Nathan Hale, a twenty-one-year-old schoolteacher from Connecticut, once observed that “some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”
This Hale quote predates any famous last words as a noose was laced onto his neck. He was a true patriot who deeply loved his country. He had met imposters whose hearts were governed by money and power, pretenders who sounded friendly, but had no intent to aid the revolution. Such “panderers” were, to him, the greater threat to American freedom.
One such panderer may even have been who revealed Hale’s identity to British troops.
How do you recognize a “panderer?” There is a formula. They tend toward the most extreme and shrill rhetoric, while being the absolute last and least capable of delivering a solution. Consider an example from the last Idaho Republican Convention held in Nampa.
Passing the Convention’s Resolutions Committee was a strong condemnation of Five-G (5G) technology, seeking to “ban further exposure to this dangerous radiation.” Chairing the Resolutions Committee was Brent Regan, currently State GOP Chairwoman Dorothy Moon’s top advisor. The outlandish claims and unscientific nature of the resolution wouldn’t clear the editorial desk of the National Enquirer.
“5G” isn’t even “radiation.” It is a cellular connection protocol, a way of assembling packets of data so cellular signals can get more information to people’s phones. Few convention delegates understood this. Their real concern was ever-more-present and ever-more-powerful electromagnetic fields around cell towers. And the place in government and law where this issue comes up is municipal zoning.
Zoning? Was the Republican Party calling for more restrictive zoning (more “open space” around cell towers)? In debate on the Convention floor, it was apparent few people realized that the “solution” to the issue raised by the resolution would be more aggressive zoning.
As debate turned against the resolution, the comfortable smug grin on Committee leadership said it all, “We’ve pandered to fear about 5G, now someone else can go ahead and kill the resolution, because we’re not touching ‘zoning’ with a ten-foot pole.”
That debate was one of the last where real patriots threw themselves on their swords to rescue panderers from themselves – a decision that has since resulted in the Idaho GOP endorsing a wide range of “kooky” ideas with little or no opposition. Here are just a few examples:
“Women who were never pregnant can still have abortions.” was endorsed by the GOP Convention in Twin Falls. A young woman asked to clarify that treating “ectopic pregnancy” isn’t abortion. The panderers needed to be “more anti-abortion” than anyone else, so her request was voted down.
These same panderers now cheered when the Ninth Circuit Court restored Idaho’s “trigger” Abortion Law because, in part, “the removal of an ectopic or molar pregnancy is not an abortion.” The young woman’s amendment would have made GOP stances more constitutional, more defensible against Biden Administration attack, but she was voted down for “weakening” the panderer’s shrill language.
Same story with the Party’s ban of “messenger RNA technology,” passed at the recent Challis meeting. To raise your hand timidly and say, “but mRNA technology isn’t just in COVID shots,” got you branded a supporter of Biden’s forced “jabs.” Again, panderers needed to be “more anti-jab” than anyone else. Harsh rhetoric served their need but don’t expect the final language to be taken seriously.
“Hispanics and blue-collar party-switchers should wait 25 months before voting as Republicans.” was declared at the last GOP convention, pandering to fear about crossover voting. But when rules for the Party’s own Presidential caucus were devised, the 25-month waiting period was scuttled. Apparently, the Party likes tough and intimidating talk, but don’t ask it to actually put such a rule into effect.
Patriots in Idaho should recall what Nathan Hale learned 247 years ago: panderers on the Constitution and freedom are a true conservative’s “greatest and most dangerous enemies.”
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Prove the man's point much, Ewe-Gene?
He's a goon like you. He spends all his effort attacking Republicans, all while ignoring that you
Leftists have destroyed the country.
Those crazy conspiracy kooks were right about the origin of covid. They were right about the ineffectiveness and dangers of the vaccines. I don't see anything wrong with being cautious
About mRNA technology and the 5G Chinese
Technology that has been installed all over the
Country. Tesla wanted to transmit electricity through the air, so some ideas should be more thoroughly tested before implementation. Call
Me crazy but I'm still paranoid about holding a cell phone up to my head for any prolonged period of time. I try to only take calls with my
Headphones on. I can imagine that 20 years from
Now everybody is getting brain tumors from these new technologies. It doesn't hurt to be cautious in an Era when the loony left wants to
Put self driving electric semis all over our freeways. With self driving vehicles crashing and
EV batteries blowing up all over the world....
I don't think these technologies are ready for prime time.
You should retreat to your trailer and cover your head.
You should pull yours out of your azzz.
He should cover his head whenever he's in that trailer. It looks like a strong sneeze would bring it down.
It will be standing long after you're gone.
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