Maybe some people need a civics lesson? The bureaucracies come under the Executive branch of government. At the moment, that branch is in fact held by Democrats. Every Department Secretary and Agency head is appointed by the president. That’s just how it works.
The GOP controls 1/2 of 1 of the government’s 3 branches, i.e.m the House of Representatives. The Judiciary is the 3rd branch, and again its judges (who hold lifetime appointments) are appointed by the president with the advise and consent of the Senate (controlled now by the Democrat).
So, no, the GOP does not control half, but only one-sixth of the government and, yes, the Democrats basically do control the government.
MAYBE folks would remember that for the next election when they are too high minded to vote for someone not quite conservative enough for them. But not likely.
I feel your pain.....but it's hard to vote for someone that wants to take my freedoms away at a “slower pace” then the previous guy in the seat.....going slower in the wrong direction is still THE WRONG DIRECTION!
Think of it from another perspective....if u find yourself in a sea of quick sand up to your waist and look ahead to see people in up to their noses.....Do you follow blindly thinking that everything will be ok if the leaders just marched a little slower?
I am totally in agreement with you, we have to vote for whoever is on the ballot and I don’t think that means George Washington. Our best chance is to financially support and vote for the best candidate in the primaries then if your candidate does not win, you have to vote for the Republican that is on the ballot. If you do not like that Republican you can still try to influence him by citizens’ action.
It is frustrating to have people say that voting for a lesser evil is still an evil. Well, what choices do we have? We can count our choices on the fingers of one hand: we can vote for a democrat, we can vote for a republican, we can refuse to vote or we can vote for a third party. If you refuse to vote because you are too pure to vote for the lesser evil than you are in effect voting for the greater evil because that is the effect that you are having on the election, if you vote for a third party that does not stand a chance of winning then you are wasting your vote. Voting for a third party candidate would only be feasible if the candidate is polling close enough to the Democrat to win.
I think the republicans could have won in 2012 and 2008 if some of these stubborn conservatives would have actually gotten out and voted. But no they kept their political purity and let the country go into the hands of a marxist, when the country was in a 16 trillion dollar debt. I read some people saying that they want things to collapse and get really bad. Are they crazy? Do they know what really bad could look like? What if we sink to the bottom and just sit there. I keep thinking about the mess of the Weimar Republic and how it paved the way for the Nazis and Hitler. This is what happens when things get really bad because people are not thinking clearly when they are in a panic, they will vote for the devil himself to get them out of their suffering, which is exactly what the people did when they voted for Hitler.
Also look at how the Great Depression brought Franklin Roosevelt into power. People were hungry and desperate and he was just the kind of false hero who rose to the occasion with many big government programs. We still have not gotten over FDR and many of the Republicans have an inferiority complex because they are not the party of FDR. The Great Depression was over 70 years ago and we are still not out from under the mind and tax enslavement of FDR. Bad stuff usually just brings about more bad stuff, it is better to just hang on by a thread if necessary, than to let go and suffer the consequences.