Do YOU Think Elections Matter?

Like a bolt of lightning, some major changes occurred. The tale of two cities lives!

This weekend Glenn Youngkin was sworn in as The Commonwealth of Virginia’s 74th Governor since 1922. And before I could write these words he’s already done much to make his state one of the freest in the Union.

Upon inauguration, he kept three campaign promises. He undid the mask mandates, he undid vaccine requirements, and he banned the teaching of racism in public schools—bringing to an end the teachers’ union’s unhealthy flirtation with Critical Racy Theory for Virginia school children.

Upon being sworn in the new Attorney General for the state announced investigations he was immediately opening into the state parole board and the Loudon County Public Schools. The aim is to immediately and transparently (in the parole board’s case) uncover the corrupt practices that have allowed murderers and rapists to walk free, earlier than their minimum sentences required, and without notification of their victims.

He also has pledged to get to the bottom of why the school system allowed a sexual assault to take place, and then for entirely political reasons covered it up. (I mean it’s just such a shock that letting biological boys into biological girls’ locker rooms and showers would ever go wrong… right?)

Bottom line. The new state-wide leadership in Virginia—within minutes of taking their oaths of office, are busy protecting the tax-payers, parents, children and innocent victims of violent and heinous crimes. They are not worried about what people who disagree with these simple and straightforward ideas have to say.

Please contrast these developments with the week that just ended for the administration that is 106 miles north of Richmond in Washington DC.

They are working against the people of the nation to “lawfully” create unlawful elections—trying to federalize methods that would allow for unending widespread fraud for every election in perpetuity.

When they realized they did not have the votes to accomplish that the cabal attempted to break the rules that restrain them and end the constitutionally protected filibuster.

Failing to succeed there—after having already lost on the only other single initiative they’ve put forward in 13 months (Build Back Broke)—they were slapped in the face with a reminder that the Supreme Court and Congress still play roles in the life of the nation losing 6-3 on abuse of executive powers and unlawful medical mandates.

You may have questions about how the country has slid into such destruction if the group has been so unsuccessful on the legislative front.

The contrast couldn’t be more clear. Not only must we elect people who will get to work on day one (in the mold of Youngkin, DeSantis, Trump.) But we must elect people who will stand as a bulwark against the corruption, criminality, and communist values of those running the far left.

We must recognize the chasm of the two options and choose to stop the greatest evil of the two. We absolutely will be required to engage, find, and work for the right kind of candidates who wish to serve. We have to hold them to some non-negotiables.

The right candidates must be willing to prove their character and love for America.

The right candidates will seek and implement the moral good for the people they serve.

In other areas across America, that message continues to grow. The fires are stoked for change for this November.

With plummeting approvals, internal strife within the ranks, and utter incompetence from the office of the Vice President, to the Press Secretary, the opportunity is ripe.

SNL turned on Biden for the first time since the election this weekend. (Don’t expect that for long.) The admissions that they are in over their heads is written in the minds of the American people, our pop culture and certainly the intelligence memos of our enemies.

Now is the time patriots step forward. Now is the time we get to work. Now is the time expertise overcomes buffoonery.

Thankfully yesterday Virginia gave us a reminder of what we can work towards and expect.

Now it’s up to the other forty-nine to apply the heat to their elective futures as thoroughly as Virginians did in 2021.

So as Rip Wheeler would say, while setting his tin coffee cup down on the bunkhouse kitchen counter, “Let’s go to work!”

“How can you change the culture enough to make enough eligible voters vote for your candidate, have these legitimate votes counted, and have your candidate certified and sworn into office? “

I’ll answer your question 2 ways. First, politics is downstream from culture. Politics has some influence on culture but the flow really goes the other way for the most part. If you have a culture that say respects life, respects private property and personal liberty, the politics is going to flow from that and generally speaking, will be reflective of that culture. The problem then isn’t so much that people vote for say a pro-infanticide agenda, its that they and the culture would consider infanticide acceptable in the first place.

For a more practical example of shifting the culture, in my very small way I’m trying to encourage conservatives to leave the deep blue states and move to red states. In my view, conservatives are wasting their time in those deep blue states; they’re in the vast minority and their ability to influence the culture and politics there is extremely limited. However, move them to a red state and they reinforce the existing culture and the politics will sort itself out more to our favor. Note that I’m not saying people should vote for X, Y, or Z political faction. I’m saying conservatives should move. They’ll do the right thing when the time comes.

“How can you change the culture enough to make enough eligible voters vote for your candidate, have these legitimate votes counted, and have your candidate certified and sworn into office? “
I’ll answer your question 2 ways. First, politics is downstream from culture. Politics has some influence on culture but the flow really goes the other way for the most part. If you have a culture that say respects life, respects private property and personal liberty, the politics is going to flow from that and generally speaking, will be reflective of that culture. The problem then isn’t so much that people vote for say a pro-infanticide agenda, its that they and the culture would consider infanticide acceptable in the first place.

Addressing this part here: "If you have a culture that say respects life, respects private property and personal liberty, the politics is going to flow from that and generally speaking, will be reflective of that culture. The problem then isn’t so much that people vote for say a pro-infanticide agenda, its that they and the culture would consider infanticide acceptable in the first place."

The trick here is to recognize the little things that start shifting peoples' perceptions that such a culture is worth preserving.

If people are being asked to frame and vote on initiatives that define marriage as being between one man and one woman, or that prohibit illegal aliens from receiving government benefits, then the horse is way out of the barn already in a cloud of dust and the proposed legislation is helplessly chasing it down the road and waving its hat.

Let's look at it another way. Start with saying "the nuclear family is valued." That valuation is accompanied by a lot of other social institutions that need support: local manufacturing jobs that can provide a living wage so a young man can marry and start and support a family. Property taxes that pay for schools. Lending rates that allow a young family the dream of home ownership. A culture that supports these institutions would never dream of infanticide being acceptable under any circumstances.

Then on the other point, start with saying "citizenship is valued." Teach American history in schools. Teach Constitutional laws and the bill of rights. Interpret, enforce, and apply the law fairly, so people don't start disregarding law and rules and social norms as something to be scorned and ignored.

And following up on that last, boycott the products of the entertainment world that undermine solid moral norms. I think that a lot of people like to savor the entertainment culture of sensuality and impulse as a proxy for their own desires. Not a good idea to entertain base impulses.

One could almost say this is an engineering process of sorts; if you are going to build that sturdy cultural freeway, you will need the correct base (culture) to height (elections/legislation) ratio for proper support.

I am not sure that I agree on your second point, that all conservatives should flee blue states for red states. There is such a thing as being salt and light.

First off, thanks for a very erudite post. You said it better than I could and I’ll probably steal some of it.

On the minor point of disagreement. I seriously doubt that all conservatives will leave. I do think that conservatives who stay in deep blue areas and allow their light to shine are choosing the path of martyrdom in the long term. Leftists never take responsibility for their failures. They always look for scapegoats. Conservatives will be the made to order kulaks and treated as such. I do know that martyrdom isn’t all bad, martyrs blood being the seeds of the church and all. But it’s definitely the road less traveled and I think the bulk of people would leave than face that. Unfortunately by the time the overt persecution and roundups start, its usually too late.

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