I haven’t been this insulted all week.
But let me address your point of view. A point of view that I feel is poisonous.
The two parties have a job. And that job is singular when it’s reduced to it’s core.
A Democrat pushes to convert the country from a Republic towards a Democracy - where everyone has an equal vote.
A Republican fights to keep it as a Republic.
Democrats are designed to change our government. The Republicans fight to conserve this government.
I don’t mean to patronize you. You know all of this. But here is what it means:
The only and I mean ONLY job of a Conservative Republican is to say NO. The only job of the Democratic Progressive is to change that government even slightly. Any change is a win for Democrats. And every time any law fails to pass it’s a win for the Republicans.
A republican’s job is to say NO. That’s why we vote them in. If you like the way things are, vote Republican. If you want to change things vote Democrat.
So your idea that we as Conservatives need to accept changes incrementally may be in your heart, but it is not in the system. Our job is to say NO.
This whole “No” versus “Lets change something” is not an enemy thing. We aren’t enemies. It’s how the republic operates. We should all be sitting down at the end of the day sharing a beer and being friends.
Anytime a law passes, it’s a failure of the Conservative.
And that is why conservative-minded folks don’t run for office.
If Democrats are successful in changing things, and Republicans do not change it back, then the Democrats win, permanently, every time they make any change. That's absurd. Pres Trump has changed back many, many, many Democrat initiatives, and he has been more successful than any President in modern times.
Further, you grossly mischaracterize the Democrats' goal. They want, and have been openly pursuing, ever-increasing permanent centralized power, for decades. They do not care if we become a pure Democracy, and in point of fact, they don't want one. THEY want the control over every decision, they do not want to give that decision-making over the minutiae to the mob.
Additionally, we are SO far from being a proper (Free) Republic anymore that we MUST advocate and fight for change.
And the current Democrat Part IS openly an enemy to the United States. They say so, quite often. Michelle Obama had never been proud to be an American, the Obama's attend a "church" that preaches "God Damn America", the Left wants to Fundamentally Change EVERY aspect of America, they give literal preference to non-Americans over Americans in many ways, they limit our military and economy with every possible action, they disdain our culture and tear it to shreds on a daily basis, they eschew anything that encourages a love of our country, etc etc etc etc. If you cannot see all of that going on around us, you are willfully ignorant. There can be no other explanation.
So you are a socialist, big government, New Deal, Great Society person that's happy with the status quo and doesn't want change.
I, on the other hand, want new laws that will roll things back.
You may want to stay in the trenches and defend what little is left of America. I want to take the fight to the enemy and regain territory inch by inch.