Fixing this Tasteless Oregon Gruel

By Senator Dennis Linthicum

November 5, 2024

This election is an important and pertinent decision for every Oregonian. It is particularly relevant with regards to our understanding of our American heritage and ideals.

In my position serving as a State Senator for the past eight years, I have been on the front lines in the fight for our individual liberty and freedom against the onslaught of tyrannical, governmentally instituted and costly bureaucracy.

In my life, and probably your own, facts and beliefs have been based upon honest appraisals heaped with generous helpings of science, traditional wisdom, common-sense and authority. However, today things have changed and become “right” only by authority. Family traditions get dismissed, common-sense is not allowed, and science gets distorted. This “rule of Law” recipe has become tasteless gruel.

The public education arm of the state, the classroom, has swapped common-sense, historical understanding, religious traditions and Mom and Dad for politically driven, state issued decrees and mandates. For us, this means that our elected representatives have become powerful agents in this recipe and we have the opportunity to influence them in order to keep lawfare constrained.

In short, this is our opportunity to fix this Tasteless Gruel.

This is why YOU MUST VOTE.

What we have termed “political correctness” is nothing more than the exerted force of the elites, celebrities and main-stream media regarding what is considered right, or wrong. Their appraisals have nothing to do with right, wrong, or reality, but are expressed with the moral authority that dismisses any contrary evidence and concludes these are only the results of a conspiracy theory.

This is at the root of America’s problems.

Jordan Peterson and Stephen R. C. Hicks explain in their respective literature that our current postmodernist worldview stems from cultural relativism. This relativism flows from our universities, high schools and all the way down to our kindergarten and pre-school enterprises. This poisonous philosophy starts early and finishes in the confusion we see facing so many voters in America.

One of the reasons for devaluing or dismissing the scientific enterprise along with our historic experiences and morality is to eliminate the common-basis for decision making. Without this common reference point, all gets lost in a battle for power.

This is today’s political problem and it stems from disastrous political efforts of government favoritism, not enmity on the streets in Pittsburgh or Portland. Benjamin Franklin warned us about this during the formative years of our nation:

“History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill-suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy…

These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened.”

Social turmoil does not start among neighbors and friends. Governments create tumultuous circumstances which grow into, “great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed.”

Again, oppression does not grow within a neighborhood. Jim Crow laws were not universal but were created in the Democrat south as a means to keep their evil and repugnant attitudes alive following the Civil War. Most states across the US never created these atrocious laws, but those pernicious few are deemed historical fact for the entire nation.

Today is no different. Will you surrender yourself, your family, and your neighborhood to the dictates of powerful office holders, or keep that power for yourself?

Recognize, today’s election is about power, and power alone. Either it will belong to you as an individual or to the elites as a tool for controlling everyone.

The first fifty inches of this tyranny were paved with simple annoyances but the last fifty miles will prove quite destructive.

If we don’t have the rule of common-sense, traditional or religious values, what will this lead to?

We could witness more instances of logical absurdities, newsworthy doublethink and the death of our common heritage. In Oregon, we must regain precision and rigor in our three executive offices that are up for election – in our State Treasurer office – Brian Boquist; our Attorney General office – Will Lathrop; and our Secretary of State office – Dennis Linthicum.

We have an historic opportunity for Oregonians to forge a better path forward toward universal prosperity through free and fair elections, through an unbiased justice system, through smaller less obtrusive government and unhindered access to free-markets.

Vote for a prosperous Oregon. Vote Republican!

VOTE like it means everything! It does!

Thank you!

For more information about me and my candidacy:

♦ Video with Oregonian Editorial staff
♦ Debate with Oregonian Editorial staff
♦ A series of newsletters on election integrity
♦ Election Website

E-Mail Dennis Linthicum: sen.DennisLinthicum@gmail.com