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Why the Republican Party, and, the Country, is in the Mess It's In


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2023 Sep 21, 10:39am   430 views  7 comments

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Briefly ... a little history:

Back in 1976, Ronald Reagan made a bold attempt to wrestle the nomination away from the Republican East Coast Establishment's candidate, and then President, *Gerald Ford. While Ford was perceived to be, at best, a moderate, Reagan was thought of as the country's leading conservative. He came very close to winning the nomination in the 'open convention,' but lost, due largely to the swing to Ford by moderate, establishment controlled delegates. After the loss, there was little doubt that Reagan would try again in 1980.

After Ford's loss in the general election to Carter, Reagan, having secured the GOP nomination, set out to capture the endorsement of the powerful East Coast Establishment wing of the party, knowing, that without their support, he could not win in the general election. A deal with the devil was made when Reagan selected the Establishment's George H. W. Bush as his running mate. Bush was the ultimate Establishment candidate, having been a former Ambassador to the United Nations along with being a former Director of the CIA. (The entire Bush family has always been members of the East Coast Establishment wing of the GOP)

While Reagan campaigned against Carter having so many members of the internationalist **Trilateral Commission, along with equally powerful Council on Foreign Relations members in his administration, Reagan actually had more members of these internationalist groups than did Carter. Reagan also campaigned on the promise that he would shut down the Establishment's Department of Education, which of course, he failed to do. During his two terms, Reagan continued the out of control, reckless spending of the Federal Government, setting us on the sure road to financial destruction.

Reagan's pick of the Establishment's George H. W. Bush as VP assured Bush's becoming President, which later made possible 8 years of Bush 43. Between the two Bushes, two Middle East wars were waged, both of which were based totally on lies, and the national debt continued to skyrocket.

With the exception of Trump, the GOP has run nothing other than the Establishment's candidates for President. Virtually all of the major appointments in GOP administrations, including Trump's, have been Establishment picks. The GOP is controlled by the Establishment. (The alternative is the Democrat Party, which is in the control of radical Marxists. Independents simply do not have the numbers sufficient to gain power)

Had Reagan stood his ground as a patriotic conservative, we might have had a chance to save this country. He was our last chance. By the time Trump came along, the country was too far in debt, too much in control by the Deep State, and too far gone for anyone to save it from the destruction that is coming.

* Former member of the Warren Commission, along with fellow member and future U. S. Senator Arlen Specter, invented the ridiculously impossible "Magic Bullet Theory," which justified, is spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the case for Oswald being the lone gunman.

** Trilateral Commission founders: David Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Jimmy Carter

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1   Tenpoundbass   2023 Sep 21, 10:51am  

The NPA No Party Affiliation is the largest fractured disenfranchised voting group there is. There is no such thing as an Independent party. Only alternative parties. Which would run as a third party candidate. No third party in America has the district saturation at the board of elections level in all counties like the Ds and Rs has. A third party candidate may get all of the votes but the local Dsand Rs would just shit can those ballots knowing full well the courts would say the NPAs have no legal standing to challenge them because they lack representation.
2   RayAmerica   2023 Sep 21, 11:12am  

I want to make it clear that I voted for Reagan in both elections. I also supported him in his bid to take the nomination away from Ford in '76.

A great book to read, and a free download, on how Reagan failed to shut down the Department of Education, a promise that he made in both of his campaigns for President.

The deliberate dumbing down of America : a chronological paper trail
by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-SYN9t0cHh1aFu8XV

Iserbyt was (as I recall), the second in command at the DOE under Reagan. She repeatedly set out to inform Reagan as to how bad this department was for our children and country. Reagan could never plead ignorance, and the historical blame certainly belongs with him for not closing the DOE down.
3   PeopleUnited   2023 Sep 21, 7:05pm  

So your saying there’s a chance!


4   Patrick   2023 Oct 21, 8:48am  

https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/step-it-up-and-go/


Things are going a little sideways now, wouldn’t you agree? The world is not coming to an end, exactly, but our arrangements in it are breaking up all at once, threatening to wreck everyday life for a whole lot more people than just the poor mutts on the margins. The endless insults to common decency and common sense by the vicious governing blob that runs things don’t help, either. The main question du jour: when things break really badly, will they break against that vicious blob hard enough to make it stop?

This blob — a weird cabal alien to our heritage — is composed of people with names and duties, and institutions too. They have already lost their credibility, their authority, and their legitimacy. The problem is that they haven’t lost their power to wreck our country. Exposed and disgraced as they are, they still occupy the seats of command, still twiddle the dials on the control console, still enjoy a foolish illusion of invulnerability.

I’m in favor of wholesale impeachment of these top people as the best way to go, first, to pry their hands off the levers of power, and second, use the process of impeachment to move public sentiment to a firmly anti-blob position. When you read of “Joe Biden’s” 37 percent favorable rating in some poll, do you wonder how it can be that high? Hard evidence of his high crimes of bribery has been plain to see for many months. We await a brisk House inquiry to put all that evidence in order, in a simple bill that even The New York Times won’t be able to ignore. Let Mr. Schumer’s tiny Senate majority try to decline an impeachment trial. Between that and “Joe Biden’s obvious incapacity, he’ll have to resign. And then let the Party of Chaos try to pretend that Kamala Harris can be in charge of anything. We’ll see soon enough who’s pulling the strings in the White House.

The House should simultaneously form committees to impeach the faithless and incompetent agency heads below “JB” starting with Merrick Garland, specifically for criminally violating the rights of the many J-6 defendants falsely charged, denied speedy trials, and abused in the federal jails while awaiting those unjustly delayed trials. Also, tack on multiple counts of perjury for the many times he lied under oath before Congress.

Next, Alejandro Mayorkas, for allowing a virtual invasion of our country and his gross, willful failure to enforce the laws that regulate entry across our borders. As with Mr. Garland, include counts of perjury, lying to Congress. After him, Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, for presiding over the vaccination debacle and all the lying about it perpetrated under his supervision by the CDC, the FDA, and many other public health agencies. FBI Director Christopher Wray is not subject to impeachment, so the House should defund the agency until he and the rest of the seventh floor C-suite gang, led by Deputy AG Lisa Monaco, resign.

That would be good start for breaking up the blob so that the public does not have to wait for a 2024 election that shows no signs of being cleaned up procedurally to ensure fair and truthful results — though momentous impeachment moves against the figures truly responsible for wrecking the country might prompt some states to take action to get rid of the Covid-era mail-in ballot trickery that the blob cooked up to keep itself in power.

All of the blob’s projects are coming to grief now in the worst way possible. Ukraine was a foolish venture starting in 2014 when the US tried to shanghai it into NATO over a red line explicitly declared by Russia. We didn’t believe they meant it, apparently. What part of sphere of influence don’t we understand? How did the CIA do sizing that up? Or sussing out the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel? Do they have no assets in Gaza? How’s America’s prestige in the world doing, and the dollar that represents it, vis-à-vis the new BRIC alliance that was allowed to come together largely because of the “Joe Biden” regime’s foreign policy blunders scaring so many previously neutral nations?

How are the blob’s domestic projects doing? It’s managed to destroy the credibility of medicine, the honor of higher education, and the authority of the news media — with plenty of help from the blobistas embedded in all those institutions. How is it possible that the majority of doctors still don’t know that Covid vaccines are unsafe and ineffective, and that they have been systematically lied to by the CDC from the get-go on this? How is it possible that presidents of the most distinguished universities go along with the suppression of free inquiry and speech, as if these were not the foundation of learning? How is it possible that the editors of The New York Times and The Washington Post lie continually and knowingly about events and persons, unless they are getting paid by, and have become defacto arms of, the blob itself, to cover-up the discovery of its crimes?

How’s the blob’s campaign to sow gender confusion and race hatred going? Resistance has formed to the first hustle, most visibly against the local school boards by parents rightfully disturbed over not just sexualizing little children, but egging them into mental illness over it. You might have also noticed that the policy for decriminalizing crime has the interesting effect of collapsing the social contract, especially in cities. Thus, wholesale car-jacking, armed robbery, flash-mob looting, and murder. Want more of that? Think it works in favor of the brotherhood of man?

Don’t you suppose some kind of effective opposition is required to contend with all this. One might expect, at this turn in history, for the Republican Party to become a righteous and effective antipode to the epic malign ineptitude of the Democrats’ Party of Chaos and Death. The only venue for this opposition to function in at the moment is the US House of Representatives. It’s either that or something harsh, bloody, and awful lies ahead for us.
5   RayAmerica   2023 Oct 21, 9:46am  

Now that they've kicked aside the only outsider that was running for Speaker, the GOP will no doubt choose a puppet that the Establishment can control.

More open borders, more $$$ for Ukraine (and now Israel), more federal debt, much higher inflation (and probably taxes), more military intervention, and probably, another plandemic along with lock downs and forced mandates!

We're now at $34 Trillion on our national debt. The amount of money needed to pay the interest on our debt now exceeds our annual defense budget. The Social Security surplus fund has been completely drained, while our politicians have replaced that money with special government IOUs that cannot be sold.

The USA is like the Titanic, and it has already hit the iceberg. It's only a matter of time before the whole rotten mess sinks into the abyss!
6   HeadSet   2023 Oct 21, 9:58am  

RayAmerica says

Now that they've kicked aside the only outsider that was running for Speaker, the GOP will no doubt choose a puppet that the Establishment can control.

Yep.

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