Republican Party Sucks

[Skull]

Not an unknown fact to many, but this article lays out the timeline of recent GOP sucking:

https://amgreatness.com/2021/05/14/the-republican-party-sucks/

Once upon a time, the Republican Party didn’t suck. Actually, there were lots of times it didn’t suck.

It didn’t suck when, at its founding in the late 1850s, it declared slavery an inhumane, barbaric practice, and eventually ended it. It didn’t suck when it ended repressive and predatory Mormon polygamy a few decades later. It didn’t suck when it declared late 19th-century corporate monopolies to be injurious to representative democracy and citizen welfare, and diminished their power.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Everyone and everything sucks all the time.  What is each person willing to contribute to make it better?

Lamenting the state of the current Republican party won't solve anything.

The party needs principled leaders even if we may not agree with their principles.  For too long, the GOP has been lead in Congress by weak, wavering, globalist, big government, opportunist, flip-floppers.  They run conservative in the primary, but run to the middle in the general election.  They are against things before they were for them before they were against them again.

The sell out our country from beneath our feet as they further their individual, personal, political ambitions.

Which Republican members would you want to have your back in a bar fight?  Liz Cheney, yes.  Kevin McCarthy, no.  Mitch McConnel, no.  Lindsey Graham, no.

[Absalom]

We began w/ the Agrarian & Rural Democrats of the South and the Federalists of the North;
both Parties of Principle.
Post Civil War industrialism emerged, becoming economically and politically ascendant, while
the Republicans became its errand boys to this very day.
This is their core competency and the only matter they have an interest in, is fattening wallets.

[Sled Dog]

The Principle of the Party of Slavery in the South was that it's okay for some people to own other people.

The Party of Slavery then wanted that principle to expand to every state and every territory in the United States.

The Party of Slavery hasn't changed.  They even still call themselves Democrats, though they're really Rodents.

And the Rodents throughout US history has acted on their Principle, creating the KKK, creating Jim Crow, re-segregating the government, embracing Marxism because Marxism is how modern societies encode their slavery dreams, and their dreams for mass murder and their dreams for election fraud and every other form of abuse, from human trafficking to Harvey Weinstein to Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Clinton to traitors like Obama.

Those are the Principles of the Rodents.   ANY means to ALL power is acceptable.  The only thing that will not be accepted is getting caught.   They all lie their asses off when that happens and have ignorant stooges all over the internet to repeat whatever lies are necessary to make it seem like they weren't caught, like calling the fact that they stole the 2020 election a "Big Lie".  What a Big Lie that is.

[Absalom]

A reflection from history supported by Dr. Jeremy Black of Cambridge U.
Slavery was born w/Man and its catalyst was the eternal and natural inequality of Mankind.
As Man evolved, Cultures that avoided/distained Tribalism, matured and thrived as
millennia passed.
The reason is uncomplicated, as Tribalism repressed Individualism, while promoting
Group Think. The legacy of Africa, South America and large parts of Asia, are testament
to that reality.
In contrast, Europe's powerful individual identity, birthed Western Civilization, our heritage.
As for African Slavery, it was essentially a business opportunity.
Relentless conflict was the norm across Africa thru the ages until someone grasped that there was a market for slaves; so selling, not killing prisoners, made sense.
Hence the birth of the slave trade w/the Arab Corsairs of the Indian Ocean as Bus Drivers.
African Slavery came to No. America (the Colonies) from our "Parents" the British who emigrated in 1607 at Jamestown, Virginia. We remained subjects of the Crown and Parliament until 1789, a span of 182 years. Then the Emancipation Proclamation was
issued in 1863, 74 years later; defining the timeline of our responsibility for Slavery.

[Skull]

The Principle of the Party of Slavery in the South was that it's okay for some people to own other people.

The Party of Slavery then wanted that principle to expand to every state and every territory in the United States.

The Party of Slavery hasn't changed.  They even still call themselves Democrats, though they're really Rodents.

And the Rodents throughout US history has acted on their Principle, creating the KKK, creating Jim Crow, re-segregating the government, embracing Marxism because Marxism is how modern societies encode their slavery dreams, and their dreams for mass murder and their dreams for election fraud and every other form of abuse, from human trafficking to Harvey Weinstein to Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Clinton to traitors like Obama.

Those are the Principles of the Rodents.   ANY means to ALL power is acceptable.  The only thing that will not be accepted is getting caught.   They all lie their asses off when that happens and have ignorant stooges all over the internet to repeat whatever lies are necessary to make it seem like they weren't caught, like calling the fact that they stole the 2020 election a "Big Lie".  What a Big Lie that is.

 

[Free Vulcan]

Yes and no. At the federal level, definitely yes.

At the state level, there's alot of good things happening.

[libertybele]

We all know that the GOP is in dire straits and in fact IMHO it has imploded and crumbled.   So .... again.... who do we move forward?  Who will lead us forward?

Lots of people in here back and forth over Trump and Cruz.  Some refusing to vote for either one or even refusing to consider their help.

It's not like the GOP has a whole lot of options.  Trump will be 78 in 2024 and there are those who I think are disillusioned thinking that he's going to run again.

Cruz many feel is disqualified because of the whole NBC issue, don't trust him, etc .

So who?  Ronna who is head of the RNC I'm sure has her bets on her uncle Mittens.

Maybe DeSantis.

Then there's the HB1 issue.

Yep, the GOP sucks ... but we know that.  Again, how do we move forward?? The bigger question, is there even a way forward??


 

[Skull]

Sure there is a way forward!  At the end of Bachman's piece in the OP is this:

We need to destroy—or at least conquer and completely recreate the Republican Party.

That is done by no longer putting all or most of our energies into grousing & lamenting the nation's downcast state.  More personal civic engagement locally, plus supporting the replacement of corrupt or Rinoish GOP folk at all levels, not just elected ones. 

In PA for example, Sean Parnell is running to replace Sen. Toomey.

Leaders will appear in time, but looking for them now, much less relying on them is wasted energy.

[roamer_1]

Maybe DeSantis.

Hold on now... It is way to early to worry about any of them for me, but you are the main reason I have against DeSantis. I will admit to not having gone to look at his record, trusting you, since you are down there and know natively...

Sure and I will go look before any final decision and make up my own mind... But IIRC you don't (or didn't) like him much. What gives?