Weekly Posting of the Conservative Cow Doctor

Bullets or Ballots

Blinker and I ran in the daylight Saturday morning, and it is inspiring to see God’s handiwork by sunlight. A couple hundred yards from the house, I cut enormous canine tracks. Other folks run my course with their dogs, but these tracks were huge. The recent winds had cleared parts of the trail and drifted others so the mystery tracks would periodically appear and disappear along my route. Once home, I grabbed a tape measure from the junk drawer, retrieved my cell phone and sprinted back to the trail to snap a couple photos. The tracks were paired and traveling east in the bottom of the Cove Ditch until they reached the foot bridge by my house. In a single bound, both critters leapt from the bottom of the ditch to the snowdrift on top of the bank, a height of about six feet. The jump was clear and clean as if it were effortless. I suspect these were wolf tracks, so now when I run in the pre-dawn darkness, I am packing my 10mm Glock. If I carry chambered, I have 16, 180-grain, hollow-points with which to encourage the predators to go back to Canada and this brings me to my point.

The Yellowstone wolf reintroduction program is one of the most visible examples of failed progressive policies. This invasive species was endorsed by leftists, but their good intentions have decimated the northern Yellowstone elk herd and caused incalculable losses to area livestock producers. If the wolves don’t eat your calves and lambs, they will chase brucellosis carrying elk and bison out of the park and on to your winter-feed ground. Right behind the previous park dwellers comes an army of USDA bureaucrats demanding you test your cows for brucellosis because now you ranch in a Designated Surveillance Area, DSA. Your cattle did not move, the DSA moved. Producers in the DSA have been thrown under the bus so cattlemen in the rest of the state can enjoy Brucellosis Free status. This is a classic example how the rights of the minority are trampled by the majority in a democracy. We are not a democracy, rather our framers gifted us a constitutional republic, a fact most politicians ignore. The sole purpose of government is to secure the rights of the minority over the whims of the majority. Answer me this: Will your opinion change when the wolves and brucellosis infected elk and bison bring the DSA to your backyard? All progressive programs from wolf reintroduction to Obamacare to stroke-poke mandates fail miserably everywhere they are tried. Patriots must resolve that 2022 is the year we dispose of this destructive ideology once and for all.