Is the Republican Party dead? (Page 1/5)
williegoat JAN 20, 04:34 PM
If the GOP remains splintered, there will never be enough of a consensus to stave off the Democratic Socialists. The opposition will always be united because they never let principle get in the way of victory.

There seems to be two major opposing factions and I don't see them ever seeing eye to eye. On one side we have the RINOs, Never Trumpers and the garden variety crooks; and on the other side there are the conservatives in the mold of Goldwater and Reagan.

It will take a generation or more for a third party to gain enough traction to be a viable force.

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maryjane JAN 20, 04:57 PM
I don't think it is dead, but it may be after Biden opens the floodgates down south and the approx 12,000,000 illegal aliens already here get citizenship and the right to vote.

Trump won 74,222,958 votes, or 46.8 percent of the votes cast. That’s more votes than any other presidential candidate has ever won, with the exception of Biden. (Third-party candidates picked up only 1.8 percent of the votes cast.
rinselberg JAN 20, 05:05 PM
I'm not about to opine on the Republican Party at this moment.

I saw some days ago--I think I read it--that the avowedly Democratic Socialist "peeps" like AOC and Uncle Bernie and most (if not all) of "The Squad" (and my own Congressional representative, Ro Khanna) are on the wrong side of "Branding 101." That they should want to be known as "Social Democrats."

"Social Democrat" is what their counterparts in so many other countries call themselves. Social Democrats aligned with a Social Democratic Party working for the cause of Social Democracy.

It's fewer syllables and rolls off the tongue more smoothly than "Democratic Socialist" or "Democratic Socialism."

It subordinates the "Social(list)" part to the Democratic part. Whereas, with "Democratic Socialist", it's the other way around. That subordinates the Democratic part to the Socialist part.

"Linguistics."

Now I'll "butt out."

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williegoat JAN 20, 05:31 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

"Social Democrat"



It seems that Kama Sutra Harris, Little Eric Smallwell, Slick Willy Clinton and The Hunter Biden have been very social Democrats.


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Originally posted by maryjane:

I don't think it is dead, but it may be after Biden opens the floodgates down south and the approx 12,000,000 illegal aliens already here get citizenship and the right to vote.


That is another factor that I was accounting for. That and the effect they will have on the distribution of Representatives and Electors following the census. Joe plans to make sure they count. California and Nueva York are both over 20% non-citizen residents.

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maryjane JAN 20, 06:01 PM

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Originally posted by rinselberg:

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A thorn by any other name is still a thorn, even if it's from pigweed with lipstick applied.

(amaranthus spinosus)

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cvxjet JAN 20, 06:23 PM
We need a strong >Intelligent< Conservative party.......To counteract the extremists in the Democrat party and others of their ilk.

We really need all people to realize that >>Political parties<< are interested in POWER at ANY cost....Not in the well-being of the country- either side can spin out of control.

I still wish that Ross Perot had won back in 1992...I think the country would have been much better if we could have slapped both parties in the face- "Take care of the COUNTRY- not increase your power-base!"
sourmash JAN 20, 06:42 PM
I pray to God to finally kill the Republican Party's relevance in politics forever.
BHall71 JAN 20, 07:19 PM

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Originally posted by sourmash:

I pray to God to finally kill the Republican Party's relevance in politics forever.



and the Democratic Part's relevance as well.
sourmash JAN 20, 07:23 PM
In their progressively increasing radical form of the last 50+ years, yes.
maryjane JAN 20, 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by BHall71:


and the Democratic Part's relevance as well.


Just noticed you are from Yukon Ok. I drilled wells in that area in the early 90s. Calumet, Geary, OK City, Elk City, all over the Anadarko.
I worked all over much of the world but Elk City Ok in Feb is the coldest place I ever worked outside . The friggin WIND!!!
Nothing between there and the Canadian border to slow the wind, snow, sleet and cold down but a few barbed wire fences....