Agree, all of these articles about the GOP caving are just excuses for what really happened - active collaboration by the Republican leadership. They deserve to be tarred and feathered and real conservatives need to repudiate the Republicans and form a new constitutional party. Perhaps a group walkout under the leadership of Ted Cruz and allies would kick start the basic realignment that must take place if the country is not to be lost.
DEMOCRACY’S FATE
“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.”
- Alexis de Tocqueville
ca. 1840
Alinsky’s 11 rules of ethics can be boiled down to 3 basic tenets.
1. An organizer’s ethics must be flexible
2. The more important the goal the less the organizer should be concerned about ethics
3. If a tactic was successful it was ethical.
Dictionary.com defines ethics as “rules of conduct recognized in respect to a particular class of human actions or a particular group, culture, etc.” It is sad to say that Alinsky’s rules define the Left and much of the Democratic Party as it is today.