\u201cConservative\u201d is now a term of derision.\u00a0 People in the dissident right use it as a swear word.\u00a0 I guess the replacement term for the people who resist the progressives is now simply \u201cthe right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Well, whatever you call them and whatever they believe in, they are a mess.\u00a0 Organizationally, their leadership is nominally the Republican party and that\u2019s as laughably absurd as anything imaginable.\u00a0 That would be like an organization of sheep electing a wolf pack as their police department.<\/p>\n
Now, I guess you can say that Donald Trump has taken the first baby steps toward changing that situation.\u00a0 His candidacy has driven certain absurdly obvious RINOs out of the party.\u00a0 The best documented case is Liz Cheney being primaried out of her seat.\u00a0 But only slightly less hilarious is the ejection of Mitt Romney from his senate seat.\u00a0 Technically he refused to run for re-election.\u00a0 But despite his claim that he was afraid of assassination by rogue Bugaloo Boys the truth was that he knew he was going to be primaried out of his seat.\u00a0 And Trump\u2019s presidential campaign has forced the likes of even Nikki Haley to kiss the ring in order to even remain in the party for the future.<\/p>\n
But these truly are baby steps.\u00a0 What is needed is an organization that reaches from the local grassroots all the way up to state and national leaders.\u00a0 And it needs to be doing much more than politics.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, politics is just influence peddling and what needs to be enacted is a way for us to band together to buy influence from the crooks we hire as the face of the party.\u00a0 Sure, we know they\u2019re selling themselves to the contractors but at least let\u2019s prevent them from being bought by the contractors who hate us.\u00a0 Let\u2019s make sure that GLAAD and the other left-wing NGOs are restricted to buying influence from the Democrats.<\/p>\n
After all, a phony like Marco Rubio can be made to act in his own best interests and mimic right-wing talking points to keep himself on the gravy train.\u00a0 He\u2019s not a Liz Cheney or a Mitt Romney.\u00a0 He doesn\u2019t believe in the Left\u2019s values.\u00a0 In fact, he doesn\u2019t believe in anything at all so he\u2019s a blank slate that can be bought for the price of a pot of gold.\u00a0 And he\u2019ll stay bought as long as the gold keeps coming.\u00a0 Mitt Romney on the other hand, belongs to the same clubs as George Bush, Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama.\u00a0 He\u2019s following his social set with respect to what behaviors need to be favored and which curtailed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s as natural as breathing for him to hate us and force us to submit to their code of behavior.<\/p>\n
So, what is needed is an old-fashioned political boss.\u00a0 Someone who doesn\u2019t run for office but controls the politicians and makes sure they do our bidding.\u00a0 Maybe someone in Trump\u2019s camp can be that boss.\u00a0 Maybe Junior wants that job.\u00a0 Maybe not.\u00a0 But I think we need someone to do it.\u00a0 The only way we make such a job attractive is by providing it with the power to get things done.\u00a0 And the only source of power in Washington is money.\u00a0 So, we\u2019d each have to pony up cash to get a circus master that makes the carneys dance for us.\u00a0 And that\u2019s definitely doable.\u00a0 If there are fifty million people on the right (more than that number voted for Trump) and they each donated one hundred dollars a year, that\u2019s five billion dollars a year.\u00a0 You can get a lot done for five billion.<\/p>\n
Of course, for that much money I\u2019d expect a lot of results.\u00a0 At the very least I\u2019d want the phonies from the National Review forced to act as dunk tank clowns at the CPAC closing ceremony.\u00a0 And I\u2019d want the Bushes burned in effigy at the Republican National Convention.\u00a0 But beyond that I\u2019d want some kind of accurate scorecard for each member of Congress and for any with a failing score I want to know the date of his upcoming primary election and who will replace him.<\/p>\n
But seriously, what would be more important from a political boss is the backroom deals with private corporations to provide measurable progress on social issues that we favor.\u00a0 So, if Disney wants some tax breaks or approval of an acquisition they\u2019ll have to quit their LGBTQ activism.\u00a0 And likewise, companies that take sides in the culture wars can be reined in with the correct use of a carrot or a stick.\u00a0 None of this is rocket science.\u00a0 Money talks and that\u2019s what it would take to change the political system we live under.\u00a0 Hopefully there\u2019s someone who can do the math thinking about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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