Pedro Gonzalez nails it.
In 2021, this website has been angry with Joe Biden and the Democrats, increasingly optimistic about Republican voters who seem to be coming around and deeply skeptical of Republican politicians who haven’t changed at all. So, while I have fiercely criticized Joe Biden, I haven’t been willing to say that voting for the GOP is the solution even though I expect a backlash election in 2022.
“The Republican Party is emerging from its cocoon of populist rhetoric a changed animal—just not one that anyone needs or wants. It may sport fancy new wings, but the genetic instructions that compel the party to drone after old orthodoxy on behalf of entities at odds with its constituents remain in place. ..
The only time they use the term “red line” is to rebuff proposals to cut defense spending or raise taxes on corporations that are hostile to their supporters and more closely aligned than ever with the Democratic Party.
The problem that Republican voters face, then, is that their own party is the greatest obstacle to any hope for a better future. It offers only the illusion of opposition. It thrives when it is out of power, capitalizing on the frustrations and fears of its constituents because institutional memory is short in our politics. But when it returns to power, the GOP reliably drops all pretense of having fundamentally changed, masking old wine in new wineskins.
Republicans are so confident in this cycle of politics that they are now saying the quiet part aloud: if Democrats raise taxes on corporations—the same ones pressing boots into their constituents’ necks—they will simply lower them upon returning to power. …”
The policy agenda remains terrible.
The most persuasive argument for voting for the GOP in the 2022 midterms is a purely negative one. By having Republicans in control of the House, they can at least physically breathe oxygen and block the Democrats from pursuing their agenda. It is not like they are good for much else.
If the Republicans were to retake power in Washington, what would they do with it? Would they prostrate themselves before the Israel Lobby as usual? Would they continue to shovel huge gobs of money to the Pentagon? Would they move with lightning speed again on more tax cuts and deregulation? Is there any reason to believe that a Republican majority in Congress would do anything to push an agenda that reflects the interests of their own voters and not the interests of wealthy donors?
I should add a caveat here. There have been some good things happening at the state level where politicians are closer to voters. Several states have banned critical race theory. There have also been, however, Republican governors and state legislatures who couldn’t muster the will to do things like ban “trans women” from competing in women’s sports. Wealthy donors and corporate interests continue to exercise their royal prerogative and veto legislation which even Democrats find highly controversial.
What is the ideal that we should be aiming towards then? All of these institutions have been captured by progressives. They are openly arrayed against us on the Democratic side. We should be taxing Wall Street. We should be cutting the Pentagon budget and putting an end to the American Empire. We should be abolishing the FBI. We should take Big Tech and throw it up against the wall and shatter it into a million pieces and regulate those pieces as a public utility. We should radically defund Big Education. We should be breaking up the trusts and monopolies throughout Corporate America. We should be imposing a wealth tax on oligarchs like Jeff Bezos who has $500 million to spend on his superyacht. As for the corporate media, it has already shrunk and lost its legitimacy, but the main problem here is that it continues to wield power and stifle independent media by having Big Tech censor its competition.
>they can at least physically breathe
Hunter, I’m coming around to your way of thinking on this. Having conservatard congress-critters oxidize glucose into water and carbon dioxide to gum up the works is something I can get behind, now that the pandemic is over. (Fighting communism for our freedums three decades after the Cold War, no so much.)
I’ve shifted left the last few years, voted for Biden, and agree with about 80% of the Democrat agenda. Yet not every voter is a plus-sized non-binary handicapped fursapien transgendered afro-Islamic midget with an anxiety disorder. Why is the establishment still going so hard on this stuff?
Republican voters have Stockholm Syndrome.
> If the Republicans were to retake power in Washington, what would they do with it? Would they prostrate themselves before the Israel Lobby as usual?
If the Republicans take Congress, they will open the borders and send trillions of dollars to Israel, all the while making the Conservative Case for Transgenderism and Why Democrats Are The Real Racists.
That is all the Republican party cares about: Israel first, and mass immigration into America, the “less white” the better, because “whiteness is racist.”
Am I wrong?
Well, they might start a war for Israel and send all your kids to fight the Muslims to help the Jews. I mean, they might do that AGAIN.
So, the Republican party platform can be described as:
1. Israel First
2. Open Borders
3. Jew Wars
@ thee democrats offer nothing, except thee recycled half ass marxism and lizzie cheney and thee ” party of lincoln”, offer nothing either except thee same ole, same ole, if i may take thee liberty of making a suggestion and i do, commit to no canidate. Or either party, thee qualuty we require, simply isn’t there, i will not lower my standards and i hope you all dont either.
The only hope was Sanders and Trump splitting the major parties. Both men folded when they had the most to gain, as they’d rather appease and be praised by those within the current two party power structure than strike out anew.
Until the Republicans but the interest of Whites 1st and Israel, they are of no use to us.
The RP just named a radical leftist Trumptard Chaircritter of the Republican Conference. The RP continues it’s sharp lurch to the left. Vote for them if you want. Will they stop the invasion? Even slow it down?
With Trump going to jail, we will have a good start. Every Republican Senator belongs in jail, every single one.
@Thim
I am also very interested in sending Republicans to prison and I strongly support waterboarding them, too.
If you start a political party please let me know so I can join.
I wonder if republicans will lash out when the $300/child direct payments for families earning under $150K/year start in July. Will they vow to stop the socialist payments, or force people to pay them back as soon as they re-take the House and Senate?
Or will they say nothing, privately seething, and stop them or force pay backs when they cut taxes for corporations and the top 1% again as they have vowed to do?
Republicans are lying when they say they are the working mans party and so wasTrump. Trump bilked working men out of tens of millions already, and is at it again.
I unsubscribed to their grifting operations months ago. I am still getting 3-4 “Patriot donate now” emails a day. They’re coming from everywhere.
The Party of New England remains that, something which most of my fellow Southerners, who do not know history before WWI, are blithely unaware of.
All is not lost, however, for soon enough a day of reckoning is coming – whether the underlings knock off the party bosses, or the underlings flee the party and go somewhere else.
It’s up to The GOP leadership, the bosses, which occurs, but, one of the two events is most assuredly on the way.
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can “throw the rascals out” at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.”
? Carroll Quigley
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”
? Carroll Quigley
“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrat and Republican parties.”
— George Wallace