Lloyd, I typically agree with you at least 98% of the time... but disagree with your premise here.
This is no time to take our eyes off of the political ball, no matter how discouraging and disgusting it can be at times. I can multi-task very well. I can work at home and at my job, pay my bills with Biden inflated dollars, maintain my vehicles, mow my lawn and field, and have some fun times too. If we were having frosty nights and the leaves were turning colors right now, I could gather up my guns and gear and be ready to go grouse hunting tomorrow. If my favorite double needed repairs, I would have many others to fall back on, and have plenty of ammo to use in them, in everything from .410 to 10 gauge. My gear is always ready too, and the only thing that needs to be done is to give my hunting clothes, boots, and socks a fresh treatment with .5% permethrin to prevent ticks.
My job is technical in nature, but also requires plenty of physical activity that helps me to stay in shape. I am always reminded when I start hunting in earnest that you can walk miles every day on pavement and concrete, but you use an entirely different set of muscles when climbing hills in the woods, or slogging through briars and tall weeds. So yeah, it helps a lot to do some woods walking before actually doing full days of hard hunting. Getting out to hunt for mushrooms or ginseng, hiking off of groomed trails, or pre-season scouting activities helps a lot. Walking around the neighborhood streets won't be enough. Taking magnesium citrate and turmeric/curcumin supplements helps with those leg muscles that may cramp up from not being used much of the year.
The last time I was dragging my deer out of the woods, it was already after dark. I stopped to take a breather, saw I had a cell phone signal, so I called my daughter. She asked what I was up to, and I told her I was taking a coronary stress test. In a panicked voice, she asked what happened. I told her to calm down, but I had gotten my deer, and was doing the hard work of dragging it to my truck. Dragging many large tarp loads of wet leaves into the woods in the Fall helps prepare for dragging a buck. For most of us, hunting is not a sedentary activity, so we do need to stay in decent shape, and have our regular Physician check-ups. It might be nice to die in the woods doing something I love, but not just yet.
However, I plan to remain fully engaged, involved, and informed in this election until Inauguration Day, at least. We have spent most of our lives in a battle with anti-gun Democrats who constantly seek new and creative ways to limit, infringe, or totally eliminate our 2nd Amendment and hunting rights. When we were young, there were still at least a few Democrats that would support their constituents gun rights. Michigan Democrat Senator John Dingell was very pro-gun, and was even an NRA Board Member. But those days are over. Now even formerly solid pro-gun Democrats like W. Va. Sen. Joe Manchin have turned against us. Sen. John Dingell's Democrat Senator daughter and virtually all of her fellow Democrat Senators and Congressmen now vote against our 2nd Amendment Right in virtual lock-step. And unfortunately, there are some Republicans that need to be replaced as well. When my former Republican Senator Pat Toomey chose to side with anti-gun Democrats, I stopped voting for him, and contacted his office to let him know I would now campaign for any pro-gun candidate to replace him.
This election is even worse, in terms of the hard work we must do to prevent the Liberal Left from turning this Nation into something that would have the vast majority of previous generations turning in their graves. We quickly went from calls for equal rights for women, minorities, and LGBTQ people to a warped culture that blames white Conservative males for every evil ever perpetrated in human history. The Left swinging pendulum is now a wrecking ball that wants to take guns, stifle free speech, and weaponize the Justice System. What started out as innocent calls to recognize gay civil unions has morphed into a perverted grooming of children by emasculating boys, allowing perverted and mentally ill biological males to compete in girl's sports, and invade women's bathrooms and locker rooms. They are preventing parents from knowing about Transgender indoctrination of their own kids in schools. Dressing Boy Scouts in Pink Camo shirts is absolutely not Scouting as we knew it, and is not as benign as some Liberal Left wacko's would have us believe. They open our borders and flood the Nation with Illegal aliens to overburden and replace our culture. Where they see they can't win by ratifying Constitutional Amendments, they will destroy the entire Constitutional legal process via things like stacking the Supreme Court to get the results they demand. Though millions of foreigners flock to come here, they feel America is inherently evil, and must be radically changed.
It would sure be nice to just turn off the television, dream about grouse hunting, and wish it would all go away. But Kamala Harris was picked as the most extreme Left U.S. Senator, even further Left than Bernie Sanders. If we sit back and let this election get away, we will all be a large step closer to losing not only our gun and hunting rights, but the soul of the Nation. We have our work cut out for us. The same Democrat leaders and Liberal Left Media who were concerned a few months ago that she was so inept and unpopular that Biden should replace her on the ticket are now lying to us again, and saying she did a wonderful job, and is the best choice imaginable. The inept Kalifornia Senator who couldn't win a single delegate in the 2020 Primary has been anointed in a totally undemocratic process. The sheep who believed their lies that Joe Biden was cogent, effective, and better than ever will swallow the new lies. I saw a Facebook post today from a nice loving Liberal who was sorry Donald Trump wasn't killed, but happy that at least one of his supporters died, and won't be voting for him. This movement is way too sick to ignore.
I will be ready for hunting season, same as always. But I will also keep engaging like minded friends, relatives, and co-workers (and everyone here) to get involved. Make sure you are registered to vote, contact your representatives to demand Voter I.D. and other election security measures, volunteer to become a poll monitor, etc. Last week, I texted one friend who moved to another state, reminding him he might have a deadline to register to vote in his new state. He had forgotten and thanked me, and said he would remind his kids too. When elections are won or lost by large numbers of dead people voting, we need to get out every vote possible, and FIGHT like Donald Trump asked us to, immediately after being shot.
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