Posted on 01/01/2023 5:53:04 AM PST by Hojczyk
Until Trump and his MAGA movement showed Americans what America was and could be again, the GOP elites chose to feed at the Democrat’s feet under the table of their free droppings. After Trump, the GOP elites, like those few still in the Senate that voted for the $1.7 Trillion Omnibus Spending Bill, continued the GOP’s treasured tradition of “go along to get along!”
Do we accept that GOP leadership is rotten to its core or just off course? By what standard did Senatorial Republicans abandon their duty to stop government growth, limit spending and stop providing more funds to defend Ukraine’s borders but not our own? Are there to be no challenges by State party’s against the GOP’s losers: Roy Blunt, Mo., Richard Burr, NC., Shelly Moore Capito, WV., Susan Collins, Me., Joni Ernest, Ia., Cynthia Lummis, Wy., Lisa Murkowski, Ak., Rob Portman, Oh., Mitt Romney, Ut., Dan Sullivan, Ak. Thom Tillis, NC & Todd Young, In. and Mitch McConnell, Ky?
The answer to that question will be a resounding “No!”
GOP’s leadership is not and will never be fighters for the American way, yet we continue keeping them in office. They will always be held down to the level of Democrat lap dogs, grateful for the few crumbs of recognition Democrats drop on the floor. They are like welfare recipients forever entrapped into government dependence like weak, unskilled peons forced into a survival subsistence living dependent on the monthly refilling of their US issued Debit Card, their desired lifestyle occasionally augmented by mass looting, armed robberies, and drug sales.
The 2022 legacy will also reflect the mass replacement of America’s Blacks by the designed and purposeful influx of millions of South America’s poor and destitute ready and willing to fill the lower class workers ranks abandoned by our poor because of welfare. Democrats will insist their policy is one of humanity ⏤ granting amnesty to the weary migrants. The problem is amnesty would apply if there were wars between South American countries. There is not, but racing to America for jobs and free stuff is the precursor to the bankruptcy of our once great productive country, plunging our children and our children’s children into decades of totalitarianism, conflict, and poverty. The Left wants America destitute, morally bankrupt, and its citizens dependent on the government for their very subsistence.
Well, life goes on. Just passing thru...
From the womb to the tomb.
“Marx and engles wrote “from each according to his ability to each according to his needs” but the Americanized version is “from those who can and do, to those who could but won’t...why should they when they can employ the police power of government to TAKE IT from those who can and do and GIVE IT to those who could....but won’t”
bkmk
Incumbents tend to win re-election
Do we accept that GOP leadership is rotten to its core or just off course?
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I think Mitch McConnell, enriched by $36,000,000.00 from China, IS prima facie evidence that GOP Leadership IS “rotten to it’s core”.
Ping
but the Americanized version is “from those who can and do, to those who could but won’t...why should they when they can employ the police power of government to TAKE IT from those who can and do and GIVE IT to those who could....but won’t”
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An interesting observation I have come to appreciate is how the ‘government’ usurps the true Almighty Creator of the universe by claiming supreme ownership over everything in His universe including air, water, land, chattels, animals, and yes even yourself. Thus, there is no such thing as ‘freedom’ when the government is in the equation. If the government wants what you may foolishly believe is your property or even your physical being, they will take it, plain and simple. Just look what they have done these last three years through trickery and deceit because governmental psychopaths believe you need to be prematurely culled from the human race. This democide is so outlandish they refuse to even discuss it and censor anyone who brings it up.
The U.S. Senate must be reformed by an Article V Convention of the States. Six years is too long for them to serve. A Four year term is sufficient to slow down improvident legislation. The lame duck sessions of Congress must be limited, both by shortening the term, limiting what can be done in such lame duck sessions, and requiring things like spending bills passed in them to be ratified by the next Congress.
The U.S. badly needs reform, but I don’t know that Trump is the guy to lead that charge. He is too concerned with the image of “winning” that he doesn’t want to be associated with reforms that may not pass at first.
Article V would make it worse. Do you really think the left won’t twist, subvert, and cheat to overcome any nonviolent means?
The same people that count votes would conduct the convention.
We need a new political party because the GOP is too compromised. Burn it down politically and start over.
The only way to become free is get rid of every department inD.C.and the bureaucrats ruling our lives…and all the regulations
I would like to see the following to strengthen the republican aspects of the Constitution. It has suffered long enough from ‘Mobocracy’ worship:
1. Repeal the 17th Amendment! The Founding Fathers intended the Senate to be the states corporate voice into federal policy. This was to be done through the state legislature. (They couldn't do worse than the present system!) So, it's a complete lie to say the people don't have a voice in this! The current system makes a senator just another congressman\woman (at-large!) with all the inherent political rancor, passions and short-term interests that the House has. The only changes that I might make to modify the original system - priority order:
a. Allow citizen-based recall.
b. Governor appointment if legislature can't decide in 30 days or there's a vacancy. If a vacancy the appointee serves two years (or remainder of term whichever is less), then citizenry voting to affirm the appointee or replace him\her.
c. Senator's direct reporting staff are state employees - state funded & state government positions. This will better ensure the senator's staff are more loyal to him\her and the state the ‘congressional staff cloud’.
2. Strengthen the republican structure of the states, overturn Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533 (1964) which concerned state legislature districts either through another USSC case (risky) or through a Constitutional amendment. State legislatures should follow the federal legislative republican model. State senators should be elected by counties (1 or 2 per county), the lower house by population districts. If some states have for example a 12-voter county. It's the state's business!
3. The concept of state sovereignty should be strengthened. For example, ‘citizen of a state’ should not be just a flowery political phrase. The way to do this is give a strong role to the state in policing illegal immigration. Say one mile (or less!) into the state from the border the state has complete jurisdiction as to what to do with ‘illegals’. They can then detain, prosecute\jail, expel to another country (if they share a border turn over to federal control**) or state or do nothing. The state's call!
** However federal control does not exist outside of the 1-mile exclusion zone. FedGov can either build detention facilities within that one-mile zone, have them ping-pong back and forth between state and federal jurisdictions or ask the state's permission to transport - done under the state's control and management.
4. Require all states to formally have a ‘state guard’. Yes, I know it exists theoretically through the militia concept. However, not all state constitutions spell it out! State's business whether they want to fund it and give it structure.
5. Which would be very unpopular, would never pass and shows my lack of faith in the ‘popular will’.
Strengthen the role of the Electoral College back to what it was originally intended.
After the new state legislature is sworn in, they pick the electors for their states. If they can't do it the state lose one or all its electoral votes depending on what that legislature fails to do. Meaning if the state had 30 electoral votes and the state legislature can only pick 25 then that means state has 25 electoral votes. Within the week they assemble and cast their votes. Please don't try and tell me we need all that carnival huckstering that we do now to show who would be a good candidates.
It’s pure laziness on the part of the voters. It’s easier to vote for incumbents than to do the research and see what your Rep or Senator actual did or didn’t do when in office. Did your Rep or Senator stand up and vote no for bigger government or spending out of control? What did they do for you and your state? A lot of voters just vote for the name they recognize.
I refuse to vote for an incumbent. Even if they were ok they are still part of the problem
“Until Trump and his MAGA movement showed Americans what America was and could be again...”
BTT
Bingo...we have a winner...”A lot of voters just vote for the name they recognize.”
And therein lies the problem. As you msg states people don’t take the time to see what their Congress critter has actually done or not done. I get it...people have lives and politics are really not a part of it.
The rise of populism, e.g. the MAGA movement, was a result of people who do actually vote and pay attention. Their Congress critters were NOT paying attention to what the people wanted done and so we got Trump. He rode that populist wave into office. It could have, in my opinion, been anybody, not just Trump, who got elected if they articulated the populist sentiment.
We need a new political party because the GOP is too compromised. Burn it down politically and start over.
I agree. I've always voted Republican, even though in my state they are mostly RINOs, but if someone wanted to form a MAGA party I'd change my registration from "none" to "MAGA" in a heartbeat.
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