To be honest, the Republican Party hasn’t been conservative at all. Through the power of 20/20 hindsight, it is becoming pretty obvious now that the endgame is in sight that it has been the party of western European Socialism for at least 20 years and probaby much longer. If they’ve had a benevolent goal for all these years, it has been to ease us into a nanny-state socialism, with plenty of chances for corporate leaders to still make money off our labor, but with a comfortable but very well-planned existence for the rest of us who are destined to he human animals living on a farm. They will treat us well enough to make revolution unthinkable and we’ll be fed and cared for as long as we are productive. But farm animals is all we are to them.
They are much smarter than the Dems, who would herd us into communism with no plans other than “it will get better once everyone gets with the program”. Their way ends with such poverty and hopelessness that revolution becomes a strong possiblity, and that’s not good for the business of the crony capitalism, which is the only form of free enterprise the Dems champion.
So, considering the choice, I am happy that the Republicans are the smarter and kinder Marxists (and people farmers).
No, it hasn't. When people howl about how the GOP is full of RINO's now, I wonder what period of history they are hearkening back to when the Republican party was supposedly conservative.
The modern Republican party, at least for the last 75 years or so, has been the go-along, get-along party. It is more conservative than the Democrats, but since WW2 has basically accepted (sometimes grudgingly) the premise that an expanding social welfare state was an ideal goal. The GOP of the 60's and 70's was downright liberal compared to today. Just look at the stuff Richard Nixon was pushing (universal healthcare, EPA, price controls, etc).
If they’ve had a benevolent goal for all these years, it has been to ease us into a nanny-state socialism, with plenty of chances for corporate leaders to still make money off our labor
I think you give them too much credit to be honest. Their primary goal has been getting elected. The left and their media allies had shaped the battlefield so comprehensively for so long that just stopping some of the worst liberal Democratic impulses was the only goal they really had.
With the rise of the new media, the left no longer has a stranglehold on the information the citizenry gets. This, and the ability to communicate and organize with ease, has allowed the Tea Party and movement conservatives to drive the Republican party further and further to the right. If we keep pushing, if sites like FR continue to stay active, if we continue challenging the establishment that is always looking to hold on to theirs gains - if we do those things the Republican party might, for perhaps the first time in its existence, become a genuine conservative party.