Decision Time
I realize that my using that “tyranny” word makes many “pragmatic” or “realist” GOP fluffers very uncomfortable — at least insofar as it’s seen as representative of views held by a considerable swath of constitutionalists who make up the GOP base, the kinds of people whom a curious alliance of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, Bob Dole and John McCain and Karl Rove and Jeb Bush and John Boehner, all wish to see banished from government.
What this tells me — and what it should tell the timid pragmatists who spend so much time and energy bashing the “Purists” and “True Believers,” the “Hobbits” and the “Visigoths” and the “wacko birds” — is that when your party’s most visible representatives (and it’s difficult to get more visible than the Bushes, and two of your last five Presidential candidates) have more in common ideologically with the opposing party than with their own base, it matters little that they continue to present themselves as an opposition party.
We have a de facto one party ruling class. And we must either take over the GOP entirely or else break from it cleanly.
And even then, it may be too late.
Protein Wisdom commentator LBascom thinks it is:
It’s too late. May as well accept it.
Why, you may ask, why would I say that?
We are no longer governed by the constitution and the three branches of constitutional authority. We are now ruled by a vast bureaucracy of union protected, un-elected, civil servant lifers.
The only chance we have now is the one floated some time back, that of several states openly rebelling against a fed usurping state authority…which will never happen because too many citizens of every state are bought and paid for cattle wearing the fed brand.
We can, and should, keep fighting and hope/pray providence will arrange events in our favor. Still, personally I’m planning for something else.
I agree.
The Republican Party is so infected, the metastisizing of the cancer is so widespread, that the patient cannot be saved.
I do disagree with my Friend In The Ether on two points, however.
-Regarding the rebellion of several states of the Several States: Who says we, in such an effort, have to be bound by what currently constitute the boundaries of the states. If we can take over certain areas, can we not declare our Independence? I know this will be a very hard, an extremely difficult, task to accomplish, but are we not bound by our duty to those who came before us and preserved Providence’s grand gift to us and those who are yet unborn to try? As Edmund Burke wrote: ‘Society is a contract between the past, the present and those yet unborn’.
-Providence will only favors those who are bold in His name. We cannot hope to summon His favor unless we act to restore the great gift He gave those who were born within the boundaries of The United States.
The chances are we will fail, as there are so many forces allied and aligned against us, but that fact does not relieve us of our obligations to God and our fellow Americans now past, living, and unborn to do whatever we can to preserve freedom, liberty, and morality.
Fortunately, America is an idea that can never be wiped away from Life as long as one person believes in it.
To live in America is to accept the responsibility of pulling guard duty for The Republic.
Those who refuse to deserve eternal damnation.
That about sums up the sad state of America today. There is only one party: The Democratic party. The Republicans? Useless and they believe in the same things Democrats do.
I’m not optimistic as to a resolution. But we are already reaching the point where this is an invalid government.
I decided some time ago.