High Plains Populism

The populist right’s thirst for a true challenge to corporate power demands more than tired, decades-old GOP talking points.^<1>

“Money power” is more accurate but Mr. Bartee is 99% right.

The tepid desire of RINO opponents of the Freedom Caucus in the Wyoming legislature to inject a “more moderate,” “less divisive,” “more centrists,” “more moderate,” and a “more inclusive” way of doing things leaves me cold. 

For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 1 Corinthians 14:8

So, onward to something. Or not. Who knows?

If there’s a more accurate take on what the rock-hard, non-negotiable principles of “traditional Republicans” are please straighten me out.  As of now, I don’t get “traditional Republicanism” and I think Wyoming and the nation itself now exist in something that more closely resembles a casino where every calculation of probability favors the house. A functioning constitutional republic responsive to the states and the sovereign people it isn’t.  But don’t you just love those voting machines?

The general theme of this blog is populism by which I don’t mean something (a) all that elegant or (b) that harks back to some grand ideas from ancient Greece.  “Hell no” about sums it up.

In the simplest of terms, public officials — and all people — should ride for the brand, as we are instructed by the Code of the West.  Times was people did that for the most part but no mas.

In 1972, I once had a duty as a lieutenant in the Army Reserve to escort inspecting generals around an NCO leadership academy at Ft. Wolters, Texas.  One such gentlemen was BG Walter Stark, a decent sort, who had been a platoon leader in Europe during WWII.  On the last day of the war he saw another soldier killed by a splinter from an artillery round.  I asked him what it was that he looked for when he inspected any unit and his answer was simplicity itself.  He said he merely looked to see if people are doing their jobs.

In the America of our day it is simply the case that our officials, editors, journalists, scientists, and academicians are not.  ZeroHedge commenter gcjohns laid it out in a few choice words:

The Petty, vain, venal, neurotic, obsessive, corrupt and cowardly denizens of our national political apparatus inherited the greatest concentration of wealth, industry, goodwill, and military power in 6000 years of history and squandered it in a single generation.

They believe themselves superior.

He left out “vicious.”