Unpopular Wisdom

A one shot commentary on the current state of the GOP Primaries..

2012-01-14T18:19:00.000-08:00

From another blog "Urban Infidel"

2012-01-14T18:15:00.000-08:00

Here is a shot posted by urban infidel on his blog.

2012 beginning or end?

2012-01-01T23:29:00.001-08:00

2012 will be a significant year for various reasons. Regardless the
Mayan predictions of the end of the world the re-election of Obama may
portend the end as we know it not just for this country but for our
civilization as well. We will therefore endeavor this year to be a bit
more prolific in our posting and in chronicling the end as we know it.

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A Harbinger of things to come

2009-11-08T10:51:00.000-08:00

On another blog we get a view of what socialized medicine looks like once it is implemented. But that is only partial. Helath care has little to do with healthcare in as much as it is really a way for the state to control it's citizens and fleece them of money.

Healthcare Bill marks the first stage of the coming tyranny

2009-11-08T09:18:00.001-08:00

I manage campaigns for candidates I agree with, (right to life, conservative party etc.). I am a political scientist by training and web designer when not engaged in a fight. I am quite familiar with the political game and I know what is going on. In my college years both undergraduate and graduate level I was for some time a committed Marxist of the Stalinist variant. I devoured everything from Marx to Kautsky, Lenin, Gramsci, Guevara, Mao et al. I have a good insight to what the left does and their tactics.

Conservatives have unfortunately been checkmated by the left and are clueless to that fact. Yes there may be elections in 2010 but I suspect that ACORN will see to it they are closer than we think. Even if they lose both houses in 2010 it will only be temporary. Obama still has the veto pen and any attempt to roll back the changes will be futile. They have the votes in the senate through reconciliation, 51 is all they need to pass stuff. By 2012 they will redistrict republicans out of existence due to the fact they control the census and will count people who don't exist in current democratic strongholds. That will allow them to create congressional districts that are democratic out of thin air through the reapportionment that comes due with the 2010 census. It will also change the apportionment in the electoral college throwing electoral votes to states like New York and California insuring perpetual elections to the presidency. The left never sleeps and could care less that polls show the majority of people are against them. The facade of democracy will be maintained but the power will be theirs.

Our side will do nothing to stop them because republicans in Washington would rather have their cushy titles, golf games and limos and be the ineffectual opposition they always have been. The paradigm has changed and they are clueless to that fact. I have lived under dictatorships, my father brought me here to get away from all that. My last memories of my native country were armored cars and armed men in my house, my mother and I under house arrest in a vain attempt to capture my father. Speak to political refugees from Latin America, Eastern Europe and all will tell you the same thing. They have seen all this before. But alas we are ignored as if we are paranoid fools.

The crying shame is that we are about to become what most Americans despise and fear but will likely wake up when it's too late. I am pessimistic because revolutions are very rare things in history and even more rare is success. It will take a generation or two if the flame of liberty still lives to roll this back. Altruism is fine if you fight your enemy on some foreign land but altruism disappears when you have family to take care of and other people to take into consideration. Too many blowhards talk about revolting etc.. It doesn't work that way, the left is ignoring us just as we ignored them during the Vietnam era. The left currently controls every major institution in the country.

They have infiltrated and taken the reins of every university, foundation, professional organization, the bureaucracies in Washington including the CIA and Department of defense. They control the media save one network and the internet and are on the way to neuter that also. Does anyone think they left the GOP, the military and police out of that equation? Not likely. The only thing left is a Reichstag fire type incident and then a decapitation strike against conservative leadership. But it will likely be of the soft type, IRS harassment, prosecution on trumped up charges, they only need to make an example of a few and the rest will fold. many on the right have decided to believe in the myth that the conservative opposition will oppose this and succeed. That may have been true fifty years ago, but not in the America of today. Just keep your head in the sand, we're playing checkers and the left is playing chess.

Health Care Fees and Hidden Taxes

2009-11-07T10:42:00.001-08:00

Everyone I know who knows a thing or two knows that corporate taxes are paid not by corporations (they can only be paid by individuals) but are passed on to the consumer as the end price of the product or service. The result is an illusion created whereby the common citizen believes he is not paying any taxes. These hidden taxes through the backdoor allow politicians to claim that they are not raising taxes. This is the same as a pickpocket shaking your hand and throwing praises upon you while an accomplice picks your pocket. This is why the following article on Fees and the current healthcare bill in congress is worth reading.

Appeasement Has Made a Comeback

2009-09-17T07:08:00.000-07:00

The announcement that President Obama has caved in to Soviet demands to scrap the missile defense plans in Europe serves not just to appease the Russians but also clears the way for the Iranians to have a clear shot at European cities once they have their own nukes. This is the convenience of seeing everything having to do with defense as an expense and waste of money that could be better suited to other purposes such as spending money on programs that actually can buy and bribe the voters.

The problem with all of this is that we have gone down this road again. Appeasement was a big thing in the 1930's among western governments that were just starting to feel their oats on the road towards welfare statism. The result of course we all know was a world in which rogue states took advantage of such utopian idiocy and the world descended into a disaster.

Unfortunately the president of the United States has great leeway in foreign policy and the latest decision is just another piece of evidence of the sheer idiocy, ignorance of history and stupidity of our current messiah in chief. He can probably walk on water when it rains, but he is stumbling on the international scene. The question is, How long will this last? He still has more than three years left in his term and the issue is whether the world survives him or not. Good old Winston Churchill must be rolling in his grave..

Fashionista Comunista

2009-09-13T19:23:00.000-07:00

A day after the great march in Washington my neighborhood held it's annual festival along part of 5th Avenue in Brooklyn. In many of the stands selling T-shirts one could find the image of that icon of the left Che Guevara. Oblivious to the fact the man was a murderer most of the Latinos of my nabe seemed to take it all in stride. The T-shirts have become fashionable attire, but what really perplexed me was seeing that image next to other T-shirts laden with the image of Christ and the Virgin of Guadalupe all in the same stand next to each other as if they belonged there. That is part of the problem with our society. Would we have been so oblivious had we seen T-shirts with Hitler's image on them? Yet the images of People like Che, Mao, Ho and other leftist icons, mass murderers all, seem to be acceptable and fashionable these days without even blinking an eye. Is it our lack of education? Our lack of decorum? What has happened to our society that our tolerance level is such that we find this normal? I am almost sure as I can be that had a stand appeared there selling T-shirts with Hitler's image the person selling them would have been driven out on a rail. We definitely need to do more educating out there. The process has to start with taking back our schools from teachers who idolize these leftist icons and impart that to their charges and start putting these people where they belong, on the dung heap of history joining Hitler and all the other murderous dregs of history. Ads long as we are tolerant of idiots wearing these shirts communism becomes a mere fashion statement rather than the repulsive ideology it is..

The March on Washington 9-12-09

2009-09-12T16:13:00.000-07:00

I would have been in Washington today. A last minute change in my plans did not allow me to take that 7:00 am bus to DC this morning. I have no access to television at the moment but see some of the pictures being posted on the Internet. One thing that I see in common in most of the signs is that they are not the fare of some highly organized protest with mass printed signs by unions or some left wing non-profits who like to squander the money of their contributors. No, what I see all over the place are home made signs. Some of the signs are neat as if the maker took great care to make the letters even and uniform. Other signs are haphazard, probably made at the least minute as if the maker decided at the last moment to make his way to Washington. No today is the beginning of something quite different. I expect that some of the spineless leaders at the GOP will try to hijack the movement and claim some form of leadership. How little do they know that they have lost direction. It is not they who are in charge, no, those days are coming to an end. Oh, I suppose at some point some leader will arise, but even that person will have to learn that in order to lead he will have to follow.

No what occurred in Washington today is something that only Trotsky used to dream of, it's the spontaneous rising of the populace. It isn't the leaders who have consciousness of their interests as Lenin used to think. No, instead it's what Jefferson, Hamilton and Madison knew all along. That leaving the people to their own devices they and only they will know where their interests lie. I doubt Obama and his cohorts hiding in the basement of the White House even have a clue. In their arrogance they will be in self denial just as King named George once was. Kudos to the people who took time out of their responsibilities to show up. They probably had to close their businesses, postpone some important affair. They took the time to put aside the day and traveled down to DC to show their servants, our congress and president who really is in charge. Will they listen, I doubt it. They have for too long detached themselves from reality. But it's a beginning. Time to get the snowball rolling downhill.

Some observations of the debacle

2008-11-05T14:32:00.001-08:00

Some observations of the debacle

1) No doubt about it. The Democrats have a mandate, being defined as anything above 50% of the vote.

2) Sarah Palin will fade into the background, she is a candidate that excites the conservative base and for this reason they will try to neuter and discredit her before the four years are up.

3) Conservatives as always invested themselves heavily into the GOP. They forgot that conservatism is a political movement, NOT a political party and thus they acted accordingly by investing too much in a flawed candidate.

4) No matter how much McCain tried he still could not get detached from Bush. The vote was as much a vote against Bush as it was a vote for Obama.

5) Our side was very ineffective at using the Internet we were outmaneuvered and out blogged by the other side.

6) The democrats had a very effective ground game and began consolidating their base far earlier than our side. The GOP did a dismal job of grass roots campaigning.

7) The election was a vindication of Josef Goebbels. If you control all avenues of communications and propaganda you control the outcome of the political game. Our side had only FOX and talk radio. Fine it reached the base, but was not outside it. The MSM may have lost the gambit temporarily but they are still in control of what people see. What the right must understand is that to control the media it must be invested in the main networks.

8) The PUMAS proved that there are some democrats that have finally figured out the democratic party has been hijacked by doctrinaire socialists. However, their support for McCain was marginal at best and proved in the end futile when contrasted the MSM propaganda onslaught for Obama.

9) This is the result when you have the RNC choose the candidate and allow crossover voting to interject into the primary process. The attempt to attract moderate democrats and undecideds to our cause proved an absolutely total failure. In the end Democrats always vote for the real thing rather than someone in the middle as McCain.

10) The conservative base must take back the GOP and purge all those who are not in with the program.We must ignore the RNC and start working locally to start building the base via county leaders and local clubs.

11) Grass roots organizing and proselytizing is sorely lacking on our side. The left has been more adept ant propaganda and agitation. Better know as agitprop. The result is fewer people were converted to our side. Little effort is made by our side to recruit. We need to simplify our arguments into slogans and cliches just as the left does.

12) The first 100 days will be rife with attempts to shut down the opposition. We have handed power to doctrinaire Marxists and they don't do democracy. Hate laws will be passed to shut down any speech and opinion on the internet and make anything remotely conservative a prosecutable offense. In addition the fairness doctrine will be used to shut down talk radio or any type of discourse questioning those in power. Look for more incumbency protection acts to be passed insuring a permanence of power for the left. Look for groups like ACORN to gear up for the next elections and shore up to guarantee they win the next round no matter who actually wins or votes.

13) Immigration amnesty is on the table the first 100 days. If that is passed and the illegals are legalized look for chain migration due to the 1964 act to multiply the hispanic base by a factor of 19 thus turning the country into a hispanic majority and a Latin American country within 20 years. Because of the even more radical nature of this new voting block the country will veer to even much farther left than even Obama is. The irony is that blacks will become an insignificant minority and Obama may very well be the first and only black president.

14) Look for the economy to head south. You will hear a great sucking sound and that will be money and wealth being transfered by the rich to out of the country in order to protect it. The result will mean less capital investment a contracting economy and possibly a severe recession or quite possibly a depression.

WHAT IS TO BE DONE

A) We need to begin organizing and focus on the grass roots. We must purge the RINOS that were the cause of this debacle.

B) We need to be savvy about using the internet and other venues of alternative communications to organize.

C) In anticipation of the new hispanic majority looming on the horizon we need to start recruiting and preparing the groundwork especially on issues where there is common ground, abortion, family values, opportunity etc. We need the hispanic versions of Rush Limbaughs and Bill Buckleys.

D) We need to realize that the next battle begins today, right now. We cannot rest for a minute. The other side does not. To give up in despair is to surrender. History will judge us badly if we do. Always remember that the worst day of your life is ALWAYS followed by a better one.

E) Immigration amnesty will be the next battle in which we will have to fight tooth and nail. We have three or four months to start preparing and organizing. It is also a battle in which we have allies amongst independents, democrats and PUMAS. If amnesty passes then the battle will really be lost America as we know it with our values will dissappear forever.

F) The Court appointments will be critical, these will occur in the senate. It's time to begin immediately flooding the RINOS|and GOP senators with emails and faxes even as we speak that we will hold them to task if they do not filibuster each and every court appointment of the other side, just as they did to us. There can be no honeymoon and they must understand that NOW. They need to get the heads up that the base did not go to sleep and is not going to goto sleep.

G) We need to find alternative funding sources that will allow us the ability to produce proselytizing materials which we can use to build up the activist base. Become involved locally. We need to identify marginal districts where we lost by a narrow margin. We can't complain and say our base did not show up. The other side did a better job of turning out theirs simply because of better organization and on the ground structure.

H) We need to flood encouragement to those lonely republican conservatives as they are about to be targeted for destruction by the left, especially Bobby Jindal and Sarah Palin.

I) We need to be conversant not just with Saul Alinsky but also with Lenin and Antonio Gramsci to understand the other sides tactics and why we have arrived at this point. Understand that the left has been infiltrating and taking over our institutions for the past century and we have stood by and allowed it to happen. As always it is never too late to fight back.

J) When a team looses badly on the field it's time to fire the coaches the managers and the strategists. We got our clocks cleaned because we allowed ourselves to be led rather than leading to get the kind of leaders we needed. It's time to end the practice of the top presenting us with candidates, we must start promoting them from the bottom up.

K) We have work to do, so stop sulking. We are not victims, we fight back. Those that do not end up learning the hard way. Politics is serious business and giving immature children matches leads to loss of life. We must prevent this country from lurching into tyranny. This battle is not over, not by a long shot. They won this round and they deserved to, we did a lousy job on our side because we did not understand our weaknesses and took things for granted. We cannot repeat those mistakes.

Posted here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125979/posts

An Appeal to Grass Roots America Part 1

2008-10-20T07:28:00.000-07:00

I am writing this because I believe that I have something to contribute to the current electoral situation. I do not have the eloquence or ghost writers of Obama or speech writers like McCain. Yet, I hope that you take what I say in the following essay and give it some thought.

Sometime in the early part of 1962 men with machine guns burst into my house. My mother and I were the only ones home at the time. Out in the front of the house were armored cars manned by uniformed troops. The men were looking for my father. I was just nine years old at the time. The men had been sent by the President of the country at the time to "Invite" my father to speak to him. My mother and I remained under house arrest for a few days. They told us they would remain until they got a hold of my father. They never did of course. A few days later troops allied to my father's "friends" showed up one day and our "guests" left in a hurry. A few months later we immigrated to the United States. Politics is serious business south of the border, it is still played the same way to this day. Those are the last memories of the land of my birth.

America is approaching the same policies and political mistakes that turned my native country (Argentina) from being the 5th wealthiest country in 1900 to 70th place today, according to the World Economic Forum. Countless governments pushed for welfare solutions to inequality and used class envy as a manipulative tool to gain or retain power. Even the right wing military regimes found it politically impossible to dismantle the massive welfare state, indeed, in most cases they also added to it to make themselves favored by the population. The result is an entrenched ideological outlook and entrenched class hatred that remains to this day and makes it almost impossible to introduce free market solutions and move the country forward. But Argentina is not alone. Look at Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela all with socialist governments whose leaders are consolidating power and evolving into dictators exercising arbitrary power. The poverty these governments produce will be blamed on external causes rather than on those in charge. This is the result of welfare statism under a socialist mantle. Capitalism redistributes prosperity, socialism redistributes poverty. The first requires some inequality, the second produces misery and equality.

It is hard for Americans to understand what life is like in countries where even "elected" governments exercise arbitrary power and rule by fiat when the laws they are supposed to obey are inconvenient for them. Where participating in politics means to literally put one's life on the line. Where entrenched elites and oligarchies do whatever suits them to retain their power. Where corruption is a way of life and the majority of the people feel helpless to do anything. Where demagogues are the rule, not the exception.

My journey through the political landscape has taken me from the extreme left to the moderate right in a span of 35 years. I started as a Marxist in high school who evolved into a Stalinist in my graduate school years and gradually changed into a conservative as I left academia into the real working class world.

In less than two weeks American citizens will find their way to the polls in possibly the most important election of this century. While news of the economic downturn dominates the news and seems to be leading many to turn towards the democrats, an issue far more destructive appears to have been left forgotten in the background. Amnesty for illegal immigrants has the potential to change this nation irrevocably. Once the deed is done there will be no turning back, no buyers remorse. Both candidates have promised to address the issue in the first 100 days of their administration. Both candidates have indicated they favor a comprehensive amnesty. This will be the last lethal act that will destroy this country as a constitutional republic if not immediately, then certainly in the near short term.

A more concise case on illegal immigration was made by me here. I urge you to read it, I also urge you to read Samuel P. Huntington's "The Hispanic Challenge To America". Huntington is a Democrat and professor of history at Harvard. Arm yourself with facts so you are informed. Since I wrote my essay other things have come to light. We constantly hear the number 12 million thrown around for the numbers of illegal aliens. I propose that the number is probably much closer to possibly 30 million. One indicator of this is the recent revelation by the Department Housing and Urban Development that some 5 million illegal aliens have mortgages issued by Fannie and Freddie May. Once all of the illegals become "legal" we can expect the number to balloon through the process of chain migration since as legal immigrants they will be able to bring in relatives as well, legally. On study has shown that each legal immigrant under the Family Reunification Act could potential bring in an additional 19 persons. Thus 10 million immigrants can soon balloon into 190 million immigrants legally.

As a native Latin American let me explain that I am not an opponent of immigration. How could I, being an immigrant myself? Rather I am a proponent of immigration reform and sensible immigration policies rather than what is currently on the books since 1965.

One great myth perpetrated by everyone both left and right is the common refrain that we are a nation of immigrants. The fact is that we are not. Essentially this nation was founded by colonists and subsequently all the other migrants that have followed since then have come to colonize this country and join the established colonists. Had this country been a nation of immigrants we would have adopted Amerindian customs, language, culture and mores. The reality is that we did not. Rather, we brought with us a European civilization that has evolved into a unique and singular culture. The current illegal migrants to this country, mostly from Mexico are also colonists, but they are here to colonize us rather than join in our venture. They call their evolving presence in the United States as "La Reconquista", the re-conquest. Most Americans however, refuse to see the colonists in our midst just as the indigenous indians had welcomed the Pilgrims into their midst until it was too late. Assimilation for some groups is not even on their agenda and because we have bought into the multiculturalism myth that different groups can cohabit in peace together, we have facilitated the Balkanization of this country. But the colonization is not limited to just illegal Mexican migrants. Through legal immigration and chain migration, we have been privy to a growing population of Muslim colonists in our midst that also have no interest in merging with the wider Judeo-Christian, Anglo-Saxon, proto European culture. Because the ruling oligarchic elites are comfortable with a Balkanized and divided population whom they believe in their primitive minds that they can manipulate and control the situation does not seem to have a solution in sight at the moment. The irony is that the coming misogynistic and racist majority that will evolve out of this will have brought with them a political culture that little resemblance to the give and take of the current American culture. The biggest losers will be women and blacks as whatever rights they may have garnered will be rolled back to placate the new radical Hispanic majority. The even greater irony is that it will be a black president (if elected) that will bring that about.

I am proud of my Latin cultural heritage, but there are certain aspects of it that are the very reasons that have kept most of Latin America backward and in a state of economic retardation and the very reason my parents emigrated to this country.

Do I believe this is the only issue facing us this election? Of course not, but I know that many of you have recently only given this issue a cursory thought and I urge you consider as an additional factor in making your decision. Economies can always be fixed, they have their up and down cycles and changes in policies can bring about greater prosperity. We can increase taxes and we can roll them back. But once we allow the huge demographic change that amnesty would bring there will be no turning back and it will be the end of our republic, our culture and our way of life.

The oligarchy will learn what other oligarchies before them have. Creating a permanent servant underclass that does not share your culture or values eventually leads to their overthrow. The continued policies of appeasing illegal migration and allowing legal chain migration is akin to promoting a suicide pact that will eventually engulf this country and destroy out democratic republic. We must buy time and reform our immigration laws and try to preserve our republic. This can only occur if we have a condition of checks and balances where one side does not have the monopoly power. Only then can we moderate any radical policies and prevent the destruction of this country. At least one chamber of congress must be in republican hands to moderate and initiate the necessary reform to salvage what is left of our republic and our constitution.

As an apostate Stalinist I can tell you that socialists have no interest whatsoever in prosperity, that is a bourgeois goal and view of the world. Marxists don't do elections, they don't do democracy. When and if they do they "fix" it so they always win. Socialists are interested only in the ideal of equality, even if to achieve it everyone starves. Their model is not modern China, which in their view has lost it's way, but a place like Zimbabwe where equality has almost been achieved. Socialists are interested in the ideal of equality, while the rest of humanity is interested in the materialist concept of prosperity. That is why arguments by conservatives and moderate liberals (in the classical sense) that adopting socialism means a loss of prosperity falls on deaf ears as far as radical leftists are concerned. They have no interest whatsoever in the concept of prosperity. What they want is the power to dictate to everyone their ideal view of the world. Their dream is to socially engineer humanity in their vision of what humanity should be. In their minds, human nature can be changed and molded. A huge legalized permanent underclass will allow them to achieve this goal.

These people believe that they will be bringing in a socialist paradise. All previous failures at instituting socialism are blamed not on the failures of socialism, but rather on the imperfections of the past leaders who tried to implement them. To hear them tell it "they just didn't do it right" and so they keep trying again and again. When it doesn't work they get angry, they see enemies everywhere, they cannot understand why everyone does not share their vision, after all they are so intelligent, smarter than everyone else. Of course, they are also hypocrites, they live in fine houses while the masses starve. They are after all the first among equals and beyond reproach. Wait until the leaders turn against their allies the bourgeois limousine late communists. Just as Stalin turned on Bukharin and Trotsky. They never learn and never will. The unfortunate part is that the rest of us get to pay the price for their failed experiments.

Too many voters believe in slogans and cliches without giving any deep thoughts to what they believe or what the consequences are of policies that are adopted. They never give a though about any possible unintended consequences that result from demanding things from their governments. I implore you to try to understand what is happening here. Politics is not a game, it is a serious endeavor that can and does in many cases cost lives. That is precisely why we cannot give the next president a blank check.

The founders of this country believed in the principle of checks and balances. To give a monopoly to one party in the legislative branch is a recipe for disaster as it has proved to be these last two years. A democratic house and senate is liable to pass an amnesty since McCain is a supporter of amnesty it is unlikely he will veto it. Our only hope is to at least have republicans take the house or prevent a super majority in the senate if we are to defeat amnesty as we did last year.

It was grass roots people, democrats, independents, republicans that the defeated the last amnesty. It was the grass roots that led, it was the "leaders" that followed. And so this time again we are called upon to lead rather than be led. Perhaps it is time to remind people that Hitler, Mussolini, Salazar, Hugo Chavez and Juan Peron were elected to office. They did not start a revolution or march on the capitol or stage a coup. They won office by getting elected and manipulating the system once they took power. Don't think for a minute that it can't happen here, it can and it will if you stay home and expect your neighbor to carry the day for you. The threat to our republic and our very existence is by an entrenched political elite that is increasingly ignoring the interest of the people who sent them there and have become enamored with power and will do anything to retain it at the expense of the people.

I urge you to provide balance and vote republican down ticket. For some of you this is an immense sacrifice. Like asking a devout Jew to eat a serving of pork. But sometimes some sacrifices are necessary to preserve the present and guarantee the future. It is the only way to preserve the republic and our nation.

Turnout will be the key in this election. We must at whatever cost turn out as many people as possible to vote for McCain and a republican congress. With a republican congress it will be much easier to forestall an amnesty that McCain may want to push. In the next two weeks we the common people will have to mobilize all the votes we can to achieve this goal. This is not a liberal or conservative issue, it is an America issue. We must prevent the leftist radicals who have hijacked the democratic party from having a monopoly of power if we are to preserve our nation.

I am reminded of an interview I saw years ago in 1977 after the Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky was released to the west from a Soviet prison. In a hotel room in Paris an American female reporter was interviewing him. Bukovsky had by that time spent most of his teenage years and his adult life protesting the regime. They would release him and within days he'd be protesting in front of the Kremlin. Within days he would be back languishing in the Gulag or some psychiatric hospital. The reporter asked him why after being released and knowing he would return to prison did he persist in protesting. His answer which stupefied the American reporter has remained with me to this day. "If not I, then who?"

Staying home and not voting is NOT an option. You must ask yourself that question. You must make sure your neighbor asks himself that question. Your neighbor cannot cast your vote for you. It cannot be repeated often enough that turnout is the key. If there is an invalid or older person who cannot make it to the polls offer to take them. If there is someone on the fence send them this essay and have them read it. America is not a prefect country, no country is. But imitating the failures of history will not fix our current problems. We must all bring as many of our neighbors to the polls to provide balance and sanity to our government. Only then can we begin to solve our problems in a measured and reasonable manner. start making calls to your acquaintances, remind them they MUST VOTE. There is no election in our history that is as critical as this one. call them on election day and remind them to vote. Offer to take them there. Set up car pools, make a list of people to call. Set up groups to act in concert. The GOP and the local campaigns are doing one of the most horrid get out the vote jobs in recent history. We can't wait for leaders to lead us. We must instead take the reins and lead ourselves.

At the end of the day, only one thing matters, and that is who cast that extra vote. It is particularly important this year as we must not merely cancel out the vote of the opposition, but we must make up for the fraudulent votes that will be cast not just by ACORN, but by those other organizations we haven't paid attention to, MECHA and AZTLAN. Our task is thus doubly critical.

Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Hamilton and the others are looking down at us and chanting Turnout! Turnout! Turnout! . Don't wait for your neighbor, he's waiting for you. Ask yourself. "If not I,then who?

William F. Buckley 1925-2008

2008-02-29T07:16:00.000-08:00

William F. Buckley is one of those people that as one goes through life one wishes he had met. The closest I ever came was meeting his brother James when he was running for the Senate from New York State, my parents being staunch conservatives having brought me to a function for the late senator. I quite don't remember if William was there, being quite young at the time such things did not interest me much. I had though about writing something significant of the passing of one of the giants in modern conservative thought. On reflection however, I came to the conclusion that nothing I would write would do justice. If Buckley would have an epitaph on his tombstone I would think it would probably be the following quote from his writings;

“I will not cede more power to the state. I will not willingly cede more power to anyone, not to the state, not to General Motors, not to the CIO. I will hoard my power like a miser, resisting every effort to drain it away from me. I will then use my power, as I see fit. I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.”

William F. Buckley Jr., in Up From Liberalism

May we all carry on forward and do honor to his legacy.

Now that Iowa is over, So What?

2008-01-04T09:18:00.000-08:00

The results are in, Huckabee and Obama won in Iowa. Already the pundits and columnists are out there predicting disaster for the losers. Will they quit the race? Will they be able to raise money? The attachment of such importance to the caucuses in a minor state so early in the presidential race is idiotic. But hey, newspapers and tv must sell ads and get viewers. The anchors look more like they are covering Hollywood than a serious political campaign. After the smoke clears over the weekend and we discover that no Hillary did not commit suicide and Romney has not quit and Hunter is still in it. We will all realise that the Iowa caucuses only matter in the vacuous minds of the bable masters at the networks so they can have something to talk about. What I said yesterday still stands.

The Real Meaning of the Iowa Caucuses

2008-01-03T13:25:00.000-08:00

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses it is perhaps time for us to ask ourselves the question of how we got here. How did we end up with the sorry selection of candidates that we are asked to chose from? Who picked them? Was it by popular acclamation? The process had already begun well before the 2004 elections. We certainly know that Hillary Clinton always had ambitions which she hid as well as an ocean hides it's water. like her, all the other contenders also chose themselves and were encouraged and edged on by the media pundits and elites whose collectivist visions of the future are reflected in the choices that have been handed to us. It is a sad state of the process that even party activists of the rank and file had little input into the process. Instead what we got was a conspiracy amongst the Washington and media elites to present us with the collection of professional parasites known as professional politicians whom we are now asked to pick as the candidates of the two major parties to contest at the prize of becoming the next occupant of the white house.

We also know who the media and other elites do not want to put forward for the job. Nor God forbid should they pay attention to them,people might actually know they are running. It is a reflection of who these elites think is dangerous in terms of their ideas that these candidates have been totally ignored shunned and in any way possible prevented from putting forward their case. It isn't merely that they lack money. Even if they had funds, I think they would be ignored as they pose a thread to the staid boring pre-selected process that is being played out in front of us.

On the Republican side we have still in contention Duncan Hunter. Tom Tancredo who had to bow out, and even though they ignored him, they could not ignore his issue, because that issue is a bipartisan issue that everyone knows is the elephant in the room they are all trying to ignore. Duncan Hunter a bit better well known is an actual rather than a compassionate conservative and might actually do what he promisses to do, and we simply can't have that.

On the democratic side we have Dennis Kucinich who is occasionally given two seconds on the evemning news in passing mention. God forbid people would pay attention to what he stands for, because it would reflect what most elitists in the democratic party believe and it might turn off the few FDR democrats left in the party that haven't yet left. And then there is that other candidate Henry Hewes. Henry Hewes you say? Who the heck is that? Mr. Hewes a perennial campaigner in New York state politics who last made a run at the US Senate is a successful entrepreneur and real estate developer whose passion since his college days had been the issue of abortion and the right to life philosophy that it entails. Abortion is the other elephant in the room. The issue that both parties and the elites would prefer to ignore and sweep under the rug. Unlike Mr. Tancredo Hewes has yet to find his footing to bring the abortion issue into the front. Shunned by the media elites and quarantined by the DNC as a leper to be avoided at all costs, Hewes is ignored and not even given scant attention lest his issue rear it's ugly head and the question might actually be asked in debates.

Tomorrow none of this will matter. The pundits will laud the winners. Have they won convincingly? Will the losers drop out? Where do we go from here? What does it all mean? Do we need elections now that we have winners? Blah, blah, blah. Not one word will be given to issues. Not one word will be asked about who really picked these people. It will all be filler for the Night and Sunday shows and it will be all completely meaningless because the Iowa Caucuses won't mean a thing. Except of course for the issues and the candidates that will be ignored.

Starting at the beginning

2008-01-01T20:00:00.000-08:00

January first is as god a day as any to start a blog. Perhaps it is even better as it allows one to start afressh with bright hopes for the coming year. Being an election year as well may have
something to do with it.

This blog is not about business as usual. It will reflect my own personal belief that we need a new model of politics. A paradigm to be more precisely. Most politics today is still mired in the dichotomy of left and right. A residue of the cold war and of a time when things where much simpler and utipias reared their ugly heads all around. The real model that we should be considering instead, is the one that pits the individualists and seekers of liberty against the collectivists and the petty dictators of comformity. One can tell that with political correctness and pressures towards conforming to the vision of the far left radicals that have wormed their way into government that the pendulum is swinging dangerously in their direction.

This blog will seek to enlighten, inform and educate. I hope that most people will walk away believing in the individual and the free spirit and that no matter what party you belong to, whether it be republican, democrat or you fancy yourself an independent that you will walk away with an urgency that as individuals we must put up a fight and stop collectivism before it's too late.