Tag: Organizing the Trump Electorate

Lower the Lifeboats!

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I was thinking about writing yet another post about just how demented Joe Biden is when I couldn’t do it.  I felt like a guy standing on a sinking ship with water up to his neck screaming, “The ship is sinking!”  Sure, it would be a demonstrably true statement but what he should be screaming is, “Head for the lifeboats!”

And that’s where I think we are.  It’s time to stop pointing at the federal government and screaming that it’s illegitimate and instead start putting together a shield against it.  Now theoretically that would be the Republican Party but I won’t make you laugh or cry by saying that.  We need a new organization to coordinate activities and goals across the whole range of red state governments and other organizations that can resist the malevolent actions of the Left coming at us from Washington and all the resonant power structures it leads in the public and private spheres.

This organization must have the purpose of leading the efforts to save the freedoms of the people of the United States of America.  It will be funded by those people to identify and facilitate the actions needed and assist the agents who could perform these actions.  Specifically, the leadership of this organization needs to formulate legislation to be adopted on the state level and wherever possible on the federal level and coordinates with the state leaders to get it enacted.  In my mind the heads of this organization will include many of these state leaders as its executive board.  In addition, I can see this organization passing on marching orders to the congressional Republicans and in fact applying pressure to these senators and representatives to toe the line with the clear understanding that deviation from the program will result in negative publicity and a primary challenge at the next election.  And along with this stick they can use the carrot of campaign financing to assure compliance.

In essence I’m talking about a new political organization.  It doesn’t have to field any separate candidates.  They can run as Republicans.  But the important thing is that this organization doesn’t care what Mitch McConnell wants or Kevin McCarthy or even for that matter Donald Trump.  It must be answerable to the people who send in a hundred dollars or even five dollars.  It must be answerable to the people who don’t want to have to wear a mask to go to work or go to school.  It’s answerable to the people that don’t want a thing like BLM or antifa to exist.  But the most important attribute it must possess is effectiveness.  It must win victories for our people.  It must be smart enough to select targets that it can defeat.  And it must be able over time to show significant progress against the almost endless assaults that people in this country have been prey to for almost seventy years now.

I’ll leave it to some clever people to give it a name and a symbol.  It could be the Constitutional Party or the MAGA Party or the “Enough is Enough” Party.  But whatever we call it and whoever starts it, whether Donald Trump or some other billionaire or even if all the best governors like DeSantis and Abbott and whoever else get together to spark this fire it needs to start organizing the scattered resistance we see now into something effective and powerful and permanent.  Because if no one mans the lifeboats we’re gonna go down with this sinking ship.

The Fellowship of the Betrayed

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Let’s face it, we’ve been betrayed.  Not since that fateful night in Gethsemane has anyone been treated worse by “friends.”  I suppose if we were smart, we would shut up, play the woke playbook and start collecting CRT bonus points by attending a BLM riot in black bloc and burn down some poor neighbor’s small business.  That would be the smart play.  I’ve seen plenty of people do it.  I can think of one particular fifty something white guy who has embraced the whole thing.  He spends his work day giving training sessions in unconscious bias and white privilege.  It truly is enough to turn your stomach.  So, I guess I’m really not smart.

Good.  I’ve picked my side.  Now what?  Well, how about make the most of it.  Last Saturday I had the first meet up with the local group of deplorables.  Just some of the guys who were the Coffee Walk back during the 2016 election and their wives.  We had some good food and spent the night talking about life.  Kids and grandkids, work and family, even a little bit of politics.  It was pretty damn great.  We enjoyed it so much we’re already planning the next one.

And the on-line equivalent of that is the comments I get on this site.  I send out my thoughts and if they resonate with someone, he tells me what he thinks.  Now, I’ve never met any of these folks in the flesh but we can talk, we can share opinions maybe compare experiences.  I find this enjoyable, worthwhile.  I wish there were a thousand times more of you all out there.  I especially like when you talk to each other.  That really is the final goal, creating a network.

Taking this to its logical conclusion, smart people should be organizing a platform where this network can be focused on creating some concrete progress toward advancing our social and political goals.  As a for instance, suppose there was an effort to harness tens of millions of consumers to support or boycott some company based on its behavior toward our constituency.  Let’s take Coca Cola as a for instance.  Imagine if one hundred million people coordinated a boycott of Coca Cola for a whole year.  I think it just might drive them out of business.  But even if it didn’t, the damage that would be done to that company would frighten the hell out of all the other Fortune 500 companies.  And the same kind of action supporting a company that treats our people with respect would have an equally powerful effect.

Full disclosure there are websites who are trying to do this very thing.  The Media Action Network tries to coordinate e-mail campaigns against offenders and in support of allies.  But they don’t have the reach that an organization would have if it managed to mobilize the whole Trump electorate.  But that’s the dream, to see all of the deplorables joined together in a cohesive network and using that massive financial and political clout to accomplish concrete goals that would improve our day to day lives.  Imagine if we could scare the whole Fortune 500 into backing off their BLM support.  Imagine if we all quit Facebook on the same day and never opened it again.  I imagine it would knock half the value off the stock overnight.

So, this is my dream, to be part of the fellowship of the betrayed, to be part of a group that just doesn’t take our erasure by the Elites lying down but bands together to fight back.  My contribution is minuscule.  But it’s what I can do until something better emerges.  If you like my idea leave a comment.  If you disagree leave a comment.  Either way I learn something.