tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post1585054012053870441..comments2024-03-28T15:07:28.751-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: Why there's no voting our way out of thisPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-40840596542425160232021-02-23T07:43:43.713-06:002021-02-23T07:43:43.713-06:00I realized some years ago that to US, political aw...I realized some years ago that to US, political awareness is just once every election cycle. To the Left, this is THEIR REASON FOR BEING. Thanks to frontpagemag.com's David Horowitz, I came to understand that this is their religion, and that they are Marxianic missionaries.<br /><br />A short anecdote to that effect: Back in the days when the local rag had a disqus comment section I would comment on articles, op eds, etc. And within minutes I would get slammed by one of the "usual suspect" Leftists. But then I would notice two things:<br /><br />1. It would not take five minutes for my comment to be downvoted and replied to.<br />2. Within 15 minutes I'd have five downvotes and at least three comments against mine.<br /><br />I came to the conclusion that these people were like sharks, literally patrolling the site for <i>wrongthink</i> and alerting their fellow that there was a bad man comment that needed to be squelched.<br /><br />OK, one more anecdote: I made a comment on a racial matter piece. Again, within minutes, comments against me. But one was interesting: they quoted a (of course) raaaaaaacist comment I'd made A YEAR BEFORE. And I concluded they were keeping f*cking dossiers on opponents. Because given the volume of comments I'd been making, there was no way for someone to have weeded through just to find something - they had to have had it on hand in a file.NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-77696952516530878332021-02-23T07:20:40.346-06:002021-02-23T07:20:40.346-06:00We aren't going to fix this by moving to anoth...We aren't going to fix this by moving to another state. That has been the line of a lot of conservatives for too long. Meanwhile, the democrats have been very busy at a very local level. There is a vacancy on a town commission because the conservatives decided to leave? Guess who fills the seat. One of the biggest failures of the conservative 'side' is a refusal to get involved and stay involved in local politics. I realize we think of it as wrestling with the pig, but our refusal to wrestle with the pig has just allowed the pig to get bigger and to get far, far better at playing the game. We keep thinking that there will be plenty of red states and in some far and distant future we will come back down from out mountain tops to lead the great revitalization. That won't happen. Not when every school board, every town planning and zoning board, every library board is packed with liberals from Boston Mass to Billings Montana.<br />We tend to laugh at the democratic activist machine, it looks ridiculous, but the actual democrats on the boards, on the state government commissions are far more experienced at making the machine work than their republican opponents are and it shows.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10408199921844419102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85538846076931998872021-02-22T14:52:46.941-06:002021-02-22T14:52:46.941-06:00Here in red-turning-purple-ish blue North Carolina...Here in red-turning-purple-ish blue North Carolina, my last kid graduated high school in 2013, just ahead of The Deluge. Even then, there were more and more "pre-Woke" teachers whose work we had to undo on a very frequent basis.<br /><br />But you know what made it easier? Both kids did the maximum time in JROTC. In that class they got old-fashioned civics, like I was taught. They even used the same textbooks! PE like it used to be, summer camps for leadership, the works. Their battalion NCO turned out to be a guy that I remember from high school. Career Army, retired. Great guy. <br /><br />My wife is a public school teacher who is taking early retirement at the end of the school year. Too much lunacy. Between woke BS and Covid lunacy, she's had enough. I don't blame her. If I were still at my last employer, a private university, I'd have been fired by now.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-51272403345577506682021-02-22T13:37:19.226-06:002021-02-22T13:37:19.226-06:00"It's to ensure that left-wing voters and..."It's to ensure that left-wing voters and potential voters outnumber those who might oppose progressive left-wing policies."<br /><br />And early after the 1965 immigration bill, that was openly acknowledged.<br /><br /><br />"They regard the public school system as a warehousing project for their children."<br /><br />We had our kids in a private school and switched them to the local "Oh, that's a really good school district" schools. Money. But they're back in the private school now. (And much happier too.)<br /><br />I do want to move. The problem is - the IRONY is - my USSR-born wife does not see the storm approaching. And unless I outright just abscond with the kids, I am not sure what to do.<br />NITZAKHONhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04110716447757507226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60760274580333719532021-02-22T11:54:48.318-06:002021-02-22T11:54:48.318-06:00Wakanda... A fictional land created by... Jews. S...Wakanda... A fictional land created by... Jews. So she should have gotten a hard pass...<br /><br />As to the rest. They don't consider us citizens. They consider us subjects.<br /><br />Dumb Jo was right when he told a union worker that "I don't work for you, you work for me." Yet who is partially responsible for his election? Union workers.<br /><br />We are subjects. They rule. They don't pass laws. They pass Edicts. Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-13841939175474514012021-02-22T11:27:03.696-06:002021-02-22T11:27:03.696-06:00Same dismal single-party rule here. Just substitut...Same dismal single-party rule here. Just substitute Kommiecticut for Illinois, and Hartford-Bridgeport-New Haven-Waterbury-Stamford-New London, et al for Chicago. All #LIBTARD run 3rd world tribal shit-holes that just want us to throw more taxpayer dollars their way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-23067192169311914832021-02-22T11:18:03.592-06:002021-02-22T11:18:03.592-06:00I've seen this meme more frequently after the ...I've seen this meme more frequently after the election, but I think it has changed to still emphasize voting over the formation of communities. Voting, even in a local election, is still a rigged game. When the union voting blocs need it the rigging will occur.<br /><br />In short, local voting is still supporting the state. You won't change the state from the inside. Your locality is still subject to the state. Your freedom only depends on your level of involvement with the state; move, homeschool, no debt, small lifestyle, and a community of like people. <br /><br />The community thing is way to big a topic, but voting is no place for your hope.7916https://www.blogger.com/profile/01881208775905627898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21180637071651577812021-02-22T10:27:49.781-06:002021-02-22T10:27:49.781-06:00The balkanization isn't just 'continuing&#...The balkanization isn't just 'continuing', it is now ramping up with the new administration in power. I don't like where we are headed...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.com