re: Axios: Nikki Haley being considered for VP

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You own this mess. This is your mess.

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First of all, I keep repeating that I agree that Republicans have not lived up to conservatism they way any of us (true conservatives) would have liked. I understand why you populists keep pretending I never said that, but it's getting old.

But that aside, let's pretend that you really were onto some logic that would make this "my mess" that I "own."

Let's see where we are in 2024.

At this point in time we have the most comfortable lifestyles, the most protected civil rights, the least racism and bigotry, the most opportunity, the biggest homes, the most advanced technology, the smallest gap between the luxuries enjoyed by different socio-economic classes, the best health care, and the greatest opportunity for the most people to be able to travel to the most places of any society on this planet.

Adjusted for inflation gas prices are about the same as they were in the 1980s. Even with the upturn during COVID and the Ukraine war.

We haven't needed a draft to fight a war in half a century. Which means any wars that we have fought were fought by people who signed up to go fight them.

Cell phones have more computing capability than a computer the size of your refrigerator when I was growing up, and almost everyone in the country has one. Even many homeless people.

The Establishment is what gave us all of the things I listed above. You can't have it both ways.

Now, if you want me to own that "mess," I will.

That's the further problem with your idiot philosophy. As I have explained before, it depends on keeping you sheeple in a constant state of irrational discontent about the state of affairs. That's why it needs all of the conspiracy theories. It has to keep you constantly wanting to tear down "The Establishment" because you're always wringing your hands about some idiot WWIII or aluminum released in the atmosphere to poison people or Biden importing illegals to arm to subdue Americans. Stuff that never happens and that there's no evidence for, but that doesn't deter any of you. You sign right back up for the next idiot theory.

Sure, you can find stuff to bitch about. And I mean you can find stuff to bitch about that is real, not the crackpot conspiracy theory du jour. There is legitimate stuff to push back on.

But in the context of the reality of how much better and easier life has become just in my 53 years on the planet under the leadership of "The Establishment," the constant revolutionary tone nonsense is just silly.

And I didn't say "The Little Guy" is a "bad word."

I said it's a Democrat word (phrase, actually).

If you are all about the Little Guy, that's fine. Just admit that you are a Carter-era Democrat. You are not a conservative. You do not value individual freedom and responsibility. You are a liberal.

That's what YOU need to own.