Why the Republican Party Deserves to Lose Everyone!
Al Ritter
In 2014 the Conservative movement reached its high spot in
the Republican Party when their voice was heard to the point of increasing
Republican representation in the House and replacing the Democratic majority in
the Senate. It seemed that Conservatism had finally come into its own as the
people had finally said “enough is enough” with the past movement towards left
center.
The elections of 2014 did several things; it empowered the conservative
Republican voters to finally think their vote DID matter and that when 2016
rolled around the party would move farther to the right. Sadly that wasn’t the
story to be told though. The “leadership” of the Republican Party (and I use
that term loosely) was happy with the business as usual and the Conservative
upstarts had to be silenced. The Conservative power play worked only to a point
as John Boehner was forced from his Speakers position in the House only to be
replaced with Paul Ryan. Ryan who has only proved slightly better, has shown
that he in fact is also part of the establishment and has an aim to downplay
all the Conservative ideas he can.
He has also continued the establishment Republican stance of
giving President Obama anything he wants. On the Senate side Mitch McConnell
continues an uninterrupted establishment role of pushing Conservatism to the
back of the bus, and giving President Obama’s agenda a front seat. Republican leaders
of both the House and Senate have acquiesced power to Obama for fear of another
government shutdown because of the administrations continual threatens to do
so.
Because of the Republican establishment threats to push
conservatism to the back of the bus, the revolt movement within the party (and
also outside the party) has taken off. Open primaries where Democrats, and
independents can pick the nominee in the Republican Party was allowed to
continue in the RNC Rules Committee meeting this year. During that same meeting
Reince Priebus along with Trump delegates continually shouted down any dissenters to force Trumps
eventual nomination even though he has the lowest approval numbers of any
Republican Nominee in recent times.
Sadly along with this nomination comes a newly acquired
reputation of being racist, misogynist, and uneducated. I don’t wish to be
known for any of those character flaws and I hope a majority of Republicans
past and present feel the same way. IF Trump wins the general election there
could be a backlash that will be felt for decades. If Trump were to hold true
to his contentious nature (which he has
shown no intent of halting), he will alienate the entire Republican base which
is already showing a major exodus. The biggest loss in the House and the Senate
will occur when the inevitable foreign and domestic policies fiascos occur from
the Narcissistic nominee that accepts help from nobody and assumes that only
his opinion is what matters. Not one successful person in this country can
survive with no help.
It seems sad to me that
the Republican Party has sought a direction that frankly has been farther left as
was proven by the rules committee when they allowed the Democrats to continue
to pick our nominee. People ask me when I left the party…...my answer was
simple, I left when the party voted to allow
Democrats to pick our candidates. If you think for one minute that the
decision to allow that horrible policy to continue is a minor problem, then it’s
YOU who are part of that problem. Secondly the RNC voted to remove the vote
from a large consensus (over 1200 delegates) to a small (under 200) group of
Republican party rules makers.
My decision was made
to leave the party LONG before Trump was even nominated! They have proven that
they are now the party of EXCLUSION not inclusion! That’s right and Trump
supporters think it was about the party’s hatred for Cruz or my dislike for
Trump. That couldn’t be farther from the truth, it’s about letting problems
continue, it’s about disenfranchising the Republican members and substituting
the power of many for the power of a few. And I shouldn’t be the only one who
feels that way………..in case nobody has noticed the Democratic Party has done the
same thing …….are you noticing a pattern yet? “When you aren’t offered a seat
at the table, you are then served on the menu.”
