3/21/2024
Greetings Maniacs!
It is me, Grumpy Old Man. Some of you know me as Swarth Hog, the name I went by when I first joined. I have only changed user names once, though, and I always like to poke fun at myself. I want to think of my names as ironic, but my detractors would say otherwise. This is a conspiracy forum and I do try to have as much fun as possible, but it’s hard.
I am Republican and I’m open about it. I voted for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter in 1976 after I turned eighteen, then I voted for Ronald Reagan twice in the eighties. I have voted for a Republican in every election since then including Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. Connotations aside, Republicans believe in republics, and Democrats believe in democracies.
Let me give you a little history. England was at war with France from 1337 until 1453 in the Hundred Years’ War. There was a truce for a few decades in the middle, but the animosity was never gone. It was white men killing other white men. At the end of the fifteenth century, Columbus set sail to the New World.
Let me digress. At the Maniac Nebula, I have a reputation for being the moderator who doesn’t believe in conspiracies. How can it be? It’s a conspiracy site, after all. I respond to my critics most the time by saying the issues have always been out in the open. “You’re just too lazy to look!” I tell them. George Carlin said something funny. America is good at war, but not much else:
“Can’t build a decent car, can’t make a TV set or a VCR worth a fuck, got no steel industry left, can’t educate our young people, can’t get health care to our old people, but we can bomb the shit out of your country all right! Huh? Especially if your country is full of brown people! Oh, we like that, don’t we? That’s our hobby! That’s our new job in the world: bombing brown people. Iraq, Panama, Grenada, Libya! You got some brown people in your country, tell them to watch the fuck out or we’ll goddamn bomb them …”
He goes on to say the only reason America bombed Germany is they were trying to move in on our action. So let’s get back to history, shall we?
republic (noun) – form of government in which a state is ruled by representatives of the citizen body
Let’s think about a chess board with its pieces. There is a king and a queen. They represent a monarchy. There are rooks, knights, and bishops. They represent aristocracy. Finally there are many pawns. They represent common folk.
White people fought wars against each other in Europe. When they sailed across the Atlantic and started to colonize the New World, people were already living there. They were centuries behind in technology, though. They had no printing press, no formal maps or universities, and their agricultural practices weren’t as sophisticated. We got along with the Natives and our modern celebration of Thanksgiving traces back to this cooperative spirit. However, there were conflicts and it wasn’t just with the Natives.
White people left Europe for a reason. The constant wars were insane, and the monarchies became overbearing. Thinking back to chess, what’s left when you eliminate the king and queen as pieces? You’ve eliminated the monarchy and you’re left with aristocrats and pawns. Modern Marxists dub the pawns as proletariate workers. It was inevitable that we would break away from the monarchy in England, and it was inevitable that we would have conflicts with the Natives in America. The spirit of ingenuity came with us to the New World. We would forge steel and build railroads. Of course there would be people in the way who don’t understand collective progress. These were the Natives. I am here to argue that it wasn’t racist as much as practical when we set up a republic in lands where the populous was clearly not educated. Today, we build freeways and confiscate land in the name of eminent domain. This is not racist, either. White people displace other white people in order to accomplish this goal.
So Demented selected me to be a moderator knowing full well that I advocate for Republicans. Over the years, three main coalitions run the party:
- war hawks like George W Bush
- religious conservatives like Mike Pence, and
- economists like Mr Wonderful, Kevin O’Leary
My focus is on economics.
In a world where only pawns exist, a pure democracy makes sense. Therefore, Democrats should run the country and the rest of the world. But let us now consider political connotations. Today’s Democrat in power does not believe in democracy. Hillary Clinton in 2016 was a perfect example of this. Today’s Democrat wants a coronation during the primary process and is shameless in using super delegates along the way. Joe Biden did not want to debate Robert Kennedy Jr in this election cycle. The DNC made it difficult, if not impossible, for RFK Jr to participate in the democratic process through their channels. And? Today’s Democrat is a Marxist at heart. They are trained in class warefare. Taken to the logical extreme, they are Communist. If the Republican party was eliminated from the planet, America would be an openly Communist country within a generation.
What’s the logical extreme for Republicans? Corporatocracy. We hear the Glen Becks of the world say the GOP benefits small businesses, but those days are over. Greed, time, and fate have ended the era when small farmers could compete with corporate ones. If I snapped my fingers and every Democrat vanished from the planet, it would take less than a generation for America to cease to formally exist. Global corporations would run every aspect of our lives.
Is this a situation of pick your poison? No. I grew up with aviation in my family. My grandfather built airplanes and my father built rockets. I was groomed to work in aerospace. It was a good career for me. Let’s think about Elon Musk at Space X as he refines his ideas of space travel. When considering a different type of rocket fuel, do you think he calls everyone in the building for a vote? No! That would be absurd! “Calling all janitors, cafeteria workers, and secretaries! We’re about to vote on whether to use rocket-grade kerosene or liquid hydrogen for our next space ship! Please make your way to the board room!”
Our government says we are all created equal, but that ends at birth. We have brains, we have free will, and we make different choices. We wind up with different results. We are not all pawns. In an ideal world, we are all well-informed and a pure democracy makes sense. Today’s common person is not well-informed. I am a Republican because I believe in republics. Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence that the King had:
“… endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions …”
With this document, a new way of living was born. We rebelled against the British monarchy, and we tamed the frontier. When I was a child, I pledged allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And that’s not all. I pledged allegiance to the Republic for which it stood.
Republic.
Keep that in mind. So Demented has deemed me as the “MAGA guy” amongst the moderators. I’ve gone to a few rallies. I am never comfortable with what the religious faction of the Republican party does to its candidates. Steve Forbes and Donald Trump were respected for their economic knowledge. If we could leave it at that, we’d have fine leaders. But they’re forced to pretend to be things they’re not. When pressed, Donald Trump couldn’t come up with a single Bible verse. He pretended it was because it was a personal issue, but no one believes he was on the verge of a theological discussion.
I accept that I’m the “MAGA guy” here because I know who I’m voting for in November: the candidate from the Republican party. If I live another four years, I know who I’m voting for in 2028: the candidate from the Republican party. If I make it to 2032, I will vote for a Republican again. Why? Because I believe in republics.
Sincerely,
Grumpy Old Man,
aka Swarth Hog