Written by Nick Caraway — 

“I wish I had the presence of mind to write these things down, but I saw Pete Hegseth at CPAC claim to know what most of us average folks talk about when we go to the local diner. Apparently, we don’t talk about equal rights or any mumbo jumbo like that. Apparently, we are talking about three things: standing for the anthem, the tenth amendment, and of course the Bible.

I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m getting sick and tired of people presume they can speak for me and what I’m talking about when I’m meeting with friends. Maybe I’m not an average guy. Maybe the good folks that come around here are not average folks. That’s probably one of the best dodges for folks like Hegseth. How we define average is a floating standard that changes to meet our rhetorical needs.

My personal favorite was the tenth amendment. I’m calling shenanigans on that one. I’d imagine less than 20 percent of his “average people” couldn’t even quote the second amendment to you much less than tenth. Even if they could look it up on the Google machine it would likely take them an hour to figure out what it meant.

To put forth the idea that anyone is discussing politics with friends is far-fetched but we certainly aren’t discussing false flag issues like that. I don’t know many constitutional scholars and I’m a former Government teacher. I’m not sure how often the anthem or the Bible come up in casual conversation either.

I’ll make a deal with Mr. Hegseth, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Patrick. I won’t speak for you and you don’t speak for me. I certainly don’t know if I’m average or not and I don’t want any jackass in Austin or Washington telling anyone else what I’m willing or not willing to sacrifice. I can make up my own mind on that. One more thing: I’d suggest some new dinner conversation topics before all of your friends bail on you in the diner.”

Nick