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To: RKBA Democrat
This is what I sent to fr_freak, and forgot to copy you:

I don't basically disagree with you, but you aren't showing that you have a plan. Contempt for misguided voters isn't a plan. (You need those people.) Ammo is key, but is not a plan. A plan is a message that will lead to the smaller units of government—right down to the family and the individual—taking back the power that the central government has stolen. In history, power shifts back and forth between central power and local power continually. For our civilization, it's time to decentralize.

A weapon available under the U.S. system is that a default to local autonomy is written into our Constitution and our laws. An outgrowth of this idea is "nullification." We've started to see, in immigration, nullification starting to happen. My opinion is that our plan(s) must be to spread that idea in a systematic way to all the areas where the Supremes and the various illegal agencies like the EPA have falsely claimed authority. State and local governments will do this if we can push them and rearrange their incentives—at the same time as we use movements like Trump's to wound or destroy the Federal weeds that have grown up.

We need plans and strategies to achieve this, using constituencies we already have, plus new ones, on both a large and small scale. Can't do without the ammo, but letter-writing and ads are indeed part of it, or none of it will work. What's important is what the letters say, and to whom they're sent.

88 posted on 11/05/2015 1:14:24 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: SamuraiScot

Thanks for the ping. While I would agree that governance at a lower level is preferable to governance at a higher level, it really begs the question: why do we need the governance? Our culture and indeed conservatism is based on the concept of SELF governance.

So self govern!

I find it ironic that we as conservatives spend so much time and effort trying to influence elections and curry favor with the political class when it really flies in the face of what we’re about. Thrift, self reliance, and self governance do not need elections and a New and Improved set of politicians to lord it over us.


89 posted on 11/05/2015 3:30:07 AM PST by RKBA Democrat (Voting is self-abuse - without the pleasure.)
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