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Will you be able to look them in the eye and tell them how you did not help keep the communists from taking over when you had the chance?
The main victory this past election cycle was in getting someone who will appoint people to the SC who may actually want to uphold the Constitution. That makes most of the other stuff that is going on seem somewhat trivial in the long run.
You think your vote is what keeps the communists at bay? And should the ballot box fail us, then you're going to blame men of principle because they didn't vote for the petty collectivist tyrant that told the lies you liked best?
It was the "small government" GOP that gave us the USA PATRIOT Act, the Department of Homeland Security, the EPA, secret courts, and sexual assualts in airports through warrantless searches and groping.
It's the "fiscally responsible" GOP that has yet to pass a balanced budget, ran up the debt, and kicked the can further down the road in getting federal spending under control.
It's the "Constitutionalist" GOP that affirmed Obamacare (and it not repealing government run healthcare, but trying to make it its own), has been in total control for 10 months and drug its feet on any pro-2A legislation just long enough to get us to the next gun crisis to shelve it indefinitely because the "timing" just isn't right (they'll use it to campaign later, with no intention of actually moving forward with it). In fact, the GOP is about to pass gun control legislation instead....I guess the timing is right for that.
Less freedom, more debt.
Functionally no different than the "what if" party in your imagination.
Obamacare is still law, we're still dicking around in the quagmire that is Syria, the debt ceiling needs to be raised again, the government is still funded by temporary spending gap bills rather than a budget, no pro-2A legislation has even made it to the floor for a vote....and anti-2A legislation is on the fast track to get there.
Policies and political parties should not be judged by their intentions or words, but from the actual results of their governance.
Should I ever find myself looking my children or grandchildren in the eye and explaining how the second and third Boxes of Liberty failed and necessitated the fourth, I can tell them with a clear conscience I tried everything possible to turn the ship via Electoral and judicial means, before the Republic entered a more dynamic stage in its history.
And I will likewise warn them that the dilution of those principles and sentiments upon which the Republic is founded in favor of the schemes of ambitious men - who beseech them for power to rule only to betray the Public Liberty - will lead to ruin.
You seem content with Progressive Lite, which is your prerogative.
I am not.
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