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To: Zhang Fei
We need to replace these aristocrats with people who actually want to do what we want rather than what they want. They are hawking up loogies on us while telling us it’s raining.

Sorry, that is just never going to happen no matter who is elected.

Anyone with enough arrogance to run for office is going to do what they want to do and just assume that it is what the voter wants.

You best bet is to pay close attention to what the politician says during the primary election campaign and judge what the candidate thinks on the issues.

Two things influence a politician. His personal thinking and ideology and the thinking of campaign doners (lobbyist).

The reality is that politicians for the most part are mercurial beast. You really never know where they are going to be when it is time for them to vote. The majority are going to vote the party line most of the time because they are following the leadership’s direction.

There are few that will buck leadership on principle. Most of those will be labeled oddballs or extremist in the press.

8 posted on 02/08/2021 7:10:36 AM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Pontiac

[Sorry, that is just never going to happen no matter who is elected.

Anyone with enough arrogance to run for office is going to do what they want to do and just assume that it is what the voter wants. ]


I wouldn’t be so sure. I think Trump is the first GOP presidential candidate in a while to come pretty close to what GOP voters actually want.

I see Trump as an indispensable figure for the GOP. He is the only man in the GOP who is prepared to follow rather than lead. The modern GOP is the party of elected aristocrats. They think they are elected to office to ram their policy preferences down their voters’ throats against their express wishes. Whereas Trump is the mirror image of the Democrats - he gives his voters what they want much as the Democrats give their voters what they want.

Republican voters’ relationship with their elected representatives should be like that between those voters and their building contractors. We should tell them what we want and they should produce results or get the hell out of the way. What they shouldn’t be telling us is that we’re racists for wanting to cut down on immigration or racists for saying that George Floyd had it coming. Trump truly is a breath of fresh air in that regard.


10 posted on 02/08/2021 7:39:07 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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