Posted on 12/23/2022 5:21:35 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy
Being a Republican voter has got to be one of the most frustrating things a person could imagine. Having an easily winnable midterm election be stolen from you via vote fraud is bad enough. But then having the large majority of the elected officials who are supposedly on your side just treat it like it’s no big deal while they try to undermine the one person actually trying to contest the fraud and bring it out into the open is even worse. An increasing number of rank-and-file Republicans are starting to get the impression that their own party isn’t really serious about winning - and one can hardly blame them for thinking this.
After all, even aside from their refusing to contest obvious fraudulence in elections, the power brokers within the Party actively try to undermine and fragment their own side. They spent millions against genuinely pro-American candidates during the primaries. In Alaska, the establishment GOP instituted a new ranked-choice voting system designed to allow Democrats to help them suppress non-approved conservatives. A critical mass of elected Republican insiders consistently works to squelch genuinely conservative legislative priorities when the GOP “holds power” (LOL) while helping to advance unpopular and destructive Democratic initiatives (such as the recent, unread $1.7 trillion goodie bag bill) so that they can be given a “bipartisan” veneer in the media.
Meanwhile, the Republicans basically do nothing for their own constituency, which is supposedly the great mass of everyday middle- and working-class Americans who form the backbone of the country. Indeed, the Republican leadership does almost everything exactly the opposite of what a credible patron-client relationship would look like. The Democrats have no problem delivering wins and goodies to their disparate gaggle of intersectional weirdos. The Republicans - allegedly the competent party of reasonable adults - act like giving their voters anything at all would be an assault on our “sacred principles.” One could not be blamed for thinking that their loyalties lie somewhere other than with their voters.
The icing on the cake to all of this is the “aiding Ukraine is the number one priority for Republicans” rhetoric coming from Mitch McConnell and other top GOP lawmakers. From this, we can (correctly) infer that Yertle the Turtle and other Republicans care more about funneling taxpayer funds through Zelensky’s laundromat than they do about our homeless veterans or middle American families struggling under the weight of inflation and skyrocketing energy costs. Why on earth would we ever waste time trying to fight illegal immigration or cut off the flow of fentanyl into this country when we can grandstand for “democracy” while involving ourselves in a war that we have no business being entangled with?
The great irony in all of this is that propping up Ukraine and prolonging the war there is not helping America on the world stage at all. Sanctions on Russia did little to actually harm them but did manage to deep-six a good chunk of the economies of our European allies. Meanwhile, the American dollar essentially lost access to the 11th-largest economy in the world, accelerating the already existing trend of foreign economic blocs looking to find alternatives to the greenback as a reserve currency. Further, the massive amounts of US and allied aid have only extended the war, getting thousands more Ukrainians killed while leading Russia to remilitarise to an even greater degree than it had been, even as it develops a slue of innovative weapons systems that are putting it even further ahead of the USA in critical areas. For all this, we can’t even really say that we’re “supporting democracy” when Zelensky is a tinpot little dictator who outlaws religions and bans opposition political parties. Of course, the US government’s decision to overthrow a lawfully elected Ukrainian government in 2014 and replace it with a CIA puppet is the proximate cause for this whole conflict to begin with.
Long gone are the days when George Schultz would quiz new American ambassadors by asking them to show him their country on a globe. When they would invariably point to their new assignments, he would tell them, “No, America is your country.” There are precious few in our political caste - including among Republicans - who haven’t been coopted by transnational globalism.
It’s obvious that regular Joe everyday Americans are not, in fact, the GOP’s priority. No - the Republicans who actually hold power in DC (among whom the “based, good guy” many of you might have voted for is likely not included) are not on the side of the American people any more than the Democrats are. On issues as wide ranging as immigration, trade and foreign policies, or culture war issues, pretty much every Republican who is allowed to have an actual role in governance under the current Regime is in lockstep with the rest of the Regime’s establishment.
The thing that normies need to understand is that this is not due to “stupidity” or “incompetence” or any of the other typical cope that they use to maintain the “we’ll vote ‘em out next time!” fiction. The phenomenon of fresh-faced young Republicans being elected to Congress and quickly becoming coopted by the system is not accidental. It’s a feature, not a bug. If a Republican wants to have a hope of getting any of the crumbs of power, prestige, and positive publicity from the Regime, they have to sell out their own voters. The ones who refuse to do so (at the federal level at least) end up being marginalised and vilified by the Regime’s media and investigative arms.
Some of this cooptation is due to these politicians being bought and paid for. Some of it may be because of blackmail (flights to Epstein Island and what have you). But most of it is simply due to the fact that oligarchy tends to maintain oligarchy until it finally reaches that critical mass of terminal collapse. Power structures don’t exist to benefit the little people, they are there to perpetuate themselves, only allowing carefully vetted new blood to enter in a few at a time. And if you’re one of the regular Joes in the vast expanse of flyover country, you’re not part of that power structure, so you’re not really who the party you vote for cares about. This will be reflected in what these Republican politicians do, not what they say when election season rolls around.
Keep in mind that the ruling class in the United States is really a subset (thought a major subset) of the larger globalist transnational empire that transcends national borders. Their only constituency is themselves. Having accrued to themselves power, their preferences in all areas will be those which work to maintain and expand that power. Republicans at the federal level - with a few obvious exceptions - are a part of that. What that means for you and me is that these same Republicans have to throw the game over and over even though they could win more often than not. But winning would mean that flyover hillbillies get what they want instead of banksters and left-wing culture warriors.
So what does that mean for us? Well, the pat answer that normiecons usually give of “voting harder” is not really a viable option. After all, the procedures are being put into place to permanently swing elections for the globoparty and this is going to be extremely hard to roll back once the concrete is set. Instead, the answer is to start preparing for the inevitable collapse that the Regime’s policies are unwittingly engineering. It’s time for the great masses of average Joes to start organising at the local level, preparing to establish and maintain order and local legitimacy when the larger structure begins to implode.
Prepare your states and localities - likely only possible in Red areas, of course - to step into the gap once federal power slips (or alternatively, to seize power from it when the opportunity presents itself). Don’t give up your guns. Be prepared to present the credible threat of force even against the government if necessary. Be ready to respond, but not provocatory yourselves. Support those leaders who are trying to do the right thing. Toughen yourself up personally, both physically and mentally. Dispense with your normalcy bias. Understand that the good ol’ days are not coming back and that we the people will have to forge our destinies in the trials to come.
And why not?
As the lesser party they enjoy all the perks but none of the responsibilities.
Nice job if you can get it!
We may have to do what's necessary and hope that We The People are on the juries of those trials.
I thought 2020 was bad, but the RINOs only conspired with Rats against one man.
2022 showed without a doubt that RINO traitors are happy to lose Congress, governorships, SOS, AGs and legislatures in order to defeat MAGA candidates.
Rats are not the number one enemy. RINO traitors are. If it were not for RINO traitors, the Rats would have no power. Trump would still be president, and that ignoramus who couldn't define what a woman is would not be on SCOTUS.
But leave the Republican Party is what I am about to do.
Except for the occasional outsider (Trump, DeSantis) two sides of the same coin. It’s how power and influence is offered.
2nd place = You still get paid, but hey, your hands are tied.. and BINGO! - not accountable for ANYTHING.
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Infuriating - because it is true.
The GOP WANTS TO LOSE.
...could not agree with you more.....was it the late social commentator Will Rogers who (supposedly...) said, “I don’t belong to any organized political party - I’m a Republican”....if he did not say that, then I stand corrected...but somebody said that...! the republican party today sucks...plain and simple.....
“But leave the Republican Party is what I am about to do.”
Perhaps you, but not me, as I FULLY UNDERSTAND the Democrats and their plans for this country (which would make Stalin blush), and sadly the Republicans are the only ones who can stop them, or at least slow them down. I just wish the bunch that runs the party would be replaced.
The Repulsicans are doing a d*mned good job. Professional spineless losers. Please may I be wrong.
It showed without a doubt that MAGA is a third party - despised by the two major parties because it has completely different goals.
Kari Lake ran in Arizona as a "Republican" but the GOP wanted Karrin Taylor Robson and has never stopped trying to sabotage Lake. Robson would have easily defeated Katie Hobbs with full Republican Party support - but the GOP would rather have Hobbs as Governor than cede any influence within the party to an outsider like Lake.
Can we call them "RINO traitors", or are they just mainstream Republicans protecting their insider status?
The core of this is understanding conservatism.
It is build the wall
It is Drain the Swamp
It is America First In All Things
It is Pro 2nd Amendment
It is Pro Life
It is most decidedly not
Cut Taxes
Reduce Spending
Support Global Military Adventures with no direct US interest
There is no point in a taxes or spending focus because that is measured in a substance, money, created by the Fed from nothingness. How can whimsy define ideology.
No, the key is Drain The Swamp. This means reject essentially all incumbents. It takes only a year or two in Washington to become a Swamp monster, so all incumbents have to go.
Odds of this . . . poor.
Will Rogers said that about Democrats. Republicans are actually very organized - but that organization creates individuals like Mitch McConnell who excel at tactics but lose sight of the point of conservative governance.
And the cooperative losers still get invites to all the great cocktail parties.
A pox on them.
Seems like???
PLEASE!
It’s blatant.
And a supr÷me court and too many judges to count
After 50 years of voting for R’s, I’ve come to believe that 50% of “REPUBLICANS” are really “DEMOCRATS”.
So, if I’m right, what good does the Republican Party do Trumpsters (some 80-100 million of us).
It’s time to ditch the Republican Party and start up the Constitution Party. My God things can’t get any worse! What the hell difference does it make? The REPUBLICANS can’t win and don’t want to win so to hell with them!
I say FY to those Republican Senators that voted for the 1.7 trillion of stolen taxpayer money.
After 50 years of voting for R’s, I’ve come to believe that 50% of “REPUBLICANS” are really “DEMOCRATS”.
So, if I’m right, what good does the Republican Party do Trumpsters (some 80-100 million of us).
It’s time to ditch the Republican Party and start up the Constitution Party. My God things can’t get any worse! What the hell difference does it make? The REPUBLICANS can’t win and don’t want to win so to hell with them!
I say FY to those Republican Senators that voted for the 1.7 trillion of stolen taxpayer money.
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