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no matter how large of a majority we give Senate Republicans, they will still be afraid of Ted and Hitllery and the rest.

I don't think they're afraid in the way you mean.

I think almost all Senators are from the same class-after they leave home, they go to elite schools, they imbibe elitist doctrine, and they are therefore secularists and moral relativists.

When they go back home, in order to become Senators, they have to fit in with the People.

In red states, this means they have to be verbally committed to the life/natural rights agenda.

In the glory days of the Republican minority, this presented no problem to them, because their was no chance that their advocacy of their constituents "simplified" beliefs could lead to a concrete result.

Now, however, nothing stands in the way of the national GOP agenda-except for the reluctant dragons of the Senate GOP "majority".

Many of them need to be replaced.

I think almost all Senators are from the same class-after they leave home, they go to elite schools, they imbibe elitist doctrine, and they are therefore secularists and moral relativists

You _know_ that--because it is the simple truth. :-)

They have too much to lose (material wealth, social status) to take risks.

Upton Sinclair, an old socialist, explained it this way:

If you are... (a senator-cgbg)... you belong to the ruling class of your community. You are invited to a place of prominence on all public occasions; your voice is heard whenever you choose to lift it...You will float upon a wave of prosperity, and in this prosperity all your family will share; your sons will have careers open to them, your wife and your daughters will move in the "best society".

All this, of course, provided that you stand in with the powers that be, and play the game according to their rules. If by any chance you interfere with them, if you break the rules, then instantly in a thousand forms you feel the pressure of their displeasure. You are "cut" at the clubs, your sons and daughters are not invited to parties, you find your domestic happiness has become dependent upon your converting your whole family to your strange new revolutionary whim.