This video is worth the watch. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
This is what single issue voters finally find out. Your vote should be about policy, not the person. Identity politics only goes so far before it all unravels.
This video is worth the watch. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
This is what single issue voters finally find out. Your vote should be about policy, not the person. Identity politics only goes so far before it all unravels.
Democrats do not have a monopoly on tribal loyalty over policy. Republicans talk a good talk about economic freedom and gun owner rights, but don’t really do much about it, they opposed gay marriage and grudgingly tolerate it now. And they are downright hostile to social freedoms such as freedom from religion, recreational drug use, social nudity, and sex work.
But freedom loving people cannot fight on all fronts at the same time. If we have the backing of Republicans and a chance to fix the wrongs of Democrat policies, then help them out. And when there is a chance to undo wrongheaded Republican policies, take advantage of that momentum too.
Wake up and align yourself against government overreach. The policy is important. The party and the people are not.
5 thoughts on “Welcome to the awakening. Enjoy your stay.”
A person has to be really slow, or seriously not paying attention, to not notice until now the blatant lying, flip-flopping, stance-changing, say-what-sounds-good-at-the-moment, amoral, unprincipled nature of politicians, and not just modern ones. The only thing surprising about it at this point is that there are people who are still surprised by it.
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And this is one of the problems we’ve had in Virginia over the past 30+ years I’ve lived here:
A district has a weak republican candidate for state legislature and a “moderate” democrat candidate that makes all the right mouth noises, so they vote for the policy rather than the person or the party.
Which gives the dems another seat in the chamber. And another. And another. Until they scrape up a majority and then the leaders of the dem party control the agenda. Guess what they do with that?
Doesn’t matter that YOUR democrat representative says all the right things about policy, it matters that the party they belong to won’t allow conservative policies to see the light of day…they never make it out of committee…and ensure that every liberal wet dream they can come up with makes it to the governor’s desk.
Yes…the republican party doesn’t fight hard enough for the things we want. When they’re in power, we make slow, plodding “baby steps” progress if at all; but when the dems take over, it doesn’t matter how great on policy YOUR dem representative is, the raging liberals are the ones in charge and you end up with Virginia over the past few months.
And dems are MUCH better than republicans at keeping their renegades in line. your “moderate” democrat representative will be voting for those hard left policies right along with all the other Dems…or else.
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The problem with his argument is that several things can be true at once. Yes, Iran is a threat and needs to be dealt with, and should have been dealt with years ago. But it’s also true that the “excursion” Trump has started was tactically stupid and not something anybody else has done because…it’s completely stupid. As it turns out the strait of Hormuz is a critical area worldwide, and Iran controls it, making a standard issue “bomb them into submission” war unwinnable from the get go unless you’re willing to do an Israel and commit war crimes in the process (e.g. destroy the civilian infrastructure and kill masses of civilians).
And his argument that Israel didn’t talk Trump into this is demonstrably false: Netanyahu has been trying to talk every president for the past 50 years into doing this, he just finally found his useful idiot in Trump. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-situation-room-how-did-netanyahu-pitch-the-iran-war-to-trump/ar-AA20s7zd) So now Bibi gets to work on his “greater Israel” project, taking over Lebanon for starters, then Jordan and Syria, then parts of Iraq and Egypt.
I’m a big Christopher Hitchens fan, so I’m fully down with the argument that Islam is a threat not just in its individual nation state forms but more abstractly as an ideology. I’m also totally down with the argument that Iran in particular is an active sponsor of world wide terrorism and as such is a valid target for military action.
But I also have friends who are/were Iranian, and who very clearly convey that the country is not a monolithic bloc of Islamist nutjobs who all want death to America. So military action that indiscriminately targets civilians doesn’t interest me (probably wouldn’t interest me even if they were all nutjobs, but moreso given they’re not).
“Wake up and align yourself against government overreach. The policy is important.”
Yes, and one must also consider that part of the reason Iran is a problem in the first place was U.S. meddling in their affairs for the past century. (And while we’re there: Afghanistan – prior to our involvement the Taliban was a small fringe group with little to no power. Now we’ve turned them into the rulers of the country. Good job, US.) If we’d learn to stop trying to “spread democracy” via the CIA worldwide we might not have so many enemies that require sucking huge parts of our GDP into the military to fight them.
Limited government is a good thing for a whole variety of reasons, not least among them preventing its leaders from having the resources to do stupid shit on the daily.
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This post of yours has more connection to reality than most of yours – maybe as much as 30%. That’s a good sign. I’m happy for you.
And no, I’m not saying that just as mockery. It really is nice to see some improvement.
More would nice. It’s still a bit hard to engage with, since a lot of it is pretty out there, but if I wasn’t worn out from a long week, it would be something to start with.
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Today’s America is the result of “universal suffrage. Allowing EVERYONE to vote. It should NEVER have been allowed.
A person has to be really slow, or seriously not paying attention, to not notice until now the blatant lying, flip-flopping, stance-changing, say-what-sounds-good-at-the-moment, amoral, unprincipled nature of politicians, and not just modern ones. The only thing surprising about it at this point is that there are people who are still surprised by it.
And this is one of the problems we’ve had in Virginia over the past 30+ years I’ve lived here:
A district has a weak republican candidate for state legislature and a “moderate” democrat candidate that makes all the right mouth noises, so they vote for the policy rather than the person or the party.
Which gives the dems another seat in the chamber. And another. And another. Until they scrape up a majority and then the leaders of the dem party control the agenda. Guess what they do with that?
Doesn’t matter that YOUR democrat representative says all the right things about policy, it matters that the party they belong to won’t allow conservative policies to see the light of day…they never make it out of committee…and ensure that every liberal wet dream they can come up with makes it to the governor’s desk.
Yes…the republican party doesn’t fight hard enough for the things we want. When they’re in power, we make slow, plodding “baby steps” progress if at all; but when the dems take over, it doesn’t matter how great on policy YOUR dem representative is, the raging liberals are the ones in charge and you end up with Virginia over the past few months.
And dems are MUCH better than republicans at keeping their renegades in line. your “moderate” democrat representative will be voting for those hard left policies right along with all the other Dems…or else.
The problem with his argument is that several things can be true at once. Yes, Iran is a threat and needs to be dealt with, and should have been dealt with years ago. But it’s also true that the “excursion” Trump has started was tactically stupid and not something anybody else has done because…it’s completely stupid. As it turns out the strait of Hormuz is a critical area worldwide, and Iran controls it, making a standard issue “bomb them into submission” war unwinnable from the get go unless you’re willing to do an Israel and commit war crimes in the process (e.g. destroy the civilian infrastructure and kill masses of civilians).
And his argument that Israel didn’t talk Trump into this is demonstrably false: Netanyahu has been trying to talk every president for the past 50 years into doing this, he just finally found his useful idiot in Trump. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/inside-the-situation-room-how-did-netanyahu-pitch-the-iran-war-to-trump/ar-AA20s7zd) So now Bibi gets to work on his “greater Israel” project, taking over Lebanon for starters, then Jordan and Syria, then parts of Iraq and Egypt.
I’m a big Christopher Hitchens fan, so I’m fully down with the argument that Islam is a threat not just in its individual nation state forms but more abstractly as an ideology. I’m also totally down with the argument that Iran in particular is an active sponsor of world wide terrorism and as such is a valid target for military action.
But I also have friends who are/were Iranian, and who very clearly convey that the country is not a monolithic bloc of Islamist nutjobs who all want death to America. So military action that indiscriminately targets civilians doesn’t interest me (probably wouldn’t interest me even if they were all nutjobs, but moreso given they’re not).
“Wake up and align yourself against government overreach. The policy is important.”
Yes, and one must also consider that part of the reason Iran is a problem in the first place was U.S. meddling in their affairs for the past century. (And while we’re there: Afghanistan – prior to our involvement the Taliban was a small fringe group with little to no power. Now we’ve turned them into the rulers of the country. Good job, US.) If we’d learn to stop trying to “spread democracy” via the CIA worldwide we might not have so many enemies that require sucking huge parts of our GDP into the military to fight them.
Limited government is a good thing for a whole variety of reasons, not least among them preventing its leaders from having the resources to do stupid shit on the daily.
This post of yours has more connection to reality than most of yours – maybe as much as 30%. That’s a good sign. I’m happy for you.
And no, I’m not saying that just as mockery. It really is nice to see some improvement.
More would nice. It’s still a bit hard to engage with, since a lot of it is pretty out there, but if I wasn’t worn out from a long week, it would be something to start with.
Today’s America is the result of “universal suffrage. Allowing EVERYONE to vote. It should NEVER have been allowed.