The
Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election:
101 Nonpartisan Solutions to All the Issues that Matter – Ryan Clancy and
Margaret White (Diversion Books)
Let me be perfectly clear right up front; I am an
unabashed, unapologetic Conservative. So, I have always been amused by people
who claim some sort of special status, because they take no firm stances on any
issue, because they are just so darn intelligent and thoughtful. They famously
laid claim to being mavericks or moderates, but due to the higher thinking of
political/media consultant Mark McKinnon, he of the annoying hipster fedoras
and scarves, they now prefer the tag, No Labels.
While McKinnon co-founded the organization, Ryan Clancy
and Margaret White have spent the past few years leading the growth charge for
the group. Now the pair serve up the new book, The Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election: 101 Nonpartisan Solutions to
All the Issues that Matter.
For me, Clancy and White stumble right out of the box,
when they attempt to make the No Labels case by citing a poll by the group More in Common; gee, am I the only one
who thinks this might be a poll geared to get the exact result they were seeking
when they set out? The book offers up a selection of issues that we face that
the authors deem are critical like; healthcare, climate change, guns,
immigration, big tech and more. I’m not sure why healthcare is on that list, I
thought Obamacare had solved that one?
GUNS
On the issue of gun control, Clancy and White once again
cite flawed polling. In an era when Hilary Clinton, the clear, hands down
winner of every 2016 presidential poll – does not reside in the White House
should tell you all you need to know about polling. It’s impossible to have a
legitimate discussion on the issue of guns when one side refuses to educate
themselves on guns and describe semi-automatic rifles as “assault weapons” or
“weapons of war.” The seemingly singular focus on the AR-15 rifle frame style,
that has been around since the 1950s fascinates me. That’s right, the AR has
been around for six decades, and yet is suddenly public enemy number one for
gun grabbers. Just a small tidbit of education; AR stands for Armalite Rifle,
after the company who invented it, not “automatic rifle” or “assault rifle” as
some claim.
NO
SOLUTIONS
The
Ultimate Guide to the 2020 Election, doesn’t offer anything in
the way of answers or solutions to the problems and issues that they outline in
the book; which I get since they claim by their nature, they don’t really do.
Where this approach fails is that as much as the like to beat their chest and
proclaim themselves higher thinkers, they don’t even attempt to offer new of
compromise positions on the issue. To me that makes them uniquely suited for
the Swamp, the deep state bureaucrats who perpetuate only their own existence
and never really solve any problems.
Not that either party really wants to solve problems or
deliver workable solutions and that’s not due to any intransigence on their
part, other than the problems are what they use as grist to grind down their
opponents, election after election. That is in the long run what created voter
frustration that lead to the election of Donald Trump and the unholy upheaval
that launched in Washington.
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