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Or Maybe It’s All a Mirage

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There is an interesting phenomenon going on with political party affiliation shifts.  And it’s happening in both red and blue states.  There is a noticeable shift happening toward the Republican party and away from the Democrats.  Now, in most of the blue states this isn’t a game changer.  Here in New England, it will have negligible impact.  If a sixty/forty state becomes a fifty-five/forty-five state there’s no noticeable change in policy.  But there are a few swing states where a trend like this could be more than just a tweak.  And even some pretty blue states are flirting with electing Republican governors (e.g., New Jersey).

I’m on record as saying blue states electing republican governors is just a relief valve to prevent the state from blowing up its budget due to Democrat fiscal insanity.  Massachusetts has to do that all the time.  Anytime they’ve had a Democrat as governor for more than eight years they have to elect a Republican just to get out of bankruptcy.  And the definition of a Massachusetts Republican is just a progressive who can add and subtract numbers.  There are no noticeable conservative actions by him just slightly cheaper progressive policies.

But in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and even Nevada the shift of even two or three percentage points can be enough to change state legislatures and even add a senator or two to the red side.  And a lot of these voters switching parties are younger.  I’ve seen that where I live and believe me, I’m buried deep in enemy territory here.  So, if it’s happening here then it’s definitely happening in the swing states the same way only more so.

Now, I’m not so idealistic to think that there won’t be any elections where the Democrats make gains, maybe even big gains.  But what we’re seeing is people waking up to the inherent differences between the parties.  Biden and his regime allowed law and order to collapse in the cities and blue states.  That wasn’t something that could be ignored.  If Mamdani wins in November in New York City that will throw a spotlight on just what happens when an honest to goodness communist tries running the largest city in the United States.  I think his administration may turn out to be the most valuable advertising the Republicans could ask for going into the midterms.  If Mamdani goes with the policies he’s been espousing it should frighten the hell out of anyone living in a blue state or city.  It’s a possibility that we are looking at the perfect political storm happening just when it could do the most good.  Could Mandani turn New York City red the way Dinkins did back in the 1990s and got Rudy Giulianin elected twice?  I think it’s unlikely but not impossible.  But I do think he can provide a cautionary tale for the rest of the country and maybe help Donald Trump hold onto his Republican Congress.

Or maybe it’s all a mirage.  Time will tell.

Political Crowd Funding

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What is the Republican Party?  It is a corporation that works for the welfare of the people who control it.  The people who control it are those who run it and those that fund it.  The paradox is that when individual voters donate to it, they are the least influential stakeholders.  Their small individual contributions are essentially ignored when it comes to setting policy and when it comes to choosing candidates.

So, if you’re George Bush or Mitt Romney and you want to run for office, you call up your friends on Wall Street and tell them you’re going to need to raise three hundred million dollars, or whatever it is, to run for president and they’ll get in touch with their friends and they’ll arrange a $100,000 a plate dinner for you and raise fifty million dollars by getting all your friends from Yale together.  And over a good steak dinner they’ll talk about who would be a good campaign manager and maybe they’ll even talk about what they think would be a good slogan for the campaign.  Maybe, “Compassionate Conservatism” or, “Jesus is my favorite philosopher.”  And it will be duly noted by the Republican National Committee chairman that according to the latest handicapping poll it’s your turn to be the candidate.

And during the strategy meeting about how the campaign is going to be run there is sure to be a lot of talk about what Democrat outrage should be singled out as the “get out the rubes” rallying cry.  Maybe it’ll be gay marriage or school prayer.  Today it would be Drag Queen Story Hour.  But whatever it is they’ll pick it because it viscerally angers the normal people and it’s something that will never be addressed by the candidate if he ever becomes president.

Really what he wants to get done while in the White House is invade various third world nations and make sure they have the requisite LGBTQ laws in place.  That and advance the precepts of the WEF.  That means eliminate fossil fuels, meat and masculinity.  So that is what the Republican Party is.

Okay, so the Republican Party is not something that’s there to help you.  But it does think that you are here to help it.  It sends out hundreds and hundreds of emails and letters every year to each person who registers as a Republican and tells you it’s your duty to send $20 or $50 or $1,000 to them to protect you from the Democrats.  It wants your money, but it doesn’t want your advice.  Period.

Well, it doesn’t take a genius to see that the only way the Republican Party can be of any help to the majority of normal Americans is if they can bundle their money in a way that makes them a major donor to the candidates that want to run.  And that means they have to form or find a corporation that can pool their money and help them focus their needs into an agenda that can then be presented to individual candidates that want to represent them.  These can be Republican candidates or independent candidates; hell, they can be Democrat candidates if they’re willing to be bought and stay bought.

Something like this sounds complicated and therefore expensive.  But there are a lot of conservatives.  Many millions of them.  And the power of computing makes it manageable.  And as far as motivating people, just look at what crowd-funding sites are able to raise for everything from a new novel by a favorite author (more than $60,000,000) to a family left homeless by a tornado ($500,000).  Imagine if you told people that they were donating to primary Mitt Romney out of office.  Even I would donate for that.

So maybe that’s the pitch.  Call it crowd-funding for better government.  The corporation identifies issues of interest to the members and matches it up with people to donate for and against.  And it keeps an enormous scorecard for all these officials and keeps track of votes coming up and offers them campaign donations if they vote the right way and promises to primary them if they vote the wrong way.

And for us it allows us to donate specifically to the cause or candidate that speaks to us viscerally.  And playing on the fear and greed of politicians sounds like fun!