March 29, 2017 @ 7:30 AM

I’ve just had an epiphany. It just dawned on me that the Freedom Caucus of the House of Representatives serves as an accurate barometer of our country's dire state and desperate situation. 
 
The Freedom Caucus is comprised of the real conservatives in Congress. Although its membership is not divulged to the public, there are around 30 members of the Freedom Caucus. Whereas the Freedom Caucus boast of around 30 members, the House of Representatives has 435 members. This means that the percentage of real conservatives among our elected representatives today is less than 7 percent. If we add to this fact, the number of Republicans currently serving in Congress, which is 237, we come to a startling realization. Real conservative Republicans make up a mere 12 percent of today’s GOP. 
 
According to news reports, 6 Republican senators were ready to vote against their party’s “ObamaCare Lite” legislation, a legislative ruse perpetrated by the congressional confidence men of the Grand Old Party. When we consider that there are 100 senators in the United States Senate, we are forced to conclude that only 6 percent of them opposed “TrumpCare” or RyanCare” on the basis of their conservative principles.
 
Now, if you do the math, it quickly adds up to an astonishing, not to mention most alarming conclusion. True conservatives currently make up no more than 6 percent of our representative government. Furthermore, they are roundly condemned as a raucous caucus by both sides of the political aisle, by the media, and by the American public. Freedom Caucus members are universally disdained for being dogmatic ideologues; that is, for refusing to compromise their principles and join with their congressional peers in passing legislative “Pablum” to appease a whining American public. 
 
By insisting on fixing problems rather than fiddling with them, tackling them rather than toying with them, and truthfully dealing with them rather than temporarily duck-taping them, the Freedom Caucus is about as popular in today’s politically correct America as a porcupine in a balloon factory. For instance, the blame for President Trump and Speaker Ryan’s embarrassing failure to pass Republicans’ phony ObamaCare replacement legislation is now being laid at the feet of the Freedom Caucus. These few remaining courageous conservatives are being vilified by our president, as well as by their own party, for refusing to compromise their principles in order to perpetrate a legislative sham on the American people. 
 
When the Freedom Caucus is excoriated by their own political party, as well as by our president, it proves that neither Mr. Trump nor the GOP is conservative. Far from it, they disdain real conservatives, like the members of the Freedom Caucus, for refusing to settle for anything short of real solutions to our nation’s problems. According to the Trumps and Ryans of Washington DC, real conservatism is nothing but obstructionism, since it prevents them from passing and bragging about band-aid legislation they’ve forged to cover our country’s festering sores.
 
Donald Trump’s occupancy of the White House has done nothing to change the complexity of the People’s House, where real conservatives makeup a small minority of our elected representatives and are roundly condemned for their refusal to surrender their conservative principles and join in with their unprincipled colleagues in passing legislative placebos to appease the uninformed public of a terminally ill nation. For the life of them, our president, as well as his party and supporters, can’t understand why the Freedom Caucus refused to compromise their conservative principles and vote for TrumpCare, since it was at least a little improvement upon ObamaCare. Granted, it was not, as President Trump and the GOP had falsely promised voters, a real replacement of ObamaCare, but it was at least a little revision of it. It may have done absolutely nothing to reverse our government’s takeover of our healthcare or to rid us of another federal entitlement program bankrupting our nation, but at least the Democrats’ terrible Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare) was tweaked a little by the Republicans’ American Health Care Act (TrumpCare).
 
I, for one, can certainly sympathize with the Freedom Caucus, since the argument made against them is the same one that has been made against me for years. Why won’t they settle for less than the truth, especially in today’s America, a country where truth is intolerable and conservatism is vanishing. Don’t these few remaining conservative congressmen understand that truth and real solutions to our nation’s problems are no longer viable alternatives in today’s America? Therefore, why won’t they surrender, like everyone else, to the incontrovertible fact that the best we can hope for in today’s America is to sew a stitch or two now and then to help our unraveling country hold together just a little bit longer?
 
According to President Trump, he has shook the dust from his feet when it comes to the Freedom Caucus. This past Monday he vowed to turn away from real conservatives and to turn to moderate Democrats in hopes of forging bipartisan healthcare legislation in the days ahead. It appears that our newly elected president, who dubs himself the great dealmaker, is ready to do some real wheeling and dealing in Washington DC. However, with the few remaining conservatives in town ostracized, Trump’s deal with moderate Republicans and Democrats will be, like every deal coming out of our country’s double-dealing capital anymore, another dirty deal for America.