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Ohio State Central Committee Members Show the Trend in Modern Politics: Sara Carruthers did not get endorsed by the Republican Party, among others

It’s not just the cosmetics on corporate television; we are seeing some real trends in politics that everyone should take notice of.  What we learned after 2020 was just how much control an invisible sector of a ruling class had over our elections, and in America, we were very far away from a real republic.  It was a kind of dictatorship run by corporate conglomerations who thought that communism China style was the wave of the future and that everyone else should get on board with it.  I read countless books, particularly by people like Ray Dalio, who had already committed to this World Economic Forum view of the world from the power players at Davos early in the last decade, so for them, it was all a done deal.  But as mystified that many are that Trump is headed to be the nominee for the Republican Party and that Ohio was one of the first states to fully endorse him officially, there are a lot of perplexed faces out there from the mainstreamers who thought they had it all figured out.  They didn’t, and the evidence of all that was obvious in a recent Central Committee meeting in Butler County, Ohio, where the actual trends were showing themselves quite obviously.  The mainstream candidates found that they weren’t so mainstream and that the baked-in opposition party approach to mass collectivism, such as the local Sheriff’s commitment to unionized labor, was dramatically out of step with the coming political trends.  No surprise for me, I have watched this evolution since before the Tea Party movement started in 2009, as a direct reaction to the implantation of Barack Obama as a terrorist selection of the Weather Underground party, which many of us pointed out but were not listened to.  It was the same kind of denial that resulted in local politics in 2023 as the Central Committee picked new faces for party endorsements to replace the old ones. Suddenly, the political world took on an entirely new meaning. 

For instance, there has been a lot of talk lately about Sara Carruthers, a state representative for the 47th district in Ohio who had just been censored for not supporting the Speaker of the House that should have been elected, but instead worked with Democrats to put in place a known RINO, last year.  After the defeat of Lynda O’Conner off the Lakota school board in 2023, Sara expressed her views about extremism in the Republican Party to the Journal News quite explicitly, saying that she found them alarming.  For a long time now people have been frustrated by Sara’s obvious leanings toward the Democrat Party and there has been a desire to purge the party of RINOs, (Republicans in Name Only) and that has most percolated within the Central Committee meetings.  Over the last decade, better people have joined these Central Committees and have sought to reform the Republican Party from the inside out because they were frustrated with the kind of Republicans who were running the party, people like John Kasich and John Boehner.  But there was always a lot of strong-arming and intimidation that went with these meetings, so it has taken a while for many members to find their courage and conduct themselves the way that party politics was designed to best represent the voter base of a community.  So Sara didn’t get an endorsement for the Republican Party this time; instead, it went to Diane Mullins.  Shocking in the traditional way of viewing politics, where those who raise the most money tend to have the most power.  That shift has changed since Trump entered politics. Gradually, the Central Committees have grown the courage to fill their roles appropriately instead of being intimidated into voting a certain way. 

Another emerging trend is in MAGA candidates, like Bernie Moreno, who J.D. Vance has endorsed as a partner over Secretary of State Frank LaRose.  Frank LaRose only received 30% of the vote among the Ohio State GOP Central Committee, whereas Bernie Moreno received 70%.  Remember the story about Sheriff Jones, who went on a personal vendetta against State Rep Thomas Hall? It looked like the young man was done in politics because the powerful sheriff targeted him for destruction, along with several other people as well.  Thomas received 100% of the vote.  But when it came time to endorse the sheriff, he did not come highly recommended, which is a direct result of his activism against the very popular Butler County auditor Roger Reynolds, whom the sheriff falsely prosecuted for purely political power-playing reasons.  At this last meeting, according to those there, the Sheriff was very upset about his weak vote and decided to pull his name from the endorsement process.  I recently had a pleasant conversation with Sheriff Jones about his new car in the parking lot of an event we were both at.  It was a nice car.  We also joked about our hats because we both wear cowboy hats in public.  And we kept the conversation light.  The vice mayor of Hamilton, Ohio, was there, and the meeting was a “lofty” occasion.  I may like the Sheriff personally, but he has not shown himself to be a Republican these last few years since Trump left the White House.  And that exploded at this recent Central Committee meeting.  Without a full-throated endorsement, he decided he was done with the whole political party endorsement process and didn’t need it.  After all, who was going to run against him?  As angry as he was, who else could he blame?  He was using the political party to strong-arm the Central Committee for years, and finally, they stood up to him, and he didn’t like it.  But it was based on his actions, not theirs.  It’s in subtle ways like that which politics is changing all across America, and many have not yet figured out just what kind of impact that will have.  Which I say will be dramatic. 

People are tired of corruption in politics, and many good people have joined the Central Committees in their communities to help root it out.  For too long, powerful political characters and their donor backing imposed their will on Central Committee members without much respect.  But that has changed.  Central Committee members in Ohio endorsed President Trump in these same meetings, so the trend is moving in an obvious direction.  And if I had to bet money on it, I would say that all this has the attention of Jack Smith’s case in Washington, D.C.  He knows his case is going nowhere and now he’s looking to shift the blame to the Supreme Court by accelerating the trial for insurrection.  The goal was to prevent Central Committee members from endorsing Trump ahead of the primaries coming up.  But now that Trump is so far out early, these court cases won’t do what they were intended, so Smith is looking to get out of it and place the blame on the high court to protect his reputation.  I’m also sure that there is a way for Sheriff Jones to get back into everyone’s good graces.  He was good in Butler County when Trump was in the White House for the first time.  And now that Trump is running again, the Sheriff can get behind that effort and people can come together again.  But the days of forcing big labor RINOs who would otherwise be Democrats if they ran anywhere else are over.  Central Committees are doing their jobs, not just rubber-stamping some of these political candidates.  And when they do wrong, such as Sara Carruthers has, they endorse alternatives, which is about time and a sign of good things to come.

Rich Hoffman

The Cheating Spouse: Sara Carruthers Called Us”Extremists”

I wasn’t going to talk about what I’ve been saying to all the mostly guys in the Republican party of Butler County, Ohio in the wake of Lynda O’Connor’s loss from the Lakota school board until I read the comments from Sara Carruthers in the Journal News. Obviously, she was referring to me and some of the core team around me who are considered radicals where she said she hated the “extremism in the party.” And that she said, “I think it’s sad to have other Republicans fighting against you.” Well, she’s up for re-election and my message to her is, she’s next. And all those like her. We can’t fight Democrats when we don’t have Republicans in the party. So, we must go through this process to make things honest before we can ever consider winning in politics. Otherwise, it’s all an illusion. Everyone has probably seen the video that Candice Keller took of Butler County Commissioner Cindy Carpenter campaigning for a Democrat on election day. There are a lot of RINO Republicans operating in the Butler County GOP, and they have made their voices known more ostentatiously since Trump has been out of the White House. And many of us, just aren’t going to put up with it. I’ve never given any illusion that I would. I work with people. I listen to their point of view and give people an honest shake. But politically, I’m to the hard right of the Tea Party, and that isn’t going to change. Obviously, I’m interested in politics for different reasons than other people. So my comment to people who have been asking me why I can’t support these RINOs when we learn about them is that I always say, “I love all Republicans until they show me they aren’t. Then I hate them.” There is no middle ground.

One of those cheating spouses

Further, I have been saying to lots of people an obvious metaphor that is directly relatable. Political relationships are a lot like marriage, with marriage being something everyone can relate to in some way or another. And most of the people I have been talking to have been men. I have said this to women, but the context is from a male perspective. When you catch a woman climbing out of the window to sleep with someone else on the other side of town, don’t go out and buy her a diamond ring. It would be best if you were looking for ways to get away from her, not deepening the commitment. And in regard to Lynda O’Connor, I feel she cheated on me, and my way of dealing with that isn’t to profess my love for her, or even to hold my nose and pretend like we have a happy marriage. Once it’s over, for me, it’s over. Forever. My policy is to let the cheaters have their loves, their forbidden fruit. I won’t play happy family with tea on Sundays like there isn’t a problem. A lot of people with low self-esteem are afraid that they won’t ever find another spouse, or maybe there are kids and property that are all wrapped up in the marriage, so it’s just cheaper to put up with all the cheating and play happy family. I think a lot of people find themselves in this situation, and it rolls over into their political lives. Well, that’s not where I am. I want to believe in the people who represent us politically, and those are my standards and the standards of a lot of people I know and associate with. What I hear from all these crybabies after this 2023 election are complaints that we have standards and that we should give those up and put up with the cheating wife who crawls out the window to multiple lovers across town, to keep the kids together, essentially.

To people like Sara Carruthers, it is considered “extreme” to have values.  The Trump MAGA movement is considered “extreme” because it does not want to put up with the politics of the past, where values are thrown out the window, and concessions with evil are endorsed.  In those kinds of statements, I hear a lazy person who doesn’t want to do the hard work of representation and upholding the values of the community she represents.  That certainly was the anger at Lynda O’Connor.  She did not express the community’s sentiment; she worked against it, even working to silence the community from having an opinion.  And that is what many of the insiders in the wake of the 2023 election have been expressing: frustration that they couldn’t control the narrative and impose some low bar that the rest of the community would put up with so they could compete with low-level Democrats for office seats.  If that is what we have to do to compete with Democrats, to play their dumb game, then the answer is, no. I know many people who will be a hard pass on that approach.  What’s the difference then between a Democrat and a Republican if the brand is destroyed by becoming one of them?  When Cindy Carpenter (Sheriff Jones’ budget girl) is campaigning for Democrats on election day.  I’ll pass if that is the kind of teamwork Sara Carruthers is talking about.  Like I’ve also been saying a lot lately to the soft-shelled tacos of the Republican Party, “With Republicans like you, who needs Democrats.” 

Here’s the deal: everyone can do what they want, I’ll only tell you once, Trump will be back in office.  There is going to be a very violent and tumultuous four years coming up while we clean up years and years of neglect.  And anybody who wants to ride that political train, get on and fasten your seat belt.  I know many people willing to fight for what’s right, and they will either do it arm-in-arm with a political party or work against you.  So, you better catch up if you want to do anything political.  It’s not extreme to have “high expectations,” and we are talking about that.  The anger at Lynda, Sara, Cindy, Sheriff Jones, and many of the business owners of Butler County who are only in politics to protect their investments is that they do not match the high expectations of those interested in politics that represent their values.  The message is that everyone should lower their values to accommodate the cheating spouse just to maintain the façade of marriage.  Which a lot of people do.  But these “extremists” that Sara is referring to are not those types of people.  Sincerity and honesty are not bad traits, and it is those traits that these aftermath losers are indicating are holding back the Republican Party.  I know many bright young people who would run for some of these future political offices.  But they will not kiss a ring or play nice with their morality.  This is why we end up with losers who lack ethical standards in some positions, which is why the Republicans are losing.  Not because the expectations are too high but because the kind of people they want are too lazy and too compromised to live up to those standards.  The future of politics will force that issue to be addressed, ready or not.  And in Butler County, Ohio, many are not. 

Rich Hoffman

Darbi Boddy and the Masonic Order of Doom: The fight of social collectivists against MAGA individualism

Evil is the only word that applies to how Lakota schools, its administration, fellow school board members, various political parties, and the legal system have treated Darbi Boddy.  I told her recently that she should dump all those losers and let the whole thing burn.  But I wouldn’t quit either, even if it is the right thing to do.  That is more my wife talking than me; the empathy comes from concern over Darbi’s family.  On November 17th, 2023, Darbi needed to attend a safety meeting for the Lakota school board, and she had to make arrangements for someone to care for her little girl in case she was put in jail.  I’ve gone to war with people for far less than all this, so I don’t blame her when she says she’s not going to quit.  But the totality of the evil involved here is jaw-dropping and is every bit as bad as I’ve always said it was.  These are terrible, horrendous people engaged in teaching these kids in public schools, and there is a lot worse brewing under the surface.  And Darbi feels compelled to stand up to that evil and I admire her for it.  And so it was when she arrived at the meeting, there was security who told her that she couldn’t be there because of the recent and very dysfunctional Isaac Adi restraining order against Darbi.  But Darbi had spoken to the school lawyers and people who should know, and they told her she could attend, so she did, until the police issued her a citation and a court date for November 29th, 2023 for a violation of a court order.  To show how much these people care about kids, they threatened to throw Darbi Boddy in jail just for attending a school board meeting in which she was elected to participate.  Her husband is serving our country overseas, and she is the primary caregiver to a cute little girl, these people could care less what all this did to her, just as they don’t care about the students at Lakota.  All they really care about is how they can use those poor kids to fill their empty and featureless lives with social conformity.

It didn’t have to be this way; it wasn’t long ago when Judge Lyons was with Darbi and me at a nice political event where I was one of the featured speakers.  The judge was sitting at our table, and I enjoyed his company, as I have on other occasions.  And I have thought of him as a pretty good guy.  But he is also the attorney for this Isaac Adi monstrosity against Darbi, where he and others have been aggressively trying to get rid of the new school board member for the last two years.  And going back to the beginning, they drew first blood.  Lynda O’Connor led the charge, and she has dragged into her antics of personal destruction many characters, such as Judge Lyons, to satisfy a personal vendetta against Darbi Boddy for mysterious reasons.  Reasons that transcend politics.  Many people have been giving me the inside scoop on this story, and it gets uglier the more we learn from the personal experiences of these people.  I understand many temptations for brotherhoods, such as those experienced in Masonic memberships, especially within the legal profession, and Bar Associations, union membership, political parties, and all kinds of groups that give timid individuals a place to hide behind a collectivist mindset.  This bloodthirsty hatred for Darbi Boddy and others in the MAGA movement was tied to this desire to hide personal behavioral characteristics behind various elements of social collectivism and use the disguise of saving the children to mask it all from the public just as the Shriners do a lot of excellent community work when the actual elements of membership may not be so psychologically healthy. 

Looking at this case, if it weren’t for Judge Lyons’s networking, this restraining order against Darbi Boddy from Isaac Adi would go nowhere.  The recent appeals court process of Roger Reynolds, the former Butler County Auditor attacked by rivals in the Republican Party purely over power, has been much slower than the case with Isaac, which has been lightning fast.  So fast that Darbi has barely been able to react to it, which is the point. You can tell how weak a case is when they build it around entirely procedural conduct to disguise merit.  If judges weren’t also the attorneys in this case, this whole thing would stall with everyone waiting for a trial.  But this one is moving lightning fast because other elements at work look to go well beyond political parties.  This is the same kind of legal warfare that Democrats are using to harass President Trump, and it all looks scary until you get to the details.  Notice how Trump is winning in court already, especially regarding the Colorado case, which was just decided yesterday in his favor.  And the gag order in New York.  I have said from the beginning what the legal result would be in those cases, and Darbi’s case is similar.  The restraining order trying to keep her from attending school board meetings, which is all this is really about, will likely be dismissed, and the citation she was issued will be as well.  And regarding the issue in Columbus where Isaac is pushing for a violation of the incorrectly applied court order, at best, it’s a misdemeanor.  So, there is a lot of overreach where judicial activism is on full display, but there isn’t much legal merit.  Just a serious abuse of authority.  But it’s the intent that is so alarming, and that people that you think are, or were, reasonable people can be so treacherously malicious to the point of self-destruction. 

One week before all this, I sat down with Isaac to discuss this drama. We were at a political event together and hadn’t talked much, and he approached me to have a conversation and tell me how much he forgave me for all that had gone on. Which I thought was odd, but I listened, as usual. He told me how much he “loved Darbi” and wanted to do the right thing. He also told me how much differently things look on the inside as opposed to the outside, and that I didn’t understand. Well, I see pretty well, and I’ve heard all that before from people up to terrible things. What’s going on is collectivism, the same behavior that rots people’s minds toward various degrees of Marxism, and it manifests in the kind of memberships people socially engage in. Whether it’s the club of a school board where the political elements are making clear to the public that they don’t care what the voters think, they will remove Darbi because it’s their club and they decide who is in it. The voters are not in control, which is what the same cop who investigated the various sexually related antics of the previous Lakota superintendent and let him off the hook, did when he issued Darbi a citation for attending a meeting on safety as an elected officeholder just doing her job. The message was that people from the outside were not welcome. President Trump isn’t welcomed into the Swamp, and Darbi Boddy isn’t welcomed to the Lakota school board, and they were going to try anything to remove the voter’s pick from their club of malcontents and social parasites. I wouldn’t blame Darbi if she did want to quit. The message is clear to all like her that the Republican Party is not open to outsiders. It’s the club they value and the networks of social collectivism that are all about not doing what’s suitable for the kids or the community—bowing to the wills of a politically radical teacher’s union and all the associations that spawn from it. It’s as ugly as anyone can imagine. And thank goodness someone like Darbi has come along to expose it all. Like Trump, there is so much we wouldn’t know until someone was willing to challenge that system and show the world just how bad these people always were. I want to say I hate to be correct, but I can’t think of when I have ever been wrong. And I certainly have not been wrong about the Lakota school system from the beginning. If anything, I’ve been too polite.

All these brotherhoods, yet they would sacrifice the responsibility of freedom for social acceptance all the time. Many evils are committed under such an arrangement.

Rich Hoffman

Prove Me Wrong: What the Lakota School Board should do over the next six weeks of 2023

I was at an event just a few days after the election of 2023 for Bernie Marino.  He was at Lori’s Roadhouse with J.D. Vance, ahead of the upcoming Republican primary, for a pitch session, and I saw a lot of great area Republicans who had come out to support him, which was great.  It was the first time since Lynda O’Connor had suffered such a massive defeat for another term on the Lakota school board and tempers were still pretty hot that I had worked with the “No Lynda” people to keep her from winning.  And it was the first time we all had a chance to talk, which we did.  Many people thought that I had created a monster by keeping a conservative off the school board, and now a liberal monstrosity had been unleashed with an overtly Democrat school board that was going to take Lakota school’s quarter of a billion-dollar budget and bring about doom and despair.  I explained to them that the excuses were now gone. Let’s see what they do over the next six weeks at Lakota. No more elections. No more motivation for the politics of personal destruction. It has been my opinion that Lynda O’Connor was never a conservative but was only pretending to be one to win support. When she had control of the board and the votes, she attacked Darbi Boddy to avoid proper district management. Now that she has lost re-election, she can work with Isaac and Darbi to implement real conservative ideas into Lakota. Let’s see how they behave. If they really care about the community and the Republican Party, they’ll put their differences aside while they still can. But I don’t think they will because it was never a conservative school board in the first place.

That idea of unity came to me after Isaac Adi approached me to tell me that he forgave me for all the disparaging things I had said about him.  He wondered why I didn’t reach out to him more to get the truth of the situation, and he explained to me that as an insider, things look much different than they do on the outside and that I was an outsider.  So I couldn’t understand everything clearly and his feelings were hurt.  I reminded him I had sat down with him previously, and the meeting didn’t go well.  And we haven’t spoken ever since.  If I spent time sitting down with everyone I had an issue with, I would never get anything done.  With me, once you lose me, you lose me pretty much forever.  I’m not such an outsider as many would like to comfort themselves.  I know pretty much something about everything, and when it comes to the Lakota school board, I know all the characters and the situation very well.  I have over 30 years of experience, so I know what’s going on, I also understand what’s going on in executive session.  Lynda O’Connor and I used to work quite closely together and while we’re talking about hurt feelings, it bothers me that she thought I was a sucker like she clearly thought of everyone else, that she could con me into believing she wanted to do conservative things on the school board, and that her relationship with me was purely to neutralize my strong opinions.

I’ll talk to anybody who wants to talk, so I spent more time with Isaac than I intended to because he wanted to give his side of the story.  I had just spoken to Darbi Boddy, who was also there, but she saw Isaac sitting next to J.D. Vance at this spectacular event, and she had to leave because of the court order that Judge Lyons got suckered into because of Lynda’s provocations, and I could see the pain on her face.  Everyone had ganged up on her and treated her as an outcast for doing her job on the school board in the way that people elected her to do it.  I don’t like to see people treated the way she has, and it wasn’t easy to listen to Isaac talk about his role in trying to destroy her.  But as he was speaking about peace and forgiveness, I thought it would be a good idea if all three of them could pull it together for the next several weeks to do excellent conservative work for the Lakota school board before the next session comes into play.  If the liberals want to undo it all, let them, and let them own the results.  I listened to Isaac talk; he’s a likable person.  But I have also known a lot of salespeople over the years, and much of our conversation was similar to that of a time-share salesman who wanted a commitment to buy.  And I was just there for the free orange juice.  Once I saw the place he was selling, I couldn’t help but think of the cat urine in the corner that smelled the site up and distracted me from the palm trees outside.  I was a hard pass on working with any of these people anymore, except for Darbi.  But for the good of all those friends of mine who were hurt by the election results, it’s always good to come up with ideas everyone can be happy with if you can. 

I think the best way to prove to everyone that we never had a conservative Lakota school board was to encourage everyone to work together for the remainder of the year.  Put the differences aside and do what they should have done that first month when Isaac and Darbi were sworn in and handed the board’s presidency to Lynda.  From there, Lynda went on a path of personal destruction against Darbi for reasons many people don’t understand.  I think it’s because she had to hide the fact that she was never a conservative and was hiding that from her supporters by playing the victim.  But instead of embracing that role like a kid who couldn’t wait to get that Red Ryder BB gun on Christmas Day only to open it and find out that they suddenly didn’t like guns, she instead moved on to the next shiny object, a Barbi dream house of progressive liberalism. I want to keep my enemies in front of me, so Julie Shaffer and this Doug Horton Dr. Seuss guy are at least what they advertised.  I may find their politics despicable, but it’s essentially the same as Lynda without the pretend conservatism.  But I’d love to be wrong.  There is no reason to fight now; the election is over, and Lynda will be gone from the school board.  So, if she genuinely wanted to leave a conservative mark, what’s stopping her now?  She is still the board president.  She still has three votes to do good things while it lasts.  Why not do it?  My offering to all those who have talked to me about it is that Darbi was her excuse for not doing anything.  After getting to know her, she purposely pushed Darbi so that she could always point to a distraction so she didn’t have to show the other school board members, Kelly Casper and Julie Shaffer, that she wasn’t one of them.  And the Darbi distractions kept the mask on Lynda so that fellow Republicans would never see who she was.  And I say that based on the contents of the last conversation I had with Lynda, something she told me that she probably didn’t intend to.  But prove me wrong; I’d love to be.  However, as history usually points out, I’m not.

Rich Hoffman

How Lynda O’Connor has become more of a RINO over the last few years

If anybody needs a reminder, why not to vote for Lynda O’Conner on November 7th, 2023 here it is. While she was always something of a RINO, she has become excessively worse over the last several years. Remember this when you vote.

Rich Hoffman

A Review of ‘Government Gangsters’ by Kash Patel: The proof everyone has been looking for

I see it all as turning a corner. The story laid out in Kash Patel’s new book Government Gangsters is irreversibly potent. You can’t unsee it once you have seen it. I have watched America wake up for years to the kind of government that it has, and it’s clear where it’s all going. It’s most evident with the Speaker of the House situation in Congress. The peer pressure pushes for order and compromise, where the voters have had enough. They just want to save the idea of their country, and now they know how bad some of these Government Gangster types are. Just a few years ago, people like me would talk about how bad the government is, and people would squawk about wanting to talk about something else. Now, when it’s evident that the uniparty is willing to pull off their Republican masks to keep Jim Jordan, whom President Trump endorsed, from becoming Speaker and to get Congress going again, we can see who the activists are in our government who don’t want the will of the American people represented in congress but are tethered to lobbyists and international tyrants willingly. They’ve been hiding behind the Republican brand while doing whatever it took to profit themselves no matter how much they sold out our country, and now people can see. They can see how some low-life judge in New York has tried to show power over a former president, Trump, who just so happens to be leading over all rivals, including the current president, in polling one year away from the election, by being ahead in 6 of 7 battleground states and is tied in Michigan. The scam was always in the order of things, and disorder is emerging to expose who these Government Gangsters have always been. And it has been not fun to see.

Kash Patel is no slack-jawed loser; he served high up in President Trump’s administration in several capacities, including Senior Director of Counter Terrorism and Chief of Staff to the Department of Defense. So he was there for most everything directly over many years of the Trump presidency, which most of the Swamp would love to pretend never happened, just as they are currently in denial of the direction of Congress. People don’t want more sell-outs in Congress. They want people like Jim Jordan and a minority of participants in the House on both sides; Republicans and Democrats are hoping that if they drag their feet longer, everything will snap back into the scam that got us all into trouble in the first place. But that’s not happening; people are now awake, although slow to respond. Ultimately, it’s economy that people judge their government by, and this economy isn’t good. There has been a lot of hope that if Robert Kennedy jumped into the race to make it a three-way entanglement, it would help the Democrats. But early polling shows that Trump, one way or the other, no matter what is going on with court cases during the upcoming primary season, will have 39% of the vote. And he will get a share of independents who are sick of the price of milk and eggs being too expensive under Joe Biden. And Trump will win easily. That reality has not sunk in yet, but it will. Rather quickly. Now that these Government Gangsters have shown who they were, there is no way to put all that back in a bottle and move on. Which I think is a great thing, as ugly as it has been.

Early after the election, after I started my Rumble channel, which now has over a thousand videos that get respectable viewership, considering they are primarily about politics, I explained to everyone something I had known for a long time. The mob got tired of running from the law and instead moved into government, so we now call them “Government Gangsters.” It has not been a government for the people by the people but has essentially become a fourth branch of unaccountable government called the Deep State that has captured law enforcement and the military to perform the kind of mob hits that Al Capone was famous for in Chicago. People at the time thought I was overly dramatic, but in 2023, after three years of hindsight, people saw that what I said was true. That it is all too true. We don’t have a government serving the people in America; that was all an illusion, performed through rigged elections, a Marxist-oriented media, and a K-Street lobby that gave easy money to anyone who defected from Constitutional concepts. And once Trump was elected, impossibly because the system was so rigged against something like that, they hit the panic button and started to show who they were all these years. Government Gangsters brings the evidence of just how bad it is, and it is. The FBI has become essentially a hit squad for the Deep State, which has its roots in international finance and a legal system deeply committed to concepts of globalism and the abolition of the American Constitution. Most of the time, all books like this are missing other points of view, but in this case, there is only one view. That our government is out of control and is hostile to the people it’s supposed to serve, and they have now all been caught, and it’s up to voters to sort it all out, which will happen now that it’s all so obvious.

I was in a public place where people watched the Ohio State football game over the weekend with Penn State.  And games like that used to occupy all of America’s leisure energy, but not now.  People remember the Jerry Sandusky scandal at Penn State.  People know how much less money they have to spend on fun stuff during football games like that.  People aren’t nearly as distracted as they used to be, which allowed these Government Gangsters to thrive, hidden in the background.  At a game like that, usually, people wouldn’t talk to me with my guns and cowboy hat looming around in the background.  They would try to ignore me the best they could.  But not anymore.  Instead, they ask me, “When is Trump coming back?  Is he going to beat all these federal charges?  Will Trump be able to get our economy moving again?”  People know I’ve been involved in this stuff for over 30 years.  My answer to them is, and has been, that there will be a lot of turbulence.  Fasten your seat belt; it will be a bumpy landing.  But yes, Trump will be back, beat all the charges, and be able to get the economy moving again the most powerful in the world.  It’s simple: just get rid of the government gangsters, push out the organized crime element of our current government, and things will suddenly get a lot better.  But first, you must admit that there is a problem, which is where many people are right now.  People are hoping and praying for a return of Trump and the destruction of the Government Gangsters, which are now clearly evident for all to see.  But the gangsters are hoping to wait out the storm and are planning on everyone going back to sleep so they can resume their crimes against humanity.  However, America is waking up for good this time, and the results will be inevitable. 

Rich Hoffman

Turning off Lynda O’Conner’s Mic: When the excuses are removed, you see what people really are

Well, of course, the criticism of Lakota School Board President Lynda O’Conner is perfectly warranted, and a couple of political PACs have formed to speak out against her.  A campaign to “turn off her mic” is perfectly justified, which is a reaction to her behavior over the last year, where she has sought to completely control public speech and criticism of her performance as a management body at Lakota.  Too often, people involved in politics forget that after all the election stuff, political people are supposed actually to do a good job.  If it’s a first-time office holder, there is usually some forgiveness for not knowing what they are doing.  But for someone who has been around for 16 years or more, such as Lynda O’Conner has, good performance is expected.  This is a political problem; getting elected is a kind of popularity contest with the ultimate social euphoria, like being elected homecoming king or queen.  The public affirmation is addicting, and it’s nice to be picked by the public to do something.  But then there is the actual problem of doing the job.  This is what is going on with Congress these days, where people are tired of lip service from the Speaker of the House role.  People are tired of broken promises and lackluster performance in their representative government. Over the years, the trend has been pointing toward increased scrutiny as more people are paying more attention to political topics than they used to, especially in public education.  There used to be an assumption that public schools were okay, that kids were getting good, respectable instructions.  Not the actual reality that they are learning centers for Hamas and abortion activism.  Now that people have had to reluctantly admit, in the post-Covid years, public schools have not been tolerant of conservative values when school board members get caught in that crossfire by default, they don’t want to get seen carrying water for liberal causes, which is precisely what Lynda O’Conner was found doing.

One of those political PACs that has come forth against her during this election of 2023, where Lynda is on the party ticket for re-election after doing the job for a very long time, has produced a video showing the primary problem. In the footage, Lynda had the mic turned off of a local advocate giving public statements. Lynda was functioning from bad legal advice from the same kind of people who caused the problem, to begin with, school administrative officers who had behaved detrimentally in public and caused great harm to the school’s reputation. To cover up that damage, Lynda became the most prominent advocate for getting rid of free speech, which is critical to the maintenance of public schools, where the taxpayers fund the entire process. A community representative, which all school board members are, does not get to limit the public’s opinions and openly keeps those beliefs quiet to preserve an idea of Lakota schools, which it did not earn. There exhibited many problems regarding abuse of power that Lynda O’Conner showed during 2022 and 2023 when much of this public drama unfolded, but the biggest problem is found in that video: how she managed public crises that Lakota administrative employees caused. That was enough to cause a lot of people who formally supported her to withdraw that support. And if Lynda wanted to do what was right for the local Republican Party, she never would have put them in this awkward position by running in the next election after all the controversy.

Of course, the problems extend well beyond the cosmetic trouble of abusing power by attempting to cut off public criticism of school board management. And this is more where I am on this topic. Lynda was given a three-vote majority and completely screwed it up with uncovered activism. Before that last election, which saw the successful campaigns of Darbi Boddy and Isaac Adi elected as endorsed Republican representatives, Lynda was given by “us” members of the community who wanted to help her what she said she wanted, which was a majority vote on the board so she wasn’t always the lone victimized voice. For context, many people would tell me about my relationship with Lynda, that she was a RINO and was a liberal. Of course, I would reply, “I will stand by Lynda until she proves otherwise.” Lynda would complain that she was the only one willing to vote for conservative ideas on the Lakota school board in a conservative district. So, some of us got together and gave her the requested help. But rather than rejoice over the matter, Lynda had been exposed as the liberal everyone warned me she was. Because now that she had the votes, she would be uncovered. She was pleased to double-talk with Julie Shaffer and Kelly Casper while having public spats with Brad Lovell to sell her conservative brand to the community. But it was all show business. When Lynda was handed the President role with a majority vote, she had no further excuses for performance, so she immediately picked a fight with Darbi Boddy over nonsense political issues and moved to separate Isaac Adi from Darbi, which has resulted in a lot of chaos meant to disguise her liberal inclinations.

Darbi Boddy became the scapegoat for Lynda’s sins as a liberal posing as a conservative to win public support between election cycles. As long as Lynda was a victim, she could always say, “Look, I’m being outvoted. I can do nothing to stop the out-of-control spending, the genderless bathrooms, and social degradation from the teacher’s union.” But once those excuses were taken away, suddenly the new reason was, “Darbi isn’t professional and is bringing harm to our efforts through negative news stories,” which, of course, Lynda and Julie leaked to their contacts to drive the narrative, all while turning off the microphone to the public so they could attempt to contain public opinion. Truthfully, the Republican Party endorsed her out of friendships, the kind of sympathy formed by the challenges of the popularity contest of elected office. And compassion that politics is changing and the public expects a decent performance from their representatives. So Lynda put them all in the wrong place, and being so politically astute, she should have known better. I don’t see any political difference between Julie Shaffer and Doug Horten, who is also running. The only school board candidate I can support in this election is Russ Loges, who seems sincere and willing to work hard. But we know what we are getting with Lynda. And I didn’t suddenly become a Julie Shaffer fan. Everyone is asking me why I haven’t put up the video on so many phones of bad behavior showing Julie in compromising positions. You can’t pay me enough to look at that trainwreck in such compromised states. I’d instead rather not think about it personally, everyone by now knows the stories. These people are disasters, and we could do a lot better as a community, and we did have options. And instead of those options working for the Republican Party healthily and productively, they are now on the outside working to expose bad behavior, which is expected from politics once the elections are over. We hope people actually to be conservative and stand for constitutional values. And Lynda hasn’t done any of those things.

Rich Hoffman

The Rest of the Story: Brian Thomas falls to the dark side

It’s time for a Paul Harvey moment with this West Chester Tea Party story.  After the horrendous hit job by Brian Thomas on 55 KRC, where he took the word of a very politically motivated rabbi at face value and joined in the condemning of that long-time group for antisemitism, there is, of course, a lot more going on.  The West Chester Tea Party and I’ve known them for a very long time, is a free speech group, and what we have going on with Rabbi Ari Jun is an attempt to capture speech as he defines it.  We have been seeing this a lot lately and the root cause all points back to one person, and one event: Lynda O’Conner deciding to run for school board for another term when she has been grotesquely unpopular over the last few years as she has gone after Darbi Boddy, a fellow school board member that she has been trying to have removed since the very beginning of her term.  The Rabbi is just playing his part in trying to politicize free speech, which I am surprised that Brian Thomas played along with.  But then again, maybe not.  The accusation is that a popular speaker who has done some excellent work, Harold Ziegler, went down the rabbit hole a bit historically at a recent West Chester Tea Party meeting and this Rabbi was tipped off to the contents, which talked about the Rothschilds being Jewish people who control banking and other conspiracies that are deemed off-limits by the big government crowds who want to use Chinese style communism to use speech to steer society in the direction that they decide is appropriate or not.  That should be very clear to Brian Thomas, so it was quite surprising that he didn’t provide any pushback on the Rabbi during their hit piece interview, where they rejoiced that the West Chester Tea Party lost their meeting venue over this controversy, a victory against free speech that Rabbi Jun was clearly aiming for. 

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Many people don’t know their history and use the same buzzwords as progressives regarding racism.  There are words you can or can’t say and these people in positions of institutional authority will decide what those things are; Rabbi Jun thinks he’s one of them, working on behalf of Lynda O’Conner, which leads us to the rest of the story, as I can fill in the blanks based on my knowledge of the people involved.  They will never admit to these things, but based on my history with Lynda, it’s pretty clear what’s happening.  A few weeks ago there was a meeting in Liberty Township, a Meet the Candidates event that Lynda was supposed to come to.  She declined, and I will provide a video of some tough questions going in her direction.  Lynda had another invite, which is traditional for the West Chester Tea Party, to have all the candidates for Lakota come and answer questions from the public.  Lynda has had a relationship with the West Chester Tea Party for over a decade, so she knows how things go, they would be more complex questions than she would get at the Voice of America candidate forum, which she prefers because establishment politics controls it.  What’s the best way to get out of having to appear? Well, to destroy the forum, which is what the Rabbi did for Lynda by using politically sensitive speech to attempt to destroy them as an organization. 

Yet to say that the Rothchild family isn’t up to no good would be to avoid the truth.  Just because they happen to be Jewish is not the issue.  But many criminals and globalist manipulators hide behind social safety nets of controlled speech to continue their crimes, and the control of the finance industry by the Rothchild family is a known condition that inspires much debate.  And that debate is healthy to keep the bad guys in the world in check.  So even though the Rabbi didn’t like the things that the West Chester Tea Party was talking about, he doesn’t have some social right to destroy them, even if it’s for a friend running for school board.  But that’s what happened; even 55 KRC played their part.  It is exciting to see how desperate all these entrenched political players are willing to abuse Constitutionally guaranteed rights for their own acquisition of power.  It’s exciting because it is revealing a truth about these people that I have been warning about for decades, and now they are desperate and showing where all the strings to the puppets go.  I love the Jewish people and have said it many times.  Jesus was a Jew; we have the Bible because of the Hebrew people.  Yet the Bible is a story of the Jewish people failing in the eyes of God and always falling short.  So, talking about those shortcomings, even if they fail to serve a higher cause and find themselves monopolizing international finance, isn’t dialogue forbidden from discussion.  Instead, we should be talking about it because it’s the only accurate checks and balances in society to keep the bad guys from doing worse.  The assumption that Rabbi Jun is making, which Brian Thomas backed up, is that if people are of a particular religious order, then the assumption is that they are doing good in the world instead of using that order as a mask for misconduct. 

Of course, batching everyone into the same category doesn’t account for the variability of human behavior, which free speech then should sort out, and the burden to prove otherwise falls on the accused.  And the Babylon trouble of modern factions dusting off the old pantheon of Mesopotamian gods isn’t a conspiracy; it’s at the heart of the climate change movement.  It’s the same battle God was frustrated with in the Bible, predating much of the biblical history that we tend to concern ourselves with.  The worship of Baal, Moloch, and Ishtar is at the heart of progressive politics, so the West Chester Tea Party references were made in that spirit, which is certainly worth discussion.  But we see the rules of politics being rewritten to penalize a group that wanted to broadcast the truth about the various school board candidates.  And because some nasty stuff was uncovered over the last few years, political candidates are trying to remove as much transparency as possible because they can’t hope to be elected any other way.  The goal of this event was to destroy the West Chester Tea Party forum to attempt to control a narrative that didn’t help the current political order.  And because the story is so bad for the incumbent candidates, they are trying to destroy anybody who might question them publicly, which is what the aggression from the courts toward Darbi Boddy is all about.  We see an abuse of power exposed through desperation to control an evil narrative.  And the willingness to manipulate speech to become weaponized against political rivals shines a light on the problem.  But only if you understand the rest of the story, that this West Chester Tea Party story is about one thing, and one thing only.  It was not a controversial speaker who asked questions about Jewish conspiracies.  But a political establishment that is trying to hold onto power through the destruction of the Bill of Rights because they never believed in it, to begin with.  And they are being exposed for what they were all along.

Rich Hoffman

Why Not Lynda and Isaac: I’d rather vote for Democrats because at least you know what you are getting

It has not been very pleasant. I have been traveling a lot across the world, and at each airport stop once arriving back into cell phone coverage, I have been flooded with text messages and calls wondering why I still defend the Lakota school board member Darbi Boddy and do not have the same kind of sympathy with current school board president, Lynda O” Conner, and member Isaac Adi. I understand the concerns, but neither Lynda nor Isaac are conservatives, and you know what I always say. I love all Republicans until they show me that they aren’t. There isn’t a situation where Lynda and Isaac give the illusion of a conservative school board. At the point I’m at now, I’d instead remove the illusion and let the Democrats have it so we can hang them on all the problems later. Playing this game with Lynda and Isaac is lying to ourselves, and I see no point in doing it. All it does is cause further brand damage to the Butler County Republican Party brand. My view on these silly disputes is that they are small-minded, who in their right mind cares about power on the school board except for people who don’t bring much value to anything else in their lives. Watching what Lynda has been willing to do to achieve such silly power has disappointed me. The school board is a part-time gig at best. It should never generate the kind of political games from Lynda’s camp, and I cannot support her or those propping her up. I have given them a chance. I’ve worked with Lynda, and that picture Isaac Adi has with Jim Jorden is one that I took. I have tried to help all of these people. But only one hasn’t lied to me, at least that I know of yet. And that is Darbi Boddy. The rest of them have been horrendous, and if that’s the best we get, we might as well vote for Democrats.

This coming from a guy whose son was sentenced to life in jail for pedophilia.

I’ve heard a thousand times, that Darbi lied to everyone during the vetting process, and represented herself as a calm, collective, friendly person willing to play ball. I’ve heard from even friends of hers that Darbi engages in personal outbursts and is very aggressive. I had experience with Darbi before she was elected, and I have had several complex discussions with her since; I can say that she has always been honest, even very Christian, much more so than I initially thought. She has values and she defends them. And she has never been crazy or violent around me, and maybe she had a right to be. I always liked Darbi Boddy, but I like her much more now after two years in office than I did the year leading up to the election where she and Isaac ran together as an endorsed Republican Party ticket. Darbi has been my favorite among all the people I have dealt with on the Lakota school board over the last decades. I don’t think she misrepresented herself during the fundraising and campaign stage. I think what happened was that Lynda used her to get the vote for the school board president position then quickly turned against her when the mask debates were getting heavy during Darbi’s first month after being sworn in. And that betrayal hurt her, and it has only gotten worse since, not because of Darbi, but the behavior of the other school board members.

Showing they have control of power while real crimes are abundant without their attention

You might have heard in the news that Isaac Adi won his restraining order against Darbi Boddy in court, where Lynda was nearby blowing on the fire to help it burn. Lynda is the one who lied and misrepresented what she was up to. Isaac indeed misrepresented himself to me and I am excessively disappointed in him. Darbi has not disappointed me. Lynda has. Isaac has. And the rest of the characters fall somewhere along those lines. My policy in all things in life is that I’ll give everyone the benefit of the doubt, but once I find out you’ve lied to me, it’s over. And it’s over forever. There is no forgiveness. So that is why I still support Darbi Boddy but am very much against Isaac Adi and Lynda O’Conner. Everyone knows that I do not like Julie Shaffer, one of the other school board candidates. Despising her is a more accurate term. I would vote for her before I would Lynda O’Conner because I think Julie is more honest, and at least I know what kind of Democrat radical I am dealing with. They all register as Republicans, but their actions always tell the truth about them. After watching that mess, which likely will be overturned on appeal, the protective order against Darbi from Isaac because his little feelings have been hurt by how aggressive she is, I’m willing to call it a day on the whole election for the Lakota school board. Think how absurd all this is; Sheriff Jones is threatening to arrest Darbi to help his buddies on the school board when he can’t even arrest all the people showing an interest in abusing children which caused all this trouble to begin with. All those who have helped Lynda will have to learn a hard lesson. Don’t call me because I will tell you I told you so. Out of all these characters the only one who has consistently told me the truth has been Darbi, which is why I still support her and have nice things to say about her. She has been very respectful to me, my wife, and conservative politics. And that is supposed to be what we are all fighting for.

Hey, everyone only has themselves to blame. Around 20 great young people wanted to run for political office, and the Republican party could have gotten younger with fresh people with long shelf lives.  What will Lynda do? Give Butler County 4 more years, of what?  And will Isaac be the future of the Butler County Republican Party?  He’s getting restraining orders against women!  People like Darbi make people want to go out and vote Republican, and several people like her would be good.  However, the Party decided to pick controlled assets they felt more comfortable with rather than people who would make the party better and represent the voters of Butler County.  Lynda and her gang have played the game of personal destruction and the damage left in the wake is her fault, and those who helped her along—trying to talk me into throwing Darbi in as an equal failure would be dishonest.  I think Darbi has every right to be upset at everyone who has been terrible to her.  People of value often find that their feelings get hurt, and she’s disappointed in other people.  Not the other way around.  With all that, it should be pretty simple why I support Darbi Boddy.  I would love to see a school board with four more like her.  But that won’t be the case this time around; Lynda is the one who went against the plan and misrepresented to everyone what she wanted.  And I’m not OK with that.  Darbi, in my experience, was a good person who was easy to work with until she was sabotaged with an effort a few months into her term to be removed from office.  And that kind of personal sabotage is just another form of election fraud.  The voters picked Darbi.  Lynda and others have worked to undo that election, and that is the worst of the worst in my book.  And why Darbi is not in the same boat as Lynda and Isaac.  And why I support her and not them. 

Rich Hoffman

Why We Must Be Cautious About the Power of Government: Too often the wrong people gain too much power over their rivals and they abuse it routinely

It doesn’t get talked about nearly as much as it should, but one of the biggest reasons the government should have limited power is due to the tendency toward corruption that those in government tend to be obsessed with.  It’s not just the danger of what a large government can do to those it is supposed to serve but also the annoying obsession that comes from those who discover how they can use it to destroy political rivals, which is just another form of election fraud that is so systemic in our current culture.  It’s not just the political hit on Ken Paxton at the national level that should draw our attention or the antics of the Ukraine War, the lies of the Chinese government regarding the Covid virus release out of Wuhan.  Of the Jack Smith prosecution of Trump, along with the many others who are doing everything with the power of their offices to stop the former president from becoming the next one.  But we see such abuses happening even in our neighborhoods.  For me, in Butler County, Ohio, we have witnessed Sheriff Jones go after political rivals abusing the court system to destroy competing politicians, and we have even seen a school board member from Lakota, Lynda O’Conner, call in the favor of judges to take her rival to court and attempt to destroy their life and manipulate anybody she could in the process to achieve her objective.  I could name off a long list of such instances just in my community, so across the reach of government, this is a genuine problem.  The power that the government can give worthless people.  The more Democrat-oriented the politician, the worse it gets, but government power must be a significant part of our concern.  What will a politician do to acquire strength so they can abuse it for personal reasons? 

I don’t have a lot of personal tolerance when I witness this kind of personal corruption and power of government.  Very few things make me angry more, especially the acquisition of a political office to abuse power over others to sustain some personal failing from the public eye.  I have a lot of people who report their stories of terror to me, from the harassing phone calls when they find themselves on the opposite of an issue from an influential person to the harassment that comes because of the power of government, tampering with financial transactions, digital meters mysteriously falling out of calibration for utility companies, strange people rifling through trash to dig up dirt on their political targets—open threats of violence and vandalism.  You would be surprised what people who want to abuse the power of government will do to harass their political foes.  Very few of them let the process of a republic play out honestly because they seek to abuse the power of government to gain more control; that’s why they are attracted to government in the first place.  They don’t get into government to serve the community; they seek that power to abuse it.  And it is their default mode of operation.  The tendency toward corruption is as abundant as salmon trying to swim upstream to their birthplace.  It’s a standard and is the primary reason we must maintain the smallest government possible.  To prevent such abuses from occurring as frequently as they do.  Knowing that corruption is the destination for most political figures, limited government must inspire them toward honesty because they won’t do it on their own. 

I always say it: I love all Republicans until they show me they aren’t.  Then I don’t like them anymore because, along the political scale, the more big government a person becomes, the less you can trust them as valuable people.  And you certainly can’t trust them with the power of government at their command.  And in my own regional Butler County Republican Party, I do not like to hear people referring to it as corrupt or that it’s like a mob.  That the country club Republicans are a mafia who will exert violence and abuse of the law through legal measures they control to subdue rivals no different than the kind of hits that are known in organized crime.  I have watched several very talented people interested in helping with politics run up against these influential people and see harassment of all kinds come their way, and I explain to them that isn’t how it’s supposed to be.  Many people get involved in politics for all the right reasons, but they soon find that if they don’t appease that mob-like power, they are destroyed in the process and personally harassed in entirely unacceptable ways.  And that’s not how it’s supposed to be.  Our government was designed to serve people, not to subdue them.  Looking for reasons to control the political process so it can be used as a weapon was not how the Constitution should be utilized.  But it’s the primary danger of government; we can’t just make blanket statements about rival political parties when the true villain is the size of the government itself and what weak people will do to gain the power to utilize for all kinds of corrupt reasons.  People wonder why there aren’t more good people in politics; well, it’s because we have accepted levels of corruption due to the size and influence of government that keeps good people out and preserves the power of those who least deserve it.

I even say that politics is a blood sport, and if the rivals want to lose blood, then so be it.  I’m willing to play the game to win in any way necessary.  But should it be that way? Of course not.  That is why limited government should always be our agreed-upon baseline.  The more government power there is, the worse people seek to be in it.  And if we make it profitable for horrible people to gain office, then to keep office, then we shouldn’t be surprised that the process lets us down.  We can complain about it, but what are we doing about it?  Accepting such corruption is not a position any healthy society would accommodate.  It’s all too tempting for people who gain power over others to abuse that power, so for any government that acquires such power, it is common to see them abuse it for personal reasons.  We can laugh about that level of corruption and how ridiculous the people who seek to use it are, but should we laugh it off?  I don’t think so.  If you can’t tend to things in your backyard and will put up with reprehensible behavior for worthless political seats, then we are contributing to evil itself.  I like to see good people enter political offices intending to do good work.  I don’t like to see lazy people who want to enter politics do a lousy job and then use government power to hide their lack of skill from a judging public.  Or they will clamor for a seat because it’s the only thing worth anything in their life, the only path they have to social respect.  And because they are so faulty, they will do anything to hold those seats of power by trying to destroy people who could do better than them.  In politics, if we are not creating an environment of competition to get the best people in the best spots to improve our government, then we are only feeding the tendency toward corruption for all the means of abuse that the government can utilize for all the wrong reasons.  And it should be one of our most significant concerns.  Remember when some politicians say to you, “There is misleading information about me and I want to set the record straight,” just think of the mobster who says the same thing before they try to take a baseball bat out to show how much power they have become because of the government.  Be sure to judge them based on what they do, not the worthless things they say.  Then, use the force of government to conceal.

When everyone wonders why such crappy people end up in elected office, it’s because the garbage who can do nothing else in life cleave for the power of government, then use it to stop better people from beating them in elections.  And that is a problem with Republicans, Democrats, communists, and revolutionaries.  Until we take away the power the government gives to people to use to prop up their otherwise broken and useless lives, bad people will continue to dominate in politics, whereas good, honest people who can do a million other things will do so.  And leave politics to the worst that the human race produces. Instead, it should be the other way around; our best should move into politics to help others become better because they are examples everyone should follow toward individual success.  

I’m happy to help build an excellent political team, and there are at least 20 people I can think of who want to get involved in Republican politics.  But I will not put up with weaponized bureaucracy by incompetent people who clamor for power because it gives them something they wouldn’t otherwise have: power over others.  That is not acceptable.   

Rich Hoffman