I guess what galls me and I have a hard time accepting is that true conservatism as a poitical stance, is dead.
Reagan democrats are dead.
The moral majority is dead.
The millions of people who flocked to Trumps' standard are not consrvatives no matter how much they would like to stylize themselves as being conservatives.
Conservatism for the vast majority exists only as an ideal. An ideal politicians flock to to to garner the votes of the people who think they themselves are. But none of them are. Politicians or voters.
The election of Trump proves that.
And after the e lection(s) everyone runs back to their ideological corners.
The tyranny of the majority is what people say will happen if the Republican party conservatives try to fom a new party even if they try to recruit those Reagan Democrats. But that won't happen. It can't happen.
Because the tyranny of the majority already exists. We suffer fom it now.
Ring around the rosy.
And you all know how that ends.
I accept that statement as undeniably true. We are no longer a people bound by common foundations, nor do we even agree on what the definition of liberty is. The vast, vast majority of the population - INCLUDING those in the Republican Party are Liberals and Socialists who believe better managed government statism is the answer to all the woes we have earned as a consequence for abandoning our foundational principles for political power and expedience.
So do we JOIN the statists who use the Republican Party to beguile and convince voters during campaign season they will work to reduce the iron fist of government and get that monkey off our backs, when they have absolutely no intention of doing so? Do we remain in a party taken over by Democrats and run by the Rockefeller Oligarchy that never saw a tax or regulation it did not like and approve?
The big fat giant lie is that the "best hope to affect change for Conservatism is in the GOP".
NO, IT IS NOT. The fruits of the party already speak to that lie. The best hope for liberals to convert Conservatives to Socialism is within the Republican Party. We have already witnessed that they will marginalize and silence anyone not towing the Oligarchy's agenda. They will actually work with Democrats to unseat those out of favor with the leadership, and prop up corrupt cronyists over grassroots solid Conservatives. Money and lobbyist funding does all the talking. The voters are cattle to be used and abused and those daring to demand the GOP make good on their promises are held in public contempt by the leadership and most of the party membership. They rewrote the rules to ensure they are never challenged, and leadership is only awarded via the grooming of the current McConnell popery, who will destroy and work with Democrats to destroy those who are not loyal to him.
We cannot politically overcome the overwhelming numbers of Liberal-Leftists who now dominate the political spectrum at this time. Conservatism and Foundational Principles have to be retaught and generations of Americans have to be deprogrammed of an entire life of Socialist indoctrination. When lifelong Republicans begin to lecture you on the need for ObamaCare and why getting rid of it is political suicide, one recognizes that liberalism and Statism lives large in the party that is not an opposition party to anything but Limited Government Conservatism.
Scripture tells us to remove ourselves from the path and from the presence of those practicing deceit, evil and wickedness (Proverbs 14:4-7). A party that is engaged in deceiving voters of their intentions while practicing lawlessness and rubber stamping evil, is not a party any solid Conservative should remain within, lest they become perverted themselves and abandon the principles they currently are governed by for the expedience of wickedness because they think it gives them power.
I refuse to stand indicted in support of a party dressed as a lamb, but underneath the costume resides the Liberal wolf. Or, if you rather - I refuse to support a Donkey dressed up as an Elephant.
It was a plank of the old 1963 Communist Goals to take over one or both major political parties in the country - and in this - they succeeded, with much of the rest of the list.
I do not care if winning the Presidency is not feasible in a new party for many cycles. It is time to start - and provide a place for actual Conservatives to call home and work to make it an outreach to re-educate an ignorant populace of their heritage.
Or, we die trying until such time as the Hammer and Sickle replaces the flag altogether.
