Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance
You can call me a conspiracy theorist all you’d like, but I can’t help but believe that the odds are just constantly stacked against Republicans, which is what makes J.D. Vance’s performance at the Vice Presidential debate on Tuesday a six sigma outlier, instead of just a ‘good job’.
Maybe it’s me getting older, but it’s difficult for me to see how, if Republicans are given an even playing field to disseminate their policies and positions, they won’t come out on top at least 6 times out of 10. Yet here we are in this country — deadlocked almost every election.
To me, things like personal responsibility, liberty, less regulation, lower taxes, peace through strength, secure borders, law and order, feverish protection of constitutional rights, and small government simply make the most sense. Perhaps it was how I was raised, or perhaps it’s due to the unique experiences I’ve endured over the course of my life. I’m not foolish enough to think that everybody feels the same way I do, but I’d like to think I’m smart enough to think that the more freedom people are given, the more they have a chance to take their lives in the direction that best suits them.
The GOP offers up freedom tangibly, through less government in people’s lives and fewer Federal regulations. Democrats purport to offer up freedom by mandating the policies they like the best, crowing them the ‘fair’ way forward, telling everybody that disagrees with them that they can’t be critical of them, and assuming everyone will benefit from the broad brush they paint with while they make speeches laden with the words freedom and Democracy.
Minding your own business — a recent staple of Tim Walz’s campaign speeches despite running with a pro-censorship candidate — seems simple enough. You don’t tell me how to live, and I won’t tell you how to live.
But Republican pro-freedom, smaller-government policies never seem to be the obvious choice for half the country. Why is that?
Some of the country is just naturally averse to taking responsibility for their own actions and making their own decisions—these people don’t mind having the government do their thinking for them. I understand that. And you have other people that ignore the majority of the Republican platform because they don’t agree with certain issues contained therein. For example, if being pro-choice is your number one priority, you’re likely to vote down that ticket, regardless of what collateral damage comes with it. I understand that too. And look, it’s easy for me to separate the candidate from the policies I’m voting for, but some people can’t do that. Some people simply hate Donald Trump so much that they wouldn’t vote for him even if he were running on the Democratic side of the aisle. I understand that, too.
But if I were drunk at an airport bar at three in the morning and had to do a back-of-the-cocktail-napkin analysis on where these concessions would leave us in terms of dividing up the country, I’d still expect to see at least 60% of the country siding with policies that favor conservative positions. Think about all of the moderate Democrats you know in your life: I have tons of friends who vote Democratic and are law-abiding, productive, civilized members of society, successful in business, and happy in their lives. Why would those people, so efficient elsewhere in their lives, become so inefficient when having to choose a slate of policy prescriptions?
Some of it, I can attribute to them not having an understanding of the issues. Many young people who don’t know how the world works are Democrats. Hell, I was a Democrat until I was about 25 years old, when I discovered libertarianism. Some people never leave that echo chamber from their youth, however — they don’t have the capacity necessary to do so, it leaves their ego bruised, or they simply don’t want to be a part of the party that’s ‘unpopular’ amongst their friends.
Others don’t have the open mindedness necessary to make such grand changes. How many fully grown Democrats have really taken the time to try and listen to Peter Schiff instead of Paul Krugman on economics? How many have tried to take an objective look at Vladimir Putin’s reasons for invading Ukraine? How many dug through the early data on Covid, and treatments like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine on their own instead of simply listening to commandments handed down from Dr. Fauci?
Now, cast those well-meaning Democrats aside, too—maybe that gets us to about 50% of the country leaning right and 45% leaning left. The other 5% make up the pool of independent voters and thinkers that are the target of both parties every single election day. I call this group the “winning margin of error.” For me, it’s difficult to understand how a group of open-minded, critically-thinking individuals would lean left nowadays under any circumstances. But that’s where the very last ingredient in the uneven playing field recipe comes in: the media.
With the exception of Fox News, most of the mainstream media has done a great job over the last few election cycles openly tipping their hand as Democratic operatives...(READ THIS FULL ARTICLE, FREE, HERE).
