Posted on 05/27/2022 6:56:22 AM PDT by rktman
Canceling the Grand Old Party (GOP) was the mission of last week's "Hard Truth" podcast, undertaken by your columnist, her partner, David Vance, and guest Jack Kerwick (introduced here). And on good grounds. The Republican Party has never stood up for you, will never stand up for you and is not going to do what it takes. Past is prologue.
As Dr. Boyd Cathey has observed, the "party which never conserves anything" had been exposed as such as far back as 1875. "The great Southern author, Robert Lewis Dabney, writing a decade after the end of the War Between the States … expressed presciently this tendency of dominant, post-war Northern conservatism":
The history of the Republican Party is "that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is to-day one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will to-morrow be forced upon its timidity, and will be succeeded by some third revolution, to be denounced and then adopted in its turn."
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Don’t vote for a RINO under any circumstance. Stand back and prepare for the system to crash. That’s the state of national politics for me.
Yay!
Finally the truth is starting to dawn on folks!
Only took 25 years and a destabilizing anomaly like Trump.
Actually, I believe they have merged into the Uniparty." However they still wear differnt jerseys and frequently pose for the media while uttering meaningless drivel.
There is no party for conservatives. This puts us in a position of having to vote for backstabbing appeasers.
Many people don’t like the idea of a third party but I think if one were to arise a large number of disaffected people would leave the GOP — literally overnight. This would quickly render the GOP a mere shell of a party (which many would argue it already is) and onto its rapid demise ultimately taking us back to a two party system.
Trump exposed the GOP for the fraud that it is.
The party despises him for that.
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GOPe = DNC = DS = UniParty = Communists.
It’s really quite that simple.
Once one realizes that, everything they do all falls into right into place. UniParty hacks are gonna do what they’re told to do. RINOs need to go.
Current strategy is to crowd out the frauds from the GOP. We’re getting better at exposing frauds too. Eyepatch McCain being a notable recent example.
Current strategy is to crowd out the frauds from the GOP.
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Trump helped a great deal in that respect. I agree with you there.
I just think that attempting to reform an inherently weak, corrupt and unprincipled party is an exercise in futility.
The GOP is actually pretty good at one thing: warding off attempts to change it. Reagan couldn’t do it, the Tea Party couldn’t do it, and despite his best efforts Trump was unable to fundamentally change it.
The party is like a disease that is highly resistant to any kind of effective cure.
The problem is Republican voters don’t hold their elected representatives accountable. Until that day comes nothing will change. The GOP will continue to be the Gutless Old Party and we will continue to be disappointed.
Yes, the Dems are destructive but the GOP too often willingly enables them.
A lot of the Dons and Capos are either becoming senile or dying off. It will be harder to pull off the kind of stuff they did 30 years ago to get where they are today.
Putting it another way, on Mulberry St. in Manhattan, old women could toddle across the street in their nightgowns and slippers to fold laundry with their neighbor in complete safety. Both the Chinese and Italian mafias made sure of that. No crime in the neighborhood.
Now? No way you could do that on Mulberry. If the mafias don’t have the muscle to protect their own neighborhoods anymore, well it shows that everything eventually reverts to the mean.
The GOP will fall under the weight of their own corruption, just like the Democrats are now. Just like Putin has - he’s made sure Russia will starve the next ten years he has so isolated it economically.
Everything, eventually, dies. It stops giving a f*ck.
“However they still wear differnt jerseys and frequently pose for the media while uttering meaningless drivel. “
So true especially during election cycles.
The Dems go to their base and send the dog whistle keywords: progressive judges! Abortion rights! Domestic spending! Money for youuu! Evil rich white guys!!!
The GOP throws out their talking points: pro-life judges! Military spending! Secure the borders!! Lower taxes!!!! Vote for us because we arent commies.
Then they go to DC, shut the doors and laugh at us while selling us out to increase their net worth. Great gig if you’re willing to sell your soul to get it.
The real problem is, there are blue states that elect RINOs, and there are a lot of rich entertainment industry a-holes (Hollywood, major 'news' media, pro sports, video games etc) who bankroll and endorse Dem candidates in red states and make inroads for short periods of time.
President Trump was the first Republican prez in a long time to pay attention to the last line of Demagogic Party defense, the courts, where Demagogic Party gerrymandering is enshrined and actual, fair redistricting gets condemned. And the D's manage to wrest control just long enough to screw us when the census figures come out.
Right now, it's a near-certainty (IMHO) that John Roberts has been holding up the SCOTUS ruling on abortion, waiting for Biden's pick to get there.
Lots of shenanigans going on in the Supreme Kangaroo Kourt.
Yup.
The worst Assistant Democrats come from what are alleged to be the most conservative states.
SC, ID, TX, ND, FL, NC.
Republicans will be much better when medical science perfects testicular and spinal transplants.
Things are always changing in an innovative free market economy and no one party can expect to be in control forever in a democratic republic. Change happens and politics does much to determine what changes and how. Dabney didn’t like that. He looked to slavery as a secure base to prevent change (or he wanted to prevent change to protect slavery). Whatever you don’t like about Republicans now or in the long ago past, Dabney isn’t any kind of a model for politics in a free country.
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