“...We’d rather sit back and grouse about how we got gyped again, while huffing and puffing about how next time, we’re really gonna get ‘em. ...”
Nothing will change unless Conservatives actually MOVE into leadership positions at all levels - township, county, state, etc., - where public policy can actually be influenced. IOW, where we can actually DO something according to principles.
If we sit at home and don’t run for office, how do we change anything? If want to change the GOP, WE have to BE the GOP.
Like scumbag ALinsky said (and he was right): YOU be the Delegate...or the township supervisor...or the county tax collector...etc.
That’s how they did it. The OWSholes and other street mimes are just sideshow and distraction. They aren’t the real threat; the real threat is the nameless, faceless apparatchniki raising your taxes every year, fining you for having your grass too high, or too many cars in your driveway, or sitting on the school board and having radical lefties lecture your children in school on a daily basis.
Only - they AREN’T nameless, and they AREN’T faceless; they’re people that live in your neighborhoods, and they are doing things that directly impact you and your families.
The other side USED THE SYSTEM, gamed it, and got elected.
Seems to me our side needs to do the same thing, challenge them publically, door-to-door, mailbox to mailbox, neighbor to neighbor.
We accomplish ZERO by not being in these positions. The system is what it is. We should learn to use it, and learn fast.
I don’t pretend to have the answers to this, but it seems to me that, even as repulsive as we find Alinsky, the SOB was right, and they pulled it off. What did another commie bastard Ho Chi Minh say - cherish your enemies, they teach you the best lessons?
You can start locally by getting on your own town council, or even run for Sheriff, or deputy, or whatever. Just get in the door by whatever means you can.
We have bright people out here, with incredible political minds...why aren’t we in positions to put it to good use?
Ideas?
Thank you so very much!
I approached our state GOP party about running (for a state office) They said ‘no thanks’ because I was a Conservative and they were looking for ‘people close to center’.