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The most effective way to get to the heart of a person’s core ideology is to watch what happens when they stretch the limits of their thinking and extrapolate upon their beliefs to the outer limits of reason, or in some instances, beyond reason.
Conservatives are generally pro-life, but what about when the life of the mother is at actual risk? Liberals are wary of guns, but given their druthers, would they vote to remove the Second Amendment from the U.S. Constitution? Would those who believe healthcare should be a right instead of a commodity go so far as to eliminate all private health insurance? These are the type of questions that usually don’t get asked because the real, heartfelt answers would be politically unpalatable. Given that divisions will always exist in a free country, the center holds because extreme measures are rejected by an organically achieved balance of voter preferences. Barack Obama might have wished to establish a full government-run socialist healthcare system, and if Donald Trump had his way, the border wall would have begun construction the day he was inaugurated. Political reality in a constitutional republic made such explosively controversial goals unattainable.
But then along came the woke progressive movement of today, tearing up the political playbook by calling for what, at the time, was thought to be arguably the most extreme measure to enter mainstream conversation in memory. Defunding the police took left-wing one-step thinking to new heights. Since there are some bad cops, the argument went, we need to eliminate all police. Oh, they have tried to backtrack by saying, Yogi Berra-like, that they didn’t really say what they said, that when they said defund – over and over for months on end during the summer of 2020 – they didn’t actually mean defund – more like reform. Yeah, that’s it, reform.
Now, it couldn’t get any worse than seriously proposing to replace cops with social workers, could it? Well, somehow, the answer is yes. Doing the near-impossible by making defunding the police look reasonable by comparison, progressives led […]
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They’re Trying to Shut Us Down
Over the last several months, I’ve lost count of how many times the powers-that-be have tried to shut us down. They’ve sent hackers at us, forcing us to take extreme measures on web security. They sent attorneys after us, but thankfully we’re not easily intimidated by baseless accusations or threats. They’ve even gone so far as to make physical threats. Those can actually be a bit worrisome but Remington has me covered.
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