I'll try to rewrite some of his lines into the US situation.
"Any thinking person has been able to see for years that the Republican Party hates conservatives. It is roadblock, championing the elite against the people."
"It is kept in being only by the Fox News Channel and various dodgy billionaires, who provide it with airtime and money out of all proportion to its real support. It has no actual aims except office at all costs"
"It has no actual policies either, only negative smear campaigns, falsely portraying Tea Party conservatives as racists or corrupt, or all Democrats as way out Communists."
"And yet those who could make a difference still cling to the GOP teat for fear of finding something worse. Well, what could be worse than bankruptcy, uncontrolled mass immigration and war?"
Both political parties use people of the Left and Right as pawns to gain power and do the bidding of elites who want things like open borders and cheap labor, rules to knock out competitors and so on.
The big parties are jointly leading us down a road of higher debt, more spending and higher taxes to sustain an unsustainable system of government at all levels that is heading towards inevitable bankruptcy.
Beat me to it, although that is good because you did a far better job at it than I would have.
Very well said.
> “Peter Hitchens wrote this column about the UK situation, but I think it applies to the US where the Republican Party despises its own grassroots voters.”
My thoughts exactly.
“...portraying...Ed Miliband as some kind of Trotskyist loony.”
But I thought Ed Miliband IS a Trotskyist loony?
Bump
excellent re-wording
“It has no actual aims except office at all costs”
so as to line their own pockets
That's putting it in a nutshell, although war does have its purpose and may be what it takes to end the constant attacks of Islam.
Great work!
“Months of brainwashing were cancelled out by this sharp personal experience of the ‘Yes’ campaign’s instinctive and necessary dishonesty. If it didn’t lie about its real aims, it would never get any support. The whole thing was rigged from the start (as Mr Cameron’s would be).”
This is what scared the crap out of me with Ross Perot’s plan for an electronic Town Hall (where the people, or “the volunteers”, as he called them, would directly vote on issues) - the fact that people who live REAL LIVES don’t have the time (and often the capability) to filter through the propaganda. So whoever controls what the people are spoon fed, and the wording of the questions, then controls the outcome of votes.
Example Question for the masses: “Should people who are in the United States without proper documentation be: (A) deported to a country that has one of the highest crime rates in the world, where they face certain death; or (B) pay a fine, be allowed to stay in the United States, learn English, contribute to society, pay back taxes, and, after meeting all of the preceding, be allowed to become US citizens? Please choose (A) or (B).
Slightly exaggerated, but not that much. A few things worth noting for the above:
1) Even in Honduras, with the highest murder rate in the world, the vast majority of people live their lives in peace.
2) What is the definition of “Learn English”? Does that mean learn to read some English words at a 2nd grade level, or be able to converse comfortably in English? Who gets to decide that?
3) How much is the fine? Does everyone pay it, or are their hardship exceptions? And note that nearly everyone from Central America will be a hardship exception. Also, will federally-funded groups like ACORN be allowed to step-in and pay the fines for these people, using federal money.
4) Who calculates “back taxes”. Back taxes are easy for the IRS to calculate if the employer is properly informing the IRS of your wages (i.e., 1099 and W4 forms, etc.), but how does one calculate back taxes for someone that has been paid under the table...maybe take their word for it?
5) How long until these people become citizens, and what happens to the ones that choose not to become citizens? Do they still get to stay here and have kids (can’t send them back, after all)? Do their kids become citizens, even if not born here?
Other than the “certain death” comment, the above “Electronic Town Question” is almost identical to a polling question that seemed to come out of NOWHERE 3 hours after Eric Cantor (top Amnesty pusher in the Republican Party) was defeated in his primary. And guess what, the majority of people answered exactly as the pollsters had hoped, which was Answer B.
So you say, well, we have a First Amendment, so the debate will open and people can argue back. Well, not in England in 1974, per this article - the media was 100% on one side and would not allow the other side to get its word out. I suspect that England also has “Campaign Finance Laws” to permit “fairness”, but actually intended to silence all but the media. Sure, you can stand in your front yard and scream your side of the argument until you’re blue in the face, but good luck competing against media outlets that reach 200 million people in this country.
Wow, great article. He TOTALLY NAILS IT about the EU pushing to start World War 3 with Russia.
Too bad WAY TOO MANY AMERICANS are also taking the bait...when it’s OBVIOUS here the only reason for such a position is to get the voters minds off Amnesty and Healthcare for the November elections, and help Democrats hold on to power.
Conservatives, on the other hand, don't want a non-constitutional, socialist, immoral centralized state. Progressives of both parties hate conservatives. That is why Boehner and McConnell fight so hard against conservatives and so softly against truly dangerous statists like Obama. They are on the same side as Obama, but are opposed to conservatives.
This charade has become more and more obvious with time, and was most clearly exposed in the last 4 years, when the Republican party was rewarded with an undeserved majority in the House by conservatives, and has done everything in its power to forfeit the victory since. Boehner's purpose seems to be to manage the majority in a way that does not harm Obama while awaiting the eventual return of Nancy Pelosi.
I may sometimes vote for Republicans, but I am actively looking for a way for conservatives to make the GOPe join their democrat brethren. We need a UKIP, and I am convinced that if we could get one going in the US, it would take off like wildfire, and make the GOP go the way of the dodo and the Whigs.