I agree with much you write.
People forget that it took the founders 25 years, from 1750 to 1776, to organize, find leaders and make a plan to take on the British. Because we don’t see some Army marching on Washington to take back the country NOW, people get frutrated. Well, the cure for frustration is taking action, whether running for a local council seat or manning a polling station on election day.
I was involved in local government for 10 years, and sometimes I couldn’t get a single conservative to show up at local government meetings. Meanwhile, the left continued sending slimey cockroaches to local meetings to try to bully the politicians and bureaucrats to adopt left wing crap. And many did.
The reason we’re in trouble now is because the vast majority of patriots and conservatives sat on their fat butts for decades and did nothing to stop the left’s machinery.
You would think, at least, that conservatives would run local governments in areas that vote conservative for president, but no! I live in an an area that consistently votes 65% or better for conservative candidates; however, the local county government is infested with leftists. Unbelievable.
If you’re going to take back the country, you at least need to control your neigborhood - the village council and the county government. It’s how the Founders started - controlling local governments. You need a political base to operate from. By controlling local government, you control the city or village council, the police, the sheriff, the local courts, the bureaucracy. Now that’s power one can use.
With that control, you can create incredible chaos against the federal government. You can nullify federal laws, ignore bureaucratic decrees and issue rulings against federal incursion. (Yes, we have a ruling by federal district courts that allow local governments to issue ordinances blocking federal bureaucratic rules.) By starting a thousand brushfires across the country, you can quickly exhaust federal manpower and resources. We just don’t use the tools we have laying on the table before us. Damn.
Oops, I’m ranting. Thanks for your post.
..... and local authorities like the schoolboards .... the place from which Bill Ayers exercised dictatorial powers over hundreds of millions of Chicago tax dollars... getting community organizer Obama hired ... and together, in the process so screwed up public education in Chicago, that soon the only people under 50 in the town who will be able to read and write will be Polish immigrants.
Here in furthest Down East New England, when we need a police chief, a fire chief, a superintendent of education, a village manager ...first, a "search firm" is hired ... they come up with Affirmative Action Ani who have failed in other places ... sort of like baseball managers ... and stick them on some hapless village who only knew of Negroes and Mexicans from the pages of National Geographic and who think Lesbians come from Lebanon.
Coupla million dollars later, and a law suit for firing the worthless bastards, we wise up. Government ... the Nomenklatura as our Communists like to call it, is the very sustenance of the Left. It must be torn from them.
Not easy. Conservatives have businesses to run. Lives to lead. Children to raise. The Left has the government as father, mother, and religion.
I worked in DC for many years, and I saw Republican elected officials recruit their staffs from among these people, allowing them to scorn qualified applicants as "being too far right."
A lot hanging on the next two years ... and I hope it ain't us!