The Truth Behind the Republicans Stunning Defeat in Oregon

I had high hopes for the midterm election this year. We had a centrist candidate for Governor who was gaining important endorsements and funding. We had several amazing, hardworking and charismatic candidates for local races.

Yet when Election Day came and went, and all the votes were tallied, we ended up with Democrat supermajorities in both the state house and senate as well as in the governor’s office.

WE Lost

We lost the election. When I say WE lost the election I mean exactly that.

I see people blaming Conservative Republicans for staying home and not voting because they did not like Knute, blaming the Democrats for cheating and vote tampering, blaming party leadership for a lack of support, blaming Portland for having too many people, and generally blaming anyone they can find.

I remember seeing this sort of behavior recently in politics just on the national level. Hilary Clinton wrote a book and did a whole tour blaming everyone but herself for her loss against Trump.

Now we stand here on the eve of our election loss and we have a choice before us, do we continue to blame each other and everyone else, or do we take an honest look at ourselves as individuals and at our party.

As individuals we need to ask ourselves, as Washington County GOP Vice Chair Melissa Laird did every day leading up to the election, what have I done today to help my candidates win? If your only answer is I shared a post on Facebook, I must inform you that is not enough.

Facebook is a powerful tool but it is not a magical tool. It can help us reach thousands of people in an instance but if that reach does not materialize into action it is more or less useless.

It is hard to break the routine of daily life, kids need help with homework, projects need to be done around the house, and pay checks need to be earned. Our time is valuable but I do not think it is unreasonable to ask for one hour each week. That is the amount of time you would spend watching one or two episodes of your current Netflix binge. (If you want to help, get in touch with your local county chair).

I am not asking you to trade the hour for nothing. You will get the chance to meet the people who will represent you, who will actually listen to your concerns and ideas. You will get connected to an amazing community of wonderful, hardworking, and brilliant people that share similar values to your own.

As a party we need to listen to feedback from our candidates, build our infrastructure and support systems, and find a way to connect everyone. We need to learn from our past mistakes, our successes and we need to grow our party, in membership, leadership, and candidates. We need to identify, promote and recruit people of talent and take a long term view of things.

This is what you need to do if you want to help get Oregon on the right track. Blaming the Democrats, each other, the party leadership or the system not only does not help but hurts us all in the long run.

The Seductive Ideology of Victimhood

Victimhood has social value for both the victim and the person who wants to help the victim. They both gain attention and social status from the victimhood. The bad thing is that the victim, who is seeking attention, will become dependent on the victimhood to produce that attention they seek.

If they have been victimized by an individual the victimhood only lasts until that individual has been dealt with or is removed from the picture. It becomes harder and harder to produce victimhood and gain attention by relying on individuals.

Victimizers, true victimizers, are rare and you quickly run out of them, but if you are able to become victimized by a group of people than you can maintain that victimhood status almost indefinitely. If you are victimized by men than you can remain a victim as long as there are men.

The problem with this idea is that it is built on a lie, you are not a victim of men, you might be a victim of a man, or a group of men, but not the collective gender known as men. But like the drug addict the victim does not mind the lie as long as it gets them their fix of victimhood and the attention that comes with it.

This sort of behavior is very attractive. It gives you an excuse to refuse to take an honest and often painful look at yourself as well as someone to blame for any short comings you might have.

The Choice Before Us

This is a choice we need to make. We, as individuals, need to decided, are we going to play the blame game, giving in to the seductive ideology of victimhood, or are we going to take a look at ourselves and find where we can change and do better.

Ultimately blaming someone else, justly or unjustly, will only cause division and create resentment that will lead us farther down the path of loss we have been on for over 30 years.

We can blame and fight each other and hope that our faction comes out on top only to be the king of the losers, or we can build a coalition with each other on the understanding that we all might not agree but that we are all dedicated to the betterment of our state and the betterment of each other as individuals.

Some people have said that we need to clean our house before we can hope to become successful again. I think we need to take that a step deeper, we each need to clean our own rooms before we can start to clean our house.

What path will you choose? Will you blame everyone else for the problems you see before you, or will you take responsibility to do everything in your power to solve those problems yourself? The choice is ours, choose wisely.

Violent Antifa Attacks Freedom and Courage Rally

Freedom and courage, ideas you would think we all can come together on. Yet at a rally for freedom and courage held by Patriot Prayer in Portland Oregon on Saturday June 30^th 2018 we found out that was not necessarily true.

In The Park

As I arrived at Terry Schrunk Plaza I was greeted by several police officers and metal barricades surrounding the park. Across the street were a large number of black clad protesters known as Antifa, along with unions, NW Carpenters and the Iron Workers Union.

As I entered the park a police officer stopped me and said that if I brought any weapons past this point that I was subject to arrest. Ten feet past him were officers patting people down.

The police made sure we had no weapons before entering the plaza. No such checks were made for the Antifa protesters. Once inside there was music playing, people talking and waving American flags. If Antifa was not across the street it almost seemed like a Fourth of July BBQ was about to start.

We waited for the last shuttle bus to arrive. Previously Antifa would find the vehicles of the people at the rallies and vandalize them by slashing tires and throwing acid on the paint. People have also been harassed and assaulted leaving rallies in the past.

Patriot Prayer organized the shuttle bus to ensure the safety of the people at the rally and their property. Once everyone arrived the speeches started. Joey Gibson spoke about courage. One woman spoke about her family being assaulted by Antifa and how her father ended up in the hospital.

Their lawyers told her family not to go to the rally as it would reflect poorly on their case. Will Johnson spoke about the increasing violence of the radical left and the passive acceptance of the mainstream left. The last speaker was a trans-woman who spoke about free speech and religious freedom.

Once the speeches wrapped up we sang along to We Will Rock You by the band Queen and listened to an original rap by Political Muscle. After this we gathered together and got ready for our permitted march.

Taking the Streets

As soon as we started moving forward Antifa immediately started throwing objects at us. Some threw eggs, others bottle full of liquid, and a few people threw rocks. One person even let off some firecrackers, to which the Department of Homeland Security fired paintballs filled with pepper at the protesters.

The organizers of the rally and march urged people to ignore the violent protesters and to keep moving. The marched moved on down Madison and made a left turn onto 2^nd street. According to Joey Gibson the Portland Police had agreed to escort us along our parade route to protect us from Antifa.

As we started to cross Main Street it was clear that the police had failed in their duty. No one stood between us and the screaming protesters in black. Antifa rushed down the street, yelling and throwing items into the crowd.

Just as the main body was about to cross the street an Antifa protesters threw a mortar into the rally goers. The impact of the explosion rattled the ear drums. This is when the fighting started. Antifa threw several more mortars, which landed mere feet from people.

As the fighting died down the Antifa members ran back to the other end of the block driven back by the rally goers defending their constitutionally protected right to peaceably assemble.

After this melee the Portland Police pulled the permit for the march. We were told to walk on the sidewalk only and that we would no longer have the protection of the Portland Police. We continued walking but when a few more fights broke out the police declared the event a riot.

It was at this time we made the choice to return to the plaza. As we get everyone back into the plaza the organizers called the shuttle buses. It was at this time we were informed that we had to leave the plaza. Joey Gibson told DHS that we refuse to leave until the bus gets here so we can get the elderly and women out.

We packed one bus but the rest of us were turned out onto the streets of Portland where we had people yelling and screaming at us. We stuck together and waited until the next shuttle bus arrived.

I was told by several people that I was dressed fairly normally and if I took my hat with the American flag on it off I should be able to slip away. I refused to take off my hat. I should not have to hide a hat with the American flag on it while walking in a city in the US.

If people want to harass and assault me for wearing a hat with the flag of the United States of America on it, they are the ones with the problem not me. I wore my hat proudly and refused to take it off for anyone.

As we were waiting for the shuttle bus another fight broke out. The police fired a round of tear gas into the melee. It was at this time I decided it was a good time to head back to my car with another guy. Safety in numbers.

The Walk Home

As I started the long walk back to my car with the other rally goer, we started reflecting on the rally as a whole. We shared our experiences and any crazy story that happened that day. I was wearing a hat with an American flag on it as well as a small American flag I picked up along the way.

The person I was walking with was dressed up almost like a superhero. He had a green mask and green gloves on with a Kekistan flag on his back as a cape. I expected to get a few weird looks as most people do not know about Kekistan but as it turned out my American flag drew more ire than anything else.

We were standing on the corner waiting for the light to change so we could cross the street. A man and a woman pushing a stroller with a baby in it walked toward us on our right trying to cross the other street.

The man stepped up behind me and said “I have a lighter ready to burn that fascist flag.” Of course I turned and immediately noticed his wife and baby. We exchanged a few choice words but what shocked me the most was that this man thought it was a good idea to antagonize two strange men he considered fascists while he was out on a walk with a child.

We crossed the street as I shouted he could take the flag from my cold dead hands. A few blocks later a woman started screaming at us “Get out of our city you fascist!” She carried on in this way as the guy she was with pulled her along clearly not wanting to start anything without superior numbers.

It is clear that flying the American flag in Portland is socially unacceptable and people are ready to harass and even assault you (if they have the numbers advantage that is). The average person did not care but there was definitely a violent element ready to hurt people in the city.

Sleeping on the Job

When the rally was over Joey Gibson released a statement. He explained the promises made by the Portland Police when he obtained the permit. Promises that were broken.

It is not the officers I blame for these broken promises. Speaking with them and others it is clear that the orders are coming from above. How high and from who I can only speculate and the police officers remain silent not wishing to lose their jobs.

The DHS did an amazing job of protecting us on federal property and even worked with us when we were trying to get the shuttles to return. The Portland Police seemed to not want this march to happen. They were more than willing to let Antifa attack people so that the permit was pulled and it could be declared a riot.

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has tried to get permits for Patriot Prayer events pulled in the past but failed because the rally was held on federal property. It is clear that the mayor of Portland has a bias against the group and has no qualms about using his public office to try and silence those he does not agree with.

To do so would be politically unpopular with the average person, who still believes in Freedom of Speech and loves their country. I do not envy Ted Wheeler, he seems to be stuck between the increasingly violent and authoritarian nature of his party and supporters and the oath he took when he accepted public office to uphold the constitution of the United States and of the State of Oregon.

If he protects the rights of Patriot Prayer to peaceable assemble than the Progressive hate mob will do him in, but if he does not say he will protect the rights of US citizens he will be sleeping on the job. So he says he will protect the group and then has the police stand down knowing Antifa will attack and start a fight.

This gives him an excuse to pull the permit. He can say he tried to protect Patriot Prayer but by pulling the permit he knows he will be giving Antifa exactly what they want, enabling a group who could care less about him outside of the amount of control they have over him. Antifa thinks if the march gets cancelled it is a win. They think it is a win to silence people. Antifa are not peaceful protesters, they are a group who is more than willing to use violence to push their political agenda. 

They are not activists, they are violent terrorists.

Sam Carpenter: By Any Means Necessary

Recently a photo was circulated by the campaign manager for Sam Carpenter. This photo showed respected Republican and Communications Director for the Wooldridge campaign, Jonathan Lockwood at a fundraiser for Maria Garcia.

Maria Garcia is running for Multnomah County Commissioner and is a moderate Democrat, who has been endorsed by Bernie Sanders.

Since then I have been watching the activity of the Carpenter Campaign, especially the activities of his campaign manager David Bacon Gulliver and the hyper active brigade of supporters that surround him.

First let’s look at the events of a few weeks ago.

The Lockwood Affair

It did not take long for David Bacon Gulliver, Sam Carpenters campaign manager, to start casting aspersions on Lockwood, calling him an “LGBTQ activist bomb-thrower” and labeling Garcia as a “radical socialist.”

Make Oregon Great Again, who is strongly tied to the Carpenter campaign, echoed this sentiment and was followed by Carpenter loyalists online.

The problem is they missed a few things in their rush to judgement. One Lockwood is an independent contractor working on the Wooldridge campaign not a direct staffer.

Two he did not directly raise funds for Garcia, simply attended a fundraiser for her as a local business owner interested in local politics.

Third he was allegedly fired from the moderate Knute Buhler campaign for being too Republican.

Also Garcia is a staunch anti public employee-labor union advocate. While she was endorsed by Sanders and does support sanctuary status at least she has some common ground with a few Republicans.

Doubling Down

Instead of recognizing that they are creating fractures within the Republican Party Carpenter and his loyalist supporters doubled down and deflected.

They tried to say they were just questioning what Lockwood was doing and that they are standing up for true Republican values. You know the same excuse your nephews give you when you catch them with their hand in the cookie jar and they say they just wanted to make sure the cookies were still there for later.

It did not work when you were kids so what makes you think it would be any different now that you are adults? Also if you had a backbone you would have taken it up personally with Lockwood first.

Instead you were more interested in the public attention you would get for virtue signaling as opposed to doing the real work and sacrifice that it actually takes to have real virtue.

Same Team?

The Oregon Tea Party has released communications from Sam Carpenter’s Campaign manager, David Gulliver, showing him directing Carpenter supporters to paint other conservatives as racists and bigots.

This is to be done to “make Greg [Wooldridge]…ashamed to have them.” This tactic might be effective online and provide short term gain, it does damage in the long run when you have Republicans calling each other racists. It just adds credibility, or at least the appearance of credibility, to the Progressive’s baseless accusations that the Republican Party is the party of racism.

This is the same sort of tactics used by the mainstream media against President Trump. They would say his supports are bigots, racists and violent and when protesters would attack Trump supporters they would say ‘violence erupts at Trump rally’ implying that those who are violent are the Trump supporters. Inferring that Trump is to blame for the violence done by Progressive protesters.

David and his comrades also engage in an online tactic known as brigading. Brigading is a concentrated effort by one online group to manipulate another, usually through mass commenting and down voting. Generally speaking this is an acceptable form of discourse online as it does not seek to silence anyone but rather promotes a differing opinion. Of course it is the internet so expect a few trolls to pop up now and again.

The point of this tactic is to make it appear that there is overwhelming support for one topic, issue or person and drowns out the voices of those who disagree or dissent. If you pay attention you will often see the same small group of people commenting and liking pro-Carpenter propaganda. It also gives the false impression of overwhelming success, which will draw people in who think that he has massive support, when in reality his support base is a minority of people cycling through.

Here are what I believe to be a few members of the brigade: Lori Tiger Davis, David Bacon Gulliver, Carol Leek, Helen Church, and Mary Wellman. Of course you will find a few others who comment and post but they have been taken in by this group think mentality more suited for Social Justice Warriors than free thinking liberty loving individuals.

They even deny reality when confronted with the evidence. Even when provided with screen shots they still deny the truth. The same way the Progressive’s deny biology when it suits them. In this conversation they cannot refute the evidence, so they fall back on personal attack. They call the person dissenting a liar and claim he is engaging in a smear campaign while doing they engage in the same.

My Opinion

These are just a few examples of this sort of behavior.

These sort of tactics accomplish a few different things. One they make people feel like Carpenter is ready and willing to fight it out. It would seem that he is so eager to fight that he is attacking his own party. People want a Republican who is not so soft and who is willing to say I stand for Republican values and I am not ashamed to actively promote and defend them.

Using this on your own party, while it might benefit in the short term, only creates problems in the long term. It gives the Democrats ammunition for the general election and causes sore relationships among party members.

Sam Carpenter, I doubt you are ignorant of the things going on in your own campaign. Meaning that you are not only allowing this sort of behavior to happen, but are fostering and promoting it.

Of course the comments to this blog will be much of the same. You will get people posting things like ‘MOGA’ and ‘Carpenter for Governor’, and ‘I am with Sam.’ You will also get people saying this is nothing but a smear job or a hit piece and they will call me a liar. They will seek to attack me and ruin any credibility I may have while putting me on trial in the court of public opinion.

That is the essence of social justice and we have seen it throughout the history of the world when people try to speak the truth. From Galileo, to Jesus, to Socrates. I am not saying I am anywhere near comparison to these great people, but that we need to learn from their example that the loudest and angriest voices are often not the correct ones.

12 Principles for 21st Century Conservatives

I got this list from Professor Jordan Peterson a Canadian professor of Psychology who has made a name for himself by standing against the far left Progressive policies and activists on Canadian universities and in government.

1.      The fundamental assumptions of western civilization are valid.

These assumptions include the ideas that the individual has intrinsic value, that individuals have rights that precedes the law, and that individual freedom and liberty is the best way to unleash the best and fullest potential of each person.

 

From these assumptions we get some of our more noticeable rights, such as the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms.

 

The proof that these assumptions are valid is in the actions of people throughout the world. What counties do people risk their lives to come to? Why don’t we see an exodus of socialists to socialist countries but rather an exodus of people from socialist countries to capitalist ones?

 

The focus on the individual is a deep and precious idea that is worth defending. If we lose that we must put the group first (tribalism) and if the group is what matters then you, the individual, do not matter very much.

 

2.      Peaceful social being is preferable to isolation and war. In consequence, it justly and rightly demands some sacrifice of individual impulse and idiosyncrasy.

 

This might seem to contradict the importance of the individual but in reality the two are different sides of the same coin. Ask yourself the question, would you willingly give up part of what makes you an individual in order to benefit from being part of a peaceful social order?

 

This is the social contract. We choose how much we are willing to give up so that we can exist peacefully with each other in the hope that the benefit we gain by giving up a part of our individuality and liberty outweighs the cost in doing so.

 

For example we are willing to give up part of our wealth in taxes so that the state can maintain a military that provides for the security of each individual in society. This is an acceptable constraint to ultimate liberty that secures the maximum amount of freedom for the individual.

 

This also does not mean you must always follow the rules all the time. Only that you should follow the rules, even if you do not understand them completely, unless you have a very good reason in breaking them. For example without breaking the taboo of touching a corpse medicine would not have advanced as far as it has.

The thinker Adam Ferguson articulated it best when he said “Liberty or Freedom is not, as the origin of the name may seem to imply, an exemption from all restraints, but rather the most effectual applications of every just restraint to all members of a free society whether they be magistrates or subjects.”

 

3.      Hierarchies of competence are desirable and should be promoted.

 

Those on the far left desire and fight for equity. Meaning they seek the destruction of all forms of hierarchies. They want to force everyone to be equal. It sounds good if only for the fact that it was not so murderous.

 

If you eliminate hierarches and make everyone equal (which the only possible way of doing so is through violent oppression in Gulag work camps or through starvation) than what do people have to strive for? If you cannot move up than why move at all?

 

What they fail to realize is that everyone benefits from multiple hierarchies of competence. Ask yourself, would you rather have a plumber who got the job based on the color of their skin or what type of genitals they have or some sort of historical oppression, or would you rather have the most qualified and competent plumber?

 

It is in these hierarchies where the most competent people rise to the top, not because they were given that position, but because they earned it. We want those people in those position so that we can extract the most use out of them for the benefit of all.

 

This message is not being related to young people. They are not being encouraged and told that they have potential to be the best at something. They are not being told to go out into the world and make something of themselves. Take personal responsibility, discipline yourself, see if you can learn to tell the truth and concentrate on something for a year or two and you can take the world by storm. It is possible to make yourself successful.

 

4.      Boarders are reasonable. Likewise, limits on immigration are reasonable. Furthermore, it should not be assumed that citizens of societies that have not evolved functional individual-rights predicated polities will hold values in keeping with such polities.

 

Boarders in this instance does not simply mean lines between states. Instead it means the boundaries between categories. For example the law is the boundary between acceptable and unacceptable actions and behaviors.

 

Of course you do not want to have too many boarders, this will limit the flow of information and resources as well as constrict freedom. But too few boarders is chaos.

 

When it comes to immigration, limits are reasonable. When immigrants come to a new country they bring new customs, traditions, and ideas. Too much of this will destabilize the existing order as well as place a burden on those at the bottom.

 

You also want to be sure that you are letting people into the country that will be a benefit to not only the society but to the immigrant as well. Not everyone will be a benefit, those who come from a society that lacks individual rights might not see the value in maintaining those rights. Instead they would seek to change the system to something that is more agreeable to their temperament.

 

For example someone who comes from a society where woman are not allowed to vote, might seek to repress the vote of women, either through the law or by exercising social pressure on the women around them. I am not saying deny people entry depending on where they come from, but that it is something worth considering.

 

5.      People should be paid so that they are able and willing to perform socially useful and desirable duties.

 

People get into higher positions because of competence not power. Most people get to where they are because they have earned their position, not because society handed it to them. You want people who earned those position there because they provide a use to society.

 

The best method for making sure that the most able and willing will occupy those positions is to create a system that produces equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.

 

6.      Citizens have the inalienable right to benefit from the results of their own honest labor.

 

This should be obvious, but it needs to be said. If you let people benefit from the results of their own labor, than they will work to produce something that you need.

 

It also means do not try and tax people so much that they fail to see the point of working. Yes some taxes are required to provide for social services, but too much becomes a burden. People work hard for what they earn, taking more and more to fund one program or another only de-incentivizes people from working while creating a growing underclass of people who depend solely on the government.

 

7.      It is more noble to teach young people about responsibilities then about rights.

 

The conversation has been centered on rights. We tell young people that they have a right to this and that. No one is talking to them about the responsibilities that come with those rights.

 

Instead of telling young people what rights they have and should have, we should be telling them that they are capable of taking responsibility for their own lives. Getting the government to give you things is not the only way to get what you want. In fact it is probably the worst method for doing so.

 

Do something useful that will benefit you, your family and your community. It is through the willing adoption of responsibility where you will find meaning in life. That meaning will benefit you far more than any right.

 

It will also benefit those around you. You will be a comfort in times of crisis and pain and you will be able to help people when the tragedy of life renders them useless. Believe it or not young people are desperate for this message.

 

8.      It is better to do what everyone has always done, unless you have some extraordinarily valid reason to do otherwise.

 

The traditions in society did not simply fall from the sky, nor where they placed there by some malevolent force or group bent on suppressing you. They developed over a long period of time because they had value to them.

 

These traditions should be respected as they have produced the current world we live in and all benefits and advantages we possess. Messing with them is dangerous and should only be done if you have a seriously good reason for doing so.

 

We do not know everything and do not always know how the changes we make will play out in the world, not only in society but across time.

 

9.      Radical change should be viewed with suspicion, particularly in a time of radical change.

 

We are in a time of radical change (internet, globalization). Things are changing so rapidly that it is hard for people to keep up. Even in my life time we have gone from slow dial up internet on the computer to having high speed internet access in our pockets. We do not fully understand how the changes of the world have and will impact society.

 

It is perfectly reasonable to say slow down a minute and let’s try to address some of these changes and the impacts they are having. It is also reasonable to say the change may be good intentioned and seem to come from a place of compassion, but do we truly know what the end result will be.

 

Gradual change over time reduces the risk of destabilizing a system and increase the possibility that it will produce a positive outcome.

 

10.  The government local and distant should leave people to their own devises as much as possible.

 

This is a call for humility. I would rather have individuals making their own stupid mistakes and getting things wrong for themselves in the hope that a few people will get things right, than having one person impose their view of what is right on everyone and risk getting it catastrophically wrong for everyone at the same time.

 

Don’t think that what you are doing is right, or that it will come out as you predict. You cannot know everything or how it will affect everyone, understand that you have limitations.

 

11.  Intact heterosexual two-parent families constitute the necessary bedrock for a stable polity.

 

One of the bedrocks of society is the traditional family. I hate that I have to say it but I will say it; I am not saying that I oppose gay marriage or that gay/lesbian couples cannot be good parents, I am not saying that. Instead what I am saying is that maybe children need a role model of each sex.

 

Regardless of your opinion on the matter it is pretty clear that two parent families are more successful. It should seem obvious that having two loving parents in the home is better than one. Again this is not a dig a single parents, but rather a recognition of the difficulty of raising a family.

 

The point of marriage is too tough it out for better or for worse, not for your happiness but for the chance to tie the rope of your life together with someone else’s life. Happiness is fleeting and if marriage is only about happiness, it too will become fleeting. Rather marriage is about two people weaving their lives together so that they can become stronger as a union than they ever could be as an individual.

 

You will often hear claims made that marriage is just an oppressive institution developed to keep women in bondage. There is some truth to that claim and a few examples can be found to prove it, but it is only one side. It fails to take into account the benefits gained from the union of marriage. It is two people who share in the suffering and success of life.  

 

Other types are families are fine, and if that is what you seek, more power to you. We also need to keep in mind that the structure of the traditional family has worked well for the entire existence of humanity and it is not just a social construct and that we mess with it at our own peril.

 

12.  We should judge our political system in comparison to other actual political systems and not to hypothetical utopias.

 

We should compare our systems to other active systems in the world. If we are near the top than maybe we should not mess with the system too much. It means that we got something right and it is working.

 

It might not be perfect, nothing is, but have some gratitude for the benefits that system produces. A few examples would be that we have enough food that obesity is more of a problem than starvation. That you can peacefully interact with your neighbors and even interact in a way that is mutually beneficial to both parties. That you can ask a police man for help and they will actually help you.

 

This is not the case in a lot of the world. Police will only help you if you bribe them, and sometimes not even then. Other countries are run by thugs who are perfectly fine with having your door kicked open and murdering you in the middle of the night.

 

We have a lot to be thankful for in our country and it would benefit to show a little gratitude for that, instead of trying to compare what we have to whatever form of utopian heaven that you can dream up and would love to impose on people without their cooperation and without their will. That was already tried in the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany with murderous results.

 

A Case for Conservatism

 

There is a viable case for conservatism that produces a benefit to society. There is nothing wrong with being a conservative and expressing conservative values. Do not let anyone silence you, but also do not silence yourself for fear of being ridiculed or attacked.

 

You might not say everything right all the time, in fact you will probably say a lot of things that are wrong, but if you say them honestly and listen when people talk to you than you will get better at it. You will be able to articulate your ideas clearer and with more confidence and with the knowledge that your ideas have been tested.

 

You have every right to be conservative and there is nothing wrong with you for being conservative. It is time to get organized and push back against the hyper educated resentful utopian dreamers out of the positions of power.