This week I wrote some thoughts on the recent midterm elections for IM-1776, and offered advice to the opposition party on where it should focus its immediate energies.
“Knives Out For America First”
An excerpt:
While the divide between our nation’s elites and the political opposition’s rank-and-file is riven with many fault lines, “free and fair” elections are now the epicenter of the conflict; defeat here will mean defeat everywhere. For decades — and especially in recent years — Americans have experienced a profound loss of liberty. While their common culture continues to lag behind our elites’ aggressive consolidation of economic and political power, everyday Americans feel this loss of freedom acutely and continue to cling to the stated rights and privileges afforded them by the old order. At the heart of these expectations is consent — that the state’s power and authority are derived from the consent of the governed. Arguably, this is also the essence of America First: a people’s simple desire for greater sovereignty in the presence of sweeping economic changes and invasive social tinkering by a state that neither respects nor consults them. Your average American does not accept that We the People is merely rhetorical or that the old order’s system of representative government is a ceremonial farce. Even as he obeys the infinite diktats of faceless bureaucrats, he believes the source of their power fundamentally resides with him; he has moral authority and can exercise some influence over his political system.
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Always,
Lee
Hey fren. Got knicked on Twatter. Your latest thread on FDR era commies was fantastic. Talk to you in a week when this New Cruelty's at an end.
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