Since forever, Republican politicians and their apologists in conservative media would assure their constituents that unless the latter voted \u201cRepublican,\u201d the country would go to Hell in a handbasket\u2014or, what amounts to essentially the same thing, be \u201cfundamentally transformed\u201d into a socialist dystopia.<\/p>\n
We owe it to ourselves and, especially, to our children, you see, to vote against Democrats and for <\/em>Republicans at every turn.<\/p>\n To be clear, it is never sufficient to vote for a third party candidate or to simply abstain from voting altogether.\u00a0 The only way that one can adequately \u201cdefeat the left\u201d is by voting for Republican candidates\u2014regardless of how otherwise indistinguishable those candidates may be from their Democrat rivals.<\/p>\n Talk radio host Michael Medved was doubtless representative of his colleagues throughout the universe of Big Conservative media when he would tirelessly ridicule those members of his own audience who, having reached their limit with the perpetual pattern of broken promises and acts of betrayal on the part of the self-styled \u201cconservative\u201d Republicans for whom they always voted, would threaten to vote for third party candidates.\u00a0 Medved would refer to them as \u201closetarians\u201d while informing them that, if they were really upset with the GOP, they needed to reform the party from within<\/em>.<\/p>\n Of course\u2014and this is germane to the topic of this column\u2014when the GOP candidates were those, like George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitt Romney, over whom Medved and his ilk waxed orgasmic, then this counsel of Medved\u2019s was framed as if it was axiomatic.\u00a0 When, however, conservative Republican voters acted <\/em>on Medved\u2019s imperative and voted in record numbers for Donald Trump, Medved failed resoundingly to practice what he preached: He blasted Trump at every turn and became, if not in theory than in practice, a \u201cNeverTrumper.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2020, Medved wrote an editorial in which he announced that he would be voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n Whether Medved ever realized it or not\u2014whether or not he cared\u2014the members of his audience, those who made him the success that he became as a nationally syndicated talk radio host, felt betrayed.\u00a0 It\u2019s not just that he disagreed with them over the virtues of a President Trump; rather, he personally<\/em> betrayed them, failing to practice what he had been preaching to the unwashed masses, the little people, for years.<\/p>\n Medved paid for what his audience justifiably regarded as his elitism, his arrogance, his condescension, and, ultimately, his hypocrisy.\u00a0 He lost his employment at Salem Broadcasting and is today working his local market in the state of Washington.<\/p>\n The point of this column, however, is not Michael Medved.\u00a0 I focused on Medved here only because his is the proverbial textbook illustration of the vice-ridden mind of the \u201cconservative\u201d public figure who was as eager to betray his constituents as he was to ally himself with the left when it came to a Republican, and a Republican president<\/em> at that, who he disliked.<\/p>\n Well, now, beginning with Tuesday\u2019s Senate run off race in Georgia, is when mistreated conservatives from the Peach State can have themselves some retributive justice.\u00a0 Simply put: They can heed the sage advice of their fellow Georgian, the hero-attorney Lin Wood who has been doing infinitely more to defend President Trump\u2019s position on the need for election integrity than either Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue, and not <\/em>vote for the Republican candidates.<\/p>\n To repeat: Georgian conservatives should not vote for Loeffler and Perdue.<\/p>\n Being in New Jersey, I can\u2019t, unfortunately, have the satisfaction of not voting for them. Decent folks from Georgia, though, most certainly can.<\/p>\n The ability to make this decision will require your average conservative to move beyond his comfort zone and adopt a mindset dramatically different in many respects from anything that he has ever experienced before.\u00a0 It will require the average conservative to liberate himself from the Matrix, the Fake Reality that has been concocted by the Big GAME (Government-Academia-Media-Entertainment) Complex and to the construction of which the Republican Party and Big Conservative media axis has contributed much.<\/p>\n All conservatives and, come this Tuesday, Georgia conservatives specifically, must ask themselves:<\/p>\n Substantively, how has voting for the GOP improved my life, or that of the country?<\/p>\n Then <\/em>they should ask themselves a follow up question, no less important than the first:<\/p>\n Substantively, how will not voting for the GOP improve my life, and that of the country?<\/p>\n Einstein is credited with having remarked that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result.\u00a0 Conservatives have been voting for Republican politicians for decades, and yet there isn\u2019t a shred of evidence that doing so has advanced the conservative agenda a millimeter.<\/p>\n Quite the contrary, there is mountainous, incalculable, ubiquitous evidence that the country has steadily moved, and continues to move, leftward.\u00a0 Due to space constraints, however, I won\u2019t bother going back decades.\u00a0 I\u2019ll keep it simple and just focus on\u20262020.<\/p>\n Consider all that has occurred since just last March:<\/p>\n Almost overnight, the country bequeathed to us by the generation that, in the midst of a smallpox epidemic, fought and defeated the most powerful empire in the world in order to be a self-governing union of sovereign states subjected itself to a nationwide internment<\/em>.<\/p>\n The United State of America became the Interned States of America as the Constitution of the Old Republic was indefinitely revoked, the economy crushed, and \u201cthe little platoons\u201d\u2014as Burke referred to those buffers between the individual and the State, those forms of community constitutive of civil society and in the absence of which human flourishing would be impossible\u2014were radically undermined.<\/p>\n All of this immeasurable economic, psychological, and socio-cultural damage was executed in the name of combatting a corona cold virus that, having a survival rate of 99.9%, is no less dangerous than seasonal influenza.<\/p>\n And all of this occurred in a country with a Republican President, a Republican-controlled Senate, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, and a majority of whose state legislatures and governors are Republican.<\/p>\n Then, but two months after the Internment began, Black Lives Matter and Antifa violence exploded throughout hundreds of American cities. Police stood down as they and, crucially, their supporters were victimized by thugs.\u00a0 The White House itself was besieged as monuments to American heroes and other symbols of Western civilization were vandalized and destroyed with impunity while both the street vermin who were directly culpable for the destruction as well as the vermin who funded this campaign escaped the punishment that they deserved.<\/p>\n And all of this occurred in a country with a Republican President, a Republican-controlled Senate, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, and a majority of whose state legislatures and governors are Republican.<\/p>\n Despite months of warnings that mail-in voting would lead to massive election fraud, the world watched, and continues to watch, as a historically unprecedented number of Americans to have ever voted for a presidential candidate have their votes stolen.<\/p>\n And this is happening in a country with a Republican President, a Republican-controlled Senate, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, and a majority of whose state legislatures and governors are Republican.<\/p>\n Big Tech has systematically suppressed anyone and everyone who has dared to expose the conventional narratives surrounding \u201cThe Virus,\u201d Black Lives Matter, and the Great Steal of 2020.<\/p>\n And it continues to do all of this in a country with a Republican President, a Republican-controlled Senate, a Supreme Court dominated by Republican appointees, and a majority of whose state legislatures and governors are Republican.<\/p>\n All of the above happened in just 2020 alone.<\/p>\n The Republicans, along with Big Conservative media, not only didn\u2019t prevent it; they encouraged it.<\/p>\n So, why exactly is it imperative to vote Republican?\u00a0 How, exactly, will Republicans stop the left, and stop them from doing what, exactly?<\/p>\n These are the questions that honest people, and honest conservatives, must ask themselves\u2014even though the questions are self-evidently rhetorical.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since forever, Republican politicians and their apologists in conservative media would assure their constituents that unless the latter voted \u201cRepublican,\u201d the country would go to Hell in a handbasket\u2014or, what amounts to essentially the same thing, be \u201cfundamentally transformed\u201d into a socialist dystopia. 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