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I agree with both of your points, especially #2. I had a discussion with a person a Tea Party meeting some years ago who was a small business owner, and I asked him one simple question:

If you didn’t show up to your small business for the next 729 days, now wouldn’t you have a reasonable expectation that when you came back, your small business would be out of control?

The obvious answer he gave was “yes”.

That’s where we are with government. Our guys vote, they’re proud to be a part of the “silent majority”, and then they wash their hands of it and flee the scene until 2 years later at the next designated election day. But then they’re surprised that after 729 days everything is out of control. Well what was your first clue, Sherlock?

If everybody’s going to check out, then tyranny is our future. It’s simple math. And they’ve been doing this for decades. Vote then disappear. Vote then disappear. Vote then disappear. That’s a failed pattern. If you win the election but you surrender the culture, you’ve still lost.

I didn’t hear the Rush broadcast you reference, but I do have another (third?) reason why lack of protesting is a huge mistake. It is a common refrain to hear amongst conservatives that progressives dominate American culture. Of course they do, they engage in it.

Protesting is by far the single most simple and direct way to engage in culture, politically. And its so disruptive to the media’s narrative. So disruptive. It’s so quick, it doesn’t require much forethought nor does it require some huge corporate entity to begin the process. We could do this without any actual organization.

Tax Day Tea Partying never should have ended. April 15th is by far such an easy lightning rod for everybody to unite.

Protesting is so, so important.

It’s listed right in the Constitution.

Thank you to everybody who showed up, I wish I could have been there.

I appreciate the Tea Party meeting. Wish there were still more of them happening.

Repeal section 230. Let them drown in legal claims.

Thank you. I was thinking the same thing.

Federalism didn’t fail. We failed Federalism. I remember saying basically the same thing when I was on the National Mall in 2010 with my Gadsden flags.

The Constitution has not failed us. We have failed the Constitution.

Now that's what I'm talking about. Protests are useful folks, we waste the opportunity at our own peril.

We desperately need to restart Tea Partying.

This idea of winning an election and then losing the next 729 days is clearly a failed model.

Even if you win the election, but then if you lose the culture you have still lost. All this silence is killing us.

You know, if she would have joined the Silent Majority instead of being active, they would have passed the Equal Rights Amendment(ERA) and we would have it today.

Protesting picture 1:

Protesting picture 2:

Instead, Phyllis Schlafly stood up and said, "I will NOT be silent", and she won because of it. This formula works. I cannot understand why so many people are so proud of being inactive and uninvolved.

Thank God she wasn't silent. And thankfully, her followers weren't silent either.

Great message! Additionally, we need more citizen historians to stand up against institutionalized “historians” the same way James O’keefe has stood up to “journalists” as a citizen journalist.

Free open source public domain audiobooks are going to be a key item in this process.

All I’m saying is that what the Founders gave us, that was the best system we ever had. For that reason, repealing the spoils system was a very good idea.

Ending the spoils system was a very good idea. Andrew Jackson put us on the path toward bigger government in his era and for that reason was not a good president.

The problem is that the end of the spoils system led to the creation of a bureaucracy of its own: the Civil Service Commission.

What the Founders set up is what we should have re-implemented, which was based on experience and talent. Instead of going with the already tried and true, the new way forward was a nebulous “qualifications”, or expertise.

This is a good rundown: (the first several paragraphs)

https://www.cliffsnotes.com/study-guides/american-government/the-bureaucracy/the-growth-of-the-federal-bureaucracy

It makes sense. This is the indoctrination effect.

You can’t become an executive without at least a four year degree. Most of these executives probably have Master’s degrees. When these people leave their university with their heads full of disinformation, where do you think they go?

They get hired.

Probably also want to read these two:

(1) Bending the twig; the revolution in education and its effect on our children

(2) Making socialists out of college students; a story of professors and other collegians who hobnob with radicals.

Do not think that this campaign among professors is confined to America; it is distinctly international, as are all of the other active branches of the radical movement. At the last meeting of the International Congress of Socialist Students and Graduates, Professor Enrico Ferri, of the University of Palermo, in addressing the delegates, said:

"We should introduce socialism into the student's mind as a part of science, as a logical and necessary culmination of the biological and sociological science. No need of making a direct propaganda which would frighten many of the listeners. Without pronouncing the word 'Socialism' once a year, I make two-thirds of our students socialists."

So much, then, my friends, is done, in the common and established course of nature, for the welfare of our children. Nature supplies a perennial force, unexhausted, inexhaustible, re-appearing whenever and wherever the parental relation exists. We, then, who are engaged in the sacred cause of education, are entitled to look upon all parents as having given hostages to our cause; and, just as soon as we can make them see the true relation in which they and their children stand to this cause, they will become advocates for its advancement, more ardent and devoted than ourselves. We hold every parent by a bond more strong and faithful than promises or oaths, - by a Heaven-established relationship, which no power on earth can dissolve. Would parents furnish us with a record of their secret consciousness, how large a portion of those solemn thoughts and emotions, which throng the mind in the solitude of the night-watches, and fill up their hours of anxious contemplation, would be found to relate to the welfare of their offspring!

Horace Mann, Page 210.

John Dewey described Mann as "the patron saint of progressive education."

http://books.google.com/books?id=EgcNAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=lectures+and+annual+reports+on+education+1867&hl=en&ei=CB1QTtiEB5C3tgeP7qg6&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=hostages&f=false

https://progressingamerica.blogspot.com/2011/08/reformers-in-education-your-children.html

Nicholas Sandmann is a hero.

Agreed. Jefferson may have been flawed in written/spoken words on this subject, but in deeds he was always on the correct side of history with but one single exception, and that was his personal ownership.

Had the king been less rigid against earlier colonial attempts to abolish the slave trade and slavery(those prior to the revolution), Jefferson may have reached a point in his life where he would have paid his debts and emancipated his slaves.

When idealism is allowed to flourish at the time its most ideal, it changes the way people act. Instead, the king blocked him and the rest is history. All his idealism was instead poured into Independence.

I know the facts don’t matter to them. This is for the rest of us that are interested to learn more or at least willing to hear what others have to say.

It’s amplified by the work to create this into a downloadable audiobook. That increases the amount of people we can reach.

Friendly ping. I thought you might take some interest in this - if I’m incorrect, please disregard. Thanks.

I cannot for the life of me see why anybody should accept seeing the United States of America be blamed for what the British Empire is at fault for.

Perhaps someone will disagree with my thoughts.