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The latter, Trust, unless built upon blind faith (another topic), is only possible if there is a proven history in word and deed of Consistency.  I’ve been writing about this symbiosis and dependence between these two ideas for a while and we had a bit (just a wee bit) of a back and forth on this.  I think that, too often, the Republican Party just doesn’t get it – that the Politicians (and Politicians in waiting and the Operatives behind the Politicians) have forgotten what their Base wants (er, at least this part of the Base) in their hellbent race to do what they think is the ONLY important thing on the docket – WIN.  We all know that, understand that is a prereq, but for US, it is ONLY a prereq: what do you do afterwards.

After the November election, the GOP was all afflutter with “what went wrong” and have spent MILLIONS and millions of man-hours.  I can tell you, easy peasy, what has gone wrong:

1. You didn’t give people a reason to vote FOR the Party
2. Worse, the base that sat on their hands decided that they can’t trust you to do what you said you’d do.

Number 2 is more important than Number 1.  Case in point – Obamacare.  They haven’t repealed it (though they campaigned on doing so), they won’t defund it, and given Obama’s flagrant lawlessness with respect to the actual Obamacare authorizing legislation, they won’t impeach.  In short, they don’t stand up for their promises and they don’t stand up for the Principles they say they “live by”.  In short, when there is no Consistency between Principles, Words, and Deeds (legislative votes), there is no Trust.  And without Trust, they lose the Base – and lose the election.  This is not rocket science – why vote for people that won’t do what they say?

Case in point – another (short) email exchange:

– Skip

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We Groksters blog – a lot.  What most of you readers never see is that we have rip roaring discussions behind the curtain as well.  There can be days when we share no emails at all and then some days, a torrent ranging to a tropical downpour.  Sometimes, entertaining as we pull no punches.  We started in on the topic above: the Nature of Man and Government.  Now, none of us are academicians nor philosophers – merely a bunch of ordinary folk that are concerned that what we once had been given by the Framers has been lost by purposeful obfuscation by a foreign notion from a foreign land: that the idea that Individuals are Sovereign, that we have banded together to protect our Rights given by our Creator is no longer current, no longer useful, and that we, in a Hobbesian / Rousseauian moment of delusion; that we should turn over that sovereignty to a group of Neo-Feudalists (aka, Progressive Socialists) for safe keeping and trust that in their obsession with Collectivism, will be willing to return those Rights after their Workers’ Utopia has been reached.

We believe that Government was formed to protect those values and Rights.  I’ve been writing about this symbiosis and dependence between these two ideas for a while. We Groksters talk about this constantly from roundabout manners.  This time, GraniteGrok returned to its roots about a word from Robert Heinlein’s classic science fiction story “Stranger in a Strange Land”: Grok. As our About page says “To understand, usually in a global sense. Connotes intimate and exhaustive knowledge” leading to “grok in fullness”.  And we started our internal email conversation (edited for some grammer, some content (to follow the train of thought better), remove some fingertip dyslexia, and some emphasis)  talking about a character from that book whose vocation was that of being  “Fair Witness”:

-Skip

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