection (like the 1859 Carrington Event), but the grid is not much better than Turd World for what should be the world’s premier economy. This adds cost to every good and service in the economy, and it’d be well worth it to pay another couple of bucks for electricity and gas to accomplish this goal (and, besides, if we produce energy like madmen, the decline in the main cost component of our electric bills will more than offset a couple of bucks a month to upgrade the grid).
9) Pass a voting reform act that will largely prevent fraud - it must be heavily weighted to ensuring that only citizens vote, and that those properly registered are able to vote only once in each election. Yes, picture ID will HAVE to be required - so Trump had better have Scalia’s replacement sitting on the Court, ASAP.
10) Not critical, but highly desirable: a) Pass the Hearing Protection Act so that firearms mufflers (A.K.A. suppressors) become very commonly owned, over-the-counter items that can NEVER be traced; b)pass nationwide concealed carry reciprocity - if we have it for marriage, then we can and should also have it for a right specifically protected the Constitution; c) Get rid of Title 18, Section 922(o), so that new full autos can be purchased. I’d prefer to just junk the entire 1934 NFA, but that is somewhat unrealistic - I’ll be happy to settle for being able to buy as many full autos and drop-in happy switches as I can afford - and hope that 10 million others do the same, because then they will NEVER, EVER be able to disarm us.
“Does anyone else remember when, on election night, the news stations’ maps colored Democrat wins red and GOP wins blue? When did that change? And who decided it had to change?”
FYI, it was never blue for Republicans and red for Dems - it shifted, with the incumbent President’s party being blue. Off year elections followed the same pattern.
I, too, am really ticked that it has seemingly become permanent. I’d love it if Trump and a few others made a big deal of this as YET ANOTHER EXAMPLE of ingrained media bias against the Republican Party - complete with showing maps from pre-2000 elections with the R’s in blue (like, for instance, the 1984 election, or the 1972 election). Hell, 1976 had the R’s in blue, since Ford was the incumbent, and 1980 had the D’s in blue because of (hawk, spit) Carter.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.