On Political Loyalty and Strategic Resolve
This Assembly
SUPPORTS
this Resolution
Ayes: 1 | Noes: 0
Resolved, That it be upheld as follows:
Loyalist conservatives, those loyal to the present administration, view the proposal to vote Democrat to oust Republicans as terribly misguided, arguing it would hand power to a regime worse than the present Republican Party.
This association does not accept blind allegiance to Donald Trump or any present member of the administration. Trump has failed on many promises, among them the construction of a border wall promised a decade ago.
The principle that something is better than nothing in politics, or that which is better than the alternative is therefore desirable, is not an inalienable or stringent rule. When you strike at the king, you must kill him. Otherwise, do not strike at all.
Autonomously voting for an administration that strikes at the king without killing him will only worsen the position of the American people. Strategic arrangement of political conditions so as to actually deliver a decisive blow is the preferable course.
Political representatives are not owed the loyalty of the people. They are supposed to be loyal to the people. All reciprocity extended is on that basis alone.
If the goal is to shrewdly use the best resources an administration can provide while seeking better leadership, that may be acceptable for certain purposes. A blind pledge of allegiance regardless of myriad failures is foolish.
Steven Crowder, conservative political commentator and host of Louder with Crowder and the recurring Change My Mind broadcast, is identified as among those who cling to loyalty to the present establishment. While held in respect, his position on this matter is considered mistaken, amounting to acceptance of performative nothings and lighthearted, empty gifts rather than what Americans were promised.
Perspicacity is commended as a necessary virtue in the navigation of these political matters.