FRiends, please stop and think HARD about this thread. I would propose putting this thread aside for current comments until we’ve all had enough time to think this through.
We FReepers ARE a political movement, whether we want to admit it or not. We’re on the vanguard of conservative — maybe capital C type conservative — thought and we must not waste our shot.
For this reason, a FReeper Platform is a very, very important thing. We voice the conservative populace better than most places so we MUST voice it correctly.
I would ask the mods and admins to hold this thread in abeyance for several weeks, but with reminders that we need to write this platform carefully, for the good of the nation.
Democrats are mostly communists; we know that. Republican elites are just Democrat-Lite, in favor of bigger government, more control over the peasants and crony capitalism for their pals. Conservatives are a beaten-down minority that USUALLY espouses the Constitutional and limited-government positions that Republicans once held sacred. Then there are the FReepers.
Do you see now why “our” platform is exceedingly important and must not be wasted on snide sniping and humorous comments? This is big stuff, folks!
In other words, maybe WE are the political party we’ve been waiting for!
I’d like to add:
Buy American.
Thank you.
The very reason we are in such bad shape is that we try to act like aristocrats and the landed gentry rather than the rednecks and ruffians that founded this God blessed nation. So we go PC rather than have a free for all and let the cream rise and the cow poo sink? I started this as a conversation, not all comments will be helpful but all comments will help.