This one is for you, Rad Mod! - Granite Grok

This one is for you, Rad Mod!

Radical Moderate is one of our more prolific and thoughtful commenters and I thought that he’d like this on the nature of the Democrats and Republicans.  Angelo Codeavilla calls them the Ruling Class (or as other say, the Political Class).  From the House of Eratosthenes (emphasis mine):

Excellent stuff. One E. M. Cadwaladr, whom I intend to research & follow now, writes at American Thinker:

The representative model is now defunct, destroyed in somewhat different ways by the two political parties. We will start with the inappropriately named Democrats.

The Democratic party of today is not a representative party, but a top-down political machine organized around a reformulation of traditional socialist ideology. They are not a party of the popular will, but a party of a particular set of ideas. The people who adapt these ideas to current needs are not the Democratic base, but a small group of intellectuals drawn almost exclusively from a handful of elite universities. Trusting the public will is a laughable proposition for academics, who consider themselves a superior breed — like the philosopher kings of Plato’s Republic. They may adapt their rhetoric as required for the sake of harvesting votes from the lowly herd, but the core concept of public sovereignty was dropped from leftist thought long ago — about the time it passed from the hard hands of embittered revolutionaries into the soft hands of tenured professors.
 The Republican Party…is a different sort of animal from its dingy, pseudo-leftist counterpart, but not really a more attractive or more encouraging one. It has become painfully obvious in the last few election cycles that the Republican establishment despises its conservative base. Most of us have grown tired of watching the GOP bluster and promise to stop ObamaCare, executive amnesty, etc. — only to fold for no apparent reason after a few weeks or months, vowing “this isn’t over!” once again. The truth is that it was over before it started. At the risk of being called racist, the Republican Party seems to function more or less as the nameless team that plays against the Harlem Globetrotters. They provide the illusion of a contest to events that have been carefully choreographed in advance. Their current strategy, assuming for the sake of argument that they are even interested in electoral success, appears to be to trade their traditional base for those lost souls in the political center — those people who only engaged in politics by tottering into a voting booth once every four years…New Republican voters ought to take note of how dismissive the party has been toward the old ones. Most Republican politicians, in short, have come to represent no one but themselves.

In effect, not much different between the two except different letters.  If the Rs REALLY DID GOVERN as they say will / would / should, Ross Perot, the TEA Party, and now Donald Trump would never have come to the fore.  It is clear that the Dems have been taken over by up-until-now covert Socialists and Communists (again, just look into the history of Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, and Obama himself and those they grew up with and around).  Look at their issues – how further apart are they from traditional Socialism?  From Collectivism?  They act like it is Government that should be in charge and totally reject what the Founders set this nation up to be – sovereign individuals with a limited government.  Those who refuse to teach history are bent on repeating it – how much further must government law and regulation go before there is no difference between government and companies?  With Obamacare, the healthcare industry is already being transformed into a mere public utility; wage levels are being decreed by government officials.  I did learn history – and studied the 1930s when Mussolini did the same.  Sure the trains ran on time, but we know what that cost was.

So, the Party that is left – the Republicans.  The Party that we who are still in it believe it should be fighting tooth and nail at every turn.  Yet, since November in DC (and with Obamacare here in NH last year), all we see are patsies in the leadership.  Oh sure, smooth, soft, soothing words.  But results?  Well, to their benefit, I have seen a lot of co-opting going on with former firebreathing dragons turning into cute little kittehs, doing the things they once railed against and promised to stop.  Sad.  Sad for them, sadder for us, saddest for our country.

What shall we do?

 

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