It’s been almost a year since I’ve written a blog post. The reason is surely not because I’ve haven’t had any ideas about what to write. It’s been more of a feeling of nobody having an appetite to see things through a lens not focused by the worldly tribe that they’ve chosen to place themselves in, but I think a few of these ideas need to be out there.
Many of you who know me personally, will know that I have left all party affiliations behind. Much like free agency has, for good team purposes or not, given players in professional sports much more control of where they play, I think voters need to approach their government in much the same way. I truly believe it is time for the party organizations to be left bereft of any sort of man power or financial support. Like the duplicity seen here in Iowa in the party leadership establishments, most states are in the same position with their party leadership cabals. The people in leadership are only concerned with their own power. This accommodation must stop. Policy outcomes don’t support their calls for joining one party or the other. I think we need to approach politics as free agents. We only give support, whether volunteer time, money, or both, to those candidates that have shown the ability and principles to stand for what we demand they stand for.
The election of the current president has shown that most voters are more apt to go with someone willing to say something close to what they want to hear instead of actually having the battle scars to prove their campaign rhetoric. The 2018 Republican primaries have shown a great slide toward the mushy middle, despite the partisan rhetoric coming from the White House. Actual, proven, small government candidates in places like Virginia, Missouri, and Oklahoma have been displaced by big government establishment picked Unibrow Party members or idiot nationalist cultists. I don’t care if Republicans win, if they won’t be discernibly different from the leftists trying to spend this nation into the Marxist poor house.
The greatest betrayals have been on budgetary issues. In March, President Trump said he’d never sign a bloated big government continuing resolution again, but just last week, he signed another omnibus style bill that funded every priority that the former Marxist in Chief sought to implement. Instead of showing leadership and using his veto pen, he made the establishment argument of “keeping the government open” in order to betray his campaign promises. Even with this betrayal, his cult keeps showering him with “at least he’s not Hillary and he loves this country” types of worship. The latest GOP written funding bill actually had more House Democrats support it than it did have GOP votes. Talk about #UnibrowParty.
I know the hand wringing over a judicial supremacist, who has been pulled through the progressive mud, has sucked up all the oxygen in the room as far as the news cycle goes. That doesn’t give voters the cover to ignore this duplicitous nature emanating from the GOP power structure. The reason they put so much weight on the Supreme Court is they need the Court to absolve them from governing in a small government matter.
We must step back from the short sighted “most important election ever” rot gut and start playing the long game. Only vote for people with the small government credibility and battle scars of standing for principles, even when it costs them an elected seat or position of power. Just winning elections is worthless if the people winning will capitulate to the Unibrow cabal as soon as they get into office. Sometimes winning means we stop playing the game. Be a free agent and only sell your vote to someone worthy of buying it.
