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Where Public Life is concerned there was always only one team on the playing field. If you love freedom and limited government and believe that a free and prosperous civil society should be the foundation of political order, and you act every day within the philosophical confines of that worldview, you will eventually lose to those who do not share that philosophy. It is axiomatic. In America it took about 233 years, starting at 1787, but the outcome was guaranteed. I didn’t go to Town Halls for 50 years because I didn’t want a Town Hall. I wanted a Rotary Club or a Church or a Boy Scout troop or any number of civil organizations that would make my community a happy place to live and that would organically look after the poor and needy while minimizing their ranks. It was a freedom based worldview based on a theological understanding of how life should be ordered. When you are facing an opposition that awakens every day and dreams of how much more money and power and control they can funnel to themselves and to government, the end being to take away your freedoms, and that is their passion and their religion, 24/7, you better have an equal and opposing force on that very same playing field. If your love of freedom means you don’t want to get involved because you don’t believe in the fundamental premise, well, in that case you or your children or grandchildren are in big, big trouble.

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Bien, those are clearly facts backed up by real history. Controllers are insidious beings and they will eventually get their way as they use human greed to infiltrate society, its schools, churches, its culture, and government officials. Though manifest, certainly by the turn of the end of the 19th century, the 1960s was a pivotal point in that progression. Many of us watched it unfold, although much was hidden for years, like the plans for depopulation. Most media did not cover the ugly side but we could feel it for decades until it dumped itself on us.

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Do you not see any group today attempting to build such a rival organization?

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I do not believe this is primarily about groups or organizations. Not that they aren’t important, but I believe the most important factor has been a lack of involvement of conservative individuals in the local political machinery of their communities. This is especially true of School Boards, local Legal offices(judges and district attorneys), County Health officials, County Commissioners and city mayors. This was our first line of defense, and the people on the Right allowed the people on the Left to completely take over these positions nationally. This is true of 80% of Red states and this really is the crux of the matter. The people in red states are generally conservative and mostly Republican but they have elected leftists or left leaning individuals in nearly all of the critical positions I mentioned. This has been researched and documented by people like Daniel Horowitz. It has gone on for decades and it explains more than any other single factor(other than a loss of moral values in general) why our nation is where it is(IMO)

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This trend, however, aligns with the allegation that schools have been focusing on the creation of left-wing political activists.

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