Busy day today.\u00a0 Yard work in hazy, hot and humid conditions.\u00a0 But physical activity is good for the mind.\u00a0 It\u2019s not good to dwell too much on the diseased condition of our politics.\u00a0 And let\u2019s face it, I\u2019ve spent way too much time for the last week gorging on the panic on display in Washington.\u00a0 What did Nietzsche say?\u00a0 If you stare too long into the abyss, it stares back.\u00a0 I think I\u2019ll let Donald Trump worry about whether Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Morgoth will be the Democrat candidate in November.<\/p>\n
We can check back in a couple of weeks or until the Left has a chance to cow Biden into withdrawing from the race.\u00a0 It should be interesting to hear the excuse if he does withdraw.\u00a0 I guess he can claim that the Almighty told him to.\u00a0 Of course, to Biden it\u2019s the Almighty Dollar that speaks to him.\u00a0 Hey, maybe that\u2019s what he\u2019s waiting for.\u00a0 He wants a bribe to drop out of the race.\u00a0 Maybe a $100 million in one of Hunter\u2019s off-shore accounts would convince Jumpin\u2019 Joe that it\u2019s time to park his Parkinson off-stage somewhere else.\u00a0 Either way, that\u2019s a comedy act for another day.<\/p>\n
Probably the more useful thing for me to follow and consider are the people out there who aren\u2019t waiting for the November election but are trying to fix things right now.\u00a0 Christopher Rufo has been working on state level governmental efforts like the reform of colleges in Florida and Texas and some other places.\u00a0 He\u2019s on the Board of the New College in Florida and they\u2019ve successfully demolished the DEI and other pernicious initiatives there.\u00a0 Now he\u2019s gotten started helping a whistleblower in Texas who reported a hospital for continuing a pediatric transgender program after it has been legislatively banned.\u00a0 It seems that the federal government has gone after this whistleblower and Rufo is raising a flag over these retaliatory efforts by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
It’s going to come down to determined people in red states drawing a line in the sand and taking concrete actions to stop the federal government from crushing the freedoms that they no longer believe in.\u00a0 If Donald Trump wins in November that might give us a little breathing room to rally the efforts of everyone wishing to stop the government\u2019s encroachment of our rights and try to turn things around.\u00a0 If Trump is lucky enough to get Republican Senate and House majorities then he can hope to make some meaningful changes to the laws.\u00a0 If not, then executive orders can undo the damage Biden did with his orders.<\/p>\n
But if Biden or some other Democrat is in the White House next February then it will be more important than ever that red state governors, legislatures and judges work tirelessly to find ways to obstruct all the damage that this new administration creates.<\/p>\n
I live in a deep blue state.\u00a0 I have always been a stranger in a strange land.\u00a0 Every thing around me is imprinted with the code for the hive mind.\u00a0 Even the local news station from the cable company is impossibly partisan.\u00a0 I don\u2019t need anything to raise my consciousness as a conservative.\u00a0 Every day I search the internet for a trail to others like me.\u00a0 There are a few of us out there and maybe one day we\u2019ll figure out a way to focus our strength into something that provides real results.<\/p>\n
I look at the devastation that the Tories in Britain brought down on themselves by lying about their agenda.\u00a0 They tore down their own party, kind of like the Republicans have done here.\u00a0 But then I see what Nigel Farage has done.\u00a0 He\u2019s started a reform party and even though he\u2019s starting from scratch almost alone, he\u2019s not riddled with fake conservatives.\u00a0 He can try to do it right.\u00a0 And that\u2019s what I hope eventually happens here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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