I’ve been following the news the last few days surrounding the certification of the electoral college vote and Georgia Senate election, and I’ve heard from a number of sources a lot of complaining about Republicans.
Why so many elected Republicans are rolling over in the face of such Banana Republic level election fuckery.
Why Republican voters don’t stand up the way Democrat voters do and march in the streets.
The latter point is something Miguel talks about when it comes to the fight for gun rights.
I’ve thought about this and come to my own conclusions.
First: Why Republicans don’t take to the streets the way Democrats do.
Leftists LOVE politics. It is their secular religion. The personal is political was a slogan born on the Left.
When Leftists fantasize about themselves in politics, every single one imagines themselves up on a balcony, giving a speech to an adoring throng, coming up with final solutions that they enact by edict. If they are not the person on the balcony, they are that person’s right hand. They never picture themselves as one of the proles but as one of the important members of the party.
They love the thrill of going out into the streets to protest, intimidate, and force others to do their bidding. They love the dirt-fight of politics. It is them throwing their weight around, getting to be the boot stamping in the human face, the thrill of kicking an enemy who is down.
Republicans are just the opposite. We might discuss political philosophy or listen to talk radio, but we hate the dirt-fight of politics. When we fantasize, we’re standing beside a cabin in the woods, or a farmhouse, or the homestead, or a houseboat, or anywhere way the fuck away from any authority, either on the giving or the receiving end.
Disliking government means that we don’t like to participate in government.
That is why when we are pushed to the point of having to protest, it’s one day, and when 5:00 rolls around, we go home.
When our fantasies turn to politics, they are always about putting the crosshairs on the boot stamping on a human face. Then packing up and going home, not taking his spot.
The Left will always beat us on making a show of force in the streets because they are living out their fantasy. We’d rather be going to the dentist or having an ingorwn tonail removed.
This brings me to my my second point: Republicans are rolling over in the face of Banana Republic level election fuckery.
Principled Republican politicians are as rare as hen’s teeth. Being a principled Republican politician is almost an oxymoron for the exact reason I stated above. A Republican who dislikes goverment isn’t going to want to make a career out of governemnt. It takes a very strong character to hold fast to those principles and hold your nose and kick around in that sewer every day.
Lincoln wasn’t a career poitican. Neither was Reagan, he started out as an actor and got into politics by being president of the SAG.
The career Republicans might have started out as principled Republicans, but they stay there for the grift. This is why they won’t fight for Trump against the election fuckery. The swamp protects the swamp and they are not going to turn against the swamp to fight for a swamp drainer.
Fidning someone who dislikes big goverenmnt, wants to drain tht swamp, is willing to forgo becoming rich though swam grift, and likes the dirt-fight is rare indeed. His name was Donald Trump and the swamp put aside their infighting to unite to take him out.
That why being a principled Republican always feels like such a losing proposition. Because it is.
Engaging in politics to convince the swamp to drain itself and give up power is the defintion of sisyphean. We hate every minute of it and it’s mostly futile anyway.
Which is the unsolvable problem of government- no matter the system tried, governments tend to be run by people who you really don’t want in government.
It’s the kind of person who delights in meetings, in petty bureaucratic infighting, in empire building, and in throwing their weight around.
“Organization Men” was the term originally coined, even if the modern version tends to be more female these days.
I agree with pretty much all of what you write here, J.Kb.
As I was reading it, I thought of another point. Republicans, in my experience, generally understand that our system has its faults and failure points, but for the most part it works pretty well for most people … especially for people who are willing to work for their success and rewards.
So there’s not a really big incentive for the average Republican-in-the-street to dramatically change “the system” as it functions for most people most of the time. Modify it to encompass more unusual cases, work on the parts that don’t work as well as they should, optimize it, sure; but not wholesale replacement, especially not with something that has a value system at best orthogonal to what we have now.
I’d also add that a lot of Republicans also understand that our current state of prosperity is a rare thing, built up over centuries by the hard work of others. We understand that messing with the default settings is a good way for things to come crashing down.
The Left, on the other hand, has bought into the Religion of Progress. The current prosperity, to them, is a historical process and an evolutionary imperative, with humanity slowly moving to wards an inevitable utopia. In this view, the current system isn’t what brought about this rare state of prosperity, but are instead holding the real thing back.
Which is why I refer to Marxism as a 19th Century Pseudo-scientific Cargo Cult.
And the Democrats are an organized crime ring masquerading as a political party.
Apparently, we are moving toward an “inevitable dystopia “…
“Republicans, in my experience, generally understand that our system has its faults and failure points, but for the most part it works pretty well for most people”
In other words, Republicans tend to live in the world they way it is, Democrats tend to live in the world they way it “should be.”
At one time, that was just fine. There was a time in the US when the average Democrat was not so hell bent on power that they would openly and brazenly threaten their political opponents. Those days are over. Now, if a Democrat does not win in an election, there will be riots. End of story.
Tin foil hat time. These days the Republican and demcrat parties are two parts of same party meant of appear different but working in conjunction with one another behind closed doors. The Republican party exists to function as the bad guy, Patsy, and fall guy for the Democrat party. Thats why no matter who wins power is continually consolidated, neither party relinquishes power or undoes the incredible violations of rights perpetuated by either side, and the citizen is inched closer to being a subject/serf.
The Republicans have no balls and never fight for anything. They are too interested in keeping their jobs and access to lots of money