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First, like you, I would like to be bullish on America, being an immigrant myself, this is where I wanted to live, so I stayed. Did it the right way, got an education on the constitution and became a citizen. Now I know more than most Americans I know, about that document, but I can't say it is in real depth.

So - to my point - education is key, we are loosing that, both in schools and with millions of immigrants who are not educated, at least in the values and culture of our country, and will probably never get that education and integrate.

My second point is loss of freedoms, the Freedom of Speech. It just cannot happen, it must not happen, or Robert we will be visiting you in jail, or in the cell beside you!

My third point is I believe in rural America, though sometimes that is overly challenged at times! Generally speaking, we are a practical group, with basic values who don't get side stepped by the irrelevant policies that seem to settle in the cities. They don't have enough to do - always running around looking for things to do - while we are busy keeping up our farms and ranches and having to drive more than 15 minutes just to get to town!

Last year 8,000 bills were introduced in Texas - 800 were made law...... who can know the law with that weight? We have long surpassed KISS, keep it simple stupid! And none of these bills are simple and all have an agenda, and who interprets that agenda - the media - biased in what ever form. Any regulations affecting rural local communities are denied and we are left to the whims of what ever predator is ready to take advantage. And at the moment any predator is mainly corporations taking advantage of the IRA. Like the wind, solar and nitrogen fantasies you discussed at the meeting last week in Eldorado.

When I first came to America I though that conservatives wanted less big government, more local control, what happened? I think this is the reason we are loosing local engagement, with the thought that we have no control, well we don't. Time for that to change, get involved!

If we don't pay attention we will loose our identity, our freedoms, and our way of life and all become a faceless blob like communist China, workers at the behest of the leaders! We have a say and we can be the squeaky wheel!

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Deacon Brad's avatar

As a Catholic and a Chesterton fan, I believe he would know the "lex orandi lex credendi" motto. Since Woodrow Wilson, we have had internal agents who have changed the administration of our credal founding documents such that our creed is already changed, perhaps irrevocably. If the philosophy of deconstructionism is applied to the Administrative State, then all those positive American characteristics can flourish. But until then, we are creeping toward technocratic feudalism, where the upper class has sinecures and the rest can drive for Uber.

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