Who reads FR? How many accounts on FR? What does FR stand for? Where is FR going?

I'm placing this in breaking news, because there have been several breaking news complaint threads recently. Guess there are a lot of people not understanding the facts about FR, or what we stand for, where we're going, etc.

First of all, who reads FR and how many accounts do we have? I honestly have no idea and the exact number does not concern me. We currently have over 369,000 registered accounts on FR, but as someone pointed out yesterday, not all of them are active and I have no idea how many are active.

Many years ago we had less than 30,000 accounts registered. Then we hit a hundred thousand, a hundred fifty thousand, then two hundred thousand and three or four years ago we approached and went over 300,000. Every few years as we hit a major milestone in registered accounts, I updated our home page with the current number of accounts on FR. I'll probably do it again after we go over 400,000, then 500,000, etc, and maybe I won't. The number of registered accounts doesn't really mean much. And our growth in the last few years has tapered off anyway for various reasons.

Who actually reads FR? Again, we have no idea, but there are hundreds of thousands maybe even millions of readers. All kinds of people read FR. News hounds, liberals, conservatives, politicians, talk show hosts, religious types, atheists, you and me brother and everyone in between. We serve over 1,000,000 pageviews per day.

So why has our growth tapered off? Well, probably the primary reason is we've narrowed our point of view lately as we've moved away from just talking about the issues and have actually started becoming constitutional activists.

The time for talking is over. Now we need to walk the walk. Our focus has become closer to working on our primary goal which is a return to constitutionally limited government and a full restoration of our God-given unalienable rights.

We can't do that by being big tent, all things to all people, non-principled, two-talking politicians. If we are truly interested in advancing our traditional conservative pro-God, pro-family, pro-life, pro-country, pro-liberty principles and positions then we must reject the politicians and people supporting the other way.

As an organization, we cannot be both for and against homosexuality, abortion, big government, border and national security, etc. I don't know about others, but if we must choose, I choose to be on the right side of each and every issue. Why should FR use its limited resources to allow liberals, homosexualists, abortionists, big spenders, big taxers, big government solutions advocates, gun grabbers, pacifists, isolationists, environmentalists, open-borders lobbyists, etc, ply their trade on FR? Well, more and more lately, we don't. And, apparently, that has pissed off a lot of big tent, true blue RINO types and the herd is stampeding. Let them go.

We who share our common traditional conservative principles, values and goals will be better off in the long run. We need to build on our strengths and attract more traditional conservatives to our viewpoints than to water down and weaken our own. It just doesn't make sense to me to support politicians like Giuliani, Romney, Gingrich, et al, who have RINO/liberal track records. It doesn't make sense to allow abortionists, homosexualists, gun-grabbers, big-government solutionists, etc, to have free rein on FR to target and lambast us daily with their repugnant bile. Let them go.

FR will continue on the traditional God, family, country, life and liberty path. If it means fewer accounts or less growth, so be it. If it means we receive fewer in donations, so be it. We will adapt, improvise and overcome and I believe prosper (God willing) in the long run. And, hopefully, someday we can say that we helped restore our beloved republic and our Liberty!

Well said, thank you.

I agree 100% with the principals Jim articulated at the start of this thread. I think most of the people at FR do also.

It's pretty clear that more of the same in Washington will not get us out of this mess. If the Republicans retake our federal government it won't help a bit if the RINO’s are the ones in control. So part of our task is to clean house in the Republican Party. No more RINO’s.

Due to personal concerns I haven't posted much in several years, but it's time for a rant.

To simplify a bit, it seems to me the “Republican” party has two main branches. The RINO wing has fewer people but has control of the party machinery. The Conservative wing has the passion and fire, plus more people.

The typical “Republican” political consultant believes that the way to win an election is to move to the center/left. Regardless of how unhappy that makes the Conservative wing, we have no place to go so eventually we'll fall in line. Meanwhile, moving to the center/left will have a better chance of bringing in the independents, plus the media will go a little bit easier.

Our politicians have been listening to these consultants for decades. In the short run it has a chance to work. In the long run it leads to slow but constant march to the left.

Our nation's leaders have now gone so far to the left that our very survival is in doubt. Our financial house is such a mess that we may very well have passed the point of no return. Our entertainment industry has nearly destroyed the moral fabric of the nation. Our welfare/entitlement mentality has turned many of our people into dependent serfs.

I don't see any way out of this mess unless there is a major change in world view on the part of a significant number of people. Unfortunately, people generally do not change their world views once they have become settled. A major crisis seems to be needed before people will re-examine the way they look at the world.

That major crisis is now upon us. It will get much worse before it starts to get better.

I think we are in for very hard times, but our nation has been through hard times before. The War for Independence was pretty dang tough, and so was the Civil War. We suffered a lot, but we emerged stronger when they were over.

Hard times are not something ANY of us want to see. But that is what we face. OUR job, NOW, as individuals, is to make sure we do our best in the circumstances we find ourselves in. That will vary depending on the person.

Each of us, individually, may feel powerless in the face of calamity. We can do more than we realize, but we also need groups we can work with. FR is one such group.

Personally, I think there are only two ways to consider our current situation:
1. The end times are nearly upon us, or;
2. We have one last chance to save the last best hope of mankind.

Since I don't know when the end times will arrive, I'm assuming my role as an individual is to do what I can to help with possibility #2.

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