Posted on 01/01/2024 6:16:20 AM PST by cotton1706
The GOP doesn’t really stand for anything. It pretends to be a conservative party (just before elections) but is in reality just another layer of the money laundering DC Swamp.
The problem is the GOP has no real principles or convictions. It doesn’t even fight to contain the growth of government. Its basically a fake party.
While GOP “control” is preferable to having Democrats in power its still nothing to get excited about. The GOP seems to always find ways to disappoint its voters.
Let’s not forget this is the Huffington Post. No friend of the Right.
They’re probably trying to get their base fired up.
When the Republicans take back the Senate, and Trump gets re-elected, than I’ll celebrate.
Rush Limbaugh once said that the people will never abandon Trump, Trump will only fail if he abandons the people who support him.
“...While GOP “control” is preferable to having Democrats...”
I don’t see any difference between Democrats in power and GOP politicians in power.
The GOP has got itself into the habit of constantly and arbitrarily making more, greater and increasingly ruinous concessions to the Liberal demands
Because as a very practical matter, TrumpII is as far as it can go. So Senators can be receptive to things that make them look good while still trying to either seek President Trump's favor, get re-elected, OR keep their distance from Trump and maybe have the Republican Senatorial Committee punish them.
If we keep the House and flip the Senate I think TrumpII is going to be Mr. Frog's Wild Ride for 2 years. The Democrats are going to use the migras this time to riot for them instead of the blacks. Burn their deportation encampments, etc. It ain't gonna turn out so well for the neomarxists this time -- why do you think we are pre-loading their cities with the worst of the worst?
Pass the candy and the popcorn.
The problem is “political careerism” not just being GOP!
Rats by almost definition have to be the party of “political careerism” since all their solutions involve government and more government. Rats come out into the world determined to make a career in politics. Also, for many Rats it’s the only way they can make a living. That’s not necessarily true for GOP’ers! The GOP doesn’t have to be “political careerism” oriented but almost always is for four reasons.
1. Humans enjoy the privileges, perks & ego enhancements that political office gives them.
2. Opportunities for the officeholder and his family and friends to sup from the public taxpayer trough. I am not talking about direct bribes though they do occur. The opportunity to jump family, friends, personal interests to the head of the economic opportunity line abounds. Examples are plentiful - Biden and family, Romney - his son was out there sucking down Ukraine foreign aid money, Pelosi similar stories. The list I’m sure is long & bipartisan!
3. Voters are fundamentally lazy. Far easier to vote for the name you know then research his\her positions on issues.
4. The voter says to him\self ‘my career politician has enabled or promised to get me & my interests a chance to stick a straw in the taxpayer public trough. Therefore, better to keep him\her in office’. In short ‘More Free Stuff!’ or so I think!
For Rat political careerists it’s four principles to live and die by. For GOP politicians after two terms now trying to be a careerist it’s principles to adopt!
Remember we voters enable this by keeping the same clowns in office term after term.
Term limits! Repeal the 17th Amendment (Do both!)
Trump is and will always be the wild card. He looked around and saw that US politics seemed to be a game that anyone could play. (”O’bozo” is living proof of that) So he ran for President himself rather than become a pawn to men he couldn't respect. He succeeded in that twice and will again!
That permits Trump and his Senate group to say to holdouts, "Well, he's out of power, and you're not, but you're also not getting on tv to piss and moan, because Bishop Dullard is booked. You see him sitting in this Chamber anywhere? You do not want to be excluded from this legislation, because we are driving the Narrative for the next 4 years."
That could be anything from Trump's SCOTUS pick to replace Thomas, to a treaty with NK, to a repatriation bill for the migras, to consolidating Cabinets.
Trump is going after every he lists in his book, The American We/You Deserve.
Education Department
Preferences in education and hiring for Gender/Minorities
EPA
He will get right on the CIA and DOJ.
He will have foreign policy achievements - that ain’t hard in the wake of Joe 10%.
If Trump just restores the equality of White Men to being Equal to everyone else by elimaniting Preferences, it would almost make me happy - you know in that Just World they talk about built on the backs of the white man slave who they have put in the same classrooms since 1968 with everyone else - the white guy does not have any friends under the Preference regime. End the BS. End the InJustice as they say. End the slavery, or:
If we cannot end Preferences, Trump should propose that Black Women will Replace White Men as the group ineligible for Preferences for two years, then White Women, then all Gender Benders, Browns, etc.
I bet a revolving Preference System elcluding everyone but White Men until 54 years have passed will get their attention.
An excellent, well thought out post.
The thing that enables the careerism problem is, as you say, the voters enabling it by keeping the same clowns in office term after term. We need to start voting on the basis of accountability (i.e., results and real efforts instead of rhetoric). The GOP gets away with repeatedly double-crossing its voters and rarely pays the price for it.
Another factor that works to keep elected officials working in the interest of the Swamp is the variety of sleazy ‘persuasive techniques’ that are used against them. That’s a bit outside the scope of this discussion but its a factor nevertheless.
I confess I will reluctantly vote for a GOP clown to keep a Rat out of office. Rats are simply too dangerous as well as corrupt. The Xiden administration over the past 3+ years shows just how dangerous they are! Someone is blind if that can’t see that! I’ll take a corrupt GOP clown over a Rat; she\he’s not going to be anywhere near as dangerous! Today’s Rats are simply too dangerous to trust with any amount of power for any length of time! I’ll tolerate the corrupt and perhaps comical GOP clown until I get another shot to get rid of it next primary!
I'll believe it when I see it. Just getting someone with an R behind their name elected to the Senate doesn't mean diddly squat, and hasn't for a very long time. Until McConnell is gone, the Senate is useless.
Noting the dour, somber and warning tone of this huffpo article. I can only conclude that this is good news for america.
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