Last week regular contributor and senior correspondent Audre Myers wrote a piece for Nebraska Energy Observer entitled “Lets Chat” [sic]. In the piece, Audre ponders the question of whether or not to continue donating to the Republican Party (by which I take her to mean the Republican National Committee), and solicits readers for their opinions on the issue.
Audre is quite aware of the perfidious machinations of the RNC, but the source of her quandary is whether or not to help cash-strapped President Trump with his campaign. If you’re going to give any money to any candidate, my personal, unsolicited advice is to give to only two sources: Trump’s presidential campaign directly—not through the RNC or any PAC—and to local candidates (or, alternatively, your county GOP). That’s where your money will have the most impact.
Overall, though, I advise strongly against giving any money to out-of-state political campaigns or to political parties generally. Indeed, in my comment on Audre’s piece, I argued that our money is much better spent supporting small conservative creators. I think I made a compelling case:
I stopped donating to the RNC years ago. It’s a waste of money. I also stopped contributing to the SCGOP and my local GOP, but the latter is largely because I am no longer active in my county GOP. When I do make donations, it’s to specific candidates, but it’s been years since I have done so.
As I have long argued, our money is better spent supporting writers, artists, creators, etc., on our side. I’m actually a bit offended that people will give $50 to the RNC, but decline to spend $1 or $5 a month to support small conservative creators (and I don’t mean Ben Shapiro—he has plenty of money already). The same folks that will drop $50 on some distant political machine will plead poverty when asked to contribute $1 a month to a blog.
“Politics is downstream of culture,” as the late Andrew Breitbart famously said. All of our national politics at this point are cultural conflicts. If we want to win the Culture War, we need to support culture, not a guy from Kentucky who looks like a turtle.
If you want to support actual conservatives desperately trying to create real, alternative culture, give to those creators and platforms. Purchase their art, listen to their music, subscribe to their Substacks and SubscribeStars, promote their writing.
If you’re interesting in supporting my writing, you can do so here.
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I read Audre’s piece. In fact, I still read Neo – I just can’t post there, which sucks.
Considering the large scale donations your two main political parties receive, I’m surprised any ordinary member would need to donate anything more than annual membership fees. I’d be surprised if any working citizen in this country who still belongs to the uniparty would give more than their yearly sub. It wouldn’t mean much to them anyway.
Tina and I were thinking, a few years back of putting money into one of our smaller movements, The Heritage Party; for those who don’t know, I interviewed their leader for TCW a couple of years ago. They are the only true conservative party in this country and their policies neatly align with our own views however they are useless at campaigning, as their results have shown. We’d be better off burning our cash.
Your money is better spent on something that matters, like the superb flatfoot detective stories from a certain American author. I can’t for the life of me tell you who that is! 😂😂😂
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Sorry, mate—for some reason, this post went to spam. Odd!
Woooooooooooooooot! Thanks for the plug, my friend! I appreciate all of the generous support you and Tina have shown me over the years—financially, socially, and writerly!
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Yeah, pretty much. I do care if Americans or Democrats are doing it. I loath and despise all the out of state funding for various state and local elections.
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I give nothing to political campaigns or the GOP. As for culture, the biggest force in conservatism over my lifetime was not a politician but Rush Limbaugh. George Soros is now buying up the radio stations. That fiend gets it. As Breitbart put it, “Politics is downstream from culture.”
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Amen! I included that same Breitbart quotation in my piece.
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