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Many Voices, One Freedom: United in the 1st Amendment

March 19, 2024

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The key for Republicans in 2024 is pretty simple. Republicans need to:

1) Build a positive vision for the future of our country, and 2) Come together, united, for the general election.

We are at our best when we have rigorous debates in the primaries, as candidates tend to influence one another, borrowing the best ideas from one another’s visions such that whoever wins the nomination has something very powerful and positive to share with the American people ⏤ something that the party coalesces around and that also appeals to independent voters, and perhaps even to many who usually vote Democrat.

We are at our worst when our primary opponents attack one another with petty personal insults that provide no vision.

We are at our best when we provide concrete plans to improve our nation. We are at our worst when we focus entirely on platitudes and slogans. Platitudes and slogans have a place, but we are at our best when those platitudes and slogans are descriptive of concrete plans.

The Democrats have a vision, as illustrated by Totalitarian Trudeau to our North, and by the Netherlands, which is actively trying to reduce its agricultural output by 90%.

When the WEF says that 90% of the human population is superfluous and that what we need is to give that 90% opioids and X-Boxes to keep them distracted until they die, and that governments need to control populations by sterilizing most of the public ⏤ that’s a vision we can run against.

Even moderates on the left have been largely unable to break away from radical calls to end meat consumption, and to eliminate phosphate and nitrogen-based fertilizers while leaving half of our farmland fallow. If we do not have phosphate or nitrogen-based fertilizers, that leaves only manure. We cannot use human manure as a fertilizer as that causes botulism, and if we eliminate meat consumption, we will not have manure from livestock either. In other words, the Democrat platform would eliminate fertilizers, and by extension, reduce our food production to that of a third-world country.

‘Renewables’ sounds good, but the truth is that if we covered the entirety of our country – every square foot – with solar panels, we could produce roughly half the electricity we consume. In other words, running all-in on renewables means running all-out on energy.

This is quite literally going to be an election between having food and energy, and not having food or energy.

Understand that the progressive vision is totalitarian, and let me show you why…

Progressives want to live in a country where the basic needs of everyone are taken care of, and where mankind’s impact on the globe is muted.

Taking care of the basic needs of all the people means:

1) Defining what people need,

2) Controlling the components of everyone’s basic needs,

3) Compiling and distributing everyone’s basic needs,

4) Ensuring that nobody has more of their basic needs than they need, or at least that if someone has extra, it does not come at the expense of someone else’s needs being met, and

5) Ensuring that the production of those things that are not basic needs does not come at the expense of those things that are.

In other words, providing for the basic needs of everyone means controlling every aspect of the economy, including what things everyone is allowed to buy or own.

Let us move on to mankind’s impact on the globe. To control this, the government must have the power to:

1) Control the world population in terms of who lives where and who reproduces,

2) If the population is too high, the government must have the power to cull the herd down to size,

3) The government must have complete control over what energy is produced, how it is produced, and how (and where) it is consumed,

4)The government must have complete control over all natural resources – land, air, and water – and must have complete control over how all natural resources are used, such as by owning all housing, and

5) The government must control everything all of the people do.

So yes, for progressivism to achieve its stated goals, it must be totalitarian and will, therefore, always trend in that direction.

The 2024 election should be easy pickings for Republicans. It is not hard to run against totalitarianism, starvation, and freezing houses with no electricity, but unless Republicans can provide a positive vision to run against the progressive vision, we can still lose. We will not win 2024 with platitudes, slogans, nicknames, and insults – and we will not win by rehashing the past, as so many Republicans did in the midterms (and lost).

Some things we should have learned from the midterms (but probably did not)…

1) Donald Trump-backed candidates did ridiculously badly with the 18-29 year old demographic. Trump-backed candidates did much better overall than the media reported, but with the 18-29-year-old demographic, he did historically bad.

2) The 18-29-year-old demographic likes Ron DeSantis. DeSantis took 49% of their vote in Florida. This is a critical demographic for Democrats. Without it, it is hard for them to win elections.

Does this mean DeSantis should be the nominee? Not necessarily. But it does mean that for Trump to win a general election, he will need to sound more like DeSantis, which means focusing on a positive vision of America’s future rather than litigating the past.

3) The American People do not like Joe Biden’s agenda. Where Republicans ran on ideas and vision (such as in Florida) rather than on ‘democrats are corrupt and evil,’ Republicans won. Where Republicans rehashed the 2020 election, they were roundly and soundly defeated.

Joe Biden has already said that there was no red wave, and as such, he is not going to change a damned thing. Defiant – yes – but also stupid. He COULD have learned how unpopular his policies are – and those policies are failures that, like Madonna’s rendition of ‘American Pie,’ will only get worse over time.

The Democrats are not going to change anything even though continued political relevance demands that they change basically everything to sound more like JFK than Karl Marx, but here is the thing ⏤ by and large, the American people just don’t care about election fraud in 2020 (or 2022). Running on that may win the primary, but it will lose the general election.

Can the Republicans both provide a positive vision AND go after those who committed insurrection against Trump’s Presidency? Yes, but we cannot let investigations be the focus of our agenda and our message.

In most nations, the people are expected to swear fealty to the state, and our nation has fallen into that fold over the years.

But the United States was founded on the notion that the state should swear fealty to the people, which is why our Constitution was written as is.

If Republicans want to win in 2024, they need to focus on a positive vision of America based on the promise of America’s founding documents, and America’s founding values.

MANY VOICES, ONE FREEDOM: UNITED IN THE 1ST AMENDMENT

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