The Uniparty’s Red Facade

Election season is in full swing in South Carolina. Not only is there a mayoral race coming up this fall, but several very important primaries are already in full campaign mode, even though the primary election isn’t until June of 2026. I’ve been down here for almost five years now, so I’ve seen one full four-year election cycle. What I can tell you is this. The establishment (or uniparty, if you will) has a stranglehold in this state, and when elections are nigh, they will do whatever it takes to retain power. They did it during the last two reorganizations (which occur every two years to elect Republican party leadership), and they are doing it now in the mayoral, senatorial, and gubernatorial races.

I’ve outlined much of the uniparty’s treachery in several of my earlier articles, but here’s a brief summary. South Carolina has a reputation for being a very red state, but it’s not red at all. Sure, most of our elected officials have the letter R after their names, but that’s only the case because they know they cannot win with a D after their names. Down here, it’s not Republican vs. Democrat, it’s Republican vs. Democrat pretending to be Republican. If you look at legislative output, this state turns out a mere 40% conservative legislation, a stat which should alarm just about anyone. But it doesn’t, because the uniparty is great at covering it up and keeping people uninvolved. People do not tune in enough down here. They come here to retire and tune out. They may vote in a primary for the person they saw on a billboard or received numerous amounts of mailings from, AKA the candidate with the most money. But they don’t check voting records. They don’t check history. Personally, my house representative used to be a democrat and worked on Hillary Clinton’s campaign. She pretty much votes like a democrat, and was part of a democrat women’s group. When she ran in my newly formed district, she switched parties, wiped the internet of any history she had as the liberal that she is, and ran as a Republican, and boy was she well funded. She outspent her opponent, whom I knocked on a few hundred doors with, by a margin of about 10 to 1. She was funded by leftist organizations, and got money from the corrupt Chamber of Commerce. But I digress.

The gool ‘ol boys network of South Carolina have been at this for years. Since people from the northeast have been moving down here, they’ve felt threatened. Many of them have made claims that the state is becoming more liberal with the influx of people from states like New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts. But the opposite is really the truth. The people leaving those states are mostly like me, actual conservatives getting out of the northeast for the right reasons. The reason the uniparty actually feels threatened is because we’re shaking up their good ‘ol boy establishment political network. 40% conservative is not acceptable to us. It is to them. Part of their network are court judges. Did you know that South Carolina is one of only two states whose judges are appointed by the legislature? (The other is Virginia.) So when it’s time to make a ruling, do you think they are interested in justice, or scratching the backs of those who appointed them or did them favors? Here in Horry county, conservatives stepped up to the plate in 2021 and took over the Republican party for the right reasons from the political establishment. Since the establishment types didn’t like this, they formed a secret underground group, self-labeled the “GOP Pirates” and secretly plotted ways to undermine conservative leadership. (I’ve written about this several times before, so check out my past articles on the blog. Another great resource of information is the website goppirates.weluvgolf.com. On that site, the establishment corruption is laid out, and it’s shown how this corruption worked its way all the way up to the state level.) When this went to court, the judge sided with the establishment, despite all the facts, underhanded tactics, and sneakiness perpetrated by the pirates.

Open primaries are another big problem in South Carolina. An open primary is one where regardless of the party of the voter, they can vote in either major party’s primaries. This benefits the establishment big time. The establishment can (and do) court democrat voters to vote for them. These democrat voters, knowing they likely have no shot at winning a general election, will vote in the republican primary and choose the most liberal candidate. This happens here frequently, and it’s a big problem. Drew McKissick, the chair of the state Republican party and a massively corrupt politician, stated before his most recent crooked reelection that he was in favor of closed primaries. But he really isn’t. It would hurt him if we had closed primaries here. About 80% of the Republicans in the state House of Representatives and Senate are part of the uniparty, and their voting records would back that up. There is a small faction called the Freedom Caucus who do not stab us in the back like their counterparts, and we need to grow this faction. Closed primaries would jeopardize the establishment if they could not get the democrat votes they need to get over the top. McKissick was merely appealing to conservatives before an election with a promise he had no intention of keeping.

So that’s South Carolina’s politics in a nutshell. I got involved in 2022 because I met some of the patriots in charge of the Republican party at a gun show, liked what they stood for, and wanted to change things here however I could. It’s the apathetic attitude most of the citizens here employ that needs to change. Most of them have no idea what’s going on behind the scenes. It’s up to us to raise awareness. If not us, who? If not now, when?