“Strangely, the GOP has never done anything about these. Just like they didn’t do anything useful about Kelo v. New London.”
Actually not strangely. For the past 50 years the GOP has consistently been the reliable servant of multinational corporations, foreign governments, and Wall Street banks. Most legislative activity involves carving out provisions for special interests. Even “middle class” tax bills promoted and passed by GOP politicians provide more economic benefit for the upper 5% than the middle class. The GOP has actively facilitated the liberal agenda for decades. Plus the GOP has been the party of using the military in countless foreign adventures since WWII.
The GOP has been masterful at gaining votes from gullible conservatives. They’ve talked a good game about protecting individual liberties and small business. When the record is scrutinized in detail, GOP politicians do very little for average Americans.
How’s that promised repeal of Obamacare working out for everyone? How about the border wall the Paul Ryan House and Mitch McConnell Senate refused to fund? How about defunding Planned Parenthood or undoing the worst elements of the Great Society? How the billions voted to fund the Department if Propaganda (Education) and the leftists who convert our children into Marxists?
It is election time and GOP politicians are spewing commercials and emails claiming they are “fighting for me”. The truth is they don’t “fight” for me. Either that or they didn’t fight well enough and lost the war years ago. Somehow I suspect the next time Goldman Sachs, Amazon, or Exxon want’s a special regulatory or legislative action, those same GOP congress critters will make it happen.
Yeah, that wasn’t a serious “strangely” - I know full well why they haven’t.
And yet there are people here worshipping old-line GOPe members that are still in office, having done actually very little.
The GOP is less than worthless, even, as a party, because they actively work against the conservative public they claim to support during elections. They are a destructive force and are there merely to make themselves personally wealthy.
They need to be destroyed. We will always be stuck with the Marxist Party, we don’t need the Bribery and Graft Party as well.