The Problem With Our Politics are the Voters
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
I may sound like I’m black pilled if you read to the end of this piece. I’m not sure I would call what I believe as being black pilled. I would call my thoughts in this piece an exercise in political reality. What I won’t do in the piece is police my tone on this issue. We owe it to ourselves to be incredibly hard on ourselves and our fellow Americans for allowing what has happened in this nation.
I have come to realize that the average voter is our nation is grossly uninformed. We are governed by the people we’re governed by because the average voter is ignorant of nearly every aspect of government. In decades past, I may have been more charitable in my assessment of the average voter. In 1980, it was much harder to know exactly what was going on in the halls of the United States Congress. Now, there is precisely no excuse. I can see every vote and every debate on the little device in my pocket.
Unlike the vast majority of people in our country, I have spent a great amount of time talking to these average voters over the past 9 years. Between phone calls, canvassing, and rallies, I’ve easily spoken to more than 10,000 voters over the past 9 years. The overarching thought I’ve had is exactly what the British Prime Minister said so long ago. We’re being destroyed for a lack of knowledge.
Will I continue to rebuke bad politicians? Sure. I will refocus my efforts, though, on trying to get average voters to stop watching, listening, and reading canned garbage shoveled our by Con Inc media. in a spirit of imploring them to stop being ignorant. There are no excuses for our choices in November of 2024 except that of willfully ignorant voters. I hear that people want to “drain the DC swamp” on my supposed side of the aisle, while they renominated a guy who had a shot at that task and failed utterly.
When pressed, many voters make all sorts of excuses (he didn’t know,…he was fighting against so many different forces,…he’s not a politician,…it’s Congress’s fault,…blah blah blah) for why our former president failed so spectacularly in the task of cleaning up the administrative state. I do choose to stick by what Harry Truman said regarding the presidency. The buck stops in the Oval Office and everything that happens under a given president’s tenure on the executive side must be placed at the feet of said elected executive. Two explanations can be made for why the former president failed and both are bad. Either he is incompetent and weak or he was lying when he told people he wanted to clean up DC.
This brings me to my biggest issue with many people on the political right. Cognitive dissonance. I’ve asked people what they thought of the government response to Covid. I never got an answer of, “It wasn’t so bad.” I always heard people say that Fauci was bad. Pence was bad. Governor So and So was bad. People with online profiles containing #pureblood in them will shill for the guy who signed the order making the mRNA shots a thing. That is out and out cognitive dissonance.
I hear so many people who call themselves right of center rail against the Republican Party. They don’t understand that the whole party is now controlled by the former president and his hand picked lackeys. The current Speaker of the House is attached at the hip to the former president. The party is 100% headquartered from Mar a Lago at this point. You can’t rail against the GOP without railing against the head of the party unless you wallow in cognitive dissonance.
I don’t come at this from a position of hatred for my fellow Americans. I come at this from a position of lamentation for how far we’ve fallen. Instead of being an actual opposition to the political enemy the left has become, the GOP and the former president have become Democrat Lite. They are definitively to the left of the 1996 Democrats on every issue, including abortion. The GOP even has their own LGBT mascots in Bruce Jenner and Rick Grenell.
How can we expect to claw back to a base standard of not spending too much and lifting up traditional, time tested social values while acting like the left with the parking brake stuck on? Eventually, that brake will fail and the whole nation will fall over the cliff.
Congressman Thomas Massie, one of the few consistent men I know in DC, wrote this for his X account a few days ago:
My conclusion is that I’m going to need to work to see the 2nd point in Representative Massie’s top post come to fruition. We need to hit rock bottom and work like everything depends on achieving outcome, (a.), because it does, instead of (b.), or even (c.). That means we need to be prepared for hardship and then when the hardship hits, we need to be prepared to endure it and come out the other side with the proper messaging. I pray for a collective prodigal moment in the pig pen. We all have to come to ourselves and go home, nationally speaking. Outside of that, we’re essentially finished as a free people. As for me, I won’t go quietly.
I implore everyone who reads this to stop consuming the media you’re consuming. All of it. Reach out to me and I can help you find what you need to find on the information front. Neither the mainstream left media or the Con Inc media are on the side of saving this county. Misery, victimhood, and grift are too intertwined in the current media climate. You have to divorce yourself from the current popular sources.
Saving this country will be hard, but what else should we do? Sit by and watch and just vote every 2 or 4 years? That has gotten us to where we are. Stop it. I the voters are the problem, voters becoming informed citizens in order to address the issues in the way they matter and at the time they matter(h/t to Daniel Horowitz) is the solution. In a nation where the power is derived from the consent of the governed, we only have ourselves to blame for where we are right now.
