Despite being completely unjustified, Democrats believe that Republicans hate homosexuals, women, and minorities. As Republicans, outside of simply taking offense to their accusations and insinuations, we’ve never really been able to combat their claims for two reasons. First, Republicans do not favor passing laws that help one demographic over another. We believe that we are all equal under the law and that laws ought to apply to all individual citizens equally. So we don’t promote a lot of legislation aimed at helping African Americans or Lesbians. We focus on legislation that will help businesses and workers, regardless of their color and sexual orientation. Secondly, and quite hypocritically, Republican legislators seem more focused on Corporate and Tax laws, picking winners and losers at the top of the economic stratosphere. To Democrats, this must reek of hypocrisy.
If we are unwilling to pick demographic winners and losers, then why are we willing to pick economic winners and losers? Is it because we’re comfortable with natural inequities so long as those inequities don’t effect the top 10 percent? If Republicans are prejudiced, they are prejudiced against anyone who fails to donate to them or smoke cigars with them at the country club. If Democrats hold this against Republicans, they are in good company since this is precisely what the majority of Republican voters hold against their own elected officials – hence the TEA Party and its aggressive (while disorganized) rebellion against the GOP Establishment.
Interestingly, Democrats are beginning to realize that Republicans don’t have a monopoly on Corporatism and corruption. The Bernie Sanders campaign was the Left’s response to Corporatism and corruption within their own party. Democrat voters realized that they don’t even get to select their own nominees (unless their establishment’s Super Delegates bow to the “unwashed” Democrat masses).
It is frustrating that Democrats and Republicans have never been able to come together against Corporatism and corruption in a meaningful way. What is stopping us? Well, the primary wedge issue is abortion. Democrats seem to support abortion on demand, while Republicans want to limit it as much as humanly possible. Democrats believe that abortion is a civil right for women and that politicians shouldn’t pass laws forcing them to bear children. Meanwhile, Republican believe that abortion infringes upon the civil liberties of the child and reject the notion that politicians should be allowed to pass laws allowing the murder of babies. There is no middle ground.
So we know that Democrats will always be Democrats and Republicans will always be Republicans primarily because of their stance on abortion; but why can we not work together in a bipartisan fashion to take on Corporatism and corruption in government? Frankly, I think it’s because we don’t talk to one another anymore. Sean Hannity tells Republicans that all Democrats are evil bastards and are not to be trusted, while Rachel Maddow tells Democrats that Republicans are all racist, women-hating theocratic jerks looking to take America back to Jim Crow and a Male, white, landowning voter base. Maybe we should all stop listening to Sean Hannity and Rachel Maddow. Just a thought.
Another problem is that Corporatism and political corruption, corporate welfare and cleverly written tax loopholes aren’t what’s about to bankrupt America. The biggest threats to our economic future are entitlements. While Democrats with a background in economics seem to understand this, no Democrat politician would ever get away with attempting to address our nation’s unfunded liability. That would be like a Republican coming out for Abortion On-Demand. Ain’t going to happen.
I honestly don’t know how this country will survive if we can’t come together to save ourselves from entitlements and Corporatism in this country. Republicans and Democrats dislike each other. They don’t trust each other. They won’t work with or even speak with one another. We need some kind of massive cultural and political awakening in this country if we’re going to keep ourselves from destroying our economy (and taking the rest of the world’s economy down with us). It’ll only happen if we all work together.
I’m fifteen days late, but my New Years Resolution is to spend more time with Democrats talking about Corporatism, Entitlements, and Corruption; while recognizing that there will be a number of other issues over which we’ll never agree – accepting that as a truth that needn’t be overcome. I just refuse to believe that Democrats are any more comfortable with this country suffering more frequent depressions and recessions in the future. James Carville was right – it’s “The economy, stupid.”
I understand why we all feel like we’re fighting an impossible battle and why many of us feel like all the elected are bad. Sadly, our checks and balances system has lent itself to political parties gaining impenetrable control over Congress. The Speaker and Senate Majority Leader pick their leadership teams, put allies in positions of power and in positions that lend themselves to profitable donor lists. Democrat or Republican, it doesn’t matter. The same donors are there with the same dollar signs. President Obama wanted to save our health care system and the Democrats in Congress immediately sold out to the Pharmaceutical companies and Health Care lobby. “The People” never had a chance…never had a voice. This feeling of powerlessness led Americans to elect Donald Trump on behalf of his promise to drain the swamp.
If we want to end the cycle of sending radicals to the White House, then we better start taking our role as citizens seriously and begin putting some mutual pressure on Congress to clean up its act. We need to compromise with Democrats. Republicans need to let Democrats get us out of the Corporate Welfare business and Democrats need to let Republicans reform our Entitlement programs before these programs bankrupt the nation. Otherwise, all the hope and change won’t save us and no one man will ever Make America Great Again.
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There is a major realignment underway. It isn’t Republican vs Democrat but globalist vs nationalist. Globalists like mutually assured economic, national and societal destruction. American nationalists like America borders, language and culture first. Even George Washington was a nationalist when he warned against foreign entanglements. Far too many democrat and republican elites think Washington is nothing but an out of touch old dead white man – apparently Trump voters think he continues to be on target
” We focus on legislation that will help businesses and workers regardless of their color”
That is a load of horse crap!
Va. Republicans have shown an uncanny ability to understand labor law in Virginia and employment law that protect the worker and the business that abides by the law Republicans talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.
Example of
Republican legislation that does not enforce the law but give illegal businesses and illegal employers opportunity to circumnavigate Virginia law.
1 Delegate Manoli Loupassi (R)
2014 Mechanical lien HB297
2 Delegate Randall Minchew
HB253
3 Senator Bill DeSteph
SB483
ALL 3 of these bills are examples of Representatives that CLEARLY DO NOT KNOW Virginia Law!
Are there any Republicans that do not exploit the law for personal gains or illegal labor.
Hey Mr. Elected Republican get off your a$$ , get out of the golf cart , learn the law and get to work!
Reagan George is right. The globalist oligarchy controls the banks, the media, and both political parties. Their only interests are power, and more power, and yet even more power for themselves. How they accomplish their ungodly goals is simple – destroy the nation state, destroy democracy, dumb down the masses, and consolidate as many functions of government as possible into one merged prevailing body that they will control. In the meanwhile, we poor schlubs are mere pawns on their chessboard, stuck with increasingly shitty jobs, with lower wages and shrinking benefits. It is feudalism all over again, and the main question is what we serfs are willing to do about it.
Start by taking back the party, from the RINO’s on BOTH sides of the spectrum.
Quit selling THE GOP out to candidate machines and special interests.
Don’t sit on your fanny because you don’t like the nominee in the general.
Your article hits the nail on the head. One thing I would like to add is the overarching problem of Globalism. By Globalism, I am not referring to supply chains or Internet marketing, I am referring to the Uniparty composed of Democrats and Republicans that share the ultimate political goals of open borders, absolutely no Nationalism, no soverign nations, a common currency, and government signularity; all orchestrated and controlled by the banking cartel and implemented by the acolytes of Cecil Rhodes thru organizations such as Council of Foreign Relations and the Tri-lateral Commission. Both of these groups’ membership are composed of “mortal enemies” from the Republican and Democrat Establishments so it really doesn’t matter who gets elected since they share a common vision. This is why we are seeing many establishment Republicans be lukewarm to Trump. Take a look at the CFR ‘s membership list.
This is the Uniparty that could care less about Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, or anything inbetween. Their utopian model is the elites on top and the rest of us scraping by with a minimal existance and no future. Basically we become batteries for the Matrix.
CFR membership at http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html
That Probably explains the Trump/Ryan Healthcare plan.
Many people in the TEA Party have been saying this for years, since the inception of the TEA party. There’s a reason that the Democratic establishment went to so much trouble to demonize the TEA party, it is a populist movement with a message that a huge number of traditional Democrats could get behind, it was appealing to a large number of their own party. They HAD to demonize it with social issues, because on corporatism and corruption they knew the message was resonating. Remember, the TEA Party was about ending bailouts, etc, that’s why it was founded, because people were pissed off about it, it had (and has) nothing to do with abortion and all these other issues that have been attributed to it. One of the big failings of the TEA Party movement is one of its strengths – without leaders it is impossible to destroy, but it is also impossible to defend against charges made against it, so it has been easy for outsiders to define what it is, and Democrats and establishment Republicans have done everything they could to make it look like something bad whenever possible.
I remember since the beginning people in the TEA Party talking about doing more outreach to Democrats, because in a lot of ways Democrats are more open to the TEA Party message than a lot of Republicans are. There is a place in politics where Libertarianism, conservativism, and Democratic blue dogs can all come together and talk the same language, and that is a threat to the corporatists in both parties, and the establishment will continue to do everything it can to keep those factions from coming together in a coalition, they do continue to try to keep the majority of America divided with identity politics, etc.
Think about it – if you asked random people on the street if they believed in freedom, if they believed money should be taken out of politics, if they believed that banks put one over on the voting public during the last financial crisis, if they believed that people should be free to start businesses, that governments should live on a budget, etc, what percentage of Americans do you think would say no to that ? The only reason people don’t come together is because the establishment in both parties, etc, do everything they can to scare people and drive wedges between them. The majority of Americans want what Americans have basically always wanted – to be left alone, to earn a living, take care of their family in peace, etc. They don’t want the wars, the corporate tax breaks, and all the rest.