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There is no Republican Party

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An absolute FACT and a reality that we need to acknowledge. They have burned us too many times. As the old saying goes: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.”

Laboring under the misconception that the GOP represents us is not a productive path forward IMHO. We desperately need a new party that actually represents conservatives. The GOP will never do that.

“....There is no Republican Party...there is the Uniparty...Cantor spits out what we patriots already knew...”

Yep, right on. And there is no getting rid of it short of an outright rebellion by the People...which, BTW, will never happen. The UniParty stages these charades to lull the People into thinking there are two parties. In reality, there is no 2-party system in the USA, just the UniParty. The UniParty wants single-payer and will get single-payer. With the UniParty that now exists in the Swamp, there is no sense of even voting anymore as it’s all a big hoax on the American People. Regardless of who’s elected, the dissolve into The UniParty. What the UniParty wants, is what the UniParty gets. The sooner the People come to this realization, the better off they’ll be.

There is a coalition of conservative and libertarian thinkers in the House and Senate, but they are all huddled over in one side of that wider umbrella known as the “Republican party”. They are a majority within a majority, but still a minority overall.

There is no hope of capturing any of the current crop of Democrats, who have all gone off awhoring after the “perfect” socialist state, which has never existed, and cannot ever exist, given the true diversity of humanity. Oh, they CLAIM to be “diverse”, but they demand a strictly uniform degree of adherence to an impossible standard of conduct never experienced in any natural order of things. Socialism only works at the point of a gun and by using up the accumulated store of wealth, usually in the form of other people’s money. Socialism cannot generate any great accumulations of wealth, as they do not permit the entrepreneur to enjoy the fruits of his ingenuity and labor. So, do the sensible thing, and exert only enough effort to avoid punishment. The wages are the same, the minimum IS the maximum.

Except for a crafty few who set themselves up as the elites, and do not obey the rules set for everybody else, all the while they do not happen to get caught.

When they get caught, they get sent through the meat grinder.

The wurst is yet to come.

The results of the “Silent Revolution of 1913” continue to play out. Three seminal events in 1913:

1. January; 16th Amendment Ratified; the Federal Government can tax individual incomes;
2. April; 17th Amendment Ratified; States as an entity no longer have an institutional political voice in government.
3. December; Federal Reserve Act becomes law. The government can now directly manipulate the currency, and can “create” money through the banking system to finance government debt.

As a result of the “Silent Revolution,” the federal government gained an almost unlimited access to money; the money needed to fuel a gigantic administrative state. The government doesn’t even need to take in as much as it spends. With the Federal Reserve, it can spend as much as it wants and “paper over” the difference. With the direct election of Senators, states no longer have the institutional voice in Washington to combat the administrative state. Senators become just like Representatives, where they fall into the Washington D. C. “Iron Triangle” of Congressional Committees, Federal Agencies, and Constituent Groups who feed at the trough.

Unlike most revolutions, the change was not immediate. It took time for the revolution to play out. Most notably in the judiciary, where a series of Supreme Court opinions, mostly from 1937 to 1943 (West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, United States v. Carolene Products, Wickard v. Filburn) gave the Congress the green light to do whatever it wished without regard to any Constitutional limitation. It culminated in Chevron USA v. Natural Resources Defense Council in 1977, where the Court stated it wasn’t going to just defer to Congress, it was going to defer to the Federal Agencies, and gave them the green light to do whatever they wanted. It is no coincidence that the massive explosion of Federal power has happened since the Chevron decision.

As a result, the Federal Government of the United States has grown to immense size and power. It no longer recognizes any restraint on is activities, and the individual agencies are like feudal duchies that don’t recognize any restraints by the Courts, the Congress, or the elected Executive. It was not 0bama’s directive that caused the IRS to stonewall TEA Party 501 tax-exempt applications. The TEA Party represented an existential threat to the IRS, and so it fought back. It would have done that regardless of who was in the White House. We are seeing that play out now with the Trump Administration.

Oh, and like feudal duchies, it has not escaped my notice that each and every Federal agency also has its own private armed security forces.