Alexander, Corker, Flake, Gardner, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, Murkowsky, McCain, Rubio, Burr, Tillis, Portman, McConnell, Thune, Cornyn, Cochran, Isackson, Blunt, Johnson, Gardner, Toomey, Capito, Fischer, Collins, Wicker, Sasse are all Democrats in R jerseys.
When more than half the other side is advancing your agenda, you don’t need to win elections.
Good article.
Liberalism/conservationism starts with the role of government, not the policies and issues. With McCain, Graham and other friends they’ve moved the “proper role of government” well left. Because of that, even many (most?) Republican proposals are what used to be called liberal.
It seems almost nobody in DC, including Trump, thinks a small, limited government is proper. They may differ on where the money comes from and goes but not really the amount. And individual freedoms come from government and can be limited as “needed” rather than being inalienable rights.
We need to get back to discussing/debating the role of government. For example, the health insurance debate should start with what is proper for the feds to do, then move into how the proper policies will be implemented and paid for. But a majority of Rs in congress assume that most/all of Obamacare’s aims are proper and are arguing over how to explain and pay for them in a way that “looks conservative”.
He is correct, but the cause goes back before the modern Democrat party... whether one defines that as the perverted progressive policies of Wilson or the failed New Deal of FDR (who sadly was somewhat boosted by Hoover’s centralizing tendencies) or LBJ’s atrocious “Great Society” welfare state or BO’s drooling fascism of crony capitalism and a war on Christianity....
The Democrats (and too many Republicans) desire to destroy Liberty is a philosophical outgrowth of the idea that man is unaccountable to a higher standard or Creator.
Whether you want to point to Immanuel Kant or Nietzsche or Sartre or some other thinkers, so much of our pains today result from an age old problem of human beings wanting to be a law unto themselves.
The Garden of Eden, man.
Absolutely true.
The leftists have many other weapons in their arsenal that the right doesn’t, or is unwilling to use.
They have the propaganda organs, they have taken over the agencies and institutions, they run the schools, they have Hollywood, they have activist judges and they have the mobs in the streets.
They also have an activist, religious fervor that is totally missing from the right. They are much more willing to take to the streets and get in your face.
The only time the right showed this type of passion was with the Tea Partiy days, but it’s totally dissipated.
The GOP calls is a victory, if they DON'T LOSE.
There's a massive material, psychological and practical difference there! Our last Presidential election was SEISMIC! We proved that we DO NOT NEED the GOP.
Muzzle the media by displaying the lies, and you take the bite out of the left.
rwood
Democrats play to win, Republicans play to break even.