Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Defense of the GOP

I must point out that Public Opinion, given that it knows nothing without any facts provided by scientists, is incorruptible. That is is a fair, if irrational, point. Scientists, on the other hand, have the knowledge and therefor the power to corrupt the knowledge.

Let's trust the folks who don't know squat, for they be the Truth Tellers!

It seems to me that ignorant populism is an inherent problem with democracy

I think the founders were aware of the problem. And tried their best to compensate. Representative democracy. The senate. The electoral college. An independent judiciary. The construction. All these things were to act as brakes on the whim of stampedeing public opinion

But with the rise of Msm. The concentration of Msm. The Internet. Massive concentration of wealth. And the will to use that wealth to influence politics. The increased sophistication of political operatives and their strategies. A. Court that feels bound to unchain these forces.

For all these reasons and more our nation is less directed by leadership. And increasingly riding vortexs of pandering. And sad to say. It is a reflection. Of our democracy and its inherent weaknesses.

Ardy~All what you said, plus we let money and banking into the system, and the Military Industrial Complex. Thomas Jefferson warned us about the first, and Dwight D Eisenhower warned us about the second. We listened to neither. They both must be looking down at us, shaking their heads and feeling like Cassandra from the Trojan War.

Yet another contraindication of the substance of the GOP, as presented by the close runner-up in a recent presidential candidate straw poll.

Ben Carson sez..., in effect, "Obama policies and actions will pre-empt the 2016 elections cuz a anarchy, onless Republicans control everything!"

Hunnnh?! Let me see... the party of shrinking da gummit until it can be drowned in the bathtub is going to save the government from anarchy?

Logtrollicktionary:

1. n. anarchy (ann arkee); what you git when da gummit has been drowneded to death in da bathtub.
2. v. ANARKY!!; shouting lies to inflame irrational emotions in gullible voters to implement the GOP Rule of the Opposite Thang.

Can we finally admit, publicly, that the GOP has nothing of substance to offer?

Well, not unless you are very rich, and need some "special" legislation to help you keep more or make more money. I imagine the Koch brothers find the GOP quite useful.

One of the factors that led me to quit the Justice Department in 1967 was the realization, after speaking with other movement workers in other agencies, that the game is played as an opposition so that the rest of us are too mesmerized to realize we are being raped -- by north parties.

True Phil. My wife was in politics years ago at the local level. City Council to be specific. She went into it wide eyed and was there “to do good”. In her mind anyway.

She was quickly taken aside and asked “Why are you here if you are not out to make money?”

Might have mentioned elsewhere that I am reading Mr. Sammler's Planet (Saul Bellow). Sammler is an old intellectual in NYC and the reader tags along viewing the world though his eyes. A major story element involves Sammler's accidental repeated observations of a pickpocket working the buses of the transit system. All too soon, the pickpocket, a powerful and supremely confident man, observes that Mr. M. has been observing him.

After about the fourth incident (watching the thief roll a petrified old guy on the bus and take his social security check), Sammler fears that the pickpocket will follow him home and accost him. After a hasty exit from the bus; "The tachycardia now running itself out, he was able to walk, though not at the usual rate. His stratagem was to cross Riverside Drive and enter the first building, as if he lived there. He had beaten the pickpocket to the door. Maybe effrontery would dismiss him as too negligible to pursue. The man did not seem to feel threatened by anyone. Took the slackness, the cowardice of the world for granted." (emphasis mine)

Now, my imagination may be overactive, but I am seeing correlations between Mr. Sammler and the Democrats, and the pickpocket to Republicans.

I should mention that the pickpocket does corner Mr. Sammler, physically and forcefully backing him into a corner and displaying his large dick.

Reminds me of the recent midterm elections and the spending bill passage.

imo there is nothing wrong with the gop that could not be fixed through intellectual integrity and a genuine concern for the national interest