The Biggest Mistake We Could Make?
By: The Webmaster
December 31 , 2009
I found this commentary (link) on Big Government, by Warner Todd Huston and it got me thinking. (It got me playing on his title too.)
As the Tea Party and 9-12 movements have gained steam and adherents this past year, I have been worried about them. As the Webmaster, I have been disheartened by the seeming willy-nillyness of it all: thousands of people going in thousands of different directions. "It's like herding cats," said one of my cohorts in The Georgia 9-12 Project - this very Website. Hardly original, but apt. It's also a marketing, positioning and search engine-optimizing nightmare.
My response at the time was "That may just be how it is. A thousand people coming [at the opposition] from a thousand different directions may be our winning strategy." Our society has been denigrated by a thousand Progressive cuts, over time. A thousand cuts can cut both ways!
Some beliefs our movements might share (and my responses):
- Leaderless is cool; it is the antidote to our ailments
(To a point. We need to have a mission and great leaders to carry us forward at some point. Or else, we're a bunch of noise and wasted "cycles" - to steal a computing term.)
- Both political parties are guilty, worthless, corrupt (insert your own adjective here). We need our own.
(Well, yes. But there are matters of degree. We are all sinners, but lying - "honey, that doesn't make you look fat!" and murder are certainly different degrees of sin! One party (the Republicans) are wayward - very sick, if you will - adrift, having lost many of their values. They need to recover them (and receive a spinal transplant while they're at it). The other (the Democrats) are a rotted, bloated corpse - so infested by radicals that hate America, that they may/should be about done as an American political party.
Now, l know what many of us are thinking, and I'm here to nip it in the bud: 'Let's support a third party.' Buzzzz! Wrong answer! Which one, you herd of cats? Do that, and we'll guarantee Progressive Rule after the 2010 elections and beyond. (I wrote 'rule,' not 'leadership.')
Right answer: put up GOOD candidates from members of our movement at every electoral level - local, state, Fed. I've met many excellent ones - 'Yes, Virginia, There Are Some Good Politicians!'
Support them: with your work on their campaigns; with your scratch - now there's a goal for us. Take over one major political party - that would be the Republicans. It would be the easiest to do - and it will still be very hard - just ask Ronald Reagan. So, get 'em in, get 'em serving and get 'em out.
I write the following in ALL CAPS - the online shout: BREAK TO SUPPORT A THIRD PARTY AND WE WILL LOSE!!!!! (Add a bunch of exclamation points and color for emphasis.) There. I said it again. It bears repeating.)
- We can keep doing this (but just bigger) - they will have to hear us.
(They hear us. They get our calls, emails, know about our public gatherings. Do you think for one moment that politicos who live and die by public opinion polls don't know we're there and what we think?!
'If we can just put 20 million people on the Mall next time, then they'd stop.' No they wouldn't. They don't care. America now exists somewhere along the political continuum of totalitarianism. They are evil. Re-read those last bits. Let them soak in. I'll wait.
We need to morph into the "next thing." Do we build tent cities in DC to totally shut that town down, 24/7? Could be. Do we break the truth of corruption in every new media forum (a la the Acorn pimps & hos)? that'd be good. We need to think and act bigger. That will require an accepted leadership of some kind and money. Lots. We will need to coalesce behind some leaders - that DON'T necessarily have to be running for office. They need to be big, strategic thinkers.
We need to know that as we up the ante, it will become more dangerous for us. Union beat-downs? Loss of personal liberties? Arrests? Worse? Rest assured that the Emperor will not stand idly by as his empire is threatened. Look at history: he never has.
Consider now what you are willing to do for your country - this is not a sport!)
There are doubtless more beliefs, but write on and no one is likely to read on. There is some food for thought. Couple that to Mr. Huston's article below. Read mine first. Or his. Which ever you'd like, Kitty.
- The Webmaster
