Posted on 12/23/2022 5:21:35 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
Being a Republican voter has got to be one of the most frustrating things a person could imagine. Having an easily winnable midterm election be stolen from you via vote fraud is bad enough. But then having the large majority of the elected officials who are supposedly on your side just treat it like it’s no big deal while they try to undermine the one person actually trying to contest the fraud and bring it out into the open is even worse. An increasing number of rank-and-file Republicans are starting to get the impression that their own party isn’t really serious about winning - and one can hardly blame them for thinking this.
After all, even aside from their refusing to contest obvious fraudulence in elections, the power brokers within the Party actively try to undermine and fragment their own side. They spent millions against genuinely pro-American candidates during the primaries. In Alaska, the establishment GOP instituted a new ranked-choice voting system designed to allow Democrats to help them suppress non-approved conservatives. A critical mass of elected Republican insiders consistently works to squelch genuinely conservative legislative priorities when the GOP “holds power” (LOL) while helping to advance unpopular and destructive Democratic initiatives (such as the recent, unread $1.7 trillion goodie bag bill) so that they can be given a “bipartisan” veneer in the media.
Meanwhile, the Republicans basically do nothing for their own constituency, which is supposedly the great mass of everyday middle- and working-class Americans who form the backbone of the country. Indeed, the Republican leadership does almost everything exactly the opposite of what a credible patron-client relationship would look like. The Democrats have no problem delivering wins and goodies to their disparate gaggle of intersectional weirdos. The Republicans - allegedly the competent party of reasonable adults - act like giving their voters anything at all would be an assault on our “sacred principles.” One could not be blamed for thinking that their loyalties lie somewhere other than with their voters.
The icing on the cake to all of this is the “aiding Ukraine is the number one priority for Republicans” rhetoric coming from Mitch McConnell and other top GOP lawmakers. From this, we can (correctly) infer that Yertle the Turtle and other Republicans care more about funneling taxpayer funds through Zelensky’s laundromat than they do about our homeless veterans or middle American families struggling under the weight of inflation and skyrocketing energy costs. Why on earth would we ever waste time trying to fight illegal immigration or cut off the flow of fentanyl into this country when we can grandstand for “democracy” while involving ourselves in a war that we have no business being entangled with?
The great irony in all of this is that propping up Ukraine and prolonging the war there is not helping America on the world stage at all. Sanctions on Russia did little to actually harm them but did manage to deep-six a good chunk of the economies of our European allies. Meanwhile, the American dollar essentially lost access to the 11th-largest economy in the world, accelerating the already existing trend of foreign economic blocs looking to find alternatives to the greenback as a reserve currency. Further, the massive amounts of US and allied aid have only extended the war, getting thousands more Ukrainians killed while leading Russia to remilitarise to an even greater degree than it had been, even as it develops a slue of innovative weapons systems that are putting it even further ahead of the USA in critical areas. For all this, we can’t even really say that we’re “supporting democracy” when Zelensky is a tinpot little dictator who outlaws religions and bans opposition political parties. Of course, the US government’s decision to overthrow a lawfully elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and replace it with a CIA puppet is the proximate cause for this whole conflict to begin with.
Long gone are the days when George Schultz would quiz new American ambassadors by asking them to show him their country on a globe. When they would invariably point to their new assignments, he would tell them, “No, America is your country.” There are precious few in our political caste - including among Republicans - who haven’t been coopted by transnational globalism.
It’s obvious that regular Joe everyday Americans are not, in fact, the GOP’s priority. No - the Republicans who actually hold power in DC (among whom the “based, good guy” many of you might have voted for is likely not included) are not on the side of the American people any more than the Democrats are. On issues as wide ranging as immigration, trade and foreign policies, or culture war issues, pretty much every Republican who is allowed to have an actual role in governance under the current Regime is in lockstep with the rest of the Regime’s establishment.
The thing that normies need to understand is that this is not due to “stupidity” or “incompetence” or any of the other typical cope that they use to maintain the “we’ll vote ‘em out next time!” fiction. The phenomenon of fresh-faced young Republicans being elected to Congress and quickly becoming coopted by the system is not accidental. It’s a feature, not a bug. If a Republican wants to have a hope of getting any of the crumbs of power, prestige, and positive publicity from the Regime, they have to sell out their own voters. The ones who refuse to do so (at the federal level at least) end up being marginalised and vilified by the Regime’s media and investigative arms.
Some of this cooptation is due to these politicians being bought and paid for. Some of it may be because of blackmail (flights to Epstein Island and what have you). But most of it is simply due to the fact that oligarchy tends to maintain oligarchy until it finally reaches that critical mass of terminal collapse. Power structures don’t exist to benefit the little people, they are there to perpetuate themselves, only allowing carefully vetted new blood to enter in a few at a time. And if you’re one of the regular Joes in the vast expanse of flyover country, you’re not part of that power structure, so you’re not really who the party you vote for cares about. This will be reflected in what these Republican politicians do, not what they say when election season rolls around.
Keep in mind that the ruling class in the United States is really a subset (thought a major subset) of the larger globalist transnational empire that transcends national borders. Their only constituency is themselves. Having accrued to themselves power, their preferences in all areas will be those which work to maintain and expand that power. Republicans at the federal level - with a few obvious exceptions - are a part of that. What that means for you and me is that these same Republicans have to throw the game over and over even though they could win more often than not. But winning would mean that flyover hillbillies get what they want instead of banksters and left-wing culture warriors.
So what does that mean for us? Well, the pat answer that normiecons usually give of “voting harder” is not really a viable option. After all, the procedures are being put into place to permanently swing elections for the globoparty and this is going to be extremely hard to roll back once the concrete is set. Instead, the answer is to start preparing for the inevitable collapse that the Regime’s policies are unwittingly engineering. It’s time for the great masses of average Joes to start organising at the local level, preparing to establish and maintain order and local legitimacy when the larger structure begins to implode.
Prepare your states and localities - likely only possible in Red areas, of course - to step into the gap once federal power slips (or alternatively, to seize power from it when the opportunity presents itself). Don’t give up your guns. Be prepared to present the credible threat of force even against the government if necessary. Be ready to respond, but not provocatory yourselves. Support those leaders who are trying to do the right thing. Toughen yourself up personally, both physically and mentally. Dispense with your normalcy bias. Understand that the good ol’ days are not coming back and that we the people will have to forge our destinies in the trials to come.
Their plan is to continue to lose so they can wring their hands and fundraise off it.
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly." "But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself." "For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men." "He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist." "A murderer is less to fear.." ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
“From time to time, the Tree of Liberty ………………….. “
It is depressing. It is also a rigged game, which I will no longer participate in.
A case to support what you wrote, the MD governor actively campaigns for the Dem candidate running for governor.
A test case coming up: will the House Republicans vote in a conservative as the new speaker or will they vote in McConnell’s counterpart: Kevin McCarthy?
Seems like.......
LOL!
To sum all that up: One bird, two wings.
The GOP wing is as useless as teats on a boar hog to its constituency. The DNC wing is insane..
It’s time to move on.
....thank you....! I stand corrected - you are a scholar and a gentleman....!! yes, indeed...you virtually never see democrats break ranks on anything, but republicans almost always do...I was not at all surprised to see the RINO Senator Cornyn’s name on that list...Texans deserve better, for sure....!!
Will Rogers actually said "I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."
Will Rogers also said "With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law, and every time they make a law it's a joke."
Revolutionaries like Marxists are always living in the future (because the past is littered with the wreckage of governments that tried to impose their unworkable ideology).
There's nothing wrong with traditionalists looking longingly at the good times gone by unless they are at war with Marxist revolutionaries who are living in the present and future and whose goal is the destruction of traditional culture.
BTW, Marxists aren't classical Liberals or Progressives. They are just hiding behind those labels so they can implement their pitiful ideology.
I see it as option B, Mr. Jeeves, But unfortunately it is the pill that those on the right refuse to swallow.
I became an “independant” in 2021, on January 7. The GOP can kiss my A$$. Great rant by the way!
While I liked and voted for President Trump, it was evident he did not possess a basic understanding of the U.S. Constitution. There are things he could do as President and head of the Executive Branch that could have helped. His hiring practices were also abysmal.
Not trying to lose. Merely believing the role the democrats have assigned to them.
Remember that the definition of insanity is to keep doing what has repeatedly failed, expecting a different outcome the next time.
No, I am placing all my faith in the Lord, & Jesus as my savior. For Jesus is our only true savior. I hope you join me and leave the false prophet that is the Republican Party behind, but if not, you will see that your efforts are in vain. Awaken from the delusions & homage of the false savior the Republican Party. The only thing they care about is your vote. Thus the only thing you have left to deprive them of, is your vote. Your vote is just a cloak to provide the illusion of freedom.
Good post. You’re point here is foundational:
“There is no point in a taxes or spending focus because that is measured in a substance, money, created by the Fed from nothingness. How can whimsy define ideology?”
The same destructive principle is being applied to other foundational issues. The people are kept unbalanced and start looking for increasingly extreme fixes. Dangerous.
“It won’t matter, the uniparty still wins. Listen I am a lifelong Republican, but they don’t care about you or me.”
You do what you have to, I just think of my kids and grand kids and the more time that I can buy them, the better. Sad, they may lose in the end, but if Republicans can somehow win perhaps they’ll be able to get a better taste as to what America was.
You’re right there. But any new party of the people should have the right to refuse, and the right to revoke, membership. Otherwise you’re going to get more infiltrators. RINOS are nothing but infiltrators. We don’t want or need them.
Robson in Arizona and McCormick in Pennsylvania sure would have been better. I’m sick of putting up freak shows like Oz and others who just make our party look like complete fools. We need to begin taking a look at candidates before the primary and get rid of the idiots that always lose In the general.
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