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The GOP Is a Worthless Entity, Part 4,356,422
At what point can we be done with this party? As if the diversity, equity, and inclusion crowd hasn’t done enough damage to the cohesiveness and competency of this country, the GOP then decides to allow six committees to push it as their focus. That’s what we need from the party of “freedom.” More ways to figure out how to get objectively unworthy people forced advantages against those that earned them.
The GOP is an accomplice to so much of the rot we have today. This is more evidence to just how bankrupt the conservative movement is as well. It has no vision. It stands for nothing. It has no message. It has no policies that excite anyone. People roll their eyes when Reagan is mentioned. Telling kids to go look up a presidency 40 years old isn’t winning them over. You need to be a minimum of 40 to remember Reagan in any meaningful way. Those older than 40 know who he is and have made their minds up on him long ago, one way or the other. You aren’t winning anyone over by calling yourself a Reaganite. You can’t have a party committed to reminding voters of a long-dead president and a twice as long defunct administration.
The conservative movement resembles the “real communism has never been tried” movement. A bunch of people with no ideas and no originality telling the rest of us that if only things had been done this way instead of that way. If only the people in charge and actually running the party cared for the spirit of the movement instead of being traitors to it, we would be in utopia. Conservatism is so devoid of anything visionary it just pretends that as long as they’re the ones pushing the leftist policies, it won’t be so bad. Diversity, equity, and inclusion will work better in conservative hands. Never mind that whatever bones the phony GOP throws the left will never be enough and will just be the new starting-off point for leftist insanity. We never move right. We never move up. We never move diagonally. We never move backward. We move in no direction but left. This party and movement has no momentum because it stands for nothing and doesn’t even know where the country should be. This a failure from end to end. A hard reset is the only way forward. Move on from all of it. I want out from this left/right, or I should say, hard-left and medium-left paradigm.
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And here we go again – whining and complaining about the failings of the GOP but with nothing constructive to offer. What have you done? Are you running for office?
Conservatism has always been a hard thing to sell whether we like to admit it or not. If the youngsters aren’t buying, so much the worse for them.
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Don’t listen to her, your OPs are beloved by many. Never change.
What the hell does that mean?
I am. Stop adopting leftist policies. Start punishing so called conservatives who do. We have to start there. There’s no way we are going to get any serious policy through if the GOP can’t even stop from putting garbage forward first. Right now I’m just the guy telling the 400 pound morbidly obese man to stop putting junk in his mouth. Can’t even get him to get on the treadmill or do a pushup yet. Just put down the diversity pizza for once and have a protect our way of life salad instead.
That this endless debate of small government vs big government, capitalism vs taxes/redistribution, etc needs to end. I want out. I don’t care. I just want a party that is going to solve the problems of middle America and use power to do it. No more theory or repetitive debates. Let’s just tell people what we will do to improve their lives, their opportunities, their security, make their money go farther, and their culture be healthy.
Damn. I agree with Glen Eisenhardt.
My only quibble is that you he is assuming that folks stop and read the cited article of https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/woke-agenda-survives-these-house-republicans-are-sticking-with-diversity-and-inclusion/. I think that your post will be more helpful if you cite the first two paragraphs of that article which are:
“Democrats may have lost control of the House of Representatives, but it appears Republicans are embracing their legacy of so-called diversity and inclusion.
“Republican congressman Patrick McHenry (N.C.), now the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, announced earlier this month that there would be six subcommittees—and all of them will count advancing “diversity and inclusion” as one of their top priorities, according to the committee’s announcement.”
This is not unlike the “Humphrey–Hawkins Full Employment Act” that expanded the remit of the Federal Reserve from preventing inflation to simultaneously promoting full employment. No, the sole goal of the Federal Reserve should be a sound currency, and the liberal fluff of full employment is secondary.
Likewise, the goal of the Financial Services Committee should be human growth and flourishing, without reference to “DIE” as I call it as a “white, heterosexual male.” (I know that others want to call it DEI, but DIE feels like what the progressives want to foist on me.)
Four small tangents.
First, when folks suggest that Reagan is 40 years ago, I can note that Jesus is 2,000 years ago, and yet I am still a Christian.
Second, several years ago at my church there was a proposal to state that we welcome the “diversity” of all. Other members were shocked when I asserted that “diversity” is a way of cancellation of me. Opps. Our statement of purpose was changed to embrace “all of God’s expressions” which I pointed out included the little band of Republicans and Conservatives in our congregation.
Third, my mother had a form from a new medical doctor which asked what gender she had been “assigned” at birth, and which gender she now claimed. It wasn’t my form to fill out, but if it had been, I would have taken a black felt marker to cross out this new crap, and to simply say that my gender was not “assigned” at birth, it was “discovered” at birth, and that I have a “XY” chromosome, not a “XX” chromosome, which is the sine qua non of being male.
Fourth, when asked what my pronouns are, my answer is “Your Worship” or “Your Majesty,” and I note I am unwilling to overturn all of society for .1% of the population. The tail cannot wag the dog.
Good job Glen. Keep going. Live Not By Lies.
Steven Hayward at powerlineblog.com has a good response to this madness.
EDIT: Never mind.
Good post, Glen.
We need to stop using the left’s vocabulary. Republicans should be speaking of things like liberty, freedom, stability, responsibility, and the like. We don’t need more so-called dialogues, where the left not only chooses the topic, but the words that are used to discuss the topic. Take those DEI (DIE- Good one, Gary) -filled documents and rip them up symbollically ala Nancy Pelosi in front of the television cameras, Republicans. Show a little guts.
Edited to add:
Thanks for the link to Steven Hayward’s column @scottwilmot
At least that many.
That’s not a “reset”.
I don’t see anybody debating small government vs. big government.
Right now I see people debating… well, debating is not the right word… but right now I’m seeing people screaming angry over illegal aliens being funded to cross the border, major cities wrecked with violent crime, homeless, and drug use, the weaponization of federal agencies, uncountable billions going to Ukraine, an enormous operation grooming children, otherwise young healthy people dying “suddenly”, mass censorship, an economy headed toward a depression, and so much more.
None of this has anything to do with small government or big government. It’s mass maladministration enabled by an obviously fraudulent election.
Come on – three more likes!
(Glen, I think you might grab more attention by coming up with a title that does more than just slam the GOP, as much as some of them deserve it. You even got some of us trumpers and never-trumpers on the same side for once.)
You convinced me. I just hit the like button.
EDIT: Good question: Do they want to win? The Case for Another Term for Win-Free Ronna McDaniel (townhall.com)
That deserves to be shared, so, here:
I did my “like” already this morning, hopefully a few more join in.
Mine was #13.
Now that the rules have changed, looks like Glen should add his own.
Trump appeared to understand this. He issued an order that CRT stop being taught in annual government training. We had one class delayed as the instructors had to change the lessons. Of course, as soon as Biden* was installed, Trump’s order was rescinded and SecDef Austin had his “Hate Whitey” day. This is why Trump was/is loved. He saw a problem and attacked it. More Trumps and fewer McHenrys.
It is great to be with my brothers and sisters again!
The Overton Window always pushes to the left. When Woke has infected investment, medicine and the military, how do you expect a bunch of politicians to remain strong.
Water flows downhill. It’s gravity.
If you read the article linked in the OP, you will find that there was a Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion, which was actually eliminated by the Republican Chairman of the Financial Services Committee, Rep. McHenry.
I am a bit disappointed that “diversity and inclusion” remains a part of the description of some of the remaining subcommittees. On the bright side, though, they eliminated a subcommittee focuses solely on diversity and inclusion.
I do agree that we should completely reject the terminology and goals of the “diversity and inclusion” agenda.
When we have a plausibly electable alternative that is to the right of the GOP.
Otherwise we’re just making things worse.
They eliminate the overt leftist garbage and push it covertly. It’s just a stab in the back and par for the course.
The Overton Window does not always push to the Left. I think that Trump, his 2020 election fantasy, and the riot at the Capitol on January 6th were pushes against the Overton Window of reality.
I’ll take the acknowledgment that what we have is bad.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that McHenry’s wife has hopped aboard the DEI, anti- whiteness, bandwagon.
Did it move the window? No
The people who were part of Jan 6 are in jail. What happened to the FBI who pushed Russian Collusion?