Posted on 11/20/2021 6:13:11 AM PST by CheshireTheCat
Blake Masters is a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona backed by billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel. Until recently, his signature issue would have been free trade or privatizing Social Security. Instead, it’s his belief that a family should be able to get by on one income.
In his most recent ad, the 35-year-old former venture capitalist, standing in a field of sudan hay, says, “We used to be able to do this. Something happened—globalization, decades of inflation. Can’t really do it anymore.” Our biggest problems, Masters says in his launch video, include corporations that “think they’re bigger than America.”
It’s an argument—Corporate America is killing the little guy! The free market is rigged!—that old-fashioned liberals, people like Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis and, more recently, Bernie Sanders, used to make. Now, it’s the rallying cry of a new species of Republican.
Call them national conservatives. Or populists. Or Thielists. The Silicon Valley titan, who backed Trump in 2016, has given $10 million to super PACs supporting Masters and J.D. Vance, the author of “Hillbilly Elegy” who is running for the Senate in Ohio. He is supporting Republicans challenging GOP members who voted for Trump’s impeachment—including Harriet Hageman, who is running against Rep. Liz Cheney in Wyoming, and Joe Kent, who is trying to knock off Rep. Jaime Herrera in Washington—and he has donated to Missouri Senator Josh Hawley, who’s on the short list of 2024 Republican presidential contenders.
What they really are is nationalists, and the fear that binds them together is that the nation—the American people—is falling apart, succumbing to its many economic and political fissures, splintering, losing its sense of self....
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A big enable is crony capitalism in DC. It's the swamp. And Bush and Cheney put the swamp on steroids with the WOT and creation of homeland security.
enable = enabler
When corporations became multinationals they ceased being American by definition.
Corporate America is fine, if it embraces the constitution and is led by good people. Add wokeness, political correctness, globalism and a buddy relationship with the Fed govt and you get trouble.
What they really are is nationalists, and the fear that binds them together is that the nation—the American people—is falling apart, succumbing to its many economic and political fissures, splintering, losing its sense of self....
The question then becomes...are they wrong in this?
I would say no, the socialists have spent the last
hundred years infiltrating our society and doing every
thing they can to get us to no longer believe in our
way of life. Socialist teachers teach our children to
be ashamed of our past. Socialist agitators push our
communities ever deeper into the mire of collective
thought, and a socialist media churns out propaganda
at a alarming rate, propaganda so subtle one hardly
notices it.
Complete list of the GOP Senators up in 2022:
Roy Blunt (Missouri) Has announced he will retire at end of term.
John Boozman (Arkansas)
Richard Burr (North Carolina) Has announced he will retire at end of term.
Mike Crapo (Idaho)
Chuck Grassley (Iowa)
John Hoeven (North Dakota)
Ron Johnson (Wisconsin)
John Kennedy (Louisiana)
James Lankford (Oklahoma)
Mike Lee (Utah)
Jerry Moran (Kansas)
Lisa Murkowski (Alaska)
Rand Paul (Kentucky)
Rob Portman (Ohio) Has announced he will retire at end of term.
Marco Rubio (Florida)
Tim Scott (South Carolina)
Richard Shelby (Alabama) Has announced he will retire at end of term.
John Thune (South Dakota)
Patrick Toomey (Pennsylvania) Has announced he will retire at end of term.
Todd Young (Indiana)
Toomey, Burr, Blunt, Portman and Shelby are leaving, which helps, but there are a lot of them to primary.
Rubio and Hoeven are Amnesty Senators. They voted for a permanent Democrat majority, can’t be a better Assistant Democrat than that.
The only ones worthy of re-election are Johnson, Paul and Kennedy.
The Neocons over stayed their welcome and paleocons are taking back control of the party. Plus I’d hardly call a corporation donating to a politician to get a government contract the “free market”
Communism is the best system for mediocre cruel jerks to hold power... best system to destroy to ability of citizens to be free and find happiness.
THAT'S what we're fighting.
NO WE ARE NOT BERNIE SANDERS.
THE 1 PERCENT IS NOT 'WHITE LIBERAL ELITES'...
THIS WRITER DOES NOT GET IT.
In summary
Trump leveraged identity politics against the democrats. And it was long overdue.
It’s the trifecta set up by George W Bush - the convergence of globalism, socialism and crony capitalism. It was the deal George made with the left -let me invade Iraq and fight the WOT [with liberal payouts to my cronies who are going to make a killing off of the defense contracts] and you leftists can have whatever you want.
The national debt soared, individual liberty took a nose dive and elite leftist operatives got their mitts further into the federal trough.
George H.W. Bush coined the term "trickle down economics" as a pejorative to dismiss Reagans economic proposals.
Reagan proved it worked and Bush was ignorant and wrong and lost to Reagan.
“republican class warrior”
Not necessarily republican nor democrap nor even independent. The word that best describes this class is Precariat.
https://www.amazon.com/Precariat-New-Dangerous-Class/dp/1849663521
“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.”
William Jennings Bryan on July 9, 1896
Stay the hell out of the way, don't legislate at all and let the free market grow to benefit all.
Amen.
The term "trickle down economics" has never been accurate of Ronald Reagan and the Republican's economic philosophy. It's is, however, fairly accurate of the Democrat's desire that the government creates and owns all of the money and you get a "trickle down" allowance based on your service to the government, i.e., just how big of a useful idiot are you.
But Bill Gates didn't get rich from "trickle down" money; he got rich by money that bubbled up to him from the sale of his software products.
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