To Save America, Ten (or Eleven) Point Plans Aren’t Enough

American Thinker.com ^ | April 4, 2022 | Ted Noel

[Kaslin]

In 1994, Newt Gingrich put out a ten-point plan called The Contract with America. It was a primary feature of that year’s mid-term Republican wave. Every part of that plan was implemented. And today it’s a dead letter. We have hard-Leftists controlling all three branches of the federal government, and active programs to destroy the America we grew up in everywhere.

Plans are worth bupkis. We need something different, not another plan.

Senator Rick Scott has an excellent eleven-point plan. Even if it is implemented, it will suffer the same fate as the Contract with America. Self-serving, power-mad Leftists will find their way to sabotage it bit by bit, taking us even farther down the road to perdition. The problem is very simple. We lack the two elements that are absolutely necessary to prevent the irresistible slide to destruction.

The first task is a statement of principles. The Republican Party, the only presently viable alternative to the Marxists, is simply Democrat-lite. That’s because we allow almost anyone to run with an “R” behind their name. “Republican” candidates are not required to declare any principles whatever. That’s how we get big-government soft liberals like John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Susan Collins. McCain torpedoed ObamaCare’s repeal. Romney voted to impeach Trump over bogus charges, and now Collins has declared that she will vote to confirm radical leftist Judge Jackson to the Supreme Court.

It’s no wonder that my wife has openly questioned the wisdom of voting for Republicans. “They don’t do anything anyway!” In short, they are Republi-Crats. Current RINOs would make FDR look like a right-wing lunatic. JFK would be a conservative Republican.

[Kevmo]

My 1 point plan is to secede.

[Kevmo]

from my home page

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Secession

It's time for us to jettison those who reject our national values because there's no changing them. Time to secede.

We should extend the invitation to secede on a county by county basis.

While we're at it, since we'd be forming a new country, we should extend the invitation to counties in Canada and Mexico as well.

Note that this option is becoming increasingly popular.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4000029/posts

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[Lower Deck]

... we should extend the invitation to counties in Canada and Mexico as well.

Thanks but I can't see what could possibly be in it for us. We'll sit back and watch.

[Avalon Memories]

Although that map looks impressive, it is useless. We are not a county by county nation. We are a state by state nation, and all those blue counties control the entire country. All those red counties would first need to secede from their states and form new states. It would never happen. Sorry to burst your bubble.

[escapefromboston]

I think it’s time for a 12 point plan

[Kevmo]

Although that map looks impressive, it is useless. We are not a county by county nation. We are a state by state nation,
***Horse shiite. We are a precinct nation with big city enclaves.

and all those blue counties control the entire country.
***They do NOT control the entire country. They like to THINK they do, but they don’t. They need the red areas far more than the red areas need the blue areas.

All those red counties would first need to secede from their states and form new states.
***We went through that in our ORIGINAL iteration of America, the CONFEDERATION of states. It didn’t work, leading to our [secretly-generated] constitution in 1789.

It would never happen.
***You’re just naysayin’ at this point.

Sorry to burst your bubble.
***Maybe you could put a little more effort into it. You aren’t convincing at all.

[Kevmo]

What’s in it for us is a country made up of likeminded people who want what’s best for AmericaFIRST.

[bert]

I believe in a one point plan

Eliminate progressivism

[ARW]

Or how about fighting as dirty as the dems fight? But then again that would require the republicans actually be conservative rather big government lite.

[Lower Deck]

What’s in it for us is a country made up of likeminded people who want what’s best for AmericaFIRST.

And I hope you get what you're looking for. Don't worry about us, we'll be fine.

[Taxman]

Ping

[Avalon Memories]

Kevmo, there is no way to convince you of anything contrary to your own point of view. However, you are completely wrong with your idea that we are a "precinct nation with big city enclaves." We are a nation of states...you know...the United STATES of America. The states control their own elections all the way down to their precincts.

[Kevmo]

A secession BREAKs such political bindings which you perceive to be so tight

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and...

[Avalon Memories]

That's the problem, Kevmo. Most people believe the question of secession was settled with the Civil War. I personally don't agree with that, but it doesn't matter what I think. You might know about the northern California counties that wanted to secede from California. That has gone nowhere mostly due to the barriers that the state put in place to prevent secession. Aren't there now parts of a few other states that want to secede and either create new states or join others?

There is something to be said for this movement, but I think it is nearly hopeless. I'd much rather focus on two things that would have a real impact now instead of years from now, if ever. The two are helping parents fight far-left school boards, and supporting real election reforms.