12 Ways To Know If You Shouldn’t Go Voting Today

ml-pnp:

1. Do you get all or most of your news from late-night comedians? 

8. Do you know what your stance is on the big issues, such
as: abortion, taxes, climate change-oriented policy, welfare, gun
control, and local versus centralized power? 

10. Do you follow politics or policy at all outside of
election season, or do you rely on news filtered to you by Facebook,
friends, and family?

12 Ways To Know If You Shouldn’t Go Voting Today

cultml:

Evanescence – What You Want

…Do what you, what you want
Your world’s closing in on you now (It isn’t over)
Stand and face the unknown (Got to remember who you really are)
Every heart in my hands like a pale reflection

Hello, hello remember me?
I’m everything you can’t control
Somewhere beyond the pain
There must be a way to believe we can break through

Do what you, what you want
You don’t have to lay your life down (Is it over?)
Do what you what you want
Till you find what you’re looking for (Got to remember who you really are)

But every hour slipping by screams that I have failed you
Hello, hello remember me?
I’m everything you can’t control
Somewhere beyond the pain there must be a way to believe

In An America This Ignorant, It’s No Wonder We Struggle To Stay Free

Indeed, a century ago, radicals were espousing
a “long march through the institutions” explicitly to undermine Western
civilization. Academia has been saturated with arrogant, anti-thought
professors who enforce non-thinking on students. The media has been
flooded with elitist, anti-thought pundits who enforce non-thinking on
the general public. Hollywood is saturated with self-important
celebrities who spread their special brands of mindlessness among their
millions of adoring fans.

The enforced speech codes of political correctness were anticipated more than half a century ago when Herbert Marcuse,
an immensely influential leftist academician, espoused a policy of
“repressive tolerance,” with the goal of wiping out any opinions or
ideas that Marcuse and other cultural Marxists could never tolerate.

In the words
of Thomas Jefferson: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a
state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Of
course, this is not the first time in human history that a nation has
lost its compass. I’m going to offer a biblical reference, especially
because this is exactly the sort of knowledge our ruling elites like to
sneer at and deprive us of.

If you actually read the Bible, you can easily conclude that the
history of the Jews is, in many ways, a reflection of the history of all
humanity: wandering, enslaved, aware of a higher law, triumphant, then
losing reverence for their laws, losing their identity, only to end up
drifting, and held captive once again. You might even conclude that the
Jews were chosen to represent all of us in our love-hate
relationship with wisdom and the rule of law. In their sufferings, their
setbacks, their triumphs — and their disobedience to God and natural
law — they are very much like all the rest of us.

Natural law and our natural rights are written on our hearts. They
are instinctive, and can be handed down by older generations through a
healthy culture and exemplary role models. Still, if we are too far
separated from understanding them, if they are flouted in our
institutions, we are set adrift. We can recover our rights. But we must
recognize and accept this uphill challenge.

No matter the results of an election, our first order of business
should be to struggle with all our might to do whatever is necessary to
recover our compass and restore in every American heart the true meaning
of freedom.

In An America This Ignorant, It’s No Wonder We Struggle To Stay Free

cultml:

Phantogram – Run Run Blood (Audio)

Hey wolf, just see there’s no fear
Just see it’s no fair, there are lions in here

Extra, extra, read all about it
You think you slow me down? I highly doubt it
I own the paperboys, and you’re the buyer
Your world is my world now to live and die in

Does anybody need to eat?
Does anybody need to breathe?
Got you blindfolded on your knees
Run, run, run
Run, run, blood

Follow me into a swarm of bees
Swallow everything you don’t believe
Drink away all of your memories
Say goodbye to your family

Vote GOP to end war on your men

sophisticatesophia:

We need to remember that believing people without proof is always wrong. I called this from the beginning because as a woman, I know human nature and women often lie when it comes to encounters with men, as men lie regarding encounters with women. Both male and female alike are flawed and subject to bending and breaking the bonds of truth. Besides, we are now to consider what is truth? And my truth no matter how wrong can still be valid. Thank post-modernist thought. Especially on the left, as ends justify means, lying is stock and trade.  

To checking common sense at the door, disregarding proof and believing because we like a story, are all dangerous to our nation and can wreak holy hell on the accused. An apology will not be enough. Time for jail time. Also it is time for this farce and #metoo to be parried with #notyou.  

Vote GOP to end war on your men

redbloodedamerica:

Billionaires Lose Elections

Do
you believe that money buys elections?  That the rich can control the levers of
government for the benefit of their special interests?  

While there’s certainly
truth to the notion that money influences politics, you may be surprised by how
little it does relative to many people’s preconceived notions.  For example, in
every one of the six federal election cycles between 2004 and 2014, the top
spending outside individual donors lost their fights.  

In 2004, left-wing
banking billionaires Herbert and Marion Sandler gave large sums of money towards
the election of John Kerry as well as many Democratic Congressmen and Senators.  That year, Democrats lost the presidency, the House and the Senate.  

In 2006,
conservative Texas home-builder Robert J. Perry donated more than any other
individual donor. He tried to keep the House and Senate for Republicans, but
they went right back to Democratic control. 

In 2008, conservative pharmaceutical
tycoon Fred Eshelman became the top donor while trying to win it all back, plus
propel John McCain to victory.  He came away with nothing:  Barack Obama took the
presidency and both Houses of Congress remained under Democratic control.

In
2010, Robert Perry tried again, spending over seven and a half million dollars.  And
Republicans won the House!… but lost the Senate.  

In 2012, pro-Israel casino
billionaires Sheldon and Miriam Adelson put that number to shame, spending
$93 million.  They wanted Mitt Romney to win the presidency and
Republicans to take control of the Senate.  They lost on both fronts. 

In 2014, another left-winger took the biggest donor title with over $75 million
dollars spent, billionaire hedge fund manager and environmentalist activist Tom
Steyer.  He wanted to keep the Senate and gain the House. Instead, Republicans
took power of both. 

And of course, in 2016 Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised
almost $795,000,000 between candidate committee money and outside
money, while Donald Trump’s campaign raised only a little over half as much.  Trump
was also far outspent in the primaries by Jeb Bush, who spent $130 million
dollars on his campaign.  Yet we all know who won. 

So, for those of you worried
that with all the political spending going on, you no longer have a voice in
your democracy: relax.  Campaign finance reform, another term for depriving
people of their right to spend their money on free political speech, isn’t
going to get you your democracy back. Because, you already have it, and however
much money politicians and donors want to spend on talking to you, ultimately
nothing they do can overpower your vote.