This context reminds us that a large portion of the generally distracted population has no foundational understanding of modern Republican politics.Posted on 05/31/2023 12:26:22 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
A person who was a teenager when Obamacare was debated and passed is now around 30 years old. Put another way, if you were 15 years old when We The People defeated Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley with Scott Brown and took the Kennedy senate seat, you are about to turn 30. Think about the context of modern Republican politics and time.
This context reminds us that a large portion of the generally distracted population has no foundational understanding of modern Republican politics.
This context is also the baseline behind ‘battered conservative syndrome‘.
You will never, not ever, see a professional Republican politician attack a Democrat with the same level of vitriol, hatred, bitterness and anger as they do toward their own base voter.
The Democrat party fears their base; the Republican party despises their base. The truth of this very visible reality will never change. Professional Republican politicians are not ideologues to principle or policy; they are interested in one thing, money. That’s it.
If you peel the core of any issue involving conflict with the Republican Party, you will find money at the center of it. Current Democrat politicians focus on advancing an ideological agenda; they swing for the fences in an effort to maximize control and power. Current Republican politicians are focused, to the detriment of all other facets, on their personal wealth.
When you introduce a newly elected ‘conservative‘ to the DC world of republicanism, it is like sending a new guy/gal into the room to talk policy, only to be met with every face around the table staring back quizzically and dismissively while replying, “We don’t do that here – we are talking about money.”
Once you reset the Schoolhouse Rocks mindset and accept this is the truth of the thing, then everything else that puzzled you about Republican politics reconciles.
Ballot harvesting doesn’t generate money, so why do it? We can make just as much money in the minority railing against ‘them’, so why be focused on a majority? Donald Trump is threatening the financial position of our benefactors, so we hate him. These are the simple truths of modern Republicans.
Yep. The bastards only want the silver coins from the Romans and damn everyone else.
Can you imagine trying to sell this husk of a party to a group of new voters?
Imagine trying to sell the husk of the democrat party
Come sign up with the deviant high taxation commie lockdown coalition!!
How about neither crap fest.
Yes we call it in the commonwealth red toryism. I use to meet these partisan conservative supporters in college. All they care about is winning an election and have a thinnest grasp on anything resembling policy or ideology.
The Democrat party fears their base; the Republican party despises their base. The truth of this very visible reality will never change. Professional Republican politicians are not ideologues to principle or policy; they are interested in one thing, money. That’s it.
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And that’s WHY I have left the Republican Party back in December 2020 after being a registered Republican since 1988! There is NO reforming the Republican Party....I only wish my fellow “conservatives” would finally realize this so we can rebuild something new and better. The sooner the better before it’s too late...if it’s not already too late!
Yes we could vote for third party candidates.
Historically this simply fails in the US.
However it’s a way of political behavior that some find preferable.
It’s because our system (executive system) is not a parliamentary system. It’s not structurally capable of supporting the long-term existence of 3rd, 4th, etc. parties. If a 3rd, etc. has an idea, platform, etc. worthy of attention. That idea, etc. and its adherents are quickly subsumed by one of the major parties.
Well I am not a third party advocate. I am a staunch Republican.
I see a great deal more than a dime’s worth of difference and don’t see the R party as a “husk.”
I was responding to someone who seems to think it’s a uniparty. I think he is wrong.
Plenty of improvement for the GOP needed. It happens when we engage not discourage people from it. Imo.
Agree!
The problem occurs when your candidate is a professional politician. He\she with multiple terms in office they become a “careerist” and over time their “careerism” increasing overlaps with the “careerism” of the Rat politician. That mutual “careerism” often means making some dough with their influence. This increasing “overlap” is what people see and zero in on when they say “there’s not a dimes difference “ between the parties.
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