I surmise that your idea is not to convert the minds of the blue in blue states, but to awaken into effective activism those who suffer under their malicious policies and ideologies. I’ve always believed the common citizen to be far more wise and prudent than those who rule over him.
There are 519,682 elected officials in the United States. How is it that so many of them are walking affronts to a constitutional republic? How did they even get on the ballot when, in principle, they would violate their oath of office the first hour they are sworn in?
The best strategy is to identify those who have time, ability, and zeal effectively to counter the left in two fundamental places: the ballot and counting the votes.
The latter could piggyback on True the Vote. Their effort would be to implement policies that guarantee any voter the ability to see *how his vote was counted.* The former should work under True the Ballot (if there were such a thing). These would vet every single candidate for public office by testing their ability to articulate constitutional and civic principles. If they cannot tell the difference btween a right and a privilege, then they have no business running for office, let alone voting.
This information and effort should be coordinated on a national scale, so that any citizen may easily drill down on those he choses, or assents, to have in office.
As of now, if we do not sink our teeth into the vote counts and ballots, we will forever cede rule to those we despise and who despise us, which is very much the case at hand.
The best demographic I can imagine to engage in these efforts are retirees who are active in their local GOP. You only need about 12 in each county who will fully devote time and effort to both of these fundamentals, namely accurate vote counts allowing the individual to audit his own vote, and ballot content that reflects candidates who truly understand what a constitutional republic is all about.
As is stands, we could ask every single one of those 519,682 elected officials, “What is the difference between a right and a privilege?”, give them one hour to think about it and write down their answer, and we’d be fortunate if 10% could respond in accord with historic western jurisprudence.
Having attended one or two meetings of my local GOP, it seems apparent their efforts are largely concentrated on fundraising rather than vetting candidates for principled governance.
Thanks for the post and your obviously well thought out response. My idea is more to getting our people out of the deep blue states. We’ve already seen that the radical left targets those who cause them trouble. I expect that to get gradually worse. Its only a matter of time till the average Joe who dares speak their mind in a deep blue area will find themselves a target. We’re already seeing the start of it. At what point do conservatives find themselves targeted merely because of their party affiliation?
While I’m certainly in the minority here, I don’t see spending time and money on voting system as being effective A lot of that is born of personal experience making the sausage as it were within the gop but moreso within the democrat party. To continue the sausage making analogy, conservatives are now focusing like a laser on the voting, which is really the final packaging of the sausage, but omitting all the steps that came before that. Such as the feeding and quality of the inputs, and how its processed. Or even if sausage is to be made. Bluntly, the elections system from start to finish is largely outside the average persons control. The larger culture though is more amenable to change and influence.
I do like your adaptation of the letter writing idea. Why not use it to vet people? Or even to encourage folks to run? Not my cup of tea, but I’ll tell you that the decision to challenge, even a so called “safe” seat is a big deal. Because it costs the opposition resources.
I’ll end with a true story. You probably have heard of Winsome Sears. What you probably haven’t heard is that she once ran for Congress against a black democrat Congressman by the name of Bobby Scott. It was a safe seat for him. But by running she cost the opposition resources that couldn’t be spent elsewhere. She lost of couse. The mistake that the VA gop made was not seeing that as a grooming and battle test for bigger office at the time. She was out of politics really for the better part of a decade. Part of that was due to a personal tragedy, but still.She was not expected to win this race either and wasn’t well funded. This was an obvious star who was ignored until she basically got herself elected largely on her own.