I just noticed this morning that I have reached a very important milestone.
In or around March of 2006, I walked out of a independent fundamental Baptist Church, ticked off, because I have been accused of a bunch of stuff, that was not even remotely true. I talk more about that in my Christianity section on this blog, you might want to look it up.
So, I needed a diversion and at the time we were mired in the conflict in Iraq. At the time, I felt that President George W. Bush what is moving the goalposts when it came to Iraq. I needed an outlet and a diversion from what was happening with myself.
So, I went first to WordPress.com and created a Blog there. When I found out that I really couldn’t advertise there, I left and went to blogspot or blogger as it’s called and I ended up creating a Blog there called, “the populist.”
That was 10 years ago.
Needless to say my politics, my outlook on life, my religious convictions and many other things have changed since I did all that. I’ve interacted with some interesting people, gotten into some nasty fights with some people; “blog wars”, if you will.
Things were much different back in 2006, there was a sense of community back then; bloggers right and left, we link to each other, we quoted each other and we defended each other, if need be.
Things today are much different, rarely if ever do people link to my blog and I rarely link to anybody else; except if it’s a big story. I’ll put in others and links to other blogs. People can’t believe that I still do that. I thought that was the way things were supposed to be, link to other people to get more than one voice on a subject. I guess now, that’s not very popular.
When I started this blog in 2006; I had been unemployed basically for about a year and really haven’t had any long-term work since about 2000.
So, I decided to go into business for myself and then tried to business venture. that ultimately failed. But I kept blogging, even after George W bush left the office of the president of the United States. That is because I believe that no government or no government official, irregardless political party is above criticism and commentary. Politicians are not Kings, neither is the president, they are elected servants of the people and that’s the role, I believe blogs to point out when they’re going astray.
So, in 10 years I can honestly say I regret nothing. I do not regret my choices and most importantly; I don’t regret creating a Blog.
I do not regret taking new course in my political beliefs; as President Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I didn’t leave the Democrat Party they left me” and they left me in 2007.
The Democrat Party left me 2007, for several reasons:
One, when they failed to stop a war that they so harshly condemned repeatedly in the media.
Two: when they installed president who used his skin color as a weapon and a campaign tool. I’m not a racist I grew up in a multicultural environment in Southwest Detroit 19 years of my life.
But, to hear the Democrats talk during the 2008 election; anybody who did not support or vote for Barack Obama or essentially members of the Klu Klux Klan.
This is when I decided that the Democratic party no longer represented me as a person and for the first time in my life, I voted something other than Democrat.
That year I voted for Bob Barr who was the Libertarian Party candidate for president. It was actually rather liberating to finally cast a vote that truly represented how I felt.
To say that the Democratic Party has shifted to the left would be one of the greatest understatements of the American Century. At one time, the Democratic Party was a moderate party that believed simply that everyone had a chance at the American dream. The problem is that the Democratic party now has become a full-on socialist party and sees anyone with white skin, a little money and a job; as a tax target.
Furthermore, the Democratic Party and the progressive left as whole; which claims to be the party that celebrates diversity freedom of speech and freedom of thought, is the first ones to come out and attack anyone that dares to dissent from their worldview and their Progressive politics. Especially when it comes to matters of race.
This is why I blog; it is my way of protesting what I see to be morally and literally wrong.
It hasn’t been an easy ride for me and my health has suffered as well. My eyesight has gotten progressively worse since I first started blogging. I now know that I have type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure high cholesterol and anxiety and on top of my ADHD, that I was diagnosed with, at five years old.
As I look back, there are some things that I possibly could have said and done better when I first started out as a blogger. There were instances when I wanted to bring attention to myself and my idea was, that any publicity is good, that was a bonehead move on my part.
But. one of my greatest mistakes; one of my greatest regrets, if I have any, is the fact that I insulted someone’s wife, who I was unaware was deceased. That’s one, that I’ll have to live with for the rest of my life.
People have asked me, “if you had become so disinterested in politics why do you continue to have a Blog? why do you continue to write?”
My answer is simply this: if I decide to close up shop, delete this blog and all my other blogs and get rid of the domain and just go back to being another face in the crowd; then the people who I am protesting against, writing against, pointing out what they are doing is wrong —-they would have won the battle and I’m not somebody to just cut and run, as George W bush so famously put it.
I believe that freedom of speech is an American treasure, one that should be exercised, within the limits of the law, of course and I believe that blogs are actually the sixth estate and we keep the corporate media and officials in government in check and I believe that is as American; as apple pie, Chevrolet, baseball and big rig semi trucks.
So, yes, I have been doing this for 10 years and I’m quite proud of what I’ve accomplished. I have not gotten wealthy doing it at all. I haven’t had some crony capitalists or some big Corporation or some special interest groups try to get into pocket and try to control what I write. I have kept my Integrity. I have kept my Independence. I have not sold out to any particular political party. I have stayed true to my mission that I started in 2006 and that was to criticize the government for their actions during the war and during their political process. I guess you could call me a bit of a iconoclast.
Sacred cow tipping is what I do. that’s what bloogers do, that’s what critical writers do.
Another one of the reasons why I’ve paid the price on this blog in terms of traffic and people wanting to link to me, is because I never played the partisan game and I never really was a mindless follower of anyone. My friends anyone that follows after anyone blindly is setting themselves up for a world of hurt.
It happened in the 1980s with Ronald Reagan, it happened in the 1990s with Bill Clinton and it has happened with Barack Obama and Ron Paul; and it’s about to happen again with Donald Trump.
The political machine in Washington DC, does not like nor does it permit political Outsiders. it has been that way for years and it will be that way until Christ’s coming.
This is why blogs exist, this is why we write, this is why we fight against them. That is our job, regardless of what side of the political fence you sit on. And as far as these political parties are concerned, let me be the first to tell you; if you don’t know this already, that both of these parties Democratic party and Republican party, are two sides of the same coin, and that is corruption influence-peddling, greed, and all sorts of other ugly nonsense.
And to be quite blunt about it, the corporate media is in the bed with both sides; this is why blogs are essential.
Having said all that I plan to continue this blog for as long as it’s physically possible for me to do so.
I do not plan to back down from my criticism of Washington DC, their mismanagement of the country and that includes both sides of the political aisle; the selling out of America to foreign interests, the utterly open borders and our foreign policy excursions.
Furthermore, I will continue to defend the elderly the disabled and the abused. I will continue to defend the right of every American citizen to collect a social security check at their age of retirement. I will continue to fight for those who cannot afford health insurance and could use a little help from the government, like myself.
I will continue to fight against those on this blog who wish to scapegoat unions, as being the reason why the big three in America is such in terrible shape.
I will continue to speak out against radical jihadism and our governments pitiful response to it since the attacks on September 11th 2001.
I will continue to speak out against those who use skin color, gender and religious ethniticity, to gain special favor. I will also speak out continually against those who use their religious and cultural authenticity to peddle influence in the United States government. It is wrong, it goes against the spirit of the Constitution of the United States of America, it compromises our sovereignty and it needs to stop and this blog will speak out against it at every opportunity given.
When I first began blogging I called myself, “the populist.” I still consider myself to be a populist, in the sense that I believe in defending the American people, over special interest and corporate interests. However, I now feel that the nation as a sovereign country is worth defending as well.
I believe that family and the concept of a family unit; mother, father and children are worth protecting. I believe the protection of The Unborn is worth writing about and protecting. I believe that Christian values; something this country was founded upon, is worth writing about defending and protecting.
I believe that political correctness, the creation of the Marxist left, is worth protesting against writing against and blogging about, at every opportunity given.
I believe a strong and robust defense of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, which guarantees us the right to own and use a firearm, is worth writing about and protecting as well.
These are issues that I care deeply about and these are the issues that I will continue to write about, as long as it’s physically possible for me to do so.
To those of you who have been with me since the beginning and have read me since the beginning, I thank you. Those of you who cared enough to donate put money in my tip jar and send me notes of encouragement and leave comments on my blog, I thank you.
We do have many more battles to fight and I will continue to do so here on this blog. So for the future of America, let’s get moving, shall we?
But, I’d still like to be driving a truck.