I went to a REpublican county officers’ meeting last night, and there were only 15 people there. Apart from myself, they were almost all officers. Out of several thousand voters in the county, virtually none of them bothered to come to the meeting and clamor for the corruption to be opposed by the party leaders. This is one of the important reasons why I have no sympathy for the complaints about not having an opportunity to oppose the corruption in the government. The voters have the opportunity for self-government and are too negligent to bother exercising the opportunity and their duties. If you cannot get them to do so in the present crisis in the Union, you can hardly expect them to be any less neglectful of those duties apart from the Union.
Whiskey, hardly anyone showed up to that meeting because the people have lost faith in the political process.
Actually, it's worse than that. Many of our people have directly observed that the political process has become corrupted beyond all recognition, and they can SEE with their own two eyes that it's no longer a working solution.
There's been a paradigm shift. The game has changed, and people are simply noting that change, and preparing to explore other, more workable solutions to the problem. Where do you think all this talk of secession is coming from?
Over 100,000 people in Texas have signed the secession petition. I'd lay you 100 to 1 odds that every one of them voted in this last election and the one before. Leading up to November 6th, every possible indicator showed Mitt Romney handily beating Obama, but at the end of the day, the worst man to ever occupy the Oval Office walked away with the title. Again.
How can anyone of good heart, honesty, and love of country possibly conclude anything, but that our election process has been criminally hijacked by the dark forces of the left?
How can you expect these same people to rally in support of a party that couldn't win an election against the worst, most corrupt and treasonous regime we've ever seen in Washington?