Here’s Chapter One of the book by Sam Carpenter, currently being updated, Making Oregon Great Again: Guide to the Grassroots Revitalization of the Oregon Republican Party (and the Defeat of the Ruling Class).
Download the entire book for free at www.makeoregongreatagain.com/book
CHAPTER 1
Myth #1: The political war in America is Between Democrats and Republicans.
Remember the movie, The Matrix?
I’m a fan of the red pill. How about you?
Knowledge is power. Use your own common sense to understand the following myths and you will become confident, like us, that we can turn Oregon around.
The underlying conflict is not between Republicans and Democrats, or even the Right and the Left. It’s between the political elite class and regular Americans who make this country work, the Country Class.
I can prove the above to you instantly, right here, right now. Simply ask yourself this question: What do progressive Democrats and never-Trumper/Establishment Republicans both want?
They want their own personal political worlds to stay as they are. They want to stay in power – they don’t want you and me, the conservative grassroots to have political power.
Neither of these contingents wants things to change. For better or worse, they want to retain the status quo.
It’s the swamp they want.
This is as good a place as any to throw in a quote from Daniel Greenfield: “The swamp dwellers like the slime too much. And they will do whatever they can to stop elections from overturning their powers and privileges.”
So, let’s go deeper. On one side is the self-selected elite contingent: the Ruling Class. These are the small minority of Democrats and Republicans who endlessly and condescendingly explain to us how-things-should-be in America, not how they are. These people, especially on the Left, almost always have a problem with our American institutions and traditions. These people crave power, and they are not good listeners.
On the other side, here we are: you and me, the conservative grassroots.
Without pretension, our membership also crosses political boundaries. We can be defined as regular Americans who simply want safety and prosperity for our families. We love our country with no reservation. We don’t have anything to prove, nor do we have bones to pick. We’ll listen if a speaker is rational.
Regardless of party affiliation, the great majority of Americans are conservative grassroots, and yes, this majority of Americans also wants things to change.
Ruling Class members, Left and Right, the distinct minority, will never read this book. In fact, many will priggishly sniff, and will look upon you with disdain for reading it.
Ruling Class adherents, one way or the other, have their futures and financial well-being dependent on big-government.
And yes, they hate Donald Trump.
They walk among us. The Ruling Class contingent has its own PC-language and attitudes. In your own life you know exactly who they are.
How does the descriptor “progressive far-Left” fit in? It’s the Ruling Class’s driving force, these are the front-line propagators of what I call, the Unfairness Doctrine: “You have been unfairly victimized even though you don’t know it, and unfortunately you are not educated (like us) and are therefore incapable of fixing this for yourself. So, because we care so much for your well-being, we are here as a public service to guide and defend you. All we ask is that you vote for us.”
The especially loud progressive segment comprises about 50% of the Oregon Democratic Party, and therefore less than 20% of the states’ total voter population.
It’s true: in Oregon, we are being ruled by the leadership of less than 20% of our population, assisted by the Never-Trumper/Ruling Class Right which is 10% of Republicans and therefore a minuscule 3% of the total voting population. (Yes, this Republican conclave is also insufferably frustrated with you and me.)
The remaining 90% of Republican voters? You can call us, “forever Trumpers.”
Needless to say, Donald Trump does not belong to the Ruling Class and he never will. He’s from Queens, New York City, and he will never play their game. Why is the Ruling Class – left and right – attacking him with such venom? He’s upset their applecart, and of course they won’t go down without a fight, a fight that has devolved into a personal destruction assault. We watch that fight every time we catch up on the news.
Is there a Ruling Class in Salem? Oh yes. And it’s also an apple cart ready to be tipped over.
Some say that Knute Buehler, Oxford Rhodes Scholar and surgeon, was the quintessential Ruling Class candidate, as he avoided contact with the 90% of the Republican constituency that supports our President, and as he unceremoniously rejected the official Oregon Republican Party Platform that was created by that same constituency.
Is this Ruling Class vs. regular Americans conflict, a war?
Yes, a culture war.