We got a brochure in the mail today from our Representative, Dean Philips. Here is what he wrote: "Washington could learn a thing or two from our kids. As your representative in Congress, I'm on a mission to repair our broken politics and restore American's faith in our government."
My response: I believe that children can learn more from their elders than they can teach their elders. Their time is to best spent being instructed by older people, by their parents, pastors, and community adults. The woke Left wants children not to learn and improve themselves but assume without warrant that it is society in need of transformation and correction. We do not need to be lectured by our children. We require for them to listen to the Founding Fathers, to grow up, work and better themselves first, and then work to help the nation be upgraded.
Philips plays the blue-dog Democrat card hard, but I imagine he votes a party line with Nancy Pelosi rather at a high percentage of the time. It is the fanaticism, the rigidity, the demonization and de-platforming their foes, the hostility, the aim for total victory over enemies, and their win-by-any-means necessary, practiced by the Democrats, that have broken Congressional civility and honorable compromise in Washington. Republicans, conservatives, and independents either fight or surrender; the Left allows no other options. The government is now an authoritarian monster, a statist Leviathan, gobbling up power and more of the economy every day.
Faith in government cannot be restored until we severely downsize and right-size this monster so that limited government is once again a precondition to the survival of our constitutional republic. Is Philips willing to commit to doing what is necessary to restore our faith in government? Blind faith in and naive trust in governmental benevolence are foolish presuppositions held by Leftists, but no one in her right mind would mistake holding those two presuppositions are the same thing as restored faith in government.
If he wants to repair our broken politics, he will need to support gun rights by bringing forth national legislation for gun law reciprocity in all states, for stronger Castle laws, for national constitutional carry, for no restrictions on AR15s, no red flag gun legislation, no national gun registration.
If he wants to present himself to the public as Scoop Jackson next generation, how about introducing legislation of disallow any state to charge state income tax on social security benefits, and open up pipelines and drilling to bring down gas prices for working people and middle-class families, to close the borders, to increase defense spending and to balance the budget?
Philips continues: "I pursue common ground as Vice Chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and have taken action to support small businesses, cut costs for families, invest in critical infrastructure, and bring more of our tax dollars back to Minnesota."
My response: Pursuing common ground would be coming out against the January 6th continued witch hunt. Common ground would be no more fake climate change Reset. Common ground would be introducing or cosponsoring national legislation outlawing the teaching of CRT ideology to government employees, or in any school or college in America because it is institutionalized reverse racism against whites.
Bipartisanship and common ground, to the Democrats and the Left, is conflated with surrendering our conservative principles. Bipartisanship is not growing government in the interest of power-grabbing by socialists, Leftists, Statists and Marxists that now rule and dominate the Democratic Party. Dean seems to not offend them, so is he as moderate as he seems?
We need every congressman, left, right or independent, to adopt a high standard of personal honesty, ever speaking the truth in public right to the people. Each congressman must be a statesman. This is what is going on, and this is what we must do, and this is my plan, and then, in Washington, the politician keeps her promises. If she does not like a law, on principle, though her voters want it passed, she should vote against it, or resign, or wait to be primaried or defeated at the ballot box.
How do we get such high standard acting, talking, and voting heroic politicians? We become statesman-like constitutional individuating-supercitizens that run the country, order politicians how to vote, hold them accountable, so they obey us most of the time.
Dean Philips with his bland promises and colorless proclamations is not much to blame for what he is or says. He can rise to statesman level of achievement, as a politician, if we voters demand no less from him.
If things go well, it Washington, it is the efforts of individuals and voters to be praised. If things go poorly in Washington, it is the fault of all individuals and all single voters. Bureaucrats, judges, Congressman and the President will lie as much as, be as corrupted by special interest as, steal as much as, attack the people as much as they are allowed by the voters to get away with, by tyrannizing them, by exploiting them, by spying on them, by intruding in their personal lives, by oppressing them and by depriving them of their money, resources, liberty and even their lives.
Dean Philips, I have made some random suggestions for how you could become a great Congressman. I have thrown down the gauntlet. Will you pick it up? I am not betting the rent on it.
Faith in government cannot be restored until we severely downsize and right-size this monster so that limited government is once again a precondition to the survival of our constitutional republic. Is Philips willing to commit to doing what is necessary to restore our faith in government. Blind faith and naive trust in governmental benevolence are foolish presuppositions held by Leftists, but no one in her right mind would mistake assuming that holding those two presuppositions is the same thing as restored faith in government.
If he wants to repair our broken politics, he will need to support gun rights by bringing forth national legislation for gun law reciprocity in all states, for stronger Castle laws, for national constitutional carry, for no restrictions on AR15s, no red flag gun legislation, no national gun registration.
If he wants to present himself to the public as Scoop Jackson next generation, how about introducing legislation of disallow any state to charge state income tax on social security benefits, and open up pipelines and drilling to bring down gas prices for working people and middle-class families, to close the borders, to increase defense spending and to balance the budget?
Philips continues: "I pursue common ground as Vice Chair of the bipartisan Problem Solvers Caucus and have taken action to support small businesses, cut costs for families, invest in critical infrastructure, and bring more of our tax dollars back to Minnesota."
My response: Pursuing common ground would be coming out against the January 6th continued witch hunt. Common ground would be no more fake climate change Reset. Common ground would be introducing or cosponsoring national legislation outlawing the teaching of CRT ideology to government employees, or in any school or college in America because it is institutionalized reverse racism against whites.
Bipartisanship and common ground, to the Democrats and the Left, is conflated with surrendering our conservative principles. Bipartisanship is not growing government in the interest of power-grabbing by socialists, Leftists, Statists and Marxists that now rule and dominate the Democratic Party. Dean seems to not offend them, so is he as moderate as he seems?
We need every congressman, left, right or independent, to adopt a high standard of personal honesty, ever speaking the truth in public right to the people. Each congressman must be a statesman. This is what is going on, and this is what we must do, and this is my plan, and then, in Washington, the politician keeps her promises. If she does not like a law, on principle, though her voters want it passed, she should vote against it, or resign, or wait to be primaried or defeated at the ballot box.
How do we get such high standard acting, talking and voting heroic politicians. We become statesman-like constitutional individuating-supercitizens that run the country, order politicians how to vote, hold them accountable, so they obey us most of the time.
Dean Philips with his bland promises and colorless proclamations is not much to blame for what he is or says. He can rise to statesman level of achievment, as a politician, if we voters demand no less from him.
If things go well it Washington, it is the efforts of individuals and voters to be praised. If things go poorly in Washington, it is the fault of all individuals and all single voters. Bureaucrats, judges, Congressman and the President will lie as much as, be as corrupted by special interest as, steal as much as, attack the people as much as they are allowed by the voters to get away with, by tyrannizing them, by exploiting them, by spying on them, by intruding in their personal lives, by oppressing them and by depriving them of their money, resources, liberty and even their lives.
Dean Philips, I have made some random suggestions for how you could become a great Congressman. I have thrown down the gauntlet. Will you pick it up? I am not betting the rent on it.
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