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Lodestar

(2,388 posts) Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:22 AM Mar 2016

Obstructionism = frustration with status quo = elite business class hero

Obstructionism = frustration with status quo = elite business class hero

If your goal is corporate control then that is a formula for success.
Republican obstructionism has served to fuel frustration with government.
Perhaps this disruption to government is intentionally created so that people begin to look to businessmen like Trump to take over...a hero among the elite business class. They are creating a vacuum of sorts by frustrating any type of solution within the status quo. Remember.... the elite (and especially those served by the Republican party) believe that government should be run like a business with "efficiency" as their core mantra. Perhaps the break up of the party system is the ultimate goal being fulfilled in service of that end. Therefore it would seem to actually serve the elite corporate interests (which includes Trump) who are behind all this disruptive activity to government:

Trump is not an ideologue. And he’s not a professional politician. He’s a businessman. His supporters believe government should be run like a business.

It’s a deeply held American belief that politics is the enemy of problem-solving. Why can’t we deal with the national debt? Too much politics. Why can’t we deal with climate change? Politics. Trump, like businessman Ross Perot before him, promises to keep politics out of government and just get things done. Everybody knows there’s no politics in business, right?

But there’s a reason government can’t be run like a business. Business is not a democracy. If business were a democracy, it would look like government: less efficient, more political. That’s why Trump has a taint of undemocratic extremism. He wants to run government like a business. With himself as boss.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2016/03/07/why-republicans-hate-the-republican-party-so-much/

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Obstructionism = frustration with status quo = elite business class hero (Original Post) Lodestar Mar 2016 OP

This message was self-deleted by its author Renew Deal Mar 2016 #1

It seems to me the party system itself has been "recalibrated" to a point Lodestar Mar 2016 #2

BTW - why do you think that particular 'correction' is needed? Lodestar Mar 2016 #3

The elected members of the republican party have no interest in the voters of the republican party. Renew Deal Mar 2016 #4

Yes, this strategy has backfired on them IF they needed their constituencies' support. Lodestar Mar 2016 #5

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Lodestar

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2. It seems to me the party system itself has been "recalibrated" to a point

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 08:36 AM

Mar 2016

where it may never return. Perhaps not immediately in this political cycle,
but soon. In that sense I think there is a bigger change to
government going on than a simple reshuffling of constituencies.

Lodestar

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3. BTW - why do you think that particular 'correction' is needed?

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 11:08 PM

Mar 2016

I'm not following...

Renew Deal

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4. The elected members of the republican party have no interest in the voters of the republican party.

Reply to Lodestar (Reply #3)

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 11:11 PM

Mar 2016

So the elected members support any terrible policy that the moneyed interests think of without care for the consequence on their voters. The voters are saying "pay attention to us".

Lodestar

(2,388 posts)

5. Yes, this strategy has backfired on them IF they needed their constituencies' support.

Reply to Renew Deal (Reply #4)

Thu Mar 17, 2016, 05:23 PM

Mar 2016

But they don't need it. And Trump is no maverick standing outside the
elite who want to run government without impediments to their interests.
He is the epitome of the 1% and yet manages to hide in plain site due to
his influence on the media. And the fact that they barely try to hide their influence
anymore reveals just how omnipotent they feel.
They have already so infiltrated our system and its laws, the media, the voting
apparatus, etc. ETC. that we no longer have a representative government.

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