Tasine wrote:
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Excuse me if I sound a bit sour. I am sour. I've been doing as you suggest since 1962. And some of those I liked and supported got into office - and most of them then did a 180. This is no new thing for me. I saw the dangers decades ago and have worked my butt off since that time, but either I am totally ineffective or the majority of the world is insane, because to my knowledge I've influenced no one, I repeat, no one!. A good portion of those who have come out of the woodwork and giving advice, were not even living when I started trying to defeat the l*****t mantra. It is not CANDIDATES WE MUST DEFEAT. IT IS AN EVIL DOCTRINE WE MUST DEFEAT, AND WE DON'T DO IT BY ELECTING GOOD OLD BOYS WHO SAY THE RIGHT THINGS AND DO NOTHING. We do it by using THE ENEMIES' tactics on them.
I'm damned mad! Not at you, C*****r, but at Americans at large who have never given a thought to the ramifications of their v**es, who have never invested a single thought to what their incessant demands for more, more, and more do to the nation. I'm mad that there is a huge segment of v**ers who live on handouts without EVER trying to earn their own way. I am mad that there are so many Americans who don't even KNOW what rights are, and don't mind giving them away for a few dollars, mindlessly.
At present, I'm getting close to letting the circumstance that Americans have caused just take its course and let those really, really dumb ones learn a thing or two through their own new experiences that they don't believe can ever happen to them. I've lived most of my life. I think I am ready to just rest. I don't believe for one second that merely vetting candidates does one damned thing to right all the wrongs. I don't for one second trust the v****g booth - it is so thoroughly CORRUPTED that it is useless to decent Americans. I no longer trust the Constitution because the chances of getting people into office in sufficient quantity to actually FOLLOW the Constitution is, in my view, slim to none. This crap has been allowed to continue unimpeded for far too long. Too much tyranny has been instituted and legalized that I think it could take up to a century to turn it around.
I know I sound defeatist, and to be t***hful, I'd rather wear that realistic label than that of a pie-in-the-sky dreamer who cannot see reality. If my freedoms are threatened, physically threatened, I intend to defend them and myself. Our government is a rogue one that should not be in power, but Americans made it happen. Those Americans were not on my side, and as far as I am concerned, it's about time those Americans learn what they have wrought. I will never work against the US Constitution as written, and I will never bow to socialism or tyranny. That's the most I can promise anyone these days. But I will never hush about the socialists. Once we leave them alone, they will have won.
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I understand what you are saying and find most your points as nothing I can dispute.
That admitted, might I suggest you consider a different tach. I wrote a short post on here some time ago where I laid out a plan to gather like minded folks from your area and then working together, while pooling resources. This way you could hold the politicians feet to the fire.
Remember. Writing a letter to a politician is like pissing into the wind. What they fear is publicity which they cannot control.
Think back and remember that no one should expect you to carry the load by yourself.