DOES THE REPUBLICAN PARTY OF THE USA STAND FOR ANYTHING?
Thanks again to Jeff Dover from Phoenix Arizona, USA, for sending this article. Jeff’s incisive mind exposes the lack of purpose within their Republican Party after Donald Trump’s departure. It is interesting to read of the similarities between our two main political parties and those in America. It seems to this monkey that Australia’s Liberal Democrats are onto something, out with the old, in with the new, you know what they stand for, and they clearly state their avowed purpose(s)! Makes good monkey sense to me.
Gibber! Gibber!
Chugley
Does the Republican Party Stand For Anything?
Jeff Dover
It seems that whenever I see a news article about a Republican member of congress, it ends up being about that person’s attack on some Democrat or other personality. And when there are plenty among their own ranks deserving of condemnation, their silence in that regard makes the attack on the Democrat or other figure more unseemly.
Is that why we send these people to Washington? Is that what we want? Do we send those delegates to congress to engage in playground recriminations? “Are so!”, “Am not!” Blah, blah blah…
What is the GOP’s mission?
What do they stand for? We hear talk of Republican “leaders” and “leadership”. To be a “leader”, one must have a mission. The leader or leaders of that mission should be engaged in organizing, implementing and managing the charge to complete that mission successfully.
As a Republican voter, I should be able to go to the GOP website and see that mission printed for all to read. I should be able to find a detailed list of specific legislative and policy objectives. However, going to any of their websites, national, state or local, no such list is found. One only finds watery statements of “we believe…” or “Americans should…” or “Americans need common sense governance and …” and etc. Just vague statements.
There is no specific list of things the party wants to be accomplished. Neither is there a list of past achievements to be used at election time, such as “In the last two years the GOP has caused to be enacted…” bullet points of achievements.
Without a specific list of goals, how can there be any orchestrated drive to achieve anything?
Is everyone just floating around, drinking, noshing, entertaining sponsors and showing up to vote on whatever happens to come up by one person or other’s decision?
So how can there be a “leader”, anywhere in the party? What are they “leading” their troops to accomplish? Whatever they separately happen to think of or dream up at any given moment? It appears that there are no “leaders”. Instead, what we find are “bosses”. The Speaker and Majority/Minority leaders. It must then be that they shoot from the hip, with the rest of the delegation not knowing from one day to the next what the next charge will be until they are told. Knee Jerk. So, who instructs those “bosses” on where to go and what to do?
That begs another serious question: If there’s no specific, itemized list of legislation and policy for each session, available for all the voters to see, what do Republicans stand for as a party?
I think we know the answer: apparently, nothing. What serves to guide the actions of the rank-and-file reps and senators? Anything that they stand for is only what we, the voters, imagine that they stand for, which usually boils down to what we stand for personally – not the reality of the Party’s actions as a whole. Given that there is no detailed written agenda for us to see, how could it be otherwise? They are a ship without a rudder. That is, they are rudderless unless one examines where we continue to go as a nation. Then one finally sees the plan: destruction of the nation as founded and its founding principles.
So then, what difference does the party make? Why does it exist? Is it only there for purposes of illusion, there to shine us on while an entirely different agenda is in play? If there is no agreement in the party on a set of specific policy goals and there are members of the legislature and congress who would oppose those goals and fail to vote for them if there was a list, what is the point of the party itself?
How different would our nation be if, for example, the Republican Party put out a statement proclaiming what they intend to get passed – or repeal, or block – over a given period. What if they issued a list as follows:
“With the election of Donald Trump to office, the party intends to pass and its delegates to congress are instructed to vote for the following:
- Funding of a border wall to be completed by 2025.
- End DACA
- Elimination of the Department of Education
- Legislation requiring a zero-based budget to be presented each year by every federal agency and department.
- Cessation of funding to Planned Parenthood
- Elections to be held and voting to happen on one day only.
And etc. Prior to the elections, they could post these as goals. The winner of the presidential primary would be required to support each one of them. Upon gaining a majority in congress, the process of getting the measures passed would begin in earnest.
Presented this way, there are now targets guiding congressional action. Equally important and totally related and relevant, the voters know what those are. Now they need not merely trust some ego-driven pompous blowhard on his or her pedestal, finger in the air, proclaiming “I believe…!” They either deliver or they disappear.
Let’s demand that the GOP immediately adopts this formula. Should they fail, then let’s create their replacement, a party which does in fact stand for something, a group of dedicated American people who intend to represent and deliver every agenda item of it’s detailed, website posted plan.
We’ve got nothing to lose but our freedom and our nation.
Jeffery S. Dover
“Jeff Dover is a retired sales executive with forty years of sales and sales management experience. A six-year US Navy submarine veteran. Following Navy service, Jeff graduated college with a BA degree in Political Science. There he focused heavily on International Relations, Russian Studies and language, and Economics, also serving as a panelist on a televised Foreign Policy Association broadcast. He served as well as secondary school liaison for the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs. He is married, currently living in the Phoenix, Arizona metro area.”
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Back in the 1950s, William F. Buckley (CFR, CIA agent, Skull and Bones man) joined with Irving Kristol (Bill Kristol’s father and a Trotskyite-“slow Marxist) to turn the once old right Constitutionalist Republican Party into a bunch of neo-con Trotskyites. They succeeded.
One need only take a look at those who consistently vote with the dems or against the Republic. You know who they are. Romney, Collins, Murkowski, and tons more.
As far as I can tell from yearly reports, there are only 5 or 6 in all of Congress who vote representing their oath to the Constitution.
In the Senate, there’s only one. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin, and he has one problem which is not good, apparently he believes we should support the corrupt Ukraine.
In the House, there are only a few. Andy Biggs of Arizona, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, Thomas Massey of Kentucky. That’s all who vote with the Constitution. The two who are really hardcore on following their oath to the Constitution are Andy Biggs and Thomas Massey.
This is why we’re in so much trouble. The rest of these so-called representatives represent only themselves, not the people. They’re absolutely worthless and should be tossed from Congress, but our citizenry is so lame today. They do no research before they vote, and they could care less about what is happening in the country. Plus the country is being flooded with illegals who are allowed to vote.
We are basically a destroyed country because few will fight. It’s sickening.
Thanks Kelleigh, that explains a lot! Gibber! Gibber! Chugley
The voters need to demand that the detailed legislative goals of the party — not the statements of individual candidates — are posted for all to see. The party should not accept any candidate which does not support every one of its clearly stated goals.
The current setup of the GOP is utterly stupid and calculated to be stupid.
Australians would do well to take heed of this advice, same problems here! Gibber! Gibber! Chughley
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