Conservatives Can't Grill Through National Collapse ｜ 1⧸22⧸26
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Summary
The Sunlight Conservative has been around for a long time, but it s now time to wake up to the fact that it s time to face the truth about what it really means to be a conservative. Bitcoin is the future, and it s all about the future.
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Look, man, conservatives, they just want to be left alone.
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They love their country, but they stay busy and comfortable.
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Politics feels like something for other people, activists, ideologues, and the perpetually
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The left may dream of tearing the system down in a fiery Marxist revolution, but like one
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solid vote every couple years or so should keep the crazies at bay, right?
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Then it's back to work, you know, Little League, barbecue, all that stuff.
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That belief sustained many on the right for decades, but it's become a liability.
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The Sunshine Conservative lives under the assumption that the American system more or less runs
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itself, that excesses can be corrected with minimal effort, and that power remains constrained
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The times that try men's souls have returned, and the Sunshine Conservative is about to discover
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For years, a bipartisan consensus reshaped the country through mass immigration.
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Call it a conspiracy if you like, but incentives explain it much better.
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Democrats saw a reliable path to permanent power.
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Immigrants arrive without wealth, social capital, or political leverage.
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They gravitate towards the party that promises them redistribution and protection.
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Every program, from healthcare, housing, loans, benefits, it all tilts towards newcomers.
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Open borders grow government, entrench dependency, and expand the progressive patronage machine.
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Republican incentives look different, but prove just as corrosive.
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Conservative voters opposed mass immigration, legal and illegal, but party leadership feared
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Progressive programming successfully framed the idea of America as a homeland, run for the benefit
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of its, you know, own people, as morally suspect.
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Any attempt to articulate national interest became nativism, as if there was something immoral about a
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Chamber of Commerce's Republicans exploited that fear, importing millions of workers willing to accept
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suppressed wages while silencing critics through ritual denunciation.
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While the country changed, conservatives largely stood aside.
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The transformation unsettled them, but lawn care got cheaper and food delivery became faster.
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The Sunshine Conservative preferred comfort to confrontation.
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You know, winners, after all, they make money and just buy a bunch of boats.
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Well, now the bill for that detached attitude is coming due.
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Human trafficking, drug flows, violent crime, overcrowded hospitals, stagnant wages, exploding
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The social fabric frays under the weight of policies designed to benefit elites while disciplining
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The Trump administration's effort to remove the worst offenders collides with a system
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Obvious solutions exist, of course, employer enforcement, e-verify, ending the H-1B scam,
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taxing remittances heavily, but those measures threaten donor interests.
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Instead, enforcement proceeds piecemeal, state by state, criminal by criminal.
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Each attempt to exercise authority triggers panic among mainstream conservatives.
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They clutch abstractions while the left shoots at or runs over federal agents, storms churches,
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Establishment voices agonize over power, even as their opponents wield it without hesitation.
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So, whatever you think is going to happen in the future, you can invest in it at Wealthsimple.
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A friend of mine returned from the global war on terror with what the doctors labeled as post-traumatic stress disorder.
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He had lived in a world where stakes mattered, where power operated openly, where failure carried consequences.
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Returning to a culture submerged in therapeutic language, pronouns, and safe spaces proved disorienting.
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Everyone else lived in some fantasy and demanded that he play along with their delusions.
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Eventually, he learned to keep that to himself, but he still regards much of what surrounds him as childish and unmoored from reality.
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That reaction mirrors what many feel about sunshine conservatives.
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They cling to a story about politics that bears no resemblance to how power actually functions.
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When confronted with the evidence, they demand that reality conform to their narrative.
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That narrative existed to pacify them, to make them manageable.
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They defend it with the same fervor with which the left defends its own delusions.
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An assassination, a church invasion, a city surrendering to disorder, every time a few more conservatives realize the truth.
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Only to be swarmed by those demanding a return to the small talk about tax rates and process.
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We've heard it all before, but it's the same crabs in a bucket mentality.
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The problem was never with those that saw the danger.
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The issue is with the people who insist, even up to now, after everything the left has done, after the shootings,
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the murders, the attacks, they're still insisting that everyone just look away.
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I'm sorry, but the question no longer concerns policy tweaks.
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One side believes that the country deserves preservation and repair.
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The other treats it as illegitimate and disposable.
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That divide cannot be bridged by nostalgia or proceduralism.
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Saving the country requires engagement, sacrifice, and the willingness to place political reality over personal comfort.
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It requires choosing the future of one's children over quarterly returns.
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It requires the disciplined use of power to defend the nation's institutions, borders, and communities.
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Even when that makes polite society uncomfortable.
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A single vote for president followed by a retreat to, I don't know, fantasy football and video games and Marvel movies and whatever trash we're filling our time with, it just no longer suffices.
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And look, I know that's not all conservatives are doing.
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They're actually volunteering at the church and everything else.
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We are looking at the future of the nation and whether it has one at all.
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The fantasy that voting alone is enough belongs with all the other comforting lies in the trash.
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The right can either shed it or it can be ruled by those who never believed it in the first place.
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