You are correct @roamer_1 it may already be too late.
The only one that has come forward recently with a "Contract with America" is Sen. Rick Scott, former governor of FL. He sold us down the river on the 2A and implemented red flag laws. As far as I know DeSantis has done little if anything to remedy that.
There used to be at least two 3rd rails in Right-facing politics... Abortion and R2KBA... Now look at that... Even those most fervently held beliefs - Those hills to die on are not so any longer. And folks wonder why I left.
Ultimately the power needs to be returned back to the states. I believe that would take convening a Convention of States, but because of the liberal state legislatures in some states that could prove to do more harm than good. I believe we missed that opportunity awhile ago.
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@libertybele , all it would take is a Conservative Congress, jealous of it's power, and a president to consent. Congress did most of it, Congress can set it straight, and that which Congress did not do us SCOTUS, which Congress holds impeachment power over. Dry up the money, turn power back to the states, and suddenly there have to be fifty lobbies instead of one. That drags business along, right by the nose.
All it takes is the Conservative Right ACTUALLY voting FOR what they believe in... THAT seems to be the hard part.
Yes we need a conservative Congress that will actually do something. Voting the liberals out of Congress and finding enough conservatives to fill those seats has been an on-going problem which has been compounded by the issue of very poor and weak GOP leadership.
Look at what happened to Mo Brooks (and again by Tumpy) - That is not weak leadership. That is strong leadership that has since '94, done everything in their power to keep Conservatives from rising up to national seats. MurderTurdle will cut your throat and give your money to the Democrats rather than let you ascend fairly. THAT is the real enemy. Republican Moderates will not allow Conservatives to rise. There will never be a serious challenge to the Democrats while that is the case.
As for debt, obviously each president inherits the debt of his predecessor. Keep in mind it was Reagan that took us to that $1 trillion dollar mark -- just sayin'.
Yeah. No. Did Biteme inherit Tumpy's debt, so we can let him off the hook too? Bullcrap.
What Reagan did for the first time that I know of is a neat trick. Tax cuts to get business raring to go, spread a little money out in the trailer court... BOOM! Instant economy rocket. That ain't quite right with Reagan, because a good portion of his spending was defense - But it had the same effect - It was not limited to the big defense outlets. Two of my friends started machine shops on the basis of that very thing.
What Reagan did was not wrong. What was wrong was not paying it back during the twenty years of plenty.
So that inflation STAYED in the dollar. And Clinton repeated and didn't pay back. And Bush repeated and didn't pay back. And then Obama repeated and didn't pay back. And then Tumpy repeated and didn't pay back... All that inflation winds up in freewheeling printing and watering down the money.
The fault lies in not paying it back and then doing it again. The only way to get the dollar back is to pay it down.
There is no easy solution, nor do I have the answers, especially when we have a Congress and a SCOTUS who are not on the side of "We the People".
YES there are solutions. They ARE if fact, the principles of Conservatism.
And you get MORE of what you vote FOR.
