Thread by @ThyConsigliori

19 June 2022 - #ShestokasForIlAG @shestokas

A Republic If…

The quote is famous: "Do we have a Republic or a Monarchy," Ben Franklin was asked? Ominously, he replied, "A Republic if you can keep it." Please note that he was not asked about a Democracy. Let's discuss that.

2) It's not that difficult, really. A Republic is WHAT we are. Democracy is HOW we do it. We honor the vote of the majority in our elections...for representatives who create the laws, and for executives who execute those laws. That's a Republic.

3) From just this much we can see that the founders did NOT have a crystal ball. Remember, they were against political parties and could not have imagined the two-party system we have now, and have had ever since the turn of the 18th into the 19th century.

4) If you read the Federalist Papers, you'll read again and again their diatribes against "factions" and "factionalism." Substitute in the words "political parties," and you basically have their thinking. They hated the idea. Yet, that is what we rapidly embraced.

5) My political party history isn't strong enough, yet, to tell you much about how it worked prior to the 20th Century. In fact, even in our modern times, I have been very slow to comprehend the true dynamics we suffer. I feel I'm beginning to understand, now, though.

6) The story is told again and again. We on the right believe we have a true champion. We send our fair haired Mr. Smith to Washington thinking he's going to stand for us. He gets there and boom, corrupt just like everybody else there. And then it gets worse.

7) Worse? Oh yeah. We send our Mr. Smith back term after term, watching him get rich selling vote after vote but we never do anything about it. Thus, the principles of our Republic are shred to smith-ereenes. We totter on the brink of having lost it already, maybe.

8) Let's come back to that. We have to talk about evolution for a minute. Most people think that evolutionary competition is between lions and antelopes, or bears and salmon. But it isn't. Survival of the fittest has nothing to do with prey and predators, at all.

9) Rather, survival of the fittest is between cousins, or brothers, etc. Two bucks fight over a lovely doe. The fittest wins and propagates. That is how survival of the fittest works. It is competition amongst one's own specifies, against the other members of one's own species.

10) And that is PRECISELY what we do NOT get in American politics. There is a shill game going on. We're constantly pressured into voting for bad conservatives, why? Because defeating Democrats is all that matters, we're told. So, Mr. Smith goes back and loves his corrupt power.

11) Remember, again, our founders had no vision of our two parties when crafting our Constitution. They could not have foreseen how we'd be played by the two-party system into voting for weak conservatives in order to prevent Democrats from winning...where we can.

12) You might be surprised that I am in no way against our two-party system. I've known that for some time. What I didn't have was the answer. I think I have it now. Consider the other two candidates for Illinois AG, DeVore and Kim. They must be defeated.

13) Whether @shestokas wins or loses in the fall against the current AG, obviously a Democrat, is far, FAR less important than that we defeat DeVore and Kim, now. Besides, sending either or them in the fall virtually guarantees defeat then.

14) The language has now been settled yet. Is our species rightly termed MAGA Republicans, Trumplicans, who are we? Is the other species rightly termed Establishment Republicans, or RINOS? It is time now for a shameless advertisement of my book.

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15) By whatever name we call our various species, the platform we stand for is well-captured in @KateScopelliti's and my book. The members of our species need to be vetted, yes tested by where they stand on the lines of what Kate and I documented. End advertisement.

16) This fierce competition over the very soul of America is absolutely a fight for survival. You know where I stand on @shestokas. He is good for America's survival, not just Illinois'. And he is in a primary on June 28, that we need to help him win.

17) Last historical point. How do we not love, long for, and miss Ronald Reagan? We can't count all that he did for us. But I am here and now formally REJECTING his 11th Commandment. Trump did so back in 2016, and thrilled us all. Now we need to do the same.

18) If we don't want to keep sending Mr. Corrupt Smith back to DC, then we need to get serious about our primaries. I say, we will NOT keep our Republic if we don't get serious about them. They're more important than the general election that follows.

19) @shestokas knows how to win his primary. But he needs our help. This weekend's goal was 60,000 perfect digital outreaches to his hidden voters, the Grabowskis. We'll soon know if we hit or missed our goal. Just $27 dollars here gets us 3,000.

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20) Please remember, @shestokas' primary on June 28 IS a national event. Let's fight to keep our Republic. Let's help Dave win this primary. Let's let all the corruption in our land know, we're on the way. We do primaries.

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