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As D3F1ANT commented yesterday \u201cBut saying this, again<\/strong>, is ALSO<\/strong> akin to standing on deck with water at your neck. We\u2019ve known this for as long as we\u2019ve known the ship is sinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s right.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing more to say.\u00a0 We already know what must be done.\u00a0 But is there anyone willing to do it?\u00a0 Maybe a DeSantis or an Abbott is willing to take on Washington.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I\u2019m watching and hoping but I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n

So why do I post this stuff?\u00a0 I\u2019m looking for other people who think like me.\u00a0 I want to be a part of anything that could help.\u00a0 And if it turns out that nothing will happen then I\u2019m looking for a place to go.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking for a corner of the world where I can go to live with people that are like me.\u00a0 It\u2019s pretty awful in the blue states.\u00a0 You feel like a zoo animal and you get tired of being an outsider.\u00a0 One of these days I\u2019ll convince Camera Girl that the grandkids can come visit us for a change.<\/p>\n

So I talk to folks in other parts of the country where things aren\u2019t as bad and I think about how I might fit in somewhere else.\u00a0 Florida, Texas, Utah, Idaho, Oklahoma, Arkansas.\u00a0 I think about lots of places where I could settle in and have neighbors and live in a town where my beliefs wouldn\u2019t make me a pariah.<\/p>\n

I write the political posts about what the latest outrage is from Dementia Joe or I talk about some positive result by a guy like DeSantis to keep my own spirits up.\u00a0 And I put up my entertainment posts on books and movies and anything I find interesting like photography.\u00a0 I try to do my part to provide something on-line that isn\u2019t the garbage that the Left mandates.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s discouraging because there\u2019s just bad news as far as the eye can see.\u00a0 But I think of what kind of odds there were against guys like Solzhenitsyn and Havel back in Russia and Czechoslovakia and I think things are nowhere near as bad here.\u00a0 And I feel it\u2019s worthwhile to keep writing and holding out for some kind of breakthrough.\u00a0 Maybe somewhere someone will take a stand and give us all something to rally around.\u00a0 I think that someone will say no and then make it stick.\u00a0 And once it happens people will light a million fires and it will be too big for Washington to stamp them all out.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I hope will happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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