Well for me it’s about the natural world here being a wilderness boy at heart and a mountain biker for my sanity
My dear wife is a lib as are all my friends and I have just learned that it , politics, doesn’t really matter a hill of beans for the most part
What does matter is character. Honor and diligence
I got my sons in Boy Scouts and am basically taking it over and making it
Just like it was in the 20s. Where boys are boys. Period
Actually got the wife to acqueiese to guns and everything ; )
She was happy when my sux year old outshot a bunch of 10 yr olds
Hee hee
That's an unusual orientation for a Freeper. Allow me to share my perspective on that.
Politics is merely what results when two or more opposing cultural ideologies compete in the arena of government. It's the ideologies that are important. Not the partisan political alignments.
Free Republic is a gathering of people whose cultural orientation is conservative. We may be very engaged and interested with partisan politics, but that's actually secondary to who we are as people. Our ideals are primary. They're the glue that binds us together.
You may have noticed in your short time here that liberals are expressly unwelcome at FR. It's because we find their ideology to be reprehensible and destructive to those things we hold most dear. For the most part, liberals are fundamentally opposed to the precepts and principles laid down in our founding documents.
In that wise, they're opposed to our very existence as a people. Most of us elect not to break bread with people who reject the fundamental, timeless concepts that gave birth to the freest, most successful nation in world history. People who embrace an ideology that leads to slavery and ruin for the individual and the nation.
So yes, politics does matter. It matters a great deal.