In some ways, the GOP is in shreds. But I am finally starting to see some signs of unity. For instance, almost every Republican candidate has put out a tax reform plan which involves eliminating tax expenditures. FINALLY!
The GOP herd went insane about 15 years ago. See my signature. One by one, people on the Right are starting to return to sanity.
I have frequently said I stopped voting years ago because the Right and the GOP have been hijacked by liars, hypocrites, retards, and psychopaths. I have spent a lot of time pointing out the liars and hypocrites and retards on this forum.
But now we have to deal with the psychopaths. These are people who are stuck in attack mode. It is all they know how to do. They cannot formulate solutions. They cannot debate. They cannot think. They have been trained by the Karl Rove machine to be nothing but attack dogs. No matter what someone says, what solutions they offer, the attack dog tries to tear it to shreds. They were trained to oppose anything a Democrat said, no matter what. If there is a D after the person's name, ATTACK!
They're stuck. So even when talking about Republicans, they only know how to attack. That's why it feels like the Right is "eating its own" right now. No matter what candidate for Speaker of the House is suggested, the attack dogs bare their teeth. Everything and everyone is a target now.
These rabid dogs need to be put down.
We're seeing a hidden harm to the GOP created by Citizens United. The ruling allows the fabulously wealthy to put anti-government ideologues into office.
But anti-government ideologues have one huge weakness:
since they don't believe in governance, they don't ever learn how to do it.
Thus, these ideologues are essentially governing incompetents. They don't understand how politics works, their policies are unrealistic pipe dreams, and they end up alienating those whom they work with.
The results? An IQ drop in terms of GOP effectiveness. With disarray as frosting on the fail cake.
Citizens United would not be a problem if so much power was not concentrated at the federal level.
The Left's constant demands to concentrate more and more power at the top just makes it all that much easier for special interests to capture it.
The more power you put in one place, the easier you make it to capture.
Why the retards have never figured this out is beyond me.
Some day in the not too distant future, the Left is going to be crying about the capture of ObamaCare by special interests. The retards will be angry, but it will never occur to them it is their own fault. They handed the power over our lives and our health on a silver platter.
The problem I have with the GOP's approach is that much of the 'power' they want to 'decentralized' are constitutional protections. They want the federal judiciary out of the constitutional guarantees game, with the issue sent exclusively to the State.
Where the States will strip citizens of their constitutional rights (at least those conservatives believe the people shouldn't be allowed to have) with these former rights turned into crimes.
The only time that conservatives prioritize the rights of the individual over the power of the State....is with guns. In virtually every other context, they believe in the States' supremacy over the individual and their constitutional rights.
And many conservatives resent the federal judiciary preventing them from enacting that State dominance over constitutional rights.
The modern GOP is just as much in love with big federal government as the Left is. No doubt about it.
The creation of the Department of
Fatherland Homeland Security and the Patriot Act should have removed all doubt from anyone's minds about that.
Oh, the GOP loves government *power*. What they seem to oppose most often.....is federal recognition of individual rights.
Unless its gun rights. Those they support. In pretty much every other regard, conservatives argue that the States should be able to strip citizens of rights if they believe they should.
Even their call for 'local control' is horseshit. As at the state level these same conservatives will advocate stripping cities and counties of the authority to regulate their own affairs.
Fracking, state education standards, gun laws, etc.
It seems to me that Republicans believe in very authoriatian government. With that authority wielded at the State level and with very few restrictions.
