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Well said.

I stumbled upon a commenter on the McConnell victory article at Breitbart tonight who was claiming that the Tea Party conservatives are making a big deal out of nothing. He said, "I am 65+ years old and am just as free now as the day I was born." and he added, "I just don't see your gripe."

After he was unpersuaded by my initial brief attempt at expressing why this matters, I decided to throw together a more thorough response. I think we need to be ready to explain that we keep hurting ourselves so long as we coddle these frauds who will not hold their ground in the times of our republic's most desperate challenges. Here is the long response offered in tho hope that it can kindle some ideas for how to express these ideas in conversations with people who seem to have no concept of what's at stake.

To the guy who doesn't really care much about whom we send to Washington

You are comfortable enough to be lulled into a complacency about real changes that are happening all around you.

Just because you're not as impacted as many business owners, you can't see any downside in the hundreds and thousands of new regulations dictated year after year.

Just because you like to pay for abortions, you don't mind that I have to.

Just because you think the concept of marriage is nothing but an antiquated irrational idea, you feel fine about some federal judge wiping out with a stroke of her pen a state's constitutional amendment passed by their electorate to maintain a status quo that has held strong for hundreds if not thousands of years in most western cultures.

You blithely look on from your cozy recliner as our national debt racks up at an astronomical rate, and why should you care? The next generation will have to bear that burden.

If you have grandkids who are in public schools your mind wanders off to some happy diversion to muffle their voices when they start talking about the climate they face in school wherein administrators go to considerable lengths to reduce their exposure to and expression of ideas that don't fit today's box. If those grandkids are looking forward to getting their first jobs, you couldn't care less about the fact their hireability is constantly eroding given that illegal immigrants are warmly welcomed by McConnell and his ilk. Furthermore, why should you be bothered when the government insists on telling unskilled laborers and employers how much they are worth to each other, imposing circumstances in which over a million jobs have to be eliminated?

You're happy to see my earnings commandeered for the sake of welfare services and education costs and incarceration costs for thousands of criminals who pour over our borders every month. Was a close relative of yours robbed or raped or murdered by one them? Of course not so why would that matter to you?

You don't invest your money in any of the many firearms manufacturers who are facing financial institutions that are bullied by Eric Holder's hush-hush program into severing ties with that un-favored industry.

Since you like your health insurance, why would you care that America has now begun deteriorating into a rationed care system that punishes those who, left to their own devices could have done much better. I know, there's nothing exceptional about individual responsibility and salf reliance.

You're already signed up for your health plan so why should you care that the government spent over $500 million of *someone's* money to buy a website that really still doesn't work from the First Lady's High School crush, and then wouldn't even be so accountable as to hand over the real numbers detailing its actual performance. You're not a doctor so why should you worry about what treatments a bureaucrat decides are and are not warranted for your patients?

You're not a teacher so why should you care about curriculum based on Washington's official party line about what is true, what is important and what is the best methodology to impose those views?

You're not tasked with law enforcement in a southwestern border state, so it's of no consequence that the federal government has decided that ICE agents no longer need to work with state police, sheriffs and municipalities to keep illegal immigrants in check. Obviously you weren't one of the American agents killed while staring down the barrel of a Fast and Furious distributed rifle, so how could you find it irritating when Obama suddenly claimed executive privilege to keep that program's documents under lockdown even though he insisted he had never seen them?

You not the parent of a soldier who lost his life when he courageously decided to enter the battle fray in Benghazi, so I realize you chuckle at those parents who are engaged in a struggle for answers about what happened that day. So what if Obama's state department suppressed thousands of pages and hid dozens of relevant witnesses all to help strengthen the president's relection political campaign by maintaining the illusion that terrorism had been nipped in the bud all over the world by that Chicago Kid of ours?

You, yourself, are the kind of feller who could never be mistaken for one who's plotting anything against the government, so it's no trouble to you that the government reads all your emails and tracks all your phone conversations. They can be trusted to be good stewards of that information and never use it in a way that would be untoward, right?

You're not earning a living by sweating it out in a conventional power plant every week day, so you can feel warm and fuzzy on the inside knowing that Solyndra was awarded many millions of dollars in grant money despite its doomed business model, merely because the company was well connected with democrat donors.

You have no interest in sentimental gestures toward the the men who were ready and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep America free during WWII, so you're surely a bit tickled by the irony that the National Parks Service was ordered to INCREASE its non-essential man-hour and maintenance costs to make sure those veterans and their fellow citizens would "feel the pain" of barricades when my representatives in congress shutdown the government, attempting on behalf of citizens like me to rein in one of the most costly and ill conceived power grabs ever launched by our government.

Yep everything's going fine. Nothing much has changed. Who cares who gets sent to Washington to run the show?