Posted on 06/28/2021 3:27:14 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Ron Johnson (Wis.) on Saturday urged his fellow Republicans to "take back" local government positions in order to "take back our culture."
Johnson made the remarks in a speech to Wisconsin's state GOP convention, where his presence was met with applause and chants of "six more years," The Capital Times reported.
The senator bemoaned what he characterized as the Republican Party neglecting local offices in favor of federal positions.
"Take back our school boards, our county boards, our city councils. We will take back our culture. We don't have to fear this anymore," Johnson said, according to the Times. He advocated for "trickle-up elections."
The Times reported that Johnson, who has not announced whether he will run for reelection in 2022, also used his address to take aim at Democratic politicians, criticizing them for their repeated calls for social change while also acknowledging that the U.S. is "not perfect."
"The leaders of the left talk about fundamentally transforming this nation. Do you even like, much less love, something you want to fundamentally transform?" Johnson asked the crowd. "America’s not perfect; we had that original sin from slavery, but we’ve made progress. We’ve continuously improved. That’s not good enough for the left."
"Our little democracy here, this marvel we call America, is but a blip in time. It’s kind of tiny, it’s kind of insignificant on that scale. But man, is it rare and is it ever precious," Johnson added. The Times noted that he appeared to be alluding to the 1997 film "Contact," in which a group of scientists makes first contact with extraterrestrials.
"So it’s just my belief that it is our solemn duty, having been given this gift, something this rare, something this precious, it’s our duty to make sure that it not only survives for our kids and grandkids and great-grandkids — that it thrives," he added.
Yeah, something like that.
Have you not had enough?
There’s no culture left to “take back.”
No problem with him running and winning.
But...politics isn’t going to change the culture. The culture has to change from within the populace. And while conservatives often have the right ideas and intent, we have a key flaw within our own philosophy. We are still clinging to the idea we should leave people alone in their depravity and insanity. The culture changes and then behavior is legalized politically. Or behavior is made illegal first by culture changes from within.
It is something we do not understand or grasp, even now. We keep putting bandaids on it thinking we’re fixing it. And soon after the bandaid falls off revealing a festering infection.
Time and again we organize and then effectively fail. We need to figure out how to get this done. Their consistent march over the last 60 years has us beat in the war of ideas and action. Our talk is cheap and a paper tiger at this point.
Odd statement given that Johnson proposed getting rid of Columbus Day while out cities burned last summer. But I suppose that all goes down the memory hole with an eye toward the midterms. Fool me once applies in spades here.
Johnson isorrect. The usual surrender monkey chatter is not.
Fight the fight, fight on. Fight for America. There is nowhere else to go.
Perhaps Mr. Johnson could start by reminding folks, and himself, that this is suppose to be a REPUBLIC, NOT a demon-ocracy. :(
Well said.
Take back common sense, decency, goodness, righteousness, exterminate corruption.
We look to politicians to save the day. Not going to happen.
I’ve been saying that. Time to get involved...I just heard that my grand nephew is running for school board in Maine (he is 17).
The change definitely has to come from within. But the problem is that politics…that is, who we elect to government…is what prevents the change from happening. .
Our government itself was responsible for the negative changes in the first place by imposing laws and policies meant to protect the negative changes the left has wished to implement over the last 60 years (since the 1960s). This includes everything ranging from abortion to racial preferences to welfare policies to transgender and gay enforcement to overall anti-Americanism in education.
Politics is what is keeping us from taking back our culture, because while most people probably don’t agree with leftist culture, political power is what enforces it and even criminalizes attempts to restore American culture and values. We have a genuine reign of terror right now where people are even afraid to express the slightest disagreement with government policies.
So we can’t neglect politics because we need a political change to allow the cultural change and restoration.
As the late, great Andrew Breitbart said, “Politics is downstream of culture.”
The Left has been chipping away under the surface with the supposedly “less important” and less known offices and having a massive national impact as a result. The “dog catcher” races matter - and George Soros and company have been focusing on them for years and having great success.
We got to BE THE POLITICIANS to save America... We let others who were power hungry to run, now we need to. If you don’t, who will?
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