Excellent essay at The Marshall Report,
Conservatism in theory was a bold and welcome balance. In practice it has drastically failed to do anything but get promising politicians elected into office. Sadly, once they arrive at that great big white capitol building….they learn to get in line and do as their donor’s lobbyist ask…..they subserviently back the proper bureaucracy that they are told to support.
There is only one way to get off this hamster wheel. That way is to run for office in the manner that Donald J. Trump has shown can and must be done. To run on their own or private donations (corporations are not people), and to limit the contributions one can have. Let the people decide on the candidates merits. And receive no compensation once in office. That would change the entire dynamic, now wouldn’t it?
Read the whole essay over at The Marshall Report (linked above). It’s well worth the time.
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It is indeed a very factual and accurate portrayal of where we are today. I don’t know if Trump is really the one who can get us out of this mess, or at least get us headed in the right direction. He is not my first choice. However, you can bet your bottom dollar that I will vote for him, and proudly so in November, if he is the nominee. I’m more afraid of what will happen to this great Country if he screws us just like the current POS has who’s in the Casa Blanco now. If he does, I’m afraid that we will witness something that hasn’t happened in 240 years. I believe we will see a breakdown of this somewhat civilized society and all hell will break loose. By that time, I will be getting a bit long in the tooth and not so sure how much of a fight I can put up. I also realize that we can’t get everything we want. Most likely we won’t be on good footing even when I go to the big cabana in the sky even if we started tomorrow. We’ve been battling the progressive machine for well over 100 years and I have no illusions about turning this big boat around in much of a hurry. One problem is the vision of our leader. They may begin to actually do and say all of the right things when in office, but the bigger battle is the dismantling of the monolith that is the bureaucracy that actually executes the programs in place. You will have systemic pushback from the majority of those sitting in non-descript cubicles all around the country who get a paycheck off our back. To tear that down and root it out permanently is a task that I don’t think 4 or 5 Donald Trumps can pull off over the next however many years. Those people all know that in either 4 or 8 years the next guy will take over and they can go back to their old ways of the IRS and Lois Lerner and probably won’t affect them much one way or another. My optimism aside, I can think of nothing better than slapping Rove and McConnell and Ryan and other turncoats right smack dab in the mouth. Let them know that we are tired of their bovine excrement and if we’re going to start cleaning house it will begin with them. Slink off to a think tank or K Street. I don’t much care, but get your *ss out of that fancy office with all the trappings of a prince and power of a third-world tin-pot dictator and quit talking down to us rubes. I’m not the smartest guy in the room, but at least I have an idea of what happens when you all p*ss on my leg any then try to tell me it’s just raining. In the meantime, I’ll get my dum-bass up every morning, go to work so the layabouts can get some more free sh*t and feel some pride in that I’m doing my best to do things the right way, the old-fashioned way. By earning my keep and not taking a free ride. I better not get scrooed again. By Trump, any of those other misfits or malcontents.
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In the long run, what each of us can do is be honest, do things the right way, and raise our kids to do the right things too.
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That’s all we can do.
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Tex, bravo. You pulled together very well all the thoughts running through my mind, and then some. When I see the Trump and Cruz groupies going at it I wonder what reality they live in that they think one man can bring down such pervasive corruption, one man can undo what it has taken so many years to steal?
On top of the battle there would be are the repercussions that will naturally come even from good actions. Even if Trump or Cruz is elected and magically gets the cooperation of Congress, it will be a blood fight getting rid of the leeches and rats. Then you have states and cities run by corruptocrats.
Have you not had to deal with people in your local offices, maybe tag renewals, property tax, gun permits? It appears that government positions at any level are now staffed by the just barely better than welfare crowd, just there to get the paycheck and perks, don’t you dare ask me to do something people. Many are not what I myself would even consider literate, let alone employable. And the attitude.
Thank you for such an excellent and thought provoking comment. Bottom line is, we humans need hope. Our favorite candidates give us hope. But the horde is not looking past that hope to the blood, sweat, and tears.
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But the horde is not looking past that hope to the blood, sweat, and tears
That is it in a nut shell.
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I think the article encapsulates the problem brilliantly. We have been on the same hamster wheel for way too long.
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I find it interesting that the solution proposed is to get rid of the two party system, which our country didn’t begin with — the reasoning against the two party system described exactly what we see today.
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