Do both major political parties envy the other for the same reasons? On Bill Maher’s HBO show they whine about how Republicans understand the power of the courts and know how to play the long game and avoid “purity politics” so they turn out for elections. But GOP insiders say the same thing about Democrats. Are we being played?
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11 replies on “Same But Different: Democrats Whine ‘Why Can’t We Be More Like the GOP?’”
Re: Fox News & CNN outrage shows … exactly why I stopped watching any cable news probably 15, 17 years ago.
Maybe so. But I think we’re right, if you look at what has happened over time. Because long-term, last 50, 60 years, who has been winning the deep state/supreme court battles, and the results.
Only recently has our side woken up to this and started to play it. Now … we have to be careful, because precedence can be a bad thing. One of the things we need to do with our victories is to make it more difficult to create these concentrated, hard-to-touch centers of power (alphabet soup, courts) to wield that power un-checked.
Annnnd now that we’re getting to the end of it that Scott, as usual, is on the same wavelength I am. He gets it.
No, it is to the politician’s interest, regardless of party, to increase his–or the government’s–power. At least the Democrats are honest about it. They have demonstrably acted consistently to encroach on our freedoms by taking more and more responsibility for the government and themselves. The Republicans, our friends, are somewhat dishonest in that regard…they act like they resist, but they lose and give in a little at a time.
It’s time we learned. It’s not Dems vs Repubs. It’s politicians vs Citizens in that regard. IT IS WE who must ask Government to WITHDRAW from helping us in so many places in order to regain our freedom.
What government does, it does by force.
What citizens do, we do by choice.
It is one way or the other. Period.
The algorithms that mass media uses to feed people what they want to hear has had a profound effect on me. I can’t for the life of me understand how someone can believe what the Left believes. I surmise that the Left’s adherents feel the same way about us, also because they are fed the things that they want to hear. The alienation that I feel towards that half (?more than half?) of the country is not good, and with most of the media proposing that America is rotten from its founding fathers forward it’s going to be an uphill battle for me and people who think like me to trust them in the future.
The reason why the God-hating, Satan worshiping, Demonrats complain about the same “problem” that actually faces DECENT people is entirely explained by 2 Cor 11:14 “And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”
Scott’s last point is profound. No one who joins the federal government other than the president can roll back central authority easily. It is more natural for every governing body at every level to acquire more authority to itself, which explains Scott’s comment. Those departments under the executive branch can be diminished especially by dictat from the president, but central government responsibilities have increased for many good reasons sine 1787. What may have the greatest long-term impact is if Congress is willing to claw back its authority from the executive branch, a set of actions I expected under Trump due to the fear so many legislators had. Instead they tried to remove him from office, thereby increasing the division and ignoring the opportunity. The partisanship is so deep that only a huge advantage by one party in Congress with a president of the opposite party could lead to my preferred outcome but if the GOP achieves that goal this November I believe they will blow it. Instead of working with the minority they will force their agenda and run up against the presidential veto. There should be an incentive for the Democrats to work with the Republicans which would give cover to the moderates in each party and marginalize the extremists.
The SCOTUS case that restricted the EPA might be the only way to actually do what you want. If various people affected by regulations not backed by legislation are able to sue and win, the regulatory state can be pushed back.
We have seen cases where Republican administrations have tried to rein in the agencies, but those aparachiks know they can wait out or ignore commands from the White House, if the WH even knows what they are doing. The many and varied leaks are part of that proof but the cases of various organizations suing the agencies with agency collusion that results in the courts telling the agencies to do what they always wanted to do is another proof. The Democrats in the House and Senate won’t want to go along with any minor actions of the Republicans as they will either think they’ll be back in power in 2-4 years or just try to end-run anything that is passed.
The 60’s James Cagney movie “One, Two, Three.” captures some of this.
Just added it to myh Netflix Q – thanks for the recommendation!
Utopian Wet Dream! Ha.
I don’t think R’s woke up to the court possibilities until Harry Reid eliminated the filibuster for court appointees. Mitch had an epiphany at that point and in his anger (at having the staid senate rule change essentially by fiat) realized – two can play that game.
I am not sure he and others weren’t aware of the “two can play that game” aspect, unless I’m thinking of the warnings given to Schumer and that Reid wasn’t warned the same way.