Random Election Thoughts…
Not one step of my political journey has a damn thing to do with the Republican Party. I feel neither loyalty nor obligation to any party. But I am beginning to think that the advice Michelle Malkin outlines in her post on the coming election is a sane approach.
Some on the Right advise their readers and listeners to vote Democrat or sit home. My advice is exactly the opposite: Get off the couch and walk the walk for conservative candidates and officeholders who need all the help they can get defending free markets, free minds, and secure borders—no matter who takes the White House in November.
9-11 removed my liberal blinders, galvanizing the fruition of “traditional” values long dormant, planted long ago by parents who never took a dime from anyone, but achieved the American dream that began when they were babes in their legal immigrant parents’ arms.
I have had to re-examine, among other things, my knee jerk antipathy to Christianity, my inclination to blame America first, as well as my appalling ignorance about how rare and unique the American experience is. I find it ironic that so many like me are now accused of being brainwashed - by talk radio no less - when it is only in the last few years that I have become aware that I was navigating on a type of lackadaisical blind trust for much of my life.
And whom did I trust? The same media, cultural mavens, press and academia that have succeeded in indoctrinating, on a far more pervasive scale, the post-boomer generations.
Not only do we need to rally behind conservative incumbents and candidates, I really would love to see conservatives invest considerable effort and influence into preparing offensive and defensive strategies to prevent the “Progressives” from cutting us off at the knees, something they will ardently seek to do, no matter who wins the White House. Conservatives will simply need to do the jobs that elected Republicans won’t do.
The Fairness Doctrine, for instance, (along with various “hate speech/crime” legislation) is one threat that I hope we prove capable of successfully defending against. I’d rather lend my hand to a battle engaged in protecting free speech than campaigning for McCain or shilling for “the party”. Perhaps I’m guilty of some type of siege mentality, but the fight against political Islam, judges, immigration, property and gun rights, etc can not be waged if we do not stand our ground on a few linchpin issues, some of which are:
Freedom of Speech/Press/Internet…be it the PC thought police ramming hate speech codes down our throat, creeping sharia, the grasping and greedy UN, or the “progressive’s” fondness for the Fairness Doctrine - we have to prepare to win these battles, no matter which socialist rules from the White House.
American sovereignty…under threat via many fronts, i.e., open borders,illegals,immigration reform, UN and International courts, treaties that will cripple the economy and muzzle us, foreign- (primarily Arab) investment (Citibank, NASDAQ)
Parental rights/Education…They will go after home schooling. Ideally, parents need to take back control of the curriculum in the public schools, challenging textbook companies and the teachers union and whoever else is responsible for the self loathing, Ameri-phobic, revisionist, social engineering voodoo that is presently taught. But even if we could reverse years of liberalism in the schools, which seems doubtful, we need to concentrate now on strengthening the rights of parents to control all aspects of their children’s education.
Related Reading:
The Subversion of Education in America
Home School Legal Defense Foundation
Canadian Muslim Group Sounds Warning on Sharia Banking
Sharia Finance, Coming Soon to Your Hometown
New biography of the First Amendment has applications today
Hate Crime to Hate Speech: The Road to Perdition
Why Hate Speech Should Be Protected
Law of Sea Treaty Hurts US Security, Sovereignty Activists Say
America’s Survival:Freedom, Independence and Sovereignty
Is America’s Sovereignty Obsolete?
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