The National Tea Party, 912dc Demonstration, Taxpayers Protest, whatever you want to call it is over.\u00a0 Wouldn’t it be wonderful if all we had to do was show up and create a giant spectacle in order to change things?\u00a0 I expect that many people interested in preserving the status quo will push that very view–that all we need to do is to make a clamor.<\/p>\n
This is not all we need to do.\u00a0 As every good ACORN worker knows, US political policy is a numbers game, and they currently have the numbers.\u00a0 Not only that, they have the well-oiled machineries necessary to turn out big numbers in the future.\u00a0 They will be at every ballot box in force to ratchet the country left for every left-leaning issue and candidate, regardless of how small the degree of leftward shift is at stake.\u00a0 Leftism is a “single issue” for them.\u00a0 Any sub-issue or candidate in the basket brings them out to vote the entire basket.<\/p>\n
In contrast, right-wingers are not baskets-of-issues folks.\u00a0 It’s not in their nature.\u00a0 Right-wingers carry around historical compendiums of justification for each separate issue in which they fervently believe.\u00a0 For them, it’s all about foundation and proven results, and proof is not a concept that applies generally to a group of things.\u00a0 It’s specific.\u00a0 The proofs vary depending on whether the issue–or candidate representing the issue–is economics, health care, civil liberties, property rights, criminalization, immigration, national defense, government organization, etc. and etc.<\/p>\n
For those on the right, a thumbs up on one issue does not justify voting the set, or to put it in human terms, the ticket.\u00a0 On top of that, many recent Republicans have shown very un-conservative voting records once elected.\u00a0 Voting the Republican ticket, assuming it remains constituted in accord with recent history, means swallowing some bitter pills.<\/p>\n
Hard to do as that seems, however, the alternative is more of what we now have–rampaging socialism.\u00a0 We can not rely on the left to muck things up to the extent that they will be voted out of office on the magnitude of their mistakes.\u00a0 Believers in leftist mythology don’t care much about mistakes.\u00a0 Leftist mistakes are just evidence that the brand of leftism they pursued was not sufficiently pure.\u00a0 They’ll do it better next time.\u00a0 Don’t worry about history and pesky facts.\u00a0 Just believe.\u00a0 The power of positive thinking is fine as far as it goes, but positive thinking that is not informed by historical evidence is no more than a cult.<\/p>\n
So, to stop rampaging socialism, the right wing must vote against the left wing in the most effective way they can.\u00a0 They must maximize their votes by not distributing them among multiple candidates.\u00a0 In virtually all cases, these will be party-line candidates, and they will be objectionable in many cases compared to more ideologically pure candidates.\u00a0 And once elected, they may even turn out to be republican-in-name-only.\u00a0 Unfortunately that path is well traveled.\u00a0\u00a0 Still, what reasonable choice do we have?\u00a0 We’ve got to get the numbers targeted as effectively as they can be to unseat the socialists.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, this task would be greatly facilitated if the Republican Party itself would, in accord with the above party-line strategy, become born-again conservative.\u00a0 And dare I say, we could learn from the left on this count.\u00a0 The left don’t let their tangential views get in the way of their fundamental leftism–their belief that intentions matter more than results.\u00a0 Perhaps the right could start with that clue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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