Posted on 11/08/2022 10:42:22 PM PST by conservative98
This catastrophe isn’t about Trump. It’s about SCOTUS, crime, culture, border, the economy, debt.
Trump needs to STFU.
Abortion got out the Rat vote, it is what it is.
Dead babies just matter more to these people. What can you do?
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THIS. Nothing. Women get off on it. They’d rather kill their kids than take care of them. It’s just gross. Rotting evil hearts.
IMHO - The biggest problem that the republican party faces is the power of indoctrination, which the democrat party has dominated for decades. When a political party controls legacy news, Hollywood, media and education - expect people to support and believe in their policies and beliefs.
I'm not sure if the GOP will survive 2024 if we don't get new leadership. We need to dump China Mitch, Kevin McCarthy, and Rona.
Donald Trump is my favorite President, even more so than Ronald Reagan.
However, I think I’m moving on from him.
I like him in the role of a clarion-calling standard bearer, and his presidency was the best I have ever seen.
I don’t like him in terms of his failure to be a team player. I’m not even sure I like him as a kingmaker. Calling out these numbers in a severely-disappointing election shows me he doesn’t care about the boots on the ground, but only how he looks.
Reagan faced the same Establishment hate and Media mocking, but he had a great way of playful rebuttal, with a twinkle in his eye and a little smile. America loved that. All the attacks mustered against him, failed, because he was able to gently turn it around on his attacker with a witty quip or a well thought out fact.
Reagan was also the author of the phrase, the 11th commandment, which was “Thou shall not attack a fellow Republican.”
Trump, on the other hand, has a serious ego problem. He cannot resist getting into a public verbal fight with anyone who criticizes him. While this was fresh and new in 2016, and propelled him into the presidency, it doesn’t work in 2022.
Also, the way Trump fights back is not nearly as good as Reagan’s style. Trump hasn’t got the charm of Reagan, and it’s beginning to hurt our side.
It is for these reasons that I must move on from Donald Trump. Sir, thank you for your incredibly wonderful service in 2016 through 2020. You made those years prosperous and sane. But it is time to move on.
I’m likely to get a ton of flak for this post. That’s okay, I can take it.
Let me hasten to add, I am not making an argument that we lost because the electorate is stupid, I leave that argument to the likes of Hillary Clinton. Rather, I submit that the electorate is not stupid but exquisitely conditioned so that the enticements of the Republican Party do not ordinarily impress.
That is to say, the Democrats of Pennsylvania will elect a Marxist who was barely able to speak in favor of a highly articulate and accomplished surgeon not because Fetterman offered better policies and not because Oz offered inferior policies. It is that Democrat voters in Pennsylvania acted as a herd, dutifully voting for the Democrat when other considerations that might motivate rational voters were simply disregarded.
How did this come about? My answer is that the institutions of America have had years to condition the electorate and have succeeded in creating a zombie electorate. Those institutions include our education establishment from pre-k through postgraduate school. They include legacy media that shapes and edits the newst. They Include social media, epecially those platforms of communication with women and young women.
The Democrat party, and the media, combined with other institutions to convert voting individuals into voting blocks. We in our hubris thought that this election would Mark the time when Americans and especially Hispanics would begin to vote as individuals, evidently we were wrong. The conditioning process held.
BF Skinner would be pleased.
As the Democrat party divides the country into segments, class, race, religion, gender, gender preference, sexual preference etc., those who accept that they are part of one of those classes begin to think and act not as individuals but as members of the class. The conditioning process works.
If you ask me, how do you explain the success of Governor DeSantis in Florida? I confess, I do not know. Yes he has a sterling record but the Democrats' records in every state and nationally are abysmal, yet they prevailed in the face of reason often with inferior candidates who spouted Marxist crap.
Digital mining perhaps plays another role, especially when combined with media and other institutions, that should be explored. The power of Google is in breathtaking but its full implications are not fully understood.
So, on one side we have a fractured and therefore fractious Republican Party taking scattershots at a case hardened Democrat party impervious to Republican entreaties.
Just my two cents.
bttt
In the United States there is no political party with an unqualified commitment to individual liberty and limited government.
If there isn’t, there certainly ought to be.
I’d almost be willing to argue the point, but with all that’s going on yesterday and now, It’s probably wiser to let the dust settle first.
Trump is fighting a battle against the RINOs in the Deep State. There is no "team player" when dealing with them. They have to go.
BINGO. This is about McConnell using the RINO half of the Uniparty to attack President Trump. Both halves of the Uniparty care nothing about this country other than as a source of power.
If the Republicans cared about winning elections, they'd have candidates other than Dr. Oz. The man voted in Turkey's last election. He's championed "transgender" children on television before running for office.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dr-oz-now-a-gop-senate-candidate-had-jazz-jennings-transgender-parents-transgender-surgeon-on-his-show
McConnell and the party bosses picked Pence.
Your “two cents” are the most salient on Free Republic right now...
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Mortgage Lit. = “Death” grip
Banks and insurance companies. Real estate and O Body Mortgages insurance companies.
Who wants to own you.
MAGA MAPG Make people great again. Go Trump!
Nice work. It’s becoming obvious what has been happening here to some.👍
You’re excused for that, which is a great quote, quite applicable! I was referring more to your comment about Trump, McConnell, and McCarthy. All three are toxic and, IMHO, bad for revitalization, as you stated.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Going forth; act accordingly.
In the United States there is no political party with an unqualified commitment to individual liberty and limited government.
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You could argue that the Libertarians (or at least certain strains of them) get as close to this as one possibly can, but they appeal to virtually no one come election time. That should tell you something.
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
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This started to become a minority sentiment among Americans around the time of the New Deal. Now - in 21st century America - this sentiment will draw mild disdain to outright contempt from your average American.
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