Is there a solution in there? Let's say we're aware of the problem, but our options aren't what we would hope for - do we just concede another round? What do you think would be useful towards getting on the right track. Something that we the people/voters can do because we can't count on the establishment to change all on its own.
I've suggested that we invest time and money to support the best candidates we can find - even "meddling" in other State elections for Senate/Congress with more time and money. I believe we can start to change things a candidate at a time, but only if we can actually pull together by devising individual battle plans and uniting to make it happen.
It will take positive leadership and active followership vs. just pointing out every ill at every chance. Does a person in the ghetto get out by waking up every day and enumerating everything that sucks about the situation or would he get out faster if he were to have a plan to get some education and put up a concerted effort to do positive things instead of wallowing in the muck?
I'm aware of how bad things are, and how they got there. If I were to wake up every morning and rehash the list, I wouldn't find much to live or hope for. I choose to look for possibilities. Else, i become a part of the problem and it has over a 100 million parts already.
Al;ways happy to hear someone else's idea of what might work.
The solutions are in pretty much all my posts. All I’m doing is repeating what conservatives used to believe. Stop the stupidity of voting in and supporting ANY people that are liberals. Voting in, supporting, empowering...anything that puts evil people in powerful places. People that aren’t ‘there’ can’t be liberal ‘there’.
Conservatives have become like spoiled children lacking any sense of strategy or any bigger picture beyond the one immediately in front of their face. They ‘feel’ that electing a Romney is always the correct solution over an Obama when both are fundamentally the same guy as shown by their records. You can use Mitch or Jonbon or any of the other RINOS instead of Romney as well. WE tried and tried to tell people what would happen because their records and their associations clearly showed what would happen. Worse yet, Mitch and Jonbon outright told people what they intended and people reelected them anyway...now they cry the blues and bemoan the fact that they got what they demanded. The heart bleeds. Woe are they.
None of this is rocket surgery. Play stupid games, you’re gonna win stupid prizes. And the stupid games when a pol stands there and says “I’ll govern like a liberal” and someone says NuH UNH!!!!, stomps their widdle feetses and votes for them are the problem.
Stop doing that. Some of us don’t think seeing that requires standing on the shoulders of giants. Just as it is pretty obvious that we aren’t going to ‘win’ every election every time even when we do all the right things. It’s obvious that one has to accept responsibility for what they do and what they caused before we can collectively can move to correct what they caused, lest we repeat the mistake.
When a child screws up, the first thing a parent does is tell them what they did wrong and why. Because many conservatives behave politically and vote like children, they need to be told what they did wrong and why, otherwise they bull onward defending their poor choices, repeating them, ensnaring more people in their destructive patterns and compounding the problems they created.
No one appointed me hall monitor but since no one else/few others are willing to say it and go to the wall over it, I do. Because it needs to be done.
Solutions:
BELIEVE IN SOMETHING AND KNOW WHY.
Be willing to stand behind your beliefs and not compromise your way into liberalism just to say ‘WE WON!” because we all live in the result of conservatives and other right wing voters doing that.
Don’t vote for liberals. Ever. Especially Republican Liberals. There is no such thing as lesser evil. Learn it, live it, love it.
Get behind the pol you strongly agree with and don’t hedge bets like this was a TV poker tournament. If there is no pol running you strongly agree with, write one in you do. See “Believe in something and stand behind it” above.
Stop trying to out-unicorn unicorns with magical thinking about holding feet to the fire. No one ever does because after we vote, we are all but powerless to alter our initial decision.
Stop handing 3 figures a month to the propaganda divisions of Team Democrat known as Dish/Cable. Use the money to better educate yourself and/or support a candidate that supports constitutional values. Get a hobby to fill your idle hours. You’ll live, I swear.
Stop denying reality. Facts are easy to determine in most cases. Magical thinking and rationalizing why facts are something other than facts is what liberals do.
Learn the definition and possible usages of the word ‘No”.
Employ them without fear or regret.
Do not fear the word ‘Purist”. the opposite of purity is corruption. Pick one and go with it.
Stop pretending that men running to known liberal groups for large swaths of funding are conservatives or will govern as conservatives. Donations are vote buying. Accept it.
Stop pretending that peoples ‘in office’ records or out of office decisions/actions have no bearing on what they will do tomorrow. 180 degree turns on core issues are a 100% accurate predictor a pol will turn on you when the price is right to do so.
Stop providing aid, comfort and outlets for people that deny any of the above. They are not conservatives. Everything above used to be a foregone conclusion. It’s all Conservatism 101 stuff. Has been forever. The problems began when we ignored it.