“Don’t California My Tennessee”

By Brandon Lewis, founder of The Tennessee Conservative –

Many of our subscribers have expressed concerns about the massive influx of Californians and other Americans escaping blue states to live where the temperate breezes blow and the RINOs roam free.

We are rightly worried that they will bring their leftist state values to ours – spreading the cultural, religious and economic rot of socialism instead of concentrating it far away from freedom loving patriots who believe that there is something precious about traditional American values that must be preserved.

So, I put the sentiment on a “Don’t California My Tennessee” bumper-sticker – and it can be yours for a donation of any amount. We’ll even throw in some other goodies too. To our Conservative transplants, please read on…

The Tennessee Conservative has a large contingent of freedom-loving subscribers who escaped liberal hellscapes in California, Illinois, Oregon, New York, etc. And, as far as I can tell, they are more enthusiastic about keeping leftism out of our state than the average Tennessean.

Why? Because they’ve lived through it. Now, I can’t vouch for all the escapees. However, the ones I encounter are on our side – as you might expect.

Speaking of massive influxes, I may need to create a new bumper-sticker to send to the state capitol…

“Don’t Mexico My Tennessee”…

We have leaders at the state-level seemingly unwilling to tackle the other influx coming ‘round Texas-way via Mexico in the form of illegal immigration. As our government schools struggle to achieve basic literacy, we are placing students in the classroom from other countries who cannot speak English. And we are doing it with your tax dollars.

If our schools can’t teach English-speaking children in our own state to read English, I see little hope for aiding those who speak English as a second language with no prior schooling. It simply puts our children further behind and exacerbates the education crisis in our state.

Sometimes I wonder if that’s not the point of Government Education… to keep the electorate uneducated.

Further, most “refugees” that come to our state end up on housing, medical and food assistance – again at your expense. We discovered this at a recent Illegal Immigration “Study Committee” hearing in Nashville. To my knowledge, not a single finding, report or piece of legislation came out of that committee meeting.

It was, as most things are related to illegal immigration reform in our state, purely theatre to sooth the angst of the Republican primary voter. If I see some movement, I might change my mind. I will not hold my breath…

Many illegal immigrants that do work do not pay taxes to go toward the schools, roads or safety nets they use. I know, I work in the construction industry and payments made “under the table” are rampant in this state.

Either we are a society governed by the rule of law where everyone is treated equally under it, or we are not. The erosion of this uniform application of justice is rusting the superstructure of our society.

If the feds will not do anything about it, and clearly they will not, our state leaders are under an obligation to take action. Please see the state of Texas for an inspiring example. The nation owes them big-time for tackling the crisis on their state’s border.

Here’s a line that will get me in trouble: Diversity is not always good.

I said it – and I mean it.

There are good ideas and bad ideas. There are things that work and things that clearly do not.

There are cultural perspectives that lead to freedom and prosperity. There are cultural perspectives that lead to depravity, addiction and tyranny. You must protect the one from the other.

Comingling good and bad does not give you better. It simply dilutes or corrupts the good.

You can put three idiots and one grizzled expert on a committee. Yes, you will get some “diverse” opinions. However, only one opinion is likely worth implementing for effect.

In the coming weeks, our legislature will be either addressing or dodging these issues we’ve been discussing here. My fear is there will be more dodging. Most, I fear, do not have the Conservative moorings necessary to even take up the fight – much less see it through.

I pray I am wrong.

Please do me a favor: Pay closer attention to our emails than usual for the next couple of months.

It is our job to tell you which Republicans are killing good bills in committees at the behest of special interests for PAC money or personal gain. I may, from time to time, ask you to pick up the phone or write a letter to give our State Reps and Senators some encouragement.

Be prepared to do your part.

And, if you’d like to get your own “Don’t California My Tennessee” bumper-sticker, just give any amount by clicking here.

Boy, we could use your financial support. Running this puppy is expensive.

Conservatism and Conservative causes die because the vast majority think, “Someone else will give.”

Trust me, I run the numbers on our subscriber base. We survive on the very few who care enough to stand up for the rest.

You may have already joined us in the fight. If so, God Bless you. If not, now’s time.

Alas, it is time to get back to my “paying job.” There is no rest for the weary…

Until next time…

I remain “Yours in Freedom”…

Brandon Lewis,
Founder, The Tennessee Conservative