Ah yes, another way of what I have been saying for years:
Winning is only a precursor; it is what you do AFTERWARDS that is most important.
To wit, you win only to get something done. Or, miserably true, to just BE someone. Winning is important but not the end all be all – the moral of both my meme and the RedState post. It is voting for the person that in persuading me that their beliefs are mine and that I can TRUST that they will honor their pledges once assuming office. Sadly, in many cases, the voters on the Right get duped as “Winning” then turns to be the operative word – and the ONLY operative word. Caruso continues:
As one of the first people to declare that I would never vote for Donald Trump, I am constantly barraged by people telling me there are only two choices in the presidential election. One of them is Donald Trump and the other is Hillary Clinton.
When reminded the election is not a binary choice and other candidates are available, I am almost always met with, “But none of those other candidates can win! Why would you waste a vote?” It is this mindset that reveals a total of lack of understanding of why we vote in the United States.
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And their end goal? Certainly not what the Founders envisioned. If anything, Progressivism is all about regression – putting back into place governments that ruled from above instead of cherishing Individual Rights. Land of the Free? Not in Progressivism where individuals will be subsidiary to the State – just like before our Revolution:
For nothing says Freedom like a government that IS telling you exactly how you will live – after all, unlimited means no boundaries for it (whereas the Founders were all about limiting its power) and if it can take your money simply to give it to others, what else CAN’T it do TO you?