My Problem With Conservatives
This is a perfect example, from Red State:
The author, Streiff, goes on to express his certainty that this was the only possible explanation for canceling the long scheduled test.
Problem.
I spent a lot of time today listening to this hour and a half youtube featuring John Mearshimer, Ray McGovern, and others discussing the Russia - Ukraine matter:
Putin's Invasion of Ukraine Salon | Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer
It’s an interesting presentation which I highly recommend—if you have the time. In some ways McGovern is the most interesting but he’s also a bit of a screwball—he’s always making obscure little jests that he seems to think are funny, but which detract from the flow of his presentation. Which is unfortunate, because he has some excellent information to offer.
However …
One of the other speakers dealt explicitly with the missile test issue. What he said was this.
The US has the ability to pinpoint any ballistic missile launch in real time. Russia does not. The speaker—whose name I forget—faulted the US for not putting in place some system to prevent misunderstandings. Misunderstandings that could, for example, lead Russia to launch on us because they mistakenly thought we had launched on them. That, he said, was the reason the long scheduled missile test had been canceled.
But I keep seeing other examples like this of wacked out conservatives who are reliving the Cold War and the Evil Empire and keep shooting from the lip—or the keyboard. I take a back seat to no one in my disdain for our Woke Warriors, but why not get some information before writing? Could it be that this disparity in information between the US and Russia also helps explain why the Russians are so jumpy about the US placing nuclear capable launchers in Poland? The missiles for which are constantly be upgraded? Maybe.
I haven't referred to myself as a 'conservative' for several years now--mostly because the ersatz conservatives who have lost the plot in the face of wokeism, corporatism, and the Uniparty. Neither "MAGA" nor "constitutional conservative" is apt either. America First gets closer--but that has been hijacked by Nick Fuentes.
Conservatives are simply averting their eyes from reality. Maybe they can come back into the picture once the war is over, but by then I suspect that they will have further discredited themselves. Conservatives suffer from delusions of normalcy. They actually seem to think that we that we can assimilate the largest influx of foreign born residents of any country in history while asking no allegiance to our founding values. They think we can replace the current crazed lefties in Congress with the same feckless RINOs that have failed the country for decades.
Most of us have accepted that we are in the midst of a battle for the soul of the nation, but very few have accepted that the solution set needs to be fairly draconian: 1) the utter destruction of the Uniparty/RINO-Dem/Left politics and all its corruption and culturally cancerous policies 2) a complete end to illegal immigration, birthright citizenship, and a decades long legal immigration hiatus. It must become so difficult for illegal aliens to avoid deportation, to work, or to access our social welfare safety net that they leave of their own accord 3) a complete spending freeze until the tax receipts and/or sales of federal assets are greater than the amount spent and the debt paydown begins 4) Expunge the PRC/CCP influence from the USA. Revoke all visas and green cards for PRC nationals, delist their companies, hike tariffs on their goods, incentivize a massive repatriation of manufacturing of critical technology (esp. chips) and pharma (esp. antibiotics).
If it is not already too late, the solutions to our ills are unavoidably painful. Incrementalism is too easy to deflect and corrupt. Like the wise man said: Trump was their last warning. If they thought Trump was bad wait until they see what comes after Trump.
Given some of the people and sites calling themselves "Conservative" it is muddying the waters on what one is anymore -as if the Neo-Cons hadn't already done enough damage. I have considered myself one for many years but I will be fine with giving up the adjective if it means not having to be associated with idiots who leverage the term for their own monetary and political benefit only.