On why I cannot support the Democratic agenda, and, by extension, any Democratic candidate, even if somebody like Trump is my only option.

     Oh, where to start and where to end? Is there an end? I truly wish there was but as days pass us by, the list seems to grow longer and longer and becomes more and more depressing. The short answer is this..... I know too much. What I mean by that is I know history and human nature too well to understand the modern Democratic agenda is entirely antithetical to what made America great to begin with.

     In case you have not been able to tell, I am a conservative Republican. Actually, per my site's subtitle, I consider myself a "conservatarian", basically a mix of conservative and libertarian values and beliefs.

   Despite Republicans/conservatism being far from perfect, I cannot fathom being linked to a movement/party/ideology that:

1. calls tens of millions of their political opponents (including family members and close friends) the most vile of names (racists, white supremacists, etc.)
2. has supporters who riot, burn, loot, shoot, destroy property when things don't go their way (i.e. Ferguson)
3. cause political opponents in powerful/influential sectors/industries across America to be silent for fear of losing careers and/or being harassed
4. puts political correctness above all else (covers sooooooooooooooo much)
5. demonizes capitalism and profits
6. believes there is a genuine gender pay gap
7. is endorsed by CPUSA (Communist Party of the USA) then absorbs their platform
8. can use few, if any, words or deeds of our Founders or Abraham Lincoln in defense of their agenda. Being called "anti-American" fits them perfectly.
9. threatens to pack the Supreme Court
10. demonizes the rich (Obama said it was "fair" & more important to raise cap gains even if it meant less revenue to government)
11. champions murderous dictators in Cuba, Venezuela, Iran, etc. (i.e. "homie handshake" between Obama and Chavez)
12. disdains the greatest society and ally in the Middle East and champion those who champion their destruction
13. champions Al Sharpton as a paragon for racial/ethnic issues despite his dangerous, destructive and deadly history but still seek his blessings
14. champions Louis Farrakhan for ANY reason but still seek his blessings
15. tried to utterly destroy Kavanagh with ZERO evidence or corroboration
16. destroyed the "Me Too" movement by not following up on Tara Reade's accusations against Biden, which were 100% more corroborated than Kavanagh's accusers.
17. immediately and repeatedly blamed the Covington Catholic kids before facts utterly destroyed their narrative
18. wages a war on women/girls by letting/demanding transgender men/boys compete in physical endevours together
19. paralyzes women to "accept" men in their private spaces 
20. panders to blacks with reparations nonsense
21. believes blacks are incapable of getting ID to vote
22. demonizes the 2nd Amendment and pushes for gun control laws they admit would not have prevented any mass shootings
23. puts the women in their lives in greater danger due to 2A opposition
24. performed a complete 180 on illegal immigration after being in near complete agreement with GOP
25. puts the well-being, comfort and safety of illegals over American citizens
26. no longer believes (if they ever did) in MLK Jr.'s statement about character being more important than the color of anybody's skin
27. no longer believes (if they ever did) in JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you...."
28. no longer believes (if they ever did) in what our Founders believed important enough to enshrine in our founding documents
29. believes America has done more bad for mankind than good. The bad of America was universal but the good was unique to America.
30. champions the dangerous and destructive OWS, BLM and Antifa movements
31. changes the meanings of words/phrases constantly. See here, here and more to come.
32. destroy the reputations and legacies of people for saying/doing things NOT controversial at the time when said/done
33. denies school choice to the majority of the black community while sending their own kids to schools of their choice
34. believe NOW, NAACP, CBC, Women's March and other non-partisan-sounding orgs have any interest in serving/defending Republican/conservative concerns
35. champion policies causing skyrocketing housing prices and spreading homelessness and disease in their cities
36. tell everybody they need to curb carbon emissions while not leading by example. Favorite quote: “I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who keep telling me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.” ~ Instapundit
37. claim GOP is running a "War on Women" while dismissing Bill Clinton's and Ted Kennedy's actions towards women
38. defended Jussie Smollett's ludicrous claims
39. failed for three years to applaud the mention of record low black unemployment during Trump's first three SOTU addresses
40. either consciously or sub-consciously lowers their word-selection when talking to blacks (Competence Downshift)
41. immediately believe the countless fake hate crimes against women, minorities, LGBT, etc.
42. believe the Russia Hoax
43. rages about cultural appropriation
44. champions a belief only left-wing women are worthy of becoming the first female president. Madeleine Albright said in 2016: "There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!" Something tells me Ambassador Albright won't be voting for Ambassador Nikki Haley in 2024, right?
45. champions the "Defund the Police" movement yet will expect the police to protect them and investigate any harm done to them, their family, their business, etc.
46. tears down statues and monuments in a bid to erase our nation's history because their party's history is behind the vast majority of our nation's historical wrongs. Even statues and monuments to abolitionists and black soldiers are not immune to their mob violence.
47. despite the 1st Amendment's clear tolerance of religious beliefs, disdains religion and the religious among us, in particular Christianity and Judaism
48. controls the creative process (entertainment, arts, sports, tech, etc.) but champions the destruction (physical, professional, personal, etc.) of anything or anybody they deem an obstruction to the progressive agenda. Instead of creating an opposing monument or statue, they would rather destroy what exists
49. threatens to jail climate skeptics. See here.
50. champions convicted cop-killer Assatta Shakur
51. champions Angela Davis
52. ignores President Obama's card-carrying Communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Name one other US president with anywhere close to Obama's anti-capitalist/American history.
53. champions essentially the destruction of the suburbs
54. prevents actors (whites, in particular) from acting in roles of non-whites, LGBT, etc.

On Transgenders and Sports...

I have a personal story to begin this post because it will make my primary point make more sense, hopefully. I promise I have a great question at the end I hope generates some feedback.

In my Junior High days of the mid-80s, I ran track and truly enjoyed every minute of it. Despite my larger size, I was surprisingly fast at the longer distances, with the 800 meter run being our longest distance at the time. After my first meet running that distance, I discovered my official time was just a few seconds above the school's record at that distance. I made it my goal to break that record by the end of my seventh grade year but missed it by a couple of seconds or so.

My goal as an eighth-grader continued to be owning the record by my last race and slowly chipped away at it throughout the season. I was not the only runner at that distance and often swapped this competition with one of my friends but he was not generally approaching the record as closely as I was. I am not sure he even cared about owning the record.

With us swapping events each meet, my last chance occurred at the second to last meet. I guess that became my motivation to finally eclipse that record, but just barely. "Barely" was obviously good enough to get my name on the records board but there was still one more race to run, and I had no control over its outcome.

My final race was a beautiful day but his final day was nasty. Cold, wet and windy was what I remember about it so I felt my record was safe for at least one week. Well..... I was wrong. While he was running, I was talking to a runner from another team about 30 yards from the finish line and looked over to see what all the cheering was about when I saw him running the final 50-60 meters, about to win the race.

While I was happy he won the race, I was not too concerned about his time but sure enough, he owned the new record. Ultimately, I was not disappointed because I did achieve my goal of beating the former record and was happy for him to now own the record. I don't know if it actually went up on the board since we no longer attended the school after that season but I am sure it was beaten, likely rather handily, a year or two later when a much better runner made his way thru the school.

The point I wanted to make using my own personal story of having, and achieving, a track-specific goal leads me to the rather new phenomenon of allowing boys to run against girls under the mantle of transgenderism.

I would truly like to know if an adult who would normally champion the rights of a transitioning boy into a girl and for that person to be allowed to participate in any activity normally reserved for girls (volleyball, softball, girls track, etc.) would draw the line at it affecting their own daughter's success, or opportunities for success?

Imagine this: a freshman cross-country runner bursts onto the scene (I used to run cross-country in high school also) and proves to be so successful she wins her state's cross-country girls championship. She proves her freshman year was not a fluke and wins during her sophomore year, perhaps becoming the youngest two-time champion. Her junior year has her winning every race including becoming the state's second three-peat winner. Now her senior year comes and she again dominates her conference and district with an unprecedented opportunity to become her state's first four-time girls cross-country champion but downstate there is a previously unknown runner also dominating their conference and district meets but with times consistently faster and a grade younger, but that challenger was one of three things:

• a new, biologically-female resident to the state from elsewhere and allowed to compete because she is in high school, has adequate grades, etc.
• formerly a competitor who until this season ran under the rules and regulations as a boy because they are biologically a boy but new state laws/regulations now permit a biological boy to compete against biological girls provided they are actively transitioning under a medically supervised program
• a biological boy who simply says they feel as though they are female, should be allowed to compete against female runners and challenges anybody to say differently

Here is the $64,000 question: would even the most progressive modern liberal who actively and publicly promotes their dislike (hate, even) for Trump, Republicans, conservatives, etc. but is the mother of this soon-to-be-the-state's-first-four-time-champion senior tell her daughter she just has to run faster than she has ever run before (and possibly faster than ANY female has run before) if she truly wants to earn her place in her state's girls athletic record book but if she complains about the "unfairness" of the situation she would be in league with the intolerant and hateful Republicans?

OR.... does the mother reconsider her own intolerance and hate towards those who recognize how fundamentally unfair having what is biologically a boy compete against what are biologically girls and join them in the obvious declaration... boys should not be competing against girls and her daughter should be the rightful champion provided she runs faster than all fellow biologically-female competitors?