Dole, McCain, Romney, McConnell, and the Bushes. Yeah. That’s the face of the GOPe, and it ain’t pretty! They managed to flim flam their way into power—acting conservative only long enough to win—but we aren’t buying it anymore.
What amazes me is the fact that Jeb Bush apparently thought GOPe support was deep enough to win on immigration amnesty, Common Core, and other big government solutions to all problems. He’s actually running like a Democrat, but he honestly thought that would work for him! That is amazingly out of touch with most Republican voters.
Trump, Cruz, and Carson are anti-establishment candidates, and they are pulling nearly 2/3 of the vote! I’d GLADLY take any one of those three over the Jebster!
Cruz was solidly establishment up until the 2010 Tea Party revolution. Worked for on a case for Boehner, was Bush admin official, etc. Then in 2009-10 he became a born again conservative like so many career politicians of his generation who also attached themselves to the TEA movement.
The flim-flam is operated by comparison to the alternative. Plus, elevating the values of "compromise", "diversity", "universal suffrage", and other crap that leads to the downfall of nations and civilizations.
It's [the government function] supposed to be adversarial with checks and balances, but it's in fact a parallel to pro wrestling. All fake. Even the courts are in on it.
This stuff is taught in Poli-Sci, and your tax money is used to export this flim-flam to foreign lands. Our politicians teach other countries how to run a flim-flam that is sold as "power to the people."