Jeb Bush is living in a bizarre alternative reality where the very rich can buy votes outright. In truth, he has only about 30,000 core supporters, almost all of whom are very wealthy. As a group they (including those who are not American) are so utterly contemptuous of Americans, that they assume we are “ignorant masses”, easily swayed by propaganda and advertisement. That we do not listen, hear, and understand. “The great unwashed.” For if we did, why are we not wealthy corporate internationalists, like them?
And that is the other HUGE problem. The GOP-e, RINOs, liberal Republicans, Country Club Republicans, Whigs, whatever you want to call them, find common cause with the internationalist socialist Democrats, against patriotic, nationalist conservatives.
In truth they despise Democrats as feeble minded throwbacks to the failed, 19th Century pseudo-religion of socialism, modeled off of organized crime syndicates in its US iteration. But they agree with them in the importance of internationalism: not for a socialist world, but for what these Republicans want, a corporatist plutocracy, where the world is run by wealthy corporations. As society of two classes: the ultra wealthy, and the peasant workers.
They like the idea of some aspects of socialism. Those that save corporations money by taxing the common man to pay for their own health care (nationalized medicine) and retirement (Social Security). Solely so that corporations do not have to pay for these things.
They are even comfortable with the illusion of Republican Democracy, that the foolish public can be limited to a choice between internationalist socialists and internationalist plutocrats. Yet they understand that what they want is extremely vulnerable to patriotic, nationalist conservatism, which they strongly oppose and connive to defeat at every opportunity, mostly by joining with the internationalist socialists against us.
Which puts to the lie their sneering contempt for us. Because we know if they can just be wrenched from power, the gigantic and corrupt edifice they have built with the Democrats can and will be torn down: most of Phase II, which began with the New Deal; and even parts of Phase I, which came about at the start of “progressivist movement” at the turn of the 20th Century.
We have given them a powerful blow to the body by systematically taking out some of their more dedicated Republican politicians, but many remain. Yet with each one gone, they are hard pressed to find replacements also skilled in connivance, duplicity, yet able to be reelected and focused on their agenda.
Eventually they will not be able to stop us. And without their protection, the Democrats will get resounding punishment for the harm they have done our nation.
Thanks! A very good response.