Why Was Trump My Only Possible Choice?

By Joe Kuhns

In the last election, I voted for Donald Trump, a man who is one of the most controversial and, in many quarters, one of the most reviled men of our time. And I would do it again. Why?

Allow me to say at the outset that I am not a fanatical “Trumper”, for whom Trump is a God-like figure who can do no wrong. I  know he is a flawed figure, like everyone else. There are things I like very much about him and things I very much don't like. If it had been my choice, there are other Republicans, both men and women, whom I would have preferred.

But there was no choice for me on whom to vote for. While there are many things about Trump that I admire and applaud. I cannot say the same thing about the Democratic Party, which is firmly under the control of its far Left wing. I watched the Biden-Harris Administration in action for four years, and it was clear to me on every level that our country could not survive four more years of their control.

Let us put aside the political propaganda of these many months and look at what the Democrats have done that has damaged our country so badly.

To start with the most obvious and egregious, the Democrats, in violation of the law, effectively abolished the US borders, allowing a steady influx of an estimated ten million illegal aliens to flood into our country. These people were never vetted. How could such a torrent of up to 10,000 people per day possibly be vetted? Our government does not know exactly how many there are, who and what they are, or where they are. But they included hundreds of thousands of criminals and hundreds of thousands of people from countries with governments that are hostile to the United States. Tom Homan, the President's Border Czar, has stated there are approximately 700,000 who have criminal records. And there are, without any doubt many thousands who are criminals but have no criminal records because they haven't actually been caught yet for any of their crimes.

Criminal gangs from Central America, such as Tren De Aragua and MS 13, came in and took up residence in our country. There are members of drug cartels and terrorists. Many American citizens have become victims of rape, murder, and other crimes committed by these criminals.

There is even an organization (Angel Moms) of parents of murdered victims of these criminals. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris created this tragedy, but I did not hear of one instance of either of them ever reaching out in sympathy to these people for what happened to their children, or expressing any regrets over their own actions, which caused the problem. Donald Trump, on the other hand, has met with some of the Angel Moms.

Tom Homan has also stated that there are about 300,000 unaccompanied children who came in and who are unaccounted for. We don't know where they are. One can assume that many of these children are in the hands of sex traffickers.

The Executive Orders from Joe Biden, which set this tragedy in motion, began immediately after his inauguration, which clearly shows that this was all planned ahead of time. Does anyone recall one single word from the Democrats before the 2020 election telling the American people that this was what they intended to do? No, they wouldn't have gotten elected if they had let people know.

Let me state right now a salient point. Nobody who loves this country would knowingly and intentionally do something like this. But it is exactly what the Democrats did.

Joe Biden campaigned on a promise to unite people after years of discord. He came into office and did exactly the opposite. His administration made identity politics the core of its approach to governing, with Critical Race Theory (CRT) as a central part of everything they did. They pushed this idea in schools, the government, and the military. This is designed to divide Americans, not unite them. They teach people to identify not as Americans but as members of racial sub-groups. The point of it all is to cement in the minds of minority members the feeling of victimhood and the belief that big government is their only savior.

 Democrats do this at the state and local level as well. Throughout Democrat-controlled Red States and cities, such as my state of New Jersey, state education policy and curriculum put heavy emphasis on identity, deliberately imposing on students the idea that anyone in a minority status, whether because of race or gender   identity, is an “oppressed” victim, while white people, and especially heterosexual white people are “oppressors”.

 This way of thinking, commonly associated with the “Woke Left” essentially adopts the Marxist (Communist) dynamic of history. Karl Marx saw all social and political movement in terms of an unrelenting struggle between economic classes, with the lower class, the workers or proletariat constantly struggling to overthrow the capitalist upper class.

 The Woke Left adopts this dynamic and applies it to race. So now the “oppressor” is all white people and the “oppressed” is all non-white people. By doing this, they indoctrinate the youth in the idea that the US is a bad country.  Of course, one thing which they never wish to celebrate or even talk about is the enormous progress this country has made in race relations.

 What they achieve by this is the creation of a permanent victim class, which will not see itself as part of the national community. What better way to over time undermine the nation?

 In the domestic sphere, what is the primary responsibility of a government? It is to insure the physical safety and security of the people. Within the borders of each state this means to enforce the laws, beginning with the criminal law. If one looks at Democrat-controlled cities across the land such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, one sees city administrations and district attorneys determined to do the opposite. Dangerous criminals are let out with little or no bail, the lightest possible sentences are given, and in some cases prosecutors such as DA Alvin Bragg in New York are more interested in prosecuting those who try to protect themselves and their fellow citizens against violent criminals than prosecuting the criminals themselves.

 In some cases, like San Francisco, it was decided that nobody would be prosecuted for stealing less than approximately  $1,000 worth of merchandise from a store. This resulted in stores being routinely looted and ultimately being forced to go out of business. Did Democrat city officials know this was happening? Of course, they did, but they were more than happy to let it continue, in the name of  “social justice”. Eventually, many voters had enough. As examples, radical DA Chesa Boudin in San Francisco was removed in a recall vote, and radical DA Gascon in LA was voted out in the 2024 election.

 Perhaps one of the most insidious things the Democrats have done, both on the federal, state, and local levels, is in the cultural realm. And this entails an across-the-board promotion of gender ideology.

 All societies have a cultural basis. That entails a foundation of ideas, attitudes, and ways of looking at the world and reality. It also entails a web of customs that hold a society together. The foundation of American society is Western Civilization, which developed over the centuries in Europe.

 And like all civilizations, ours has concepts of accepted truth. In line with these truths, there are accepted barriers and behavioral lines which should not be crossed.

 If my goal was to destroy the United States of America as a coherent, functioning society, I would undermine these cultural ideas that form the basis of our society. I would attack all behavioral norms and boundaries. I would first attack all of society's sexual norms, and aim especially at children. I would make sure children were exposed to teaching on sex of every variety, normal and abnormal, starting at a young age. They would be exposed to it in school, in entertainment, in libraries. When traditional sexual norms are attacked and undermined, eventually the family is undermined. This does tremendous damage to any society. And this is what the Left has been doing.

 It is in this light, I believe, that we have to consider the Democratic Party's latest cause du jour: transgenderism. It centers on the idea that gender is subjective and unrelated to biological reality. In official circles in Democrat controlled blue states, this idea takes on the qualities of a religion.

 Not only is transgenderism their latest obsession,  but they emphasizes pushing the idea on children. Why? They will say they want to “support” children with gender dysphoria by “affirming their gender identity”. But if you look at their actions in schools and gender clinics, you begins to realize that the welfare of the children is not the goal. In fact, they care little about the children. So besides profit for gender clinics, what is the larger goal?

 I believe that the answer may be found in a book written by former NYU professor Michael Rechtenwald. Previously a left-leaning professor,  he became persona-non-grata at NYU because he took a stand against  the political cancel culture at this institution. In his subsequent book about academia, “Springtime for Snowflakes”, he identified transgenderism as a manifestation of the philosophy of Postmodernism.

 This is a philosophy which denies there is any absolute truth or objective reality. Relativism is the overriding truth. Each person has his own truth. Thus, if I feel and say I am female despite being born a male with the XY chromosome in every cell of my body, then that is my “truth” and nobody has any right to dispute me. Nobody's truth is any more valid than any other person's truth.  Everyone must indulge my delusion about being a woman. In this bazaar template for society, feelings are given far more weight than scientifically provable facts.

The insanity doesn't stop there. If I “identify” as a cat, then that is what I am, according to this insane ideology. And everyone has the obligation to treat me as a cat. Thus the phenomenon of “furries”, children who identify as animals and demand others recognize and treat them as such, even to the point of being allowed to use litter boxes as toilets in schools.

Forces on the Left not only go along with this, they also actively promote it, particularly to children. For what reason? A society cannot sustain itself when it adopts a philosophy that requires that unreality be accepted as reality, where feelings take precedence over facts.

 Western philosophy, based on Greek rationalism and Judeo-Christian thought, declares that there is an objective reality and objective truth that can be rationally determined. A society that buys into irrationality will come apart and collapse. After all, if people can be persuaded to believe that a woman really becomes a man because she feels like a man, and that a child is a cat because he or she identifies as a cat,  then they can be persuaded to believe just about anything, no matter how absurd. Rational debate becomes impossible. What better way to undermine the society that you disdain?

Finally, there is the issue of out of out-of-control budgets and the national debt. Our budget deficits and national debt are out of control. At present, the debt is approximately thirty-seven trillion dollars. Numerous well-respected economists are warning us that the situation of the national debt is becoming critical, and we are headed for a point of no return. We will get to a point where the interest on the national debt will be larger than the budget for national defense.

 We cannot sustain this. But the Democratic Party cares little about the problem of the budget and debt. They are addicted to ever-increasing levels of domestic spending, promising everything to every group to lock in voters. Do you have student debt, which you freely incurred yourself? No problem. We will make the taxpayers, who never took out the loans, pay it off for you.  How do the Democrats support illegal immigrants? By subsidies directly from the treasury.

There is far more that can be said and far more examples to be given. But the essential point once again is this. The Democratic Party, which is under the control of its far-left wing, does not love this country. Nobody who loves this country would do the things I have described above. So what do they love? They love their imagined future, an America, divorced from its past, organized in the image of the Marxist Left, a one-party state, where their ideology and it alone prevails.

Donald Trump, whatever his faults, loves this country. The left wing of the Democratic Party, which has effective control of that party, does not.

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A FORMULA FOR WINNING A SCHOOL BOARD ELECTION. 

BY JOE KUHNS

OUR OWN JOE KUHNS HAS SUCCESSFULLY TAKEN QUALIFIED CANDIDATES TO WINNING BOARD SEATS AND WINNING MAJORITIES. THERE IS A FORMULA THAT WORKS. MANY WOKE BOARDS OF ED ARE NOW FLIPPING TO TRADITIONALLY BASED POLICY BOARD MEMBERS. HIS HOW-TO OUTLINE SHOULD BE A LEARNING EXPERIENCE. 

How to Run a Successful School Board Campaign

Last November, in the town of Oakland, New Jersey, there was an election for two seats on the regional high school school board. The result of the election was to effectively “flip the board”. It put moderate conservatives in the majority by removing a board member who was not sympathetic to conservative ideas regarding education.

The result of the election was a resounding victory for two women who as yet had never been on the board of education.

Oakland is a middle-income suburban town of approximately 13,000 people in western Bergen County. Politically, it tends to be a fairly conservative, predominantly Republican town. If that is the case, how did it happen that there were people from Oakland on the regional BOE who were anything but moderate conservatives? The answer is that many Oakland citizens are like others in that they often don't get out and vote, especially in off-year elections.  Or if they do vote, they vote for governmental positions, but not the school board. Many times, voters have to be convinced that even though they no longer have children in school, they should still be very concerned about what is happening in the schools. This lack of participation often allows people who do have a political agenda that does not reflect the community or its beliefs and values.

Very early in the process, one should attend school board meetings to see firsthand what is going on and get a sense of the personalities and factions involved, and where they stand on the issues. Look at the district website. This will give valuable information about district policies, budget matters, test scores, and curriculum. Know what is happening in the school and the classroom. (One very important issue is that reading the curriculum alone will not always adequately reveal what is being taught. It is also important to learn about what online instructional materials are being used.)

 Talk to people in the town to find out what their concerns are regarding the schools. Some people are primarily concerned about how school expenditures will affect their taxes. Some will be concerned with athletic programs and others with how test scores compare with state averages. And today, many people are concerned with ideologies being promoted in the classroom. All of these were issues in our town.

 A successful campaign will require financial resources. 

In our town of about 13,000 people, we spent between $12,000 and $15,000. I will not go into requirements for handling and reporting on campaign funds, as this will change from state to state depending on local laws.

 When the above things are taken care of, how do we get people to get out to vote for our candidate?

 Many people think that the key to successful campaigning, even on the local level, is reaching people via social media. While this is useful as an adjunct method, the most important thing is to get a staff of people out to meet and talk with the voters through door-to-door campaigning. Telephoning and especially “robocalling” are not adequate substitutes. Our group of volunteers went out for weeks, knocking on doors, meeting people face-to-face, talking to voters and getting their support. This is most essential when you are promoting a candidate who has never been on the board, who may be largely unknown to the town people, and running against someone already on the board who is well known to people.

 It was not possible to knock on every door in Oakland. Since we had about ten people who were campaigning on a consistent basis, it was necessary to determine which voters were worth the time to contact. The County Board of Elections provided lists of voters (through the Open Public Records Act) showing voters' party affiliation and how many times each voter had voted over the last four elections. If a voter had voted four out of the last four elections there would be the number 4 next to his name, etc. Since this was an off-year election in which voter turnout is typically not high, to maximize our effort we only paid visits to those voters who were most likely to get out and vote. So we visited all of the voters who were registered Republicans or Independents and had voted three or four times out of the last four elections.

 In short, don't waste your time on people who as indicated by past behavior, probably won't vote. Go after those who probably will vote and persuade them.

 Our candidate provided us with her business cards with her telephone number. We handed them out as we spoke to people and invited them to call the candidate herself if they had any questions. Most did not, but gestures of this type are very important to establish a connection with the voters.

 School board elections in New Jersey are non-partisan contests, and our school board campaign was kept separate from any political party. However, the Oakland Republican Party (ORC) was campaigning to get Republican candidates into several mayoral and town council positions. To increase their chances in these contests the ORC initiated a campaign to get Republican voters to sign up for Vote by Mail. The rationale behind this was that Democrats in our area would typically be well behind in the election day vote, but would often win big with vote by mail and thus win the election.

 When election day comes, many people, for one reason or another, fail to make it to the polls. They may be sick, or the kids may be sick. Or they could be delayed getting home from work. The weather might be terrible. In any case, on election day, the window to vote in person is about 14 hours (less for most people, who work a full day). Democrats got people to vote by mail early, and thus “banked their votes”. This advantage of getting their people to vote by mail was often decisive in Democratic victories. In Oakland, the effort by the ORC did not completely close the gap between Republican and Democratic early voting registration, but it narrowed it enough so that the Republican advantage in voting day totals brought victory in all of the town council elections.

 In a school board election, the voters who will support candidates with common-sense conservative ideas will be largely Republicans. Thus, the effort to better turn out Republican voters in this way no doubt greatly assisted our school board candidates.

 Our candidates also sent out three mailers to every household in the town during the campaign. These should be colorful, hard-hitting, and listing clearly the ideas the candidate is running on. The points should be brief and concise. Do not write too much on the mailer because many people will not take the time to read something too long and wordy.

 Also, a campaign letter was sent to every household to coincide with the time that vote-by-mail ballots were being received by those who requested them.

 If you are campaigning against a candidate currently on the school board, it is not a problem to list on a flier or handout some of the votes, decisions, or actions the opponent has taken that citizens may find objectionable. This is vital to getting support for your candidate. But avoid mean personal attacks on the opponent. This may have the effect of drumming up sympathy and support for your opponent. Try to always keep it positive.

 Lawn signs are important, both the number of them and how they are strategically placed. When we met a voter who seemed very sympathetic to our candidate, we would always ask if we might a lawn sign on his or her property. To the average citizen, seeing a great many signs for one candidate indicates a high level of support in the community. If nothing else, this will engender an interest in that candidate.

Of course, what we did was tailored to our particular town and to the resources we had. These methods we adapted may not be entirely applicable to other towns, which are quite different demographically or politically. The first step is always to analyze your town, and what is the best way, with the resources you have, to get your fellow citizens out to vote for sensible candidates.