“I can take care of myself and my loved ones, and frankly, that’s ALL I am going to do. The rest of America can go straight to hell.”
And with people that think like this, that’s exactly where this country is headed.
Dude, our political view in limited government (et.al.) is completely wrapped by the python and about to let out its last breath. Even if we win in November, nothing changes. A SC that just made a decision based on nothing but wishful thinking will stay in place. A new govt. will be lead by someone who enacted this same thing in his state. The people elected are too damn afraid of what the media and the left says about them, so they’ll end up compromising — we’ll end up just short of what we have today.
I’m playing a rigged game. My opponents have no reason to stop lying, no reason to stop name calling, no reason to stop enriching themselves at my expense because they have more than a sufficient number of idiots who will go along with anything they propose. I can’t play a game where I have to lie and cheat and its impossible to win at that game when your opponents do nothing but that. And we are LONG past any reasonable likelihood that this will change, even IF we could elect people that could stand firm to original constitutional principles.
THE GAME IS OVER. If you want to keep playing, fine. But I’m done. This country is much, much worse off than it was when I became politically active — after me getting almost nothing of what I wanted. UNTIL YOU OR ANYONE ELSE ON HERE COMES UP WITH A WINNABLE STRATEGY, THERE IS NO POINT IN FIGHTING AND GETTING YOUR ASS KICKED 100% OF THE TIME.
I have given a winnable strategy before, but few even on this site are willing to go along with it. It includes at least ALL of the following:
— term limits for ALL elected officials;
— stopping all newspaper subscriptions except those 100% committed to conservative causes (zero that I know about);
— turning off ALL forms of popular culture on TV and internet — stop watching morning shows, evening news, all cable news other than SOME Fox, stop watching Letterman, SNL, etc., stop going to movies, stop buying CDs and downloading PC music;
— ALWAYS vote for the most conservative candidate regardless of individual views;
— stop giving money to institutions that have failed us (Republican party) and start supporting those conservative causes that have worked (numerous, but NRA is one example)
— stop arguing with the left and start ridiculing them
There are others I can’t think of at this point, but I seriously doubt I could get even 25% of FR members to sign on to ALL these ideas.