“2026…A Year to Celebrate Rugged American Individualism”
| “2026…A Year to Celebrate Rugged American Individualism” |
| “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism” — Inaugural Address of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Greetings everyone, and I hope your new year is off to a great start. I am thankful that this new year begins with a new right hip and the eradication of pain. I will also be crossing the Rubicon of the Medicare river in February. However, what I am looking forward to is the celebration of individual independence this year; that is what 2026 is all about. It will be a great year to reflect upon those determined, resolute, and yes, rugged men and women who individually sacrificed to create the greatest Nation the world has known. However, this year began with the incoming Mayor of America’s greatest city, New York City, making a very disturbing comment. The aforementioned quote by Zohran Mamdani is indicative of one who does not understand the greatness of America…nor does he respect it. And for us here in the Lone Star State of Texas, it is a double slap in the face. So, I think it is necessary to remind Mr. Mamdani of the abject foolishness of his comment. Let me begin here in the State that I call home, Texas, which is defined as rugged individualism. Don’t believe me, well, it is the reason why the show “Landman” is so popular. This March 3, 2026 will be the 190th anniversary of Texas’s independence. Men, rigged men, gathered at a place called Washington on the Brazos and wrote the Declaration of Independence for Texas, establishing the Republic of Texas. Thanks to their rugged individualism, Texas is the only State in America with its own Declaration of Independence. And how did that all get started? In the previous year in early October 1835, a small group of rugged individual Texians faced the venerable Mexican cavalry outside the town of Gonzales. The Mexican cavalry demanded their cannon back; the rugged Texians replied, “Come and Take It”. I have been to Gonzales and seen the cannon, whose possession started the Texas Revolution. And I have stood on the field where those rugged individuals stood. It is important to know that as the men were meeting to create the Republic of Texas, there were some 180+ who were standing on the ramparts of a place called The Alamo. Yes, rugged men, and (38) of them were from a state called Tennessee, where I attended university and carried with me the title, Tennessee Volunteer…a title earned by those rugged men. Those rugged individuals stood and faced certain death, which did come on March 6, 1836. I have been to The Alamo on several occasions and have taken my entire family there. And even as those rugged individuals sacrificed their lives, their deaths were a rallying cry on April 19, 1836, when rugged individuals charged Santa Anna’s Mexican Army at San Jacinto. It only took those rugged individuals, men, 18 minutes to rout someone who believed in collective subjugation and guarantee the independence of the Republic of Texas. And yes, I have been there on the San Jacinto battlefield. So it is with the independence of America, 250 years of such, because rugged men took a field on April 19, 1775, at a place called Lexington and later at Concord Bridge. Rugged individualism is the reason why men gathered at Independence Hall, and on July 4, 1776, created the impeccable endeavor into individual rights, freedom, and liberty, along with self-governance, these United States of America. And, at the end of this year, on Christmas Eve, we will remember rugged individuals who crossed the frozen Delaware River. America was built, and is sustained, by rugged individualism, like those who kept the flag raised at Ft McHenry and raised the flag over Mt. Suribachi. Zoharan Mamdani is now the Mayor of our Nation’s greatest city, and his existence is antithetical to our essence. Mamdani is an islamist, and the meaning of Islam is submission…that is the essence of collectivism. It is that same ideal that islamists are trying to infiltrate into Texas, and we must reject it. We should not be surprised at Mamdani’s comments, after all, it was another Marxist socialist islamist named Barack Hussein Obama who asserted in July 2012, “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that”…and he was reelected as president. I actually do not blame Obama and Mamdani, the blame is wholeheartedly with the mindless lemmings and useful idiots who would trade independence for dependence, who believe free equals freedom, and due to their own frail sense of being, reject rugged individualism for collective subjugation. The Texas primary election is on the day of the 190th remembrance of Texas’s independence. Will you be a rugged individual and honor those who left us this great State, and Nation…or will you be a collective member of the leftist Borg? The history of collectivism is evident, and it is rooted in the equal sharing of misery. America loves a winner, a champion, who will train hard and endure to become that rugged individual who lifts up the trophy…and that trophy is the title of Texan…American! Steadfast and Loyal. |