WHERE IS OUR IMAGINATION?
Welcome once more to Jeff Dover. It is uncanny how close Australian politics is to the American variety. Jeff suggests a brand new party to replace the old worn out ones. Where America goes we shall surely follow., just exchange American political parties names for Australians and you have a similar dilemma, this monkey sees solutions appearing here in Australia. Gibber! Gibber! Chugley Where Is Our Imagination? Who among conservatives still believes that our answers can be found working with the Republican Party? Oh…there are some of you out there? Okay, then please present some evidence that that will work for us. There isn’t any you say? You say that even though conservatives have striven for GOP leadership since Barry Goldwater, that just because their efforts have failed for the past sixty-one years, that doesn’t mean that it can’t work? All we have to do is just vote out the RINOs? I see…like the stock market: all you have to do is buy low and sell high. The only difference between the two is that, with the stock market, oftentimes it’s actually successful! The Republican Party began its life as a third party. Imagine that! A third party, which became dominant! How could that have been? Third parties are supposed to lose, always and irrevocably! Well, maybe it was like this: the people then didn’t know that third parties always lose (how utterly naive of them!). What Whig voters knew was that, despite being told otherwise by the voters, their Whig Party leadership and congressional delegates wanted to keep slavery lawful. So did the Democrat Party. Whig voters also knew that slavery was inhuman, intolerable and had to end. If their party wouldn’t end it, then they, the Whig voters, would form a new party dedicated to ending it. Thus,…