Is it just me or does it feel like a shitload of stuff happened in the past 4 months?
I am convinced the Biden administration is practicing accelerationism at this point. Feels like a fucking slog that we have to deal with 4 months of this shit until we can at least cockblock them.
Yes, yes, I know... stealing the election, "fortificaiton", etc. There's been several strong wins the past month for the right-populists, but I understand your black pill about this shit.
For me I just want the bleeding to stop and give us some fucking breathing room, but the Biden administration is trying so damn hard to shove as much retarded shit through.
It always makes me wonder who his handlers are. Who is feeding him all this far left bullshit to pass that 6 years ago wasnt even his fucking platform?
In my opinion the right wing needs to play to its strengths. The right thrives in hierarchal organizations where sole individuals have authority and responsibility, and individuals in positions of higher authority and responsibility selectively delegate some authority and responsibility downward. We aren't built for the sorts of consensus building and group decision-making systems in which the left seems to thrive.
My recommendation when building such a list would be to keep that in mind. Consider local offices where individuals have sole authority and responsibility in an area, and try to get our guys in positions to exercise it. County Sheriff is the obvious candidate, as are judges, but even positions like insurance commissioners could be useful provided they have discretionary powers.
Seats on a council are less interesting unless you plan to pack the council with people who will vote as a unified block.
Yep, the right wing is good at being a "rules based" organization - i.e. like the military. It needs to get into power those that will respect the rule of law, authority, etc. and won't gladly fucking leak shit like Supreme Court documents to the leftist press.
It is clear the people who are in power right now have ZERO respect for that shit.
It goes beyond that. The Senate is a "rules based" organization in that votes are heavily procedural. But there's no hierarchy: every Senator's vote counts the same. So someone like Rand Paul is wasted in the Senate, because his personal values of honor, integrity, duty, etc... aren't shared by pretty much anyone else in the Senate and have no ability to affect the behavior of anyone else in the Senate. So the vote on a "shit on the Constitution" bill goes 99-1 instead of 100-0. Great job; you really accomplished something.
Whereas if he was say Governor of Kentucky he might actually be able to clean that house a bit: set policies based on a strict interpretation of the State constitution, fire underlings who didn't follow them, etc... He would have some ability to impose his personal integrity and duty onto the executive function of the state.
Of course we saw the limits of that with Trump: a bureaucracy can become so big (or an executive's personal value system can be so far out of step with the organization's) that control ceases to be possible. Which is why I tend to be of the opinion that the right needs to focus on governments that are smaller and/or more manageable.
Man, Governor Rand Paul would make my jimmies quite erect, no homo.