tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post5129513766769443249..comments2023-12-26T06:45:10.388-05:00Comments on Radio Werewolf: Why Conservatives Can't WinReichsmarshalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02809939513525149584noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post-19881372966958210182009-06-23T22:16:30.988-04:002009-06-23T22:16:30.988-04:00In the absence of welfare, social security and a l...In the absence of welfare, social security and a lot of other things the federal government could fund its operations with tariffs and a steep poll tax. Those wanting to influence the direction of government would also have to help pay for it. <br /><br />Jerome J Junglebunny isn't gonna cough up $500 or even $200 in order to vote. As it is the Dems have had to actually sponsor bus rides to get nigs to the polls in places like southern Ohio. <br /><br />Second, tests can be defeated by crooked polls. I remember reading an anecdote online about how RFK and his cronies went into the Puerto Rican slums of NYC handing out the answers to the NY literacy test. I was shocked to know that any Northern states had literacy tests, but NY did and RFK apparently wanted to nudge NY into the Democratic column that year. <br /><br />Anything that makes it harder to vote helps the right in America, and conversely our enemies want to eliminate all barriers to voting. I remember seeing a poster urging the homeless to vote.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post-71845632364028360632009-06-23T21:43:47.869-04:002009-06-23T21:43:47.869-04:00A $500 poll tax is a little steep. I would propose...A $500 poll tax is a little steep. I would propose instead that a potential voter be able to pass a simple written test on basic civics and comprehension of the issues. This would weed out a majority of the undesirables right there. Consider the youtube videos that showed ignorant coons who couldn't tell the difference between Sarah Palin's policy positions and Obongo's.<br /><br />Too bad about Hayworth. One of the few men I respected in a town(D.C.) full of vermin. And with Tancredo out, we've got virtually no one with a pair of balls in the House to stand up to the mestizo plague.Reichsmarshalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809939513525149584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post-88946453191485868832009-06-19T20:37:59.282-04:002009-06-19T20:37:59.282-04:00Arpaio is a product of a conservative local politi...Arpaio is a product of a conservative local political culture. During the election of 1964 only five states voted for Goldwater over LBJ, all of them were in the Deep South except for AZ, which produced Goldwater. One other mark of how conservative this state is (was?) is that AZ has the lowest unemployment benefits in the US, capped at $240 a week. Go to page five on <a href="https://egov.azdes.gov/CMS400Min/InternetFiles/Pamphlets/pdf/pau-007-PD.pdf" rel="nofollow">this PDF</a> to see what I mean. <br /><br />My long term fear for AZ is the long term influx of people from other states with different political cultures from ours. The northeast of the Phoenix metro area (Scottsdale, Fountain Hills) is the wealthy area that produced Goldwater in the 1960's and is where McCain makes his home today. A few elections ago the congressman from that area ran explicitly anti-illegal immigration ads and lost to a liberal. The Republican's name was JD Hayworth and despite years of service he lost, I believe to the influx of Northerners into the area who brought their stupidity with them. Arizona has an immigration problem, but it is not coming from Mexico. <br /><br />It seems every conservative I run into online seems to have read Heinlein. Personally, I would love to have a $500 poll tax for every person who registers to vote, and no income tax. The only problem I can foresee with limiting suffrage this way is that most of our upper class loves Mestizos. <br /><br />As for the barbarians entering Rome in the last sentence, I would love to be overrun with waves of German illegals, but instead I get Mexicans. <br /><br />However, I would love it if our current wave barbarians would sack and burn DC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post-47940419753457969702009-06-19T14:27:47.319-04:002009-06-19T14:27:47.319-04:00This essay has been in my archives for a while now...This essay has been in my archives for a while now, and my intent has always been to republish it. It is timely and does come to mind due to our previous conversations, but don't feel singled out or persecuted. It's food for thought directed at all of us.<br /><br />I will say this: the old saying "all politics is local" has a lot of merit. I go to the voting booth not so much with any hopes that Chump A is better than Chump B in a national election, but things on the local level are important and most voters usually go "eeny meeny minie moe" when selecting judges, county sheriffs, prosecutors, etc. <br /><br />Having a guy like, say Sheriff Arpaio on the local level is far more important than having some back stabbing piece of shit at the state capitol or in Washington.<br /><br />In my mind, the only real reason to vote Republican in a national election is the Supreme Court in the hopes that a President will nominate someone who will interpret the Constitution as the Founders intended it, and not through the prism of group identity politics and "empathy" as with the debacle we are now faced with. Once they stack that particular deck against us, there is no question that our only solution is physical resistance to total tyranny.<br /><br />Here is the notion of "democracy" in a nut shell:<br /><br />"A perfect democracy, a 'warm body' democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally has no internal feedback for self correction. It depends solely on the wisdom and self-restraint of citizens...which is opposed by the folly and lack of self-restraint of other citizens. What is supposed to happen in a democracy is that each sovereign citizen will always vote in the public interest for the safety and welfare of all. But what does happen is that he votes his own self-interest as he sees it...which for the majority translates as 'Bread and Circuses'<br /><br />"Bread and Circuses is the cancer of democracy, the fatal disease for which there is no cure. Democracy often works beautifully at first. But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader--the barbarians enter Rome."<br /><br />-- Lazarus Long, in Robert Heinlein's To Sail Beyond the SunsetReichsmarshalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02809939513525149584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1920653728727281747.post-45529972468825499112009-06-19T04:51:22.624-04:002009-06-19T04:51:22.624-04:00I'll take it this post was directed to me.I'll take it this post was directed to me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com