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Causes of the Midterm Failures
Will America live on after last night’s elections? The truth is I don’t know. How can we be optimistic when there are people being elected in this country who actively have ties to people who think we deserved 9/11? Even if they don’t win but get something like 48% of the vote, how is that even possible? How are there that many people that hate this country? Are we that far gone?
There’s no way around it. Last night was an awful night for patriotism, small government, and freedom. It begs the question of who is responsible for last night’s terrible election results. There is not one single answer. There are many.
1) The do-nothing Republican party has not delivered. The Big Beautiful Bill was a mixed bag (I say about 60% good and 40% bad). They did not pass the Save America Act, so voter integrity is not a thing. The party’s establishment does not know what to do with power, and to an extent, they would rather be in the minority. They raise more money that way. Mitch McConnell was completely useless as a leader before, and John Thune is completely useless now. They have both failed us. Until we have grass roots conservatives in positions of leadership, this process will continue to repeat itself. In two years, this party got very little done while holding both houses of Congress and the Executive.
No One on the Left Knows What Fascism Is
Fascism is defined as an ultimate authoritarian form of government. Some define it as far-right – those sources are skewed and need to be ignored. It is quite impossible for the philosophy of fascism to compatible with conservatism – which seeks smaller government. Communism and socialism jive much more with fascism, because they are trying to accomplish the same thing. Ultimate government control. These DSA candidates have made no secret about it – they want to eliminate the private sector altogether. That’s fascism. They have said your private health care will be illegal. That’s fascism. They have said government should take over business, pointing at one of their favorite success stories – Elon Musk, as an example. They want a takeover of SpaceX, and they call us the fascists? Musk has not only been a hugely successful innovator, but he has created wealth for millions of others. Fascism or communism would not allow that. It would stop the innovation.
When government is the only place to go to for food, that’s fascism. When government runs the grocery store, the healthcare system, when they say you can have any one you want, as long as it’s this one – that’s fascism. They want government owning as much as they can. When they own the food supply, they will own the people.
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SC Election Results Were Not Affected by Transplants
Many in South Carolina were quick to blame northern transplants for their election results the other day. They have been saying for years that this was the case, and it is provably false. How are states people are moving from getting bluer and states they are moving to getting bluer? They aren’t. It was a bad election here for the same reasons it was a bad election everywhere else. In fact, South Carolina did relatively well compared to other places. Texas, for instance, did a lot worse.
Obviously the big one that has everyone buzzing here was Darline Graham losing her election bid to Annie Andrews. It was a fluke election, and Andrews will probably have only one term, but South Carolina will have a Democrat in the Senate for the first time in 28 years. Graham was a terrible candidate. She didn’t know information during debates. She isn’t all that smart, and the last name Graham was not a qualifier. Nepotism is not a reason to vote for someone. President Trump should not have forced her on us.
Our Choices For Senate: Bad and Worse
Darline Graham has not earned my vote.
Everything that was true about her during the primary is still true. She is not qualified to be a Senator and only received the position due to nepotism. She is not particularly intelligent, and will likely carry on the same warmongering, USAID loving, politically convenient policies that her brother did. And at some point, she will probably stab President Trump in the back, like her brother did.
So what are the options? Well, voting Democrat is not one. This blogger has never voted for a Democrat in his life and never will. In the case of this year’s senate race, the Democrat, Annie Andrews, is for child castration (though she is trying to deny it and moderate her image in a red state). It has earned her the nickname “Tranny Annie.”
On the other end, the establishment in this state has been a huge disappointment in the roughly 6 years I have lived here (and before that). Just about every time, the Republican party puts up the closest candidate to a Democrat with an R after their name. They generally have conservative voting records around 50% or lower, where over 80% is what ought to be expected. Lindsey Graham was no exception. It’s what Rush Limbaugh used to refer to as “Democrat-lite.”
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