The “conservative movement” has failed, decisively. Republican globalists have achieved victories in Republican districts so they can join with their partner globalists who win victories in Democratic districts to finish the job started long ago of destroying our beloved nation.
The technique the globalists have used - divide et impera - is ancient. Their tools, in America, are particularly well-suited to a media-run, instant gratification society. Even among relative political sophisticates such as ourselves, time is wasted discerning whether someone is a “conservative” or a “liberal”, obscuring the important divide - is the candidate an American, a patriot, or is he a globalist?
The scales fell from my eyes on this question after the Bush disaster (no, I don’t “miss him yet”). George W. Bush flew under a conservative flag, feeding us boob bait under the masterful guidance of the “architect”, and the results of his eight years would have pleased Woodrow Wilson himself. I should have known, when his casus belli for the disastrous Iraq expedition involved Saddam Hussein violating “UN resolutions”, as if ANY act of that body could justify the loss of a single New Hampshire infantryman. But, I too was inspired by his speech from the ruins - we all were, to one degree or another.
Anyway, I digress. The globalists have gained enormous territory since 1989. They have brainwashed a generation, they have formed what to them appears an unbeatable coalition in Washington, a Uniparty in effect if not in name, they enrich themselves personally at our expense while they devise our ruin, collectively.
Can anything be done? I don’t know. I DO know that a man who can form the words “I will make America great again” is a man who may, possibly, grasp the desperate straits into which we have fallen. I DO know that a man who has prevailed over the incredibly corrupt political and regulatory structures in New York and New Jersey, again and again, has taken the measure of our “rulers”.
I’ve said here, more than once, that I would vote for Bernie Sanders before I would vote for Jeb Bush, because Bernie Sanders is an American while Jeb Bush is not (fortunately, fate is not going to challenge me in this way).
If we elect an American as President for the first time since 1984, and over the amazing power of the infotainment-financial-Uniparty iron triangle which rules us, we can work out all the secondary issues among ourselves. If we elect a globalist, who is prepared to consolidate the gains of HW Bush-Clinton-GWB-”Obama”, we are finished.
With Marco Rubio or Hillary Clinton in the White House, even our debating society here will become irrelevant.
You know the line in “Master and Commander” when the doctor sneers at the idea that Nelson’s love for King and country made him warm? You know Aubrey’s reply? “The fact that it was Nelson who said it made our hearts glow”?
There may still be enough of us whose hearts glow at the idea of making our beloved nation great again, however much the left, the neocons, National Review and Fox News, may sneer. I hope so.
GO TRUMP!
I think that a simple campaign--but one appreciating the basic motivations that have inspired people throughout the centuries--is the best way to unhorse the mountebanks that are misleading us.
Contrast the words of the Founding Fathers, who showed far more & far clearer understanding of the psychology involved in human interaction, than those systematically betraying us.
The latter have benefited by the slavish compulsion of the mass media to parrot what they were indoctrinated with in College; but once really challenged, they are absolutely hapless in a debate. I leaned that in one of the colleges long involved in the indoctrination, my freshman year; and have never lost a debate with a "Liberal" since. When correctly challenged, they have nothing to rely on but the bogus arguments that they heard from Professors, who basically taught their wish lists as premises for a new--and completely bogus--reality.
You mention the recent--and certainly not missed--George W. Bush. Consider how completely George Washington answered Bush's every contention (in Bush's idiotic 2nd Inaugural Address) from his 18th Century Farewell Address: Washington/Bush Debate.
Similar contrasts can be offered by republishing Jefferson's Views on how Welfare worked in 1782 Virginia; Washington's plea for a Swiss like system for arming American youth; Jefferson's reason for cutting corners to buy Louisiana--directly relevant for understanding the terrible damage being done by not protecting our Southern border.