Nowadays there are a thousand labels and each group will tell you that they are the real Americans.\u00a0 There are the groups on the Left like the Progressives, the Socialists, the Bernie Bros and all the various identity groups that inhabit their alliance, the feminists, the LGBTQ crazies and the racial minorities. \u00a0On the Right are a similar mixed group of ideologies, the libertarians, the neo-conservatives, the fiscal conservatives, the establishment conservatives and moving farther right we have the social conservatives, the religious right, the so-called alt-right and the dissident right.\u00a0 For the last forty years and more I\u2019ve been following politics in this country and I\u2019ve always been two steps behind the real story.\u00a0 But the last five years have been extremely clarifying.\u00a0 The unmasking of the establishment conservatives as the controlled opposition has made it much easier to understand why things always got worse.\u00a0 But at the same time, I\u2019ve never been sold on the whole racialist destiny where everyone will be voting their skin color and ethnicity thing either.\u00a0 In my experience ethnicity, race and identity group memberships are a pretty poor way of running a society.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s the whole notion of basing policy on racial and sexual victim status that has gotten us into the sorry state we\u2019re in now.\u00a0 Rather than join into that mess I want it ended.\u00a0 No more special rules based on race and sex.<\/p>\n
Instead what I\u2019ve always used as a gauge for in-group status with me is whether someone had the same goals for his children.\u00a0 First of all, if somebody doesn\u2019t think marrying a pretty girl and having a family with her is high on his priorities then he won\u2019t be very supportive of the kind of world that I\u2019m interested in inhabiting.\u00a0 And after that if he isn\u2019t interested in his kids following in the same pattern then he\u2019s not in my camp.\u00a0 Now granted there are people who are happier single and I\u2019ll allow that they have the right to live their lives the way they want.\u00a0 But if they don\u2019t at least see the value of having society revolve around the family then they\u2019re definitely not on my side.<\/p>\n
Now once you\u2019ve passed those hurdles what comes next is the Bill of Rights.\u00a0 Your ancestors and mine could have come from the same peasant town in Campania but if you don\u2019t think freedom of speech and the rest of our freedoms are more important than being in good with the local big shot then you\u2019re not on my team.\u00a0 After that, all I ask is that you don\u2019t expect me to pay your bills.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s how I see the political landscape.\u00a0 I can probably get along with a spectrum of people who respect the merits of a traditional society.\u00a0 And to use a word that has been bandied about on a few too many bumper stickers, I can \u201ccoexist\u201d with lots of people who don\u2019t believe in the same things I do.\u00a0 I neither need nor want to convince liberals, libertarians or even establishment conservatives to think the way I do.\u00a0 What I do need is for them to get out of the way while we dismantle the program, we have been subjected to for the last fifty years that systematically attacks all the things that I see as normal, necessary and fundamental for living a healthy life.\u00a0 What I can\u2019t coexist with is the radical elements of the left who are leading that attack on normal, wholesome life.\u00a0 These people are indeed a cancer attacking the good things in America that have up until now given this country it\u2019s strength and character.<\/p>\n
So hopefully that helps define where I stand on the political spectrum and who I see as my allies, as neutral parties and my enemies.<\/p>\n
Tell me what you think.\u00a0 Have I identified the situation we live in or have I got it wrong?\u00a0 I\u2019m honestly interested in your opinions.\u00a0 Do you think we can put Humpty Dumpty back together again or are we already too far gone?\u00a0 Leave a comment.<\/p>\n
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