A Conservative New Year’s Resolution

Townhall.com ^ | December 27, 2020 | Lloyd Pettegrew

[Kaslin]

All true conservatives hold hope-upon-hope that 2021 will be better in every way that 2020. The fact that the Republican Party snatched defeat from the jaws of electoral victory has left most of us disconsolate heading into the new year. Being an empiricist academic, now retired, I offer you ten resolutions that will allow each of us to do our part to make 2021 a better year in myriad ways.

1. Support any policy that restrains China from continuing its infiltration and influence in America while working against their efforts and supporters, especially politicians like Eric Swalwell, who would do China’s bidding for their own gain and to America’s detriment.
   
   
2. Fix our voting system state-by-state by removing all mail-in balloting and keeping only absentee balloting with the proper identification safeguards. This means overhauling the Federal Elections Commission that turned a blind eye to all the state efforts to undo our federal election security.
   
   
3. Require a proper I.D. for all voting. Everyone must already have a proper I.D. that allows them to cash their federal and state checks. No proper I.D., no vote! In Florida when handing in your absentee ballot to the supervisor of elections office, you must show proper I.D. and someone physically matches your signature to that on your I.D. Every other states must do this.
   
   As National Review has presented, “At any given moment, there are millions of people who live and work in our country on temporary employment visas--Temporary Protected Status (TPS). They don’t get to vote no matter how the Biden-Harris administration feels about it… In the service of their renewed push for noncitizen voting, leftists characterize noncitizen voting as a ‘logically unassailable [As Steely Dan once said, “Pretzel Logic”], if not clearly mandatory, democratic practice. Their theory places restrictions on the franchise for aliens into the same category as previous discriminatory efforts to restrict minority groups’ access to voting.”
   
   The Hill asks rhetorically, “Can illegal aliens actually vote in our elections? The simple answer is yes, of course they can, and they do.”
   
   STOP all of this NOW—we must mandate that only certified citizens get to vote!
   
   
4. Remove all voting machine and software systems and replace them with software that is made in America and is mutually tested and certified by technology experts from both the Republican and Democrat parties. If they were developed or headquartered in communist countries like Venezuela or China, they shouldn’t be used under any circumstances.
   
   
5. Advocate for and support all efforts to dismantle the Deep State.
   
   Lloyd Billingsley reveals that SES, the Senior Executive Service, is the Deep State hiding in plain sight and quotes the federal Office of Personnel Management saying, “This represents the critical role of the SES as a central coordinating point between Government’s political leadership which sets the political agenda and the line workers who implement it. Members of the SES translate that political agenda into reality.”
   
   The SEC is a great place to begin, but the NIA and its affiliates, the CIA and FBI would be very close seconds. There is no public accountability for most federal organizations.
   
   
6. Only support newspapers and television media that tell the whole truth, not just the progressive/Democrat talking point truths.
   
   As I mentioned elsewhere, I have now given up on the Wall Street Journal, most of Fox News, except for Tucker, and have replaced them with the Epoch Times and Newsmax, which are more reliably conservative. Jeff Davidson in these pages argues that, “Concurrently, despite the multitude of eyewitnesses, with sworn affidavits, under penalty of perjury, even renowned journalists insist that the 2020 elections were fair, legal, and aboveboard. They offer a Twilight Zone rendition of what's occurring in the world. And each of us is supposed to swallow it, hook, line, and sinker.”
   
   
7. Support conservative universities like Hillsdale, Claremont, James Madison, BYU and others by encouraging your children/grandchildren to apply and, if accepted, attend them. Also, help endow conservative scholars in these institutions of higher learning. Sadly, as some of my close friends have discovered, you can’t trust your alma mater to actually use your donations as you request because the predominantly leftist faculty and administrators will take your money and run, using it for social justice idiocies that have become their overriding priority.
   
   
8. Lobby your government representatives to stop creating new loan conditions that incentivize people to not repay these loans or work (think college student loans).
   
   As Forbes reported, “Currently we have 45 million borrowers who collectively owe nearly $1.6 trillion in student loan debt in the U.S. Student loan debt is now the second highest consumer debt category - behind only mortgage debt...More than 3.0 million student loan borrowers have student loan debt greater than $100,000, with approximately 800,000 of that total holding student loan debt greater than $200,000.”
   
   
9. Push personal, not social, responsibility as a character strength.
   
   Elsewhere I have made the case that corporate America, through its advertising and support of organizations like Black Lives Matter, have adopted “virtue signaling” as their face to the general saying, “This year’s U.S. Census reveals that African Americans comprise only 13.4% of America’s population, but my informal survey indicates that about 60% of national ads feature black actors. Hispanics constitute 18.5% of the population but inhabit 35% of the TV ads surveyed. Asians are now 5.9% of America’s population and are featured in about 20% of TV ads. The U.S. Census also indicates only 10.2% of married couples in America are interracial, yet 39% of TV ads now display them.”
   
   
10. When voting in the future, as Thomas Sowell urged back in 2010, “When you vote on the basis of rhetoric and symbolism instead of using your mind,  it doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” I have some good friends who are lifelong Republicans but voted against President Trump this year because of his bombast, bellicosity and his Twitter pronouncements. As Evan Sayet has said in these pages back in 2017, “So, to my friends on the Left--and the #NeverTrumpers as well--do I wish we lived in a time when our president could be ’collegial’ and ‘dignified’ and ‘proper’? Of course I do. These aren’t those times. This is war. And it’s a war that the Left has been fighting without opposition for the past 50 years.”

This new year will be far past the time to fight but we must begin now and keep fighting until we can once again control our nation for the good.

[ronnie raygun]

Change my party affiliation from republican to independent, Im thru with them all

[Lurkinanloomin]

Close the barn door after the horses have all left......

[unclebankster]

The lifelong Republicans who voted for Biden, must be held accountable.

The Biden/Harris monstrosity will be a national embarrassment, they’ll be easy to mock and ridicule over the next 4 years.

Never-Trump Republicans, are going to get their faces rubbed in this ‘pile of shit’ administration.

[gloryblaze]

In the words of that great philosopher, Ringo Starr, “You know it don’t come easy.”

[facedown]

Lovely platitudes but how does Lloyd imagine they can be effected?

[hank ernade]

Ugly truth is that the only way republicans will gain a spine is when the Left has stripped them of everything they have.
The democrats promise them enough to keep them obedient to the two party scam.
Hell of hells is having to hope the Left prevails in destroying both these criminal gangs and their DC cosa nostra.

See you on Lexington Green.

[SaxxonWoods]

I think we should all send emails/calls/letters to Mitch congratulating him on presiding over the death of the Republican party.

It was useless anyway, so he has accidentally done a service.

[ChilledOut]

1. Scream “Communist” or “ElectionThief” at anyone wearing a Biden hat or T Shirt. It’s not advised to knock hat off, steal hat, or to swing a punch or bike lock, but it wouldn’t be unprecedented. Make sure people are never comfortable displaying a Biden yard sign or car bumper sticker.

2. Any school who dares to mention “President Biden” should be inundated with complaint phone calls and protests. Require teachers to expel any student in a Biden article of clothing, who writes anything about Biden, or who has a Biden picture in their own bedroom. Remember, supporting Biden proves you’re a Communist,

3. The words “without evidence” must be attached to any news item, in any format, that relates to anything Biden does, says or thinks.

4. Commandeer every possible government intelligence tool to spy on Biden, his family, friends and business associates. Create fake “dossiers” to bring sham investigations and indictments. Bankrupt all of them and leave Biden isolated.

5. China, China, China: each investigation of Biden’s China Collusion must flow seamlessly into the next, punctuated by televised Congressional hearings of related “Reports” and of course, full blown impeachment proceedings. Every minute of media time must be saturated with China Collusion.

6. Biden isn’t just a CCP sell out, he’s also a dictator. Any policy, Presidential initiative, or executive order is proof of dictatorship behavior! The same holds true for any hiring, firing or reassignment of government officials.

7. It goes without saying...mentally unfit. Relentlessly lobby Congress to invoke 25th Amendment.

8. Fact check every utterance by the Left. Every article, newscast, blog post, YouTube, tweet, etc., must be vigorously exposed for the Communist propaganda it is.

9. Accuse any corporation who supports Biden or the Left of Chinese collusion. Unleash massive boycotts, negative publicity and even lawsuits until until the offending product, policy or employee is canceled.

10. Politics is downstream of culture. It’s time to put creativity and actual entertainment aside and focus on the cause. Every movie, book, song, video game, etc needs to relentlessly mock the Communists in the White House for the next 4 years. Eventually this will enter the collective consciousness enough to ensure that everyone is eager to mock their friends, family, neighbors, heck - even total strangers for supporting the Communist Democrat Party. Kick them out of your restaurants and AirBnBs. Dox and harass them for posting on social media. The sky’s the limit and nothing is out of bounds when it comes to shaming these people.

-sarcasm.

[Truthoverpower]

Love God. Serve him

Love your family. Serve them

Love your nation as founded. Defend it

[AlanGreenSpam]

——”Require a proper I.D. for all voting. Everyone must already have a proper I.D. that allows them to cash their federal and state checks. No proper I.D., no vote! In Florida when handing in your absentee ballot to the supervisor of elections office, you must show proper I.D. and someone physically matches your signature to that on your I.D. Every other states must do this.”

Even MEXICO REQUIRES VOTER ID!! Japan does too. No ID, No vote.

The false DemoRat argument that Voter-ID “disenfranchises” some voters who are “unable” to get their own personal ID is clearly used because DemoRats WANT TO COMMIT VOTER FRAUD!

Repubs could very easily circumvent that fake “problem” by setting up an appeals process for people who don’t have ID’s who can prove in other ways who they are — and then they could be given a unique ID.

[AlanGreenSpam]

-—”Change my party affiliation from republican to independent, Im thru with them all”

A lot of good that will do.../sarc

Think deeper about this before you do so. Why?

Because 3rd party candidates split conservative votes and ensure that conservatives will never win. Think of Ross Perot’s candidacy: Were it not for Perot, Slick Willie Clinton probably wouldn’t have won.

During the transition away from the RINO party, a strategic calculation has to be made that factors in “Is it better to vote for the RINO than tossing your vote away to an independent candidate that won’t win anyway, so that the DemoRat candidate wins.”

Thus, we’d end up with a DemoRat candidate winning who is far worse than a RINO. Shooting yourself in the foot.

[central_va]

The GOP sucks sh!t and is an insult. They are craven and worse than useless. I will never vote GOP again unless Trumps approves of them. A new American First party is in order.

We need to drop support of the GOP to kill it off completely. Then a new party can form that representing the working men and women of this country.

[hank ernade]

People who wouldn’t spit on the GOP voted for Trump.

Now we’re supposed to vote for Rinos to prove how smart we are.

These people are living in a Bush Bungle Fantasy Land - no wonder they call it the Stupid Party.

McConnell shot the GOP in the a$$ and blew their brains out.

See you on Lexington Green.

[Kaslin]

Very well said.

[Kaslin]

If they voted for Biden than they're idiots and not republicans. I can't imagine conservatives voting for that idiot.

Well they're obviously not Conservatives.

[AlanGreenSpam]

I agree with most of what you say and I despise RINOS as much as the next guy, but one has to be realistic about what happens if you and others go “scorched-earth” on the RINOS.

If we do that, then the Democrats gain control and we never will get control back again. Is that what you want?

My theory is we have to “use” the RINOS to our advantage to smooth the transition to a full America First Party — because the alternative (Demorat socialism/communism) is much much worse.

Have you thought deeply about what would happen if we just dump support for the GOP/RINOS as you suggest? It’s not as simple as you think. In other words, we can’t magically turn RINOS and centrist Repubs into Trumpers overnight.

So the net effect is that of splitting the conservative vote — and then we never win anything again. What’s so hard to understand about this?

[hank ernade]

Have you thought about what would happen if Trump voters drop the GOP like a radioactive bucket of muck?

>The democrats will clean house on them.

Then we wouldn’t have republicans taking our votes while knifing our leaders in the back.

See you on Lexington Green.

[central_va]

If we do that, then the Democrats gain control and we never will get control back again. Is that what you want?

Who is we? I want a new party PERIOD. F U Republicans. What is so hard to understand? You've stabbed me in the back once to often.

[AlanGreenSpam]

—”Who is we?”

You and me.

Like you, I want a new America First Trump Party too. But there are not enough Trumpers in the House and Senate. Too many RINOs.

So if you and many others stubbornly say, I’ll never vote Republican again (e.g. GOP/RINO Repubs), many GOP House & Senate seats will be won by Democrats. Do you want that?

That’s why we need to transition into a Trump majority STRATEGICALLY. I understand your angst, but we can’t afford to be foolish and shoot ourselves in the foot by letting Dems take complete control.

Consider the “lesser of two evils” philosophy: if you think Dems are far more evil than GOP/RINOS (and they are), AND if there is no viable Trump Party candidate in a particular election, you vote for GOP/RINOS while grooming Trump Party candidates to take over the GOP/RINO seats in the next election.

In other words, I hate to break the news to you, but a transition to a Trump Party majority in House/Senate can’t happen overnight - unless of course, there is a key event that immediately shifts national sentiment.

I’m hoping this election fraud may be that kind of key event in which all RINOS capitulate.