Political parties are just buses that get their passengers from Point A to Point B.
If the bus you’re on deviates from your desired route, you find another bus.
Political parties, outside the city level, have mutated into something else.
Look at all the high powered consultants that are collection millions of dollars every election cycle and produce ZERO winners. Look at Carl Rove what state and/or national election victory can he point to in the last decade plus?
Much like labor unions the political parties have become focused exclusively on maintaining their power. look at the extreme districts designed to keep a particular political party in power. Look at the current “revolt’ within the Republican Party as the establishment actively punishes Republicans who don’t march in lockstep with them.
The important thing to remember is many of the Established Republicans are no longer involved in governing which is the basic job of Congress in a Representative Republic like ours.
There are other example but I think you get the picture. The end of this path lies in mid-20th Century Europe in Germany and Russia - not a very cheerful thought is it?
The writer says that the libs aren’t the RINOs, the conservatives are because libs keep getting nominated. But if you look at the party’s platform, it has been conservative. I love your bus analogy. To take your analogy a bit further, the republican party is like a bus line with conservative destination ABC.
The lib RINOs that keep getting nominated are bus drivers don’t want to take the bus to its proper destination. Instead of ABC, they want the destination to be socialist XYZ. They pretend they are good bus drivers who can get the bus to ABC, but as soon as they get behind the wheel they take the bus where they want it to go.
We need to do a better job screening these bus drivers and we need to kick some them off of the bus. Our destination should never be the same as the democrats/socialists.
Unlike what Mitch McConnell (RINO) and his twisted mind thinks, the people voted republican to oppose Obama and the democrats, not to go along with them. If they wanted get along to go along, they would have voted for the democrats.