I volunteered for the local Congressional candidate in Tucson, making calls for her in the primary and general election. She is an independent business woman with a long history in Tucson. She lost to a professional politician who lives in Flagstaff but “lived in her sons apartment in Tucson” for the campaign.

I donated enough to McSally to attend some meetings with her. She is impressive in person and I have followed her for years as I had a second home in Tucson until moving completely 2 years ago. She ran a poor campaign and was probably ignored by Kelli Ward voters who lost the primary to her. They were quite critical of McSally as not conservative enough.

I spent years active in California politics, both statewide for the medical association and local in Orange County. I think the ballot harvesting is a threat to governing but California is probably lost. Brown joined the public employee unions to wreck the state.

The unions (and some illegal aliens as Neo noted) provided the foot soldiers who went door to door browbeating people into filling in and giving them ballots. I highly suspect that they discarded ballots that voted the wrong way.

We can tutt-tutt about that but what is to be done? I am donating to the National Right to Work organization (–> link ) who are fighting to get the Janus decision implemented. That may cut some of the funding but I think most government employees support the Democrats anyway. Still it is something.

I apparently did. I looked at your list of categories and none of them seemed to fit. I also scanned your posts in the month leading to Nov. 6,2018 and did not see any advocating activism.

Supporting organizations is just one category to make a difference that occurred to me. I am casting around for ways to do this given that I am an introvert and would not be effective in door-knocking or other face-to-face campaigning. Besides, given the reaction of Leftists like the clerk in the store in the viral (among conservatives) video, doing this in in coastal CA would not be good for my health.

If you’ve stopped reading here for the most part you’ve probably missed the times I’ve discussed organizations I think are doing good work. Most of them have to do with a topic of particular interest to me: education, particularly education and free speech. Another is the Walkaway movement, which I’ve covered fairly extensively, as well as Jordan Peterson.

And of course during campaigns I discuss various candidates I think might be likely to make a difference, to whom people can contribute.

No not really. You will get no argument from me about the corruption of both parties in California.

But you do not address my main point: what are YOU going to do about this?

You have plenty to worry about in your adopted state of AZ. Besides Sinema, a scary result of the Democrat vote harvesting in the 2018 election was the election of a Democrat as the Sec State. Pair that with the Democrat registrar of voters in Maricopa county and you have the ground work for rampant election fraud to flip AZ blue in the next election.

I know you are a refugee from CA but think about the epitaph on a grave in the Tombstone AZ boot hill: “Where you were I once was, where I am you soon shall be.”

As you know but I am stating this for out of state readers, in the last decade, CA was able to recall a Democrat, Gray Davis, for raising taxes and screwing up utility prices, and install Arnold, a supposed Republican. Arnold even tried to take on the government unions.

That is unthinkable now. How soon will AZ turn far-left if YOU do not do anything about it?

I’ve been reading Neo, under various internet aliases, since the Scott Brown election in Massachusetts. Artfldgr has been a fixture for much of that, I believe.

I go through phases where I actually read everything he vomits forth. There is the odd kernel of trivia that sometimes makes it worth it. Like panning for gold but not as profitable. Sometimes I just skip past his walls of text.

I should probably just take your advice and ignore him permanently. It’s a shame though. He’s obviously intelligent. But who wants to be lectured incessantly by someone that grandiosely narcissistic?

I think you are missing the elephant in the room. The Republican party is now a branch of the uniparty that Codevilla explained a few years ago.

Key paragraph:

When this majority discovered that virtually no one in a position of power in either party or with a national voice would take their objections seriously, that decisions about their money were being made in bipartisan backroom deals with interested parties, and that the laws on these matters were being voted by people who had not read them, the term “political class” came into use. Then, after those in power changed their plans from buying toxic assets to buying up equity in banks and major industries but refused to explain why, when they reasserted their right to decide ad hoc on these and so many other matters, supposing them to be beyond the general public’s understanding, the American people started referring to those in and around government as the “ruling class.” And in fact Republican and Democratic office holders and their retinues show a similar presumption to dominate and fewer differences in tastes, habits, opinions, and sources of income among one another than between both and the rest of the country. They think, look, and act as a class.

Neo, I have stopped reading your website because all you and the people who post here do is say “tutt-tutt–things are going badly.” I know it is not your wont to be an activist but surely at some point you have to ask yourself, what am I going to do about this? If not me, who? If not now, when?

Maybe you are already doing something but it does not show on your website. Your posts are insightful in identifying problems and showing their background so that is good. But how about discussing people and organizations who are doing something to reverse our disastrous course?

An example:

Here in CA, Carl DeMaio and his ReformCalifornia.org was able to get Prop. 6 to repeal the gas tax increase on the ballot. The Democrat attorney general put a totally misleading title on the proposition “ELIMINATES CERTAIN ROAD REPAIR AND TRANSPORTATION FUNDING”

DeMaio did this on a shoestring budget and then the CA republican party totally abandoned him. His organization did not have the money to run ads telling the low information voters who decide initiatives based in their titles what it was really about. The CA Chamber of Commerce even ran ads against it since the tax was used to pay off the construction companies.

A few more dollars would have made a huge difference in the results.

DeMaio is not quitting. He has big plans for more initiatives. A link (here it is link ) to ReformCalifornia here might send a few badly needed dollars to them. 🙂