Adios

I just want to take a moment to thank everyone here at BillWhittle.com who I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and talking with. I signed up last May and within a few days felt completely at home. I could say what I truly thought about things and, with almost no exceptions, I was accepted. People agreed with me. I didn’t have to sit silent while being subjected to idiotic, irrational, leftist crap all the time, like I did in other communities I had been involved with. It was almost too much to accept as real.

There were disagreements, to be sure, but most of those were minor and even more were mere misunderstandings that were cleared up with a little further explanation. But even those who disagreed were willing to listen and discuss, not employ scorn, derision, lying, and baseless rejection to shut me out. Honestly, most of those here being quite religious and my being what those same people would call an atheist (I don’t call myself that, not because I think I might someday change my mind about religion, but because the term doesn’t apply to my thinking), I had expected to be dismissed at every turn. That wasn’t the case, which was an enormous relief. I felt at home here and some months ago I posted about that on the member blog.

I even surprisingly discovered quite a few things I have in common with one of the Big 3™ here on the site. That was very nice to know and gave me an even stronger sense of belonging. As a hard-core introvert, I’ve never been one to need to feel a part of something but it was nice just the same.

The election came and went, disappearing into a thief’s pocket, and I was (and remain) just as angry about it as everyone else here. Then the MB2A series began and I was immediately inspired to work on its goals. I started doing one of the things I do best – building and leading a team to get the work started. Employing another of my stronger talents, I wrote up some documents – one of which was, if I do say so myself, pretty damn impressive – to serve as a statement of the reasons for MB2A and a call to join us to anyone in the country who shared our principles and had the same desire to take the country back, as well as potential guidelines for managing the effort. I was primed for action.

As time went on, however, I became extremely disappointed by what I saw as abandonment of the ideals described in the first few MB2A videos. I tried to get more information, hoping there was at least a preliminary stab at a plan. But I got no reply and no public announcements were forthcoming. The MB2A series after the first few had become merely “Bill Whittle Now without Scott Ott,” having no relation at all to the vision originally described. Even the name “Moving Back to America” disappeared from the videos, both on the screen and in the words. Without even nominal leadership and direction being offered, I disbanded my group in frustration. All the excited talk about MB2A died away among members both old and new. It seemed to be going nowhere.

Today’s video, ostensibly about MB2A, introduced something new that is described as “the most important thing” now. While it aims toward a necessary outcome, it’s nothing at all like the original idea, which I thought was the most important thing as stated in those early videos in the series, namely fixing the states’ election laws to make the process open and foolproof so it could be trusted again. Most disappointing is that this new purpose for MB2A is not a project that we members can be a part of other than as a funding source.

I have now lost all hope in MB2A as a movement. It might succeed as something else, something like the effort begun in the new year at The Daily Wire, to gain a foothold in the culture via the entertainment business. But it’s not going to win any elections or change any laws, the original reason for MB2A. Now that the left is consolidating its power, refusing to move quickly to disrupt its corrupt and anti-American coup while it’s still relatively weak will leave the left much more difficult, likely impossible, to overcome later – a crucial point made in an early MB2A video. This new project points MB2A away from that necessary and timely effort. It leaves the name “Moving Back to America” an incongruous title for something it’s not.

As a result of all this, I’ll be leaving the site. My membership is paid until the beginning of next month – I’ll stick around until then, but I won’t be participating anywhere near as much as I had been since I first joined. I mentioned in some blog comments that, now that I’m older, MB2A would be my last go at having an impact. I’ll be spending my time trying to enjoy the rest of my life. My goal is to live to at least 300, since if I fail at that I lose nothing, so I’m hoping for a lot of enjoyment.

Again, thank you to everyone who made my time here so enjoyable. I wish all members here the best.