While attempts are under way to pull the nation irrevocably to the far left some of those who oppose big government are ignoring the culprits and instead pointing fingers at the feckless. At the very moment when our liberties are on the line and the future of the nation is at stake some conservatives purists are ignoring the real threat and are instead focused on purging the Republican Party of its less than stellar elected officials. For the life of me I can’t understand their logic. What do they hope to achieve by dividing the opposition to the energized and emboldened progressives that are now in complete control of the government? Do they not understand that while the bloodletting occurs on the right the left will busy itself with long-anticipated plans to create entitlements, build corrupt institutions, and ensconce revolutionaries into every facet of government? Reasonable people might wonder what are these purists are thinking; how could they be so shortsighted to think that now is the hour to clean the Republican Party’s house or, worse, start a third party? More lucid thinkers understand that the priority of the moment must be to unite all who oppose big government in a joint effort to defeat the Democrats. Any strategy other than this will serve only to enable the enemies of liberty. Only fools would knowingly facilitate the plans of the progressives.
Scott Armstrong