If Voting Republican Is the Answer, Why Has It Never Worked Before?

[Kamaji]

If Voting Republican Is the Answer, Why Has It Never Worked Before?

Is the Left more or less powerful in 2022 than they’ve been in the past?

By Jack Kerwick
May 22, 2022

A recent article of mine elicited some amusing responses.

That Trump has been inexhaustibly—indeed, obsessively—maligned by dishonest, opportunistic, and mentally unstable partisan hacks is a brute fact that I have spared few occasions to address. For all of his flaws, he is still considered in the abstract infinitely preferable to his successor, and a cut above his most relentless critics.

This, however, is not a high bar to surmount. Joe Biden, both personally and as occupant of the White House, is demonstrably rotten. The same can be said for most of those who made Trump-bashing the mission of their lives from virtually the time he launched his campaign to the present moment.

Still, just because Trump made enemies of demented ideologues doesn’t mean that he isn’t deserving of honest and sober criticism himself. Too few Republican, “Ultra-MAGA” voters are willing to consider his unrealized potential, and unforced errors. Mesmerized by the Trump mystique, millions have permitted themselves to be hypnotized into thinking that all that went wrong on Trump’s watch is no fault of his own, and that if not for the plethora of forces that were aligned against him, he would’ve been able to truly make America great again.

MAGA voters have allowed themselves to be conditioned to vote for an America First agenda while simultaneously accepting that it cannot be brought to fruition given the bottomless depths of “the Swamp.” These traditional GOP voters have been living with this kind of contradiction for as long as they’ve been voting for the Republican Party.

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So, why exactly is it that those who have always voted Republican should continue doing so?

How, exactly, does voting Republican amount to “fighting the Left?”

The contradiction at the heart of MAGA points to a more fundamental contradiction in the so-called conservative movement: supporting candidates, and a party that not only fails to deliver, but can’t deliver.

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Source:  https://amgreatness.com/2022/05/22/if-voting-republican-is-the-answer-why-has-it-never-worked-before/

[Fishrrman]

Question from the article above:
"Is the Left more or less powerful in 2022 than they’ve been in the past?"

I'll take "most folks in this forum will guess wrong for $200, Alex"...

(they're thinkin' exactly what The Party WANTS them to think...)

[sneakypete]

Because "We,the people",allowed them to get away with it as long as they promised to cut taxes,ban abortions,and vote down gun-control.

They killed their own "Golden Goose" on this one,and the end result is most of the geezer Republicans will either be retiring or voted out of office,and replaced with more conservative  politicians.

A few,who have a built-in voter base like Romney and the Mormon Church might hang on for a while longer,but they will lose what power they have outside their home states.

[DB]

If you vote in fear for the lesser evil you essentially always get no better than the lesser evil.

Until enough people vote for somebody actually worthy of it you have no chance of getting anything not evil.

[andy58-in-nh]

Because when you endlessly promise a restoration of health but instead deliver a mere slowing of decay, people eventually figure out that you are a fraud.

[GtHawk]

Maybe because for decades both parties really aren't any different from each other, one is just more honest and open about what they want to do to America.

[rustynail]

In 1967 a candidate said "“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.”

[Cyber Liberty]

In 1967 a candidate said "“There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.”

And he was a Dixicrat....

[sneakypete]

Maybe because for decades both parties really aren't any different from each other, one is just more honest and open about what they want to do to America.

@GtHawk

BINGO!

The murikan left wasn't radically left,and the murikan right wasn't radically right. They both played for the same "team",and two parties existed to make  it look like we had a choice.

That began right after the War of Northern Aggression ended,and the Yankee bankers took over control of the country.

This has only started to change in the last decade or so,as some voters started to be become more informed and take a more serious look at the direction the bankers were leading the nation,namely into a "One World Government".

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Jack, are you saying we have experienced the disaster we are now in previously?

If so, when?