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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Republicans will fail...?
It's a simple precept.
Republicans will fail because their interest is not in governing but in power.
Democrats are generally the Party of government. Republicans have little interest in government. They want power so they can hold on to the status quo and gain more wealth by exercising their power.
Their is an old saying: "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
With the quest for power comes back-stabbing, rumor-mongering, character assassination, and worse. This is what the present Republican Party is all about. They have no interest in governing.
For example, Republicans do not want immigration reform because they fear immigrants will have the votes to take away their power. That is why they have no interest in immigration reform. This is the present battleground for the two Parties.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Therein lies the problem.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)The challenge is from within. How do they share the power? I doubt that they can. First to feel the sting will probably be John Boehner.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)Neutering Congress and the electoral process on a daily basis means that one day the aristos won't need them anymore. When the sham of elections is eventually discarded, few of them will be able to buy their way into that ruling class.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)They won't fail by their standards. As usual, they attempt to run the economy into the ground for the vast majority of people while raking in the bucks for the .01% and permanently altering the power structure in their favor.
Once they are done destroying it in this cycle they'll hand it over to the Democrats, who will once again have squirmed rightward, to fix.
Rinse and repeat.
malaise
(269,212 posts)They're a Borg. Individual power is secondary to the power of the group, because group power brings individual power with it.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)...thrown to the dogs?
WhiteTara
(29,728 posts)and put it in our local paper. Would that be alright? This is important because people don't see this.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)They are cannibals. They will eat each other.
I'll post this when I finish.
Interested to see.
BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)By all measures they have taken over the entire American political life, to the point where lots of dems buy into their ideology. Seems like a complete and total victory to me.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)Louis Gohmert may run against Boehner?
There will be a lot of individual power plays. Ted Cruz wants to be Leader if he cannot be President.
Rand Paul, Tea Party darling, will split his Party right down the middle.
Many Tea Partiers will press their Party to kill Obamacare. As we speak, they have sent it to the Supremes to decide its constitutionality. They want to try and get it out of the way early.
And you will always have McCain and Graham making demands on the leadership.
But immigration is the issue that will drive them mad. There will be outright revolt if Obama signs an executive order.
BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)It has been a full blown winning streak for 30 years, at least. The right wing has such ascendancy that most Democrats use the same economic theories and conclusions, so I don't know what you are talking about.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)They got the numbers but ...
BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)Near total control of society. Sounds like a decisive win to me.
NM_Birder
(1,591 posts)you missed the super X-D strategy.
See, all the Republicans were voted into office, to show how much support there was for Democratic Leadership. By not voting, Democrats were making a silent protest that the administration was not going far enough, ergo the targeting of Democratic incumbent senators being voted out, was a show of support for President Obama.
I know this sounds crazy, but I've actually heard this as a reason for the wave the Democrats suffered.
the unspoken problem lying in wait, are all the gov races and state legislators that went republican. The republican controlled Congress is bad enough, but wait till the effects of the "red wave" at the state level is finally acknowledged.
bigwillq
(72,790 posts)USA gets sick of Dems, Rs win in 2018, USA gets sick of Rs, Ds win in 2020..... on and on we go.
malaise
(269,212 posts)they are looting pension funds, destroying unions, enriching themselves and their cronies and destroying all that I thought mattered to American people.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)Much clearer and more succinctly then I was able to say.