Quote: (11-14-2017 02:02 PM)Menace Wrote:
The GOP is worse than the Democrats because at least the Democrats are the ostensible opposition and they actually try to make things happen. The GOP is supposed to be conservative, but they are absolutely not. They have given up, or actually believe in, the culture shaped by Democrats. They don't care about the working class (of any color), and they have absolutely no killer instinct EXCEPT to protect the status quo. They will go to the mats for that. Why?
Because that's how they want DC to work, as it has "worked" for many years. It doesn't really matter (to them) who's in power. If it's GOP, then great, easier to get "contributions" to advance their anti-American globalist agenda (well that's Dems too). If Dems in power, that's ALSO great. Because then they can get contributions to defeat those nasty Dems so they can get back into power. Meanwhile, they leave politics and go to work for lobbying groups and law firms, and there is always a need to have contacts with either the party in power or the opposition. It's a no-lose proposition basically.
That's why they fight Trump so hard. They have a nice racket going, and it is hard to make a man understand something when his paycheck/access to power depends on him not understanding it. I will quote the late, great General Smedley Butler on what a racket is (although his definition is in the context of a war, it applies here as well):
"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many."
Sounds familiar, right?
This. I used to think the opposite when the Neo Cons were in power during the bush years. . .well opposite in terms that the Repubs were the ones working together and the Dems were falling apart.
I realize that it's most like the corrupt leaders working together because they have to, as a lot of entities they work for that aren't the american people probably have a lot over them to force them to fall in line. The Non-corrupt either see this, or are naiive and dont. In any case, it stops them from organizing as well as the corrupt do.
The swamp is a LOT bigger than Trump initially thought. is it too late? possibly, it might have been too late when Trump got into office, it just depends on what he and sessions does.
More and more I believe that draining the swamp takes priority. there are a LOT of issues of corruption that have gone on for far too long.
Isaiah 4:1