Posted on 01/26/2022 2:11:45 PM PST by Az Joe
Yeah; at this point the entire process is broken.
Too many people put party over country.
I want officials who you could scrutinize forever and not be able to tell their party, religion, or opinions on anything besides their field of technical expertise.
I utterly distrust ideology, even (particularly) that with which I agree (the second I find a news story or an opinion I like I look for all opposing and contradicting evidence; there are *always* at least three sides to every story and two or more correct answers to any question in my opinion (which is not worth the pixels comprising it right now, nor is anyone else’s) :-) YMMV
Is that what CA does to Pubbies?
The fact that our Republican Party here seems utterly ineffective and the national Party (along with a lot of Freepers) have essentially told us to ‘Go to hell’ even though it was the Bushes who opened the floodgates at the borders (with a lot of help from Reagan’s amnesty). Right now anyone who isn’t a raging moonbat leftist is merely trying to survive without the slightest help from any of the people who *talk* a big game of Christ, 2nd Amendment, low taxes, energy independence, and borders.
Even the Trump administration and it’s fanbois did nothing besides threaten to drill off the coast (thus enraging even the moderates).
Nothing but posturing from the RNC, no help from the Trump administration, and a plethora of retards here blaming our ills on stuff *caused* by RINO policies. Nope, no time or respect for ideology or anything that can’t be measured in hard numbers and implemented in the real world.
In short; I think a lot of conservatives here feel like the Kurds must have- left behind and betrayed in a hostile territory by our supposed allies who *still* talk a good game of all these ideological touchstones but sold us down the river for decades.
IF it doesn’t ‘pencil out’ on a spreadsheet and there isn’t an effective, court-proof, properly financed plan, it’s pie-in-the-sky B.S. where I live. The only way we keep our second amendment rights is to get it to SCOTUS, the only way we have the slightest chance of getting rid of Newsome and the ultra lib supermajority is sane, sensible, nuts-and-bolts candidates who talk about NUMBERS, not God, Guns, and Gays.
You sound like the Pubbies in my now-blue state!
From afar I suspect the social-issue focus scares some moderate/independent voters, but the larger issue is likely rampant voter fraud—as it is elsewhere.
Yeah, maybe. You could easily be right.
The most aspirational thing one could hope for is breaking the supermajority of the far left.
Talking about the Rapture, CRT, the futility of Electric vehicles, or bashing LGBTQ issues is NOT going to win, period, in any but a VERY few districts. Talking about infrastructure, pocketbook issues, and balancing the economy and the environment can win, if the person can sound halfway sane.
I think you are at best only maybe 25% right.
CRT and keeping the cost of energy down are issues that have proven to move voters more than “infrastructure”, which more excites the bloodsucker investor class than Joe and Juan Lunchpail.
There may be more social-issue Juan voters than you realize out there. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a candidate talking about the Rapture. (I’m not sure how they could do so while still trying to tell voters that getting to the polls matters.)
We *could* at least win back some power, if people talked about stuff that was real, quantifiable, doable.
No one cares about kids reading Heather Has Two Mommies, or Maus, Pizzagate, Whitewater, or why the votes delivered to the Electoral college were supposedly illegitimate. Non-issues in terms of winning votes for sane people who understand what matters (taxes, budgets, infrastructure, what are the actionables and how much does it cost for what QUANTIFIABLE gain).
They *do* care about homelessness (bums), looting, crumbling freeways, high gas prices and wildfires, and the Democrats have no answers-
But then we get someone prattling about space lasers causing wildfires or oil soaked beaches being caused by natural seepage or raking leaves on the forest floor or saying that Jesus is coming soon, and that climate change is a hoax- instead of giving dollars and cents policy suggestions as to how to keep homes from burning and the traffic moving.
I just don’t agree with you. I’m in some fancy suburbs in the Northeast and parents really do care about CRT and the sexuality indoctrination reaching down to the kindergarten level.
Sure, CA has made looting and the homeless big issues, but those are social issues. You sound like the classic out of touch RINO. “Budgets” are not what get people to the polls or onto the GOP side.
You could well be right.
For me, anything that can’t be put in numbers is merely opinion or ideology. Anything that matters can be graphed in Excel, quantified in a database, or measured under a microscope.
My bias, but then I don’t expect *any* person who aspires for political power to be in the slightest bit moral or decent. To paraphrase Jeff Sessions, ‘Good people don’t go into politics’. I don’t trust anyone who aspires to power, all I want is value for my tax dollar, a handle on crime and homelessness, and infrastructure that gets better rather than worse.
Maybe in the Northeast those are important issues. And of course to some people in this state.
The ones who care one way or the other strongly are already going to vote the way they will.
The people who don’t think that 8 year-olds today should know in full detail what the life of an 8 year old was under slavery, in the Japanese internment camps, or at Bergen-Belson vote, and there are a few thankfully genuinely conservative areas like Shasta, but my observation is that a snarled freeway, a grounded fire tanker, a bum pooping in the street or an oil spill matters to many more people, particularly in the areas that are in play. I could easily be wrong (the day I can be sure I’m right 51 percent of the time is the day I go to Vegas and make a few million).
Elections, in my observation, are all about pocketbook issues, crime, wildfires, and infrastructure.
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