Dear Friends,
I am always amazed when I hear someone say they have always voted for one party and will never vote for the other. Especially when they don’t agree with one sliver of the platform of the party they vote for.
Many older people fall into this category. They will say they are democrats and will never vote republican. When I ask if they are advocates for abortion rights they say emphatically no! When asked if they believe that the government has a role to play in improving people’s lives. They act like I’m insane to ask such a thing. Because they want the government out of their lives. They believe in lower taxes and more freedom. But always vote for the democrat party?
The reason is they were raised to believe that republicans are the party of the rich. They aren’t rich and so they aren’t republicans. This semi myth is propagated by the unbiased media. The republican party was a party of the rich when Hoover was president and was a progressive. The republicans have been shedding the old guard since.
Several decades ago a term was coined… Rhino republicans, by the conservatives in the republican party. They didn’t believe the republican party should stand for exactly the same things the democrat party stood for. Unfortunately the leaders of the republican party are still the old guard. They are progressive to the core. So the republican party is still somewhat a party of the rich. What is not well publicized is the fact that the democrat party is even more a party of the rich.
Rhetoric to the side, the democrat party is run by and for, the rich. That they claim to stand for the little guy is just politics. They no more stand for the little guy than did Chairman Mao. Unless you believe that to stand for the little guy means to impoverish him, starve his children, murder him if he dissents, and suppress his rights. If that is your definition of “helping the little guy” you are a progressive!
Now that progressives control the democrat party and still retain some control of the republican party in the US the American people are at great peril. Progressives are not good people. They have advocated evil measures in the past and have shown no remorse for them. What evil doctrines you ask? Breeding people like cattle for one. The progressives had no problem with eugenics at the turn of the twentieth century. They were good friends with Hitler and Mussolini. They have advocated as lately as the 1970’s putting sterilants in the drinking water of the US. Among many others. (Of course they wouldn’t ever have to be subjected to these extreme measures themselves).
These measures are premised that human beings are not an end in themselves. To believe these things are acceptable actions by a government one must believe that people are no better than cows. To equate people to cows is evil. To believe that people are simply subjects to experiment on is evil. To have the hubris to actually advocate theses things is evil. Ergo Progressives are not good people.
How to change the trajectory of the US? The only way is to get people in office that see human beings as an end in themselves. To simply ask if they see people as an and is of no use. Politicians are consummate liars. They are typically sociopaths and have no remorse about anything they do. Look at history and read Plutarch. To that end, getting good people in office, there must be an effective means.
As a means to get better people (non progressive) some argue that the republican party should be purged of the Elite. Rush Limbaugh is on this side. Some argue that a third party is the only answer. Others have empty hope. You can come up with your own answer but it must be done. Everything the government is doing right now is imperiling the American people’s rights, liberty, economy, and posterity.
Progressives are wealthy, powerful, cunning and patient. They have worked it so that every American must vote for a progressive whether a democrat or a republican. Their second biggest ally is the unbiased media. But unwitting dupes that vote without using their minds are the progressive’s ace in the hole.
