Friday, May 27, 2022
Saturday, May 21, 2022
Suicide
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
There is an epidemic sweeping across America. It transcends politics, economics or any other group classification of the citizenry.
It is affecting our strongest and bravest warriors. It is forcing us to lose the most defenseless amongst us. It can take your colleagues, your neighbors, or even those closest to you.
This scourge is suicide.
There are those who are much wiser than The Madison Conservative on this topic and who have studied this alarming trend. They have found various and sundry reasons to explain the causes of this phenomenon.
There are debates on many national policies sweeping across America these days.
One issue glaringly absent is a discussion on mental health. The stigma of declaring one may have mental health issues still carries with it the stigma and shame of being a social outcast. Such ignorance can no longer be tolerated.
With Memorial Day fast approaching, it seems more than appropriate to shine a light on suicide running through our veteran community. As we have noted, there are many causes for the problem, but addressing those realities takes time, and that is one luxury we cannot afford. We do not have the expertise or experience to promote rapid solutions, but we do have a very strong request.
Many people who are falling into the well of despair and emotional pain that is the precursor to suicide often need someone to simply listen. Listening without looking to respond is one of the hardest characteristics to demonstrate to someone who is looking for a good ear.
No one can ever truly know another’s internal thought processes, so trying to commiserate is an exercise in futility.
Please understand that it is agreed that the human condition almost mandates we try to find something comforting to say to anyone who just needs to talk. But then it’s about you, not them.
As the holiday weekend nears, please find some time, maybe an hour a week, to reach out to a veteran and let them you’re up for listening, and then do just that. It may take some time. But being consistent can demonstrate your seriousness. If not a veteran, then maybe somebody else you may feel is in need of talking. Life is such a precious and unique gift, consider the state of mind of someone willing to end it.
As we noted above, this epidemic attacks our strongest and our brvest. Please try to make an effort and let them know that asking for help, letting them talk or vent, has no correlation to weakness. In fact, the mere act of asking for any type of support shows much more strength and bravery than any battlefield courage.
We are in no way advocating that your listening is a replacement for sound medical intervention.
All we are asking is that for this coming Memorial Day weekend, give our veterans an hour. They willingly put their lives at risk to help protect and serve this nation on your behalf.
Surely the least one should do is to take time to listen.
Let us do our best to lose no more warriors to suicide.
Memorial Day is to honor our fallen. Perhaps the best way to demonstrate that their sacrifice was not in vais is to support the brothers and sisters they left behind.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
The Primary Fraud
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
The primary season is now upon an already suffering electorate. The Madison Conservative must again stride atop our soapbox to remind America they are being made fools. The cowardly Democratic, Republican, and any other political party continue their assault upon the United States Constitution.
Consider their ongoing blatant lies.
The popular belief is that we are ‘a two-party government’. Nothing could be further from the truth. The Constitution has no provision for political parties. It sets forth Election Day, but that is where it ends.
Inept politicians have successfully put in place mechanisms to present the illusion that primaries are a part of the American electoral system.
That is a total fraud. A primary is nothing more than a PRIVATE ORGANIZATION deciding what name will appear on the Election Day ballot. All the more galling is the American taxpayer is given the bill for their farcical indulgences. We are not saying a political party should not have a primary, but if they so feel the need, to do it on their own nickel. They are NOT government, despite decades of propaganda trying to have citizens believe otherwise. The stenographic, sycophantic media are willing accomplices. They cover the results as if they had any significance. They don’t. All that happens is that America is fed a slew of lies by an unqualified idiot.
We believe passionately in the American franchise of voting. We would ask you to consider opting out of a parody and vote in the local school board election. It will have greater impact than helping liars to continue their assault on American democracy.
At least that’s our vote.
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Treason
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
The political class, for the most part, and the mass media, also for the most part, are amongst the ineptest and intellectually challenged members of American society. Their single-minded focus on achieving and maintaining power is anathema to the American spirit, not to mention wildly unconstitutional.
The Madison Conservative understands that we are not trailblazing any new horizons with that statement.
We are concerned with the dangerous use of language that the aforementioned individuals spew with no real understanding of what they are actually saying.
To wit:
Having worn out the terms of ‘racist’, sexist’ ‘transphobic’ and ‘Nazi’, the newest attempt to smear anyone who does not follow leftist ideology is to label them as a ‘traitor’, or being ‘treasonous.’
Treason is the crime specifically noted in the Constitution that upon a finding of guilt can carry with it the penalty of death. The January 6th commission is not permitted to question Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, to whom the security of the Capitol is entrusted. That does not prohibit them from declaring however that they have ‘smoking gun’ evidence that President Trump is guilty of treason. One wonders what method of execution they might consider. Naturally, such a charge would have to be proven, but that uncomfortable reality does not preclude the mantra that “Trump is a Traitor!”
As an aside, which American president demonstrated cowardice in the face of the enemy and abandoned American citizens behind enemy lines? That strikes us as a more significant issue to address.
We neither support nor discard fellow citizens like Tucker Carlson of Fox News, or former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard. The political left and their sycophantic media stenographers however have labeled both as traitors.
We have had the Madison Conservative research team scour through their public, televised comments.
All they have asked is what is the national interest in engaging with Ukraine against Russia and Putin.
When and where the topic is war, it is the obligation of the citizenry to question the actions of those in authority. In fact, doing so is the definition of American democracy, for the voices of the governed to rise up and demand answers.
Carlson and Gabbard, are in fact, and in the highest traditions, American patriots. Agree or disagree with them, when is the act of asking questions an act that carries the penalty of death?
This weekend – 4/24/22/- Senator Elizabeth Warren issued a proclamation that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy was ‘a liar and a traitor’ for his involvement with President Trump and the January 6th protests. (it was NOT an insurrection).
Senator Warren calling another politician a liar is delightfully ridiculous on its own. She has, like every other member of the Democratic party, failed to explain why Rep. McCarthy needs to be put to death.
The Madison Conservative, like most every other person in this country, can easily provide politicians with other language instead of using ‘traitor’, or ‘treason’.
For ourselves, we prefer to label the elected class as mostly scoundrels. We believe it conveys our disgust and disdain without the need to build gallows on the national mall.
Sunday, March 20, 2022
A Supreme Question
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
The founders and the framers continue to demonstrate their insight into the creation of their experiment in self-government and the rules by which the nation would function.
They created three equal branches of the United States government - the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judiciary. Their plan worked along the lines that if the executive – the President, or Legislative – the Congress, tried to pull a political power coup, the Judiciary – the Supreme Court – would be the deciding vote and referee in all governmental branch disputes.
Until the last decade or so, the structure worked as intended. The political left has been trying to pervert the process in far too many ways as of late.
To wit:
When the left tries to pull a constitutional fast one, they seem confident that the liberal justices are rubber stamp votes for creating legislation from the bench, in violation of the Constitution. The corrupt media then begin the onslaught of wondering which of the conservative jurists will exhibit ‘bravery’ and vote with the liberals.
We find it amusing and terrifying that there is never a question of any liberal jurist demonstrating similar bravery and voting with the conservatives. Among the political idio-crats, bravery only works one way.
The Constitution provides for a lifetime appointment. This has had the occasional series of complaints throughout our history, but nothing of consequence.
In the last few years, the imbeciles of the political extreme left, in the face of Supreme Court losses, have not only demanded term limits for jurists, but to pack the court with a sufficient number of liberal jurists to overcome the current conservative majority.
They apparently no longer believe in bravery and have decided to instead count on strength in numbers. We have written previously how in the ruling on Covid mandates, each of the three liberal Supreme Court judges got major facts on the case wildly wrong, and instead voted along political policy lines. In the scheme to subvert the Constitution, they are attempting to impune the historical impartiality og the Court, trying to create it in their own warped image.
America deserves better than a funhouse mirror image of justice.
This week, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will begin her Senate confirmation hearings. Some have attempted to claim she would be the most significant apppointment since John Marshall. Other will claim she must not be allowed in traffic court, let alone the highest court in the land.
We will not engage in such political sport.
Joe Biden has already diminished her by stating he would appoint a woman of color to the bench. No matter her qualifications, she will be forever tarnished with the epithet she was picked solely for her gender and skin pigment attributes.
The Madison Conservative will ignore all of the political noise and focus on a single question, which we believe, would set the predicate for the rest of her hearing.
A single interrogative that to our knowledge has never been asked of a Supreme Court nominee.
The Supreme Court decides issues of constitutionality, if any law or act is allowed under our founding document.
We have our own opinions on the answer, but will wait until after the hearings to discuss it in this forum.
We would ask our readers to consider the question, decide their answer, and see if their elected representative gets with a country mile of asking it for the constituents.
To wit:
“Madame Justice,
You will be deciding issues relative to the United Stses Constitution.
In your legal opinion, to whom does the Constitution apply? Do its rights extend to people who broke our laws to enter the country? There are numerous issues affecting this country. Who do you see having a legitimate claim to the rights and responsibilities of the Constitution?”
We would be fascinated with her response.
Thursday, March 3, 2022
The Face Of Cowardice
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
PLEASE NOTE: What follows is commentary of those in elected office. It is not intended to reflect on any population, save those who hold seats of authority. We ask your indulgence for this particular post. For us, in many ways, this is personal.
Axioms are such because they have been proven true.
One of the strongest, and saddest, is this:
They came for those people, and I said nothing. They came for other groups of people, and still I remained silent.
Finally they came for me, and there was no one left to protest my disappearance.
Ukraine is under assault by this generations Adolf Hitler.
The world sits by and does nothing.
The United States Congress passed a resolution in support of Ukraine. The paper it was printed on was insufficiently strong enough to stop the Russian missile onslaught.
The United Nations, ostensibly the deliberative body where countries could meet and resolve their differences peaceably had difficulty garnering unanimous support for even a declaration condemning Russia.
The leaders of NATO are standing by watching war crimes being committed and do nothing more than searching for a camera crew so they can lament the situation.
The “free world” should be disgusted and ashamed of themselves.
Joe Biden, coward-in-chief, was asked about the evidence of Putin’s war crimes and responded with the terse “we’re monitoring it.” Hey Joe, how many women need to be slaughtered and children butchered before you decide you’ve done enough checking in on things?
Consider this.
President Donald J. Trump was told of Syria using chemical weapons on its own people, in violation of international law.
Trump’s reaction was pure America.
He dropped the MOAB (Mother of all bombs) on a Syrian military facility.
Syria has mostly been behaving themselves ever since.
New reports comment on the Ukrainian use of anti-tank and Javelin misses to defend themselves.
Nobody ever notes where those weapons came from.
President Trump again. He commented at the time of the sale that it was a calculated risk, but that Ukraine had to be able to defend itself.
Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and the rest of the Russian hoax conspirators condemned the action at the time as a sign of Trumps ignorance and subservience to the corrupt Ukraine government.
They have all opted to remain silent on those facts, instead passing resolutions of support.
The only leader of consequence is Volodymyr Zelenskyi, the President of Ukraine.
When Joe Biden, in sadly characteristic fashion, offered the Ukrainian leader safe passage out of the country, the response was positively Churchillian – “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo!”. Lost in much of the coverage is that there has been no government request for troops to be sent to Ukraine, only weaponry. In other words, nobody is being asked to fight for Ukraine, just get them the weapons and they’ll do their own fighting.
The circle of fellow cowards surrounding Biden claim they were not taken by surprise by Putin’s actions. If true, why in God’s name did they not follow Trump’s lead and stockpile weapons ahead of time? Any outraged political leader care to offer an answer?
The “civilized world” seems to be under the control of a psychopath. “Oh, don’t upset Vlad, he’ll use his nukes.”
The reality is that there is no such thing as a limited nuclear war. One nuclear weapon goes off, what happens next is called mutually assured destruction. We are not advocating war, but history has proven that the two most successful leaders America has had in dealing with Russia – Reagan & Trump - understood the basic axiom of avoiding war:
“Peace Through Strength”.
Today’s political leaders have a simple choice – repeat the mistakes of Neville Chamberlain or follow the path of Reagan –“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!.”
It really is that simple.
If the people of the world do not act, Putin surely will.
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
The State of the Union Speech - 3/1/22 - A Madison Conservative Commentary
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
H. L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy, 1926
In our attempts to find a way to describe President Biden’s first State of the Union address, the one word that we keep returning to is ‘whiplash’.
There are those who will find the speech tedious and uninspired. Others will want to focus on the provable lies Biden spewed in feeble attempts to justify his ineptitude.
We found ourselves commenting out-loud with the phrase of “what?”
Analyzing and dismantling the speech line by line could fill volumes and be an unfair use of your time.
We will attempt to convey our point by focusing on several significant issues.
We understand that SOTU speeches are mostly forgettable and tend to devolve into a ‘wish-list’ of priorities for the administration in the coming legislative year.
Biden went way beyond that and must be held to account.
To wit:
UKRAINE.
Biden attempted to assert that he had spent his time building allied coalitions in support of Ukraine. Given his cowardice in Afghanistan, it is particularly galling to hear Biden try to take credit for uniting NATO. It was President Trump who challenged the need for NATO, demanding that member nations fulfill their financial responsibilities to the organization. It was Trump who assured that Biden had a funded NATO that could provide support for Ukraine. At the time, Biden accused Trump of being rude and ignorant of our allies. He promise to return America to full stature on the world stage. Biden then abandoned those very same allies in his exit from Afghanistan. It was European nations that began instituting sanctions on Russia. Biden omitted in his speech that the American sanctions excluded Russia’s energy supplies. On one hand, Biden claims to be the cause for unity against Russia. With the other hand, he refuses to stop buying Russian energy. The leader of the free world is funding the invasion of Ukraine.
That fact somehow was omitted from his speech, leaving people around the world to question if Biden is for or against Russia.
INFLATION & THE ECONOMY
The political left demanded the imbecilic spending bills that everybody knew would cause inflation. As if on cue, after acknowledging that “he gets it” on the stresses of inflation on the American people, he attempts to defend continuing on his disastrous path by noting that leading Nobel Laureate economists claimed that his policies will strengthen the economy for everyone. He does not seem to see the cause and effect principles that govern reality.
He also repeated his ignorance that his policies created over 6 million new jobs last year. We have addressed this in previous posts, but it bears repeating. Those jobs were coming back once the economy reopened. There is NO policy which this administration has implemented that can be attributed to creating any NEW jobs.
COVID
If we were a cynical and conspiratorial organization, we might find merit in the belief there has been some shenanigans going on with mask mandates. We find it wildly convienient, from a political perspective, that Nancy Pelosi lifted mask mandates for the US Capitol the morning of the SOTU speech. Did she have access to secret science information which allowed her to take such action?
Here again, there is no policy Biden has had that brought us through the pandemic.
In perhaps one of the more egregious examples of whiplash, Biden pleaded for America to stop making COVID a political issue. This from the man who claimed Republican governors were creating ‘states of death’, who told the American people his patience was running out with people who were unvaccinated. We wonder who made it political. Bidens said that Trump did not deserve the presidency given the number of people who died on his watch. That number is far greater under Bidens inaction, yet we heard no word of his resignation.
CRIME
It is a matter of record that the policies of the political left are the foundation of the increase in criminal activity in our largest cities. In what struck us as the single most disgusting moment of his speech, no sooner had he mentioned the ambush and murders of Officer Jason Rivera and Officer Wilbert Mora, than he called out for police accountability. In a moment of profound absurdity, he stressed his desire to FUND the police, not DEFUND them.
Apparently no one in the White House communications office has ever heard of Google or YouTube. A simple search will provide you with endless clips of Biden agreeing that cutting funding to police departments was a good idea during the summer 2020 riots.
IMMIGRATION & THE OPIOID CRISIS
President Trump instituted the ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, ended ‘catch and release’ and began construction of a security wall along our southern border. His policies worked, dropping illegal immigration to historic low levels. Biden, in his hate-filled disgust of all things Trump, cancelled all of those policies that again, were working. He appointed a border czar in Vice-President Harris, who, in more than a year, has never visited the border. Biden then has the arrogance to demand the Congress “fix our immigration laws”.
He has yet to enforce the existing laws, so what exactly does he want fixed?
Aside from the human suffering instituted as policy by Biden, he has ignored the opiod crisis flowing across that same border. In his declaration that we must stop the overdose epidemic of fentanyl, he forgoes acknowledging the source of that drug: China.
Americans can understand a weak leader, but they will not accept an inept one.
We believe it unconscionable that the President of the United States would be so blatant and exquisite a liar.
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