Who has our backs? Who has our interests? Who is saying that we need a better deal? Answer: nobody. We need a Teddy Roosevelt, we need an Eisenhower, but I don't see anyone like that. I see self-deluded psycophants who think conservatism is a return to serfdom, and the corporate elite is better at running our lives than we are, and selling our government to the highest bidder is a return to what the founding fathers wanted.
And don't give me that "we have opportunity." Yeah, there's opportunity in Red China, too, and there was opportunity in the USSR. Opportunity for a handful to play by the party rules and become part of the fat cat elite themselves. But no opportunity for the vast majority of honest, hardworking men to get decent jobs and raise a families on single-income, like we used to be able to do, by the millions, in the 1940s 1950s 1960s and 1970s. That opportunity no longer exists for the hoi polloi (look it up). We have been losing freedom for the last three decades, not gaining it. The 19th century is not a good role model, neither is Communist China. What we need is a return to Eisenhower republicanism. Or do you really prefer this?
