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This is a long post. Don't know how many will read it, but there's something I have to get off my chest. There's a hard pill that ostensibly right-leaning Americans need to swallow. "Conservatism" needs to be put out to pasture. All forms. Angry with me already? Hear me out first. We've had 85 years of the American Right being suppressed and what have we had in this time as its replacement? Liberalism Fast and Liberalism Slow. "Liberalism but the frog is boiled more slowly" aka Conservatism being the choice other than fast Liberalism. Don't believe me? Think back to what the liberal positions were 15 years ago. Right now that'd be around first term Obama. Border security and deportation policy? Yep. Obama was actually doing more on some metrics. Stances on social issues? Today's conservatives are to the left of term 1 Obama. Cozying up as close as possible to Big Finance and Big Pharma after a whole song and dance about how bad they are on the campaign trail? Oh look, term 1 Obama again. On and on. What's happened? The original population is halfway to being replaced with foreigners who are completely incompatible with American culture and ethos, and conservatives just prattle on about colorblind meritocracy. Our industry has been gutted and shipped to China because conservatives told us in the 1990s that would make China into a free market capitalist society. We lost our industry and expertise and China is not a free market capitalist society. The natives still keeping their heads above water are regularly replaced with cheap foreign labor that is indentured in all but name, and conservatives like freshly-ousted Greg Abbott and John Cornyn in Texas could only keep singing the praises of building more Hindu gods, destroying Texas suburbs, and displacing the workers in their state. Conservatives talk a lot about what they'd do if they were in power. What have conservatives DONE about this when in power? Given mass amnesty for Mexicans who should have been sent home and surrendered California and New York permanently? Mass imported millions of Indians and displaced Americans from their jobs? Slap tariffs on China without even a back-of-napkin plan to onshore lost industry under the umbrella of said tariffs, thereby just raising costs for no long-term benefit? Refuse to pass laws or codify the vast majority of things they claim to support even when holding the presidency and both houses of Congress and just engage in infighting? Promise mass deportations and then reduce the illegal population at a rate that would tax the rest of the century just to get back to 2020 levels? 25 years of wars for no benefit to the United States, primarily benefitting a country that has committed more hostile espionage against the USA than the Soviet Union? Wars that, mind you, cost $11 trillion. There's another thing. What could you do with that $11 trillion? * That's 73 times the Pentagon's Bush era projection for what it would cost to build space-based solar powering the entire United States indefinitely. * That would be social security fully funded from now through 2034. * The estimated cost of trying to brute force fusion research to commercial-ready in 4-6 years with an Apollo or Manhattan Project-like program could be accomplished 55 times over. * We could build economical $100,000 homes for every homeless man, woman, or child in the USA for about $74 billion. * We could set up a sovereign wealth fund generating enough free cash annually without any additional investment to provide a safety net of $50,000/year for 2 million people at a time for $2.5T. These people could then be continually retrained and rolled back into the workforce and any unused money reinvested. That would be independent of any further need to tax the population. * The entire Interstate Highway System could be overhauled nationwide and brought up to modern standards for around $500 billion, although much likely less. SCENARIO A: We spend $11T. Five years from now, in 2031, * The USA has space-based solar nationwide, which has also created a burgeoning new industry, STEM careers, and a massive expansion of space launch capability nationwide. * The USA is hitting first viability of commercial fusion plants. This would do the same as the above for STEM education and careers, while also opening up opportunities like creating a sovereign wealth fund to relieve some tax burden, and license plants staffed with American operators to countries worldwide. Plants that provide clean, reliable energy. Plants which, the argument over anthropogenic climate change aside, if we just accept that as a given, would almost completely solve that problem with no fifteen minute cities or carbon credits or rationing or other nonsense. * 100% of homeless are off the streets in permanent shelters and we could be trying to work them back into the labor force so they're a net benefit, leaving that housing available for other poor. Even if they are not successfully reintegrated, they are now housed. * A sovereign wealth fund has been created to provide a safety net for up to 2 million workers at a time without requiring any further tax outlays. The fusion licensing could be rolled back into this to increase the number of people who could be covered as returns are continually reinvested. * SSA was fully funded back in 2027 and we only just now start working it into the tax budget again. * The entire Interstate Highway System has been overhauled and is ready to go for another half century or more of business and growth. The $11T is still spent and would still need to be paid off, but now as a result, the United States is now aggressively positioned for rapid growth and technological domination for the rest of the 21st century. SCENARIO B: 25 years of war in the Middle East and you get nothing. Conservatives will tell you Scenario A is Marxism, anti-free market, and the ultimate evil. We can't do that because that's against the Constitution and the Founders, and some other performative nonsense. Then they will turn around from these specious arguments and fund Scenario B without a second thought and wave the flag and say we're making the world safe for democracy. Do you see where I'm going with this? I don't think there is a brand in America more thoroughly repudiated than Conservatism. It's time for the American Right to reassert itself from the ashes left behind by Lindbergh and Ford. Put Conservatism out to pasture and embrace an aggressive Nationalism that overhauls the country and puts American prosperity first and foremost. Whether there is a direct benefit to the country and its native population is the unflinching measure by which all decisions should be made.