Posted on 10/15/2021 6:36:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
It’s about that time of the year again. Just as sure as migratory birds fly south for the winter, incumbent establishment Republicans once again begin feigning their conservative bona fides just in time for the 2022 election cycle with the full support of the elitists in the GOP donor class.
For constitutional conservatives, their ire has been grossly misplaced. It’s time to quit blaming the RINO’s and start holding the GOP donor class that funds them accountable. Incumbent Republican office-holders in Congress have brazenly served their own self-interests and those of the donor class to the exclusion of American interests and to the extent the two political parties are hard to tell apart.
The ‘show’ votes and ‘cloture’ tactics that the RINO’s can use to bolster their conservative street cred, claiming they were ‘for’ or ’against’ a particular bill when his or her vote didn’t really count – or when the issue was likely to be decided without their vote. A voice vote is a simply ‘yea’ or ‘nay’ where the vote of the member never goes on record. It’s likely few Americans really know how the sausage is made in D.C. This congressional sleight of hand is commonplace and disgusting. The GOP donor class knows exactly how it works, because they get a seat at the table with their favorite political rock-star who can explain the strategy and how it will uniquely benefit them.
America continues to plummet into a socialist-style oligarchy, where the rich get richer, the elitists parlay favor in government, business and culture and where the depth of this inequality begins to flirt with a society that ends up in a bloody revolution or civil war. Small business is crushed in favor of big business. Class separation is more than just income inequality. When severe class inequities become the norm, it has bred revolutionary calamities throughout human history.
Look no further than the Covid mask and vaccine mandates which were supported by most establishment Republicans. Only recently have some brave Republican office-holders in red states read their political tea leaves to figure out the wind was blowing in exactly the opposite direction – toward religious freedom and individual civil liberties. Texas Governor Gregg Abbott originally made this mistake with state-wide restrictive mask mandates, eventually back-tracked under extreme pressure and now has at least two very legitimate GOP primary candidates. Abbott made a mad dash to call special sessions of the legislature to push through red meat conservative causes he could have accomplished prior, since being elected in 2015. Yet, the GOP donor class in Texas (including many of the same donors who fund RINO’s in D.C.) gladly pony up to the Texas governor who has only recently shown any real conservative chops to avoid getting ousted by primary challengers and dashing any hopes for a potential presidential run.
America continues to plummet into a socialist-style oligarchy, where the rich get richer, the elitists parlay favor in government, business and culture and where the depth of this inequality begins to flirt with a society that ends up in a bloody revolution or civil war. Small business is crushed in favor of big business. Class separation is more than just income inequality. When severe class inequities become the norm, it has bred revolutionary calamities throughout human history.
Look no further than the Covid mask and vaccine mandates which were supported by most establishment Republicans. Only recently have some brave Republican office-holders in red states read their political tea leaves to figure out the wind was blowing in exactly the opposite direction – toward religious freedom and individual civil liberties. Texas Governor Gregg Abbott originally made this mistake with state-wide restrictive mask mandates, eventually back-tracked under extreme pressure and now has at least two very legitimate GOP primary candidates. Abbott made a mad dash to call special sessions of the legislature to push through red meat conservative causes he could have accomplished prior, since being elected in 2015. Yet, the GOP donor class in Texas (including many of the same donors who fund RINO’s in D.C.) gladly pony up to the Texas governor who has only recently shown any real conservative chops to avoid getting ousted by primary challengers and dashing any hopes for a potential presidential run.
Perhaps the Founding Fathers never envisioned that politicians could literally get wealthy in office, nor could they have predicted the amount of money involved in elections and the power that an elite donor class could wield, otherwise term limits may have been considered in the Constitution. The median net worth of the majority of those in Congress are millionaires. Eight of the ten richest Senators are Republicans. Stories like Missouri Senator Roy Blunt whose net worth went from $602k in 2008 to $10.7M over ten years in office is not uncommon. Congress earns a pension after only five years in office. Where in the private sector are you vested in a pension after only five years? Congress exempted themselves from vaccine mandates.
Congress, led mostly by Republicans, has allowed the unprecedented growth of the U.S. intelligence agencies and to renew both the Patriot Act and the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) each session, in which both have serious conflicts with the Fourth Amendment. The NDAA allows for no due process (habeas corpus) for government-targeted groups. (See the January 6th protestors denied their civil rights). These agencies spy on American citizens with the full knowledge of those kept in power by the elite GOP donor class. Now, the Biden administration wants the IRS to have full access to every bank transaction you make – without a warrant. Will the GOP leadership cave on this too?
The U.S. Constitution is in serious danger of becoming irrelevant (if not already). We need to make sure this elite donor class (and their lackeys) pay close attention.
Water is wet. Beer is good. People are crazy. This is news?
Most of the elected GOP are really just Assistant Democrats.
We have a LOT of House and Senate cleaning to do.
Flimsey Grahamnesty, Micro Rubio, Hoeven, Tillis, Cornyn, Lankford, Inhofe, Scott, Scott, Romney, McConnell, Cassidy, Thune, Ernst, Boozman, Murkowsky, Wicker, Hyde-Smith, Shelby, Blunt, Sasse, Toomey, Rounds, Portman, Burr, Lee, Capito, Crapo, Cramer, Barrasso, Risch, Sullivan, Moran and Collins are ALL Bush League Republicans
And that’s just the Senate, there are 145 House members that voted for Liz Cheney in Feb. to lead them (away from MAGA)
Re-electing Assistant Democrats has put us in this hole.
The U.S. Constitution is in serious danger of becoming irrelevant (if not already).
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The Constitution became irrelevant the day ALL of our elected and appointed swore in the ineligible British subject/Kenyan/Indonesian non-natural born citizen in direct violation of that Constitution.
“Water is wet. Beer is good. People are crazy. This is news?”
Spot on.
Trump exposed the GOP for what they are....and also D.C...that is why they want him gone forever
Don’t you mean the communist wing of the GOP?
Not a wits difference between the GOPe and the Communist Democrat party!
It started to slide, IMHO, when the leaders of strict contructionism compromised for the sake of the Louisiana purchase. Whether or not the blows dealt to the system by Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, or LBJ, or Nixon were of themselves fatal (and which one of them was) is subject for endless debate, but I fear that from before my birth, and I am not notably young, the U.S. Constitutional system has effectively been a dead man walking (I was born during the Nixon years).
The final nail was the complete abrogation on Usurpation Day.
The Kenyan from Indonesia is NOT a natural born citizen and yet ALL of our elected and appointed let the Marxist muslim enemy agent into the White House and he proceeded to corrupt our entire government.
Names and known addressess of where they frequent would be useful.
Ultimately, political parties exist for their own aggrandizement. They may do good along the way but that is not their purpose.
We the People are the sovereign yet with rare exceptions we conduct ourselves as servants who merely vote for new or existing masters every two years.
Are you a Libertarian?
True, they have the attitude that they're working in accordance with some nationally accepted, common consent.
It's their personal goal to reduce our republic to an immense optical illusion ... a distorted and unnatural construct, as compared to the initial government based on elegant and wholly functional documents that the founders worked so hard to create.
I said it on election night the GOP has blood on thier hands. The literally gave us all the finger. They were instrumental in helping to get biden in the WH and give these commies control. Worse than the rats
Voting is not going to solve the American crisis.
Rand is the only answer. No way he becomes POTUS. Majority leader perhaps. People would find out who he is.
Individualism and the NAP never has and never will defeat a Bolshevik insurgency.
I certainly have tendencies that way (and have probably spent more time as a member of that party than as a Pub), though I would plea that I am a strict constructionist who is a firm believer in the rule of law as well.
I have a recently decease Uncle who was a Libertarian who spent 20 years as Mayor (the position and race were officially non-partisan). He started his political life as a Bircher thanks to my Grandfather, who was very broadminded and believed in exposing his children to a variety of views.
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