The New Uniparty in D.C.

     THE PROGRESSIVES FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE HAVE MERGED INTO THE NEW UNIPARTY

    I am sure that I am not alone in my frustration with the "New Uniparty" in D.C., which is made up of narcissists and sycophants from both sides of the aisle (Democrats and Republicans), led by "The Radical" in the White House, Barack Hussein Obama and RINO House leader John Boehner.  These corrupt and self-seeking elected leaders have united against the will of We the People. The Radical devises unconstitutional, often illegal, bills and executive orders and the Chief RINO feigns anger and then caves quickly with very little fight. It is a formula that has been repeated with such regularity and predictability that you have to wonder if Boehner and crew are incompetent or complicit. I think we all know the answer to that by now. If the establishment Republicans have not underhandedly united with the Progressives in the Democratic Party, then they have to be the biggest losers in the history of this country. The Progressive agenda has been forwarded in the last six years with precision and at a mind-blowing rate of success to the horror of those who have been watching. It has not slowed, even with the Republican gains in the last election, as we saw with the blocking of the DHS funding bill meant to halt executive amnesty,  the passing of Net Neutrality, and the appointment of Lynch as US Attorney General. All we have gained is another RINO in charge, Mitch McConnell. He is not on our side. Clearly, he too belongs to the New Uniparty.
      Yet there are still very committed Conservative activists who continue to hold onto the Republican Party. I understand the conflict. I have been a true blue Republican for 30 years, even though they alienated me years ago, and even though they no longer seem to care about the Republican Party Platform, which most represents my principles and beliefs.  I understand too that locally we do not have the same problems as nationally, however, we have seen some of the same shenanigans recently. If you need a refresher on what that platform used to represent, go to https://www.gop.com/platform/.  I personally can no longer support and promote their causes, but I still have not changed my affiliation as of yet. The Republicans in D.C. no longer promote or protect their platform. They don't mention it, they don't fight for it, and in fact have abandoned it along with our Constitution. They are embarrassed by their own platform.
   

REPUBLICANS HAVE UNITED WITH THEIR NATURAL ENEMY AGAINST THE TEA PARTY AND OTHER CONSERVATIVE GROUPS

    Although I have been involved in the TEA Party Movement since 2009, which began as a non-partisan movement based almost entirely on lower taxes, debt and deficits and smaller government,  it is no secret that out of the two parties, the Republican Party most represented TEA Party principles. To my astonishment, establishment Republicans in D.C. have united with their "natural enemy" the Progressives against the TEA Party! They have done this despite the fact that the TEA Party was instrumental in the GOP gaining a majority in the House in 2010 and the Senate in 2014, and despite the fact that the TEA Party would be willing to go to the political frontlines for them to support their candidates and defend their platform. So what gives? I've always heard that when something doesn't make sense...follow the money.
   My theory in short includes: a Manchurian candidate (BHO), greed for personal monetary gain, greed for personal power, career politicians (addicted to status, etc.), radicals (nationwide and worldwide) with varying agendas uniting, lobbyist payoffs, corporate money, labor union money, and constituent donations. All of these have created a cesspool on both sides of the aisle, polluting D.C. with the stench of blackmail, payoffs, elitism, cronyism, and several unholy alliances. It is so dark and convoluted that it is difficult for one person to sort it all out.

ONE THING IS CLEAR: CONSERVATIVES DON'T STAND A CHANCE...

   Conservatism is on its way to becoming, if not illegal, extinct. The New Uniparty will go through the motions of the Left submitting bills or supporting executive orders that shut the mouths of Conservatives or strip them of the ability to fight back. They will use accusations of racism, hate speech labels, 1st Amendment "zones", Net Neutrality, and ultimately gun bans to shut us up and render us defenseless. They are stripping us of our American culture and revising our history in an attempt to devalue our Founders, our Constitution, and those who defend them by demonizing, labeling, and regulating us into extinction. They use our college campuses as breeding grounds for Liberal ideology, teaching anti-Capitalism, Atheism (the God of Science), anti-Semitism (Palestinian oppression), anti-Christian (bigotry), and anti-American ideas as if they are pure academic truths. This has been very effective for them, so they realized that they could "fundamentally change America" quicker if they started in elementary school. The Common Core curriculum will brainwash our children sooner and faster, and many will not be able to stop it from infecting their children. Why, because home schooling will come under further attack because Conservative parents will be deemed backward and unfit. They have infinite resources using the Green Agenda and corporate and labor union funds,  as a blank check for just about anything they want to accomplish. One side uses corporate funds and the other labor union funds to promote the New Uniparty.
    Where is the TEA Party and other Conservative Groups? These groups were very visible, and I might add effective, in 2009-2011, and then something began to change. They weren't as visible. We were told that we would do better to spend our time working from within by volunteering our time at the municipal level on up, sitting on boards, running for office, seeking jobs within the system. They are still out there...we just can't see them! I agree and I too began to get involved locally, but important issues would demand the need for a visible presence in D.C., and very few showed up anymore. I am an organizer. It became harder to fill a bus given a month's notice, when before we could fill six with less than a week's notice. I would hear: no time, not my issue, not an important issue, I'm contributing in other ways, I'm tired, and many other excuses that you just did not hear in 2009. The national TEA Party and Conservative groups grew fat and their administrators grew rich. Yet after every battle that we have lost we get emails from these organizations telling us that we have won...we are just not looking at it correctly. This keeps the donations coming in. The TEA Party really was grassroots. So how did a housewife gone CEO (Tea Party Patriots), or something equivalent, wind up making $400,000 a year? I live on just barely-making-it street in comparison, yet they are begging me for money. The argument that bothered me the most was, it is not my issue. Everybody jumped into their own canoe and labeled it whatever is their pet issue, be it Illegal Immigration, Protecting the Constitution, Energy, Fiscal Responsibility, Elections, and many other Conservative issues. We have been all alone in our own canoes paddling like hell and getting nowhere. During election season we can't unite on candidates: not my state, doesn't support my issue, insulted my rock star politician, not my Party, and more. We were no longer united. We were no longer visible. How has that worked out for us?
    Where is the church? How will the New Uniparty affect them? The church has been largely silent, and unfortunately sometimes on the wrong side of an issue, even when it has been against their theology. They either didn't want to get involved, or they wanted to vote for the first black president, or they fell for the media spin, or they preferred the praise of man, or they wanted to belong, or what I believe to be the largest influence...the threat to their tax exempt status. Some would fight to protect that tax exempt status more vigorously than for the right to preach the whole Word of God or our right to religious freedom. Sure more money allows more good works, but the writing is on the wall that soon that status will be tied very tightly to regulations on the church. You will soon have to choose between your Bible and that tax status. This is where you will see the division of the sheep from the goats. Some churches will decide that it is more important to preach the whole Word of God than to maintain that status. Many will not. Some churches will decide that it is more important for the good of our society to have a voice in the social issue debates. Many will not. Churches should be seriously considering which way they will go when the government gives them the ultimatum to submit to government speech laws, or else.

...UNLESS WE ORGANIZE A UNITED CONSERVATIVE SURGE 

   
   So what do we do? How can we fight back against this New Uniparty? I think it is time that we re-unite in a very visual way. Every single Conservative group has to re-unite at a grassroots level. We need to invite the Jewish and Christian communities to join us. We need to pool our resources. We need to show up for one another. We need to rededicate ourselves to saving this nation from complete destruction by putting down all of our differences, defenses, and egos and anything else that comes between us. Do you think that environmental groups understand or care about gay issues? One Liberal group knows nothing about the other except that they are there to fight against a common enemy. That would be us. We need to unite, sometimes on our very lowest common denominator, our common enemy, which is the Liberal Progressives consisting equally of Democrats and Republicans as the New Uniparty. We must re-unite and fight like hell. We need a surge in Conservative troops against our enemy on every front. Will we or have we already lost the war due to friendly fire?  


A reader asked me what a surge would look like. Great question! Remember 9-11-2009? We need this again, but not for just one day...for as long as it takes! 

  

A Hippie, Conservative Republican, Oh My!

   My daughter recently said to me, "Mom, you are a hippie Conservative Republican. That is a bit of a contradiction, you know?" I thought about it a minute and I knew she was right. I just said, "Yeah, I'm full of them."

    

Republican:  A member of the Republican Party. One of the two primary political parties of the United States, organized in 1854 to oppose the extension of slavery (Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president). My understanding of the Republican Party platform is:

1.  a belief in a strong national defense supporting the military and veterans; 

2. capitalism and free markets with social programs only for a safety net for the truly needy and only for a definitive, restorative period of time; 

3. small government and self-sufficiency (as opposed to government handouts and dependency);

4.  defense of the U.S. Constitution and a belief that it is as relevant today as the day it was written and that it should only be altered by the amendment process that is defined within the document;  

5. pro-life believing that the unborn child has the right to live regardless of how it was conceived or the convenience of a pregnancy [note: many Republicans believe in abortion only in cases of rape and incest]; 

6. freedom of religion not freedom from religion; 

7. capital punishment in the case of heinous crimes involving murder; 

8. moderate environmental protections without over-regulation or punitive actions that hinder the free markets and enrich those abusing a Green Agenda for monetary gain or to use that agenda to further the larger social Progressive Agenda;

9. pro-immigration while anti-illegal immigration; 

10. pro-Israel;

11. for lower taxes;

12. limited spending and borrowing;

13. energy independence by exploring all energy sources including drilling for oil; 

14. and the protection of the right to bear arms.

Conservative:The more "conservative" one is the more they are likely to stand on the Republican platform without wavering. While the "establishment Republican" may be willing to compromise Republican principles, the Conservative Republican will not. 

Hippie: A person, especially of the late 1960s, who rejected established institutions and

values and sought idealistic principles such as peace (anti-war) and love (anti-racism), spontaneity and a willingness to stand for what they believed in (public protests), direct personal relations (sex) expressing love, and expanded consciousness sometimes using drugs such as marijuana and LSD, the refusal to conform to societal norms often expressed externally in the wearing of casual, folksy clothing and of beads, 

head bands, used garments, and by an appreciation of rock music.  

   OK, that's me in a nutshell! 

    It's easy to define what it means to be a Republican. All you have to do is stand on the Republican platform. I believe 100 percent in the Republican platform and will not compromise those principles. That makes me a Conservative. The contradictions are only apparent in the stereotypes of those in the Republican Party. I am not your stereotypical Republican. Those stereotypes include being white, male (or if female an uneducated house wife who reproduces, keeps house, and stands by her man), rich either by corporate thuggery or trust fund or inheritance, college educated, racist or at least unsympathetic to those who aren't white, traditional family, fundamentalist Christian (hypocrites and/or fanatics), shallow and uncaring; or poor, uneducated, redneck whites. I am white, a female who worked in a male dominated profession and gave it up for motherhood, I am not rich and live on the south end of town, I am not racist and have always celebrated the differences of cultures, I went to a technical school and attended only two years of college without earning a degree, I am divorced and remarried, a Christian (the least of those naming the name of Jesus), I am a community-minded volunteer and political activist.

    So what makes me a hippie? I don't look like a traditional Conservative Republican. I guess my appearance is wildly inappropriate for my age. I still have very long hair, which it is unusual for a 52-year-old woman not to get that short-and-easier-to-manage hairdo. I still wear a small gold heart stud in my nose piercing. You have to really look to even see it, but my daughter reminded me that  I was the first mom to get their nose pierced when she and her sisters were in elementary school. I have five tattoos, but only one small bluebird is visible on my wrist. I probably dress too young for my age. I love to wear camo. I think it takes me back to the '70s when I used to wear an army jacket with all kinds of patches sewn onto it. But I'm not just an old hippie on the outside. I'm a hippie at heart.  I think there is good hippie and bad hippie.  I was a teenager in Baltimore in the mid- '70s. We had the sex, drugs, and rock and roll and funny clothes without the politics of the '60s. I battled with myself and my surroundings. I wanted to be a good Christian hippie aka Jesus Freak, but I would often "backslide" into bad hippie behavior.

  
     I didn't even become a Christian in the traditional way, which is usually at an altar call in a church. No, I was told about Jesus by some "Jesus freaks" that lived in a commune. Talk about hippies! I was only 14-years-old and already had enough misery in my life to know what they were talking about when they said I must be born again because of sin. My sin and the sin of the fallen world had to be paid for by the blood of Jesus. All I had to do was accept it and dedicate my life to living like Jesus and for Jesus. I got that. I got down on my knees and pressed my face to the floor with a room full of "brothers and sisters" and said the sinners prayer. I wanted to be there every minute that I wasn't in school. I devoured the Bible. Everyone had visions of me going there for orgies and drugs. Neither were there much to the disappointment of many.  A lot of the commune members were burnouts from the '60s and coming off of drugs. They looked like the biggest hippies you could ever imagine, but they were serious about their Christianity. They preached and lived a life of holiness. I think they may have even saved my life. Knowing these so-called hippies taught me how to love and accept people right where they are at unconditionally. We evangelized daily. They taught me not to look at the outer man or appearances. They taught me not to look at their successes or failures. They taught me not to look at their sin. They taught me about just loving people as they are and leading them to the Savior sometimes right on a street corner. I eventually left them and my Christian walk, for awhile, but what I learned there never left me. There is something to that good hippie love thing.

   Later when I rededicated my life to the Lord and married, my ex husband and I lived much like the Jesus freaks I had known many years before. I worked as an Engineering Writer by day and lived in an inner-city mission in the worst section of Baltimore by night. We called it the mission, but it was just he and I taking people in off of the street. We took in drug addicts, prostitutes, alcoholics down on their luck. It didn't matter. We lived a non-traditional Christian life. Churches from all around would drop people off to us instead of taking care of them themselves. We had always wanted to take people from the city to a farm where they could get on their feet and learn a new way of living.
   
   When I had my daughter at age 30,  I quit my job to stay home with her. I wanted to raise her. It was unheard of to give up a career to be a stay-at-home mom. The only way that we could afford to do this was to move to a farm and raise our own food. I made everything from scratch. I could bake anything and I baked often. I canned or froze all of my own vegetables from the garden, fruit butters from our apple and peach trees, and even grape juice off of the vine. We raised our own pork, beef, and chickens for eggs. Oh what a hippie thing to do in the '90s!
   
    We started a Christian coffeehouse in the nearest city, which was Hagerstown, Maryland. We reached out to young adults without judgement. It became a place for musicians, young people, and street people to hang out during the week and on the weekend we'd have live Alternative Christian music. It was a place where they weren't judged or made to be a cookie cutter Christian. It was during this time that I got my nose pierced. But the marriage broke up after 13 years and we failed at marriage and at ministry. It was devastating. After I grew through the fog of divorce, brokenness, disappointment, and failure...that inner-Jesus freak lives on. I'm still a good old hippie at heart.
    
   In conclusion, I want to say that as a "hippie Conservative Republican," I found a home in the TEA Party. The TEA Party is made up of  people who stand on principles not just Party affiliation. They stand up for what they believe (TEA parties or public protests). They reject establishment  Republicans in Name Only (RINOs). Although many TEA Party members are Conservatives and social issues are important to them, they agree to unite with others on the love and protection of the U.S. Constitution; to promote fiscal responsibility, capitalism, and free markets; and on the protection of our freedoms. So if you find that you do not fit into the box labeled Republican or the box labeled Democrat and you think that the country is heading in the wrong direction and you feel compelled to get involved maybe for the first time ever, reach out to your local TEA Party. I guarantee that you will find a place that you belong.