Lots of fancy rhetoric, lots of kabuki, but when it comes down to actual enacted policy, the two parties are functionally the same party, votes are brokered, and the system is rigged to an extreme...
I have been watching this for decades, regardless of which party seems to control the White house, the critical cabinet positions are always held by the same group of people with the same agendas. Trilateral Commission for all of the intelligence agencies, been that way since the early 1970s when Trilateral was 1st split off CFR. They control what fantasy intelligence goes to the congress and the President and his advisors. It is false intell. I know this 1st hand, I worked for NSG, an operational part of NSA and gathered eye-witness intelligence on Soviet surface to surface missiles during the early and mid 70s. The safest place to be when the soviets fired a missile was the target. targets were never threatened, which saved them money or not as they could use them again and again. the report that the Director of NSA sent to the Senate Armed Forces Committee was a pure fabrication during the time I collected intel. It spoke of extremely accurate missiles, a sure fire threat, which it was most definitely not. I had to ask myself why? the answer was that if the truth be told, much less money would go towards our defense contractors, no need, no viable threat. Trilateral, CFR and Bilderberg people always hold the major and important cabinet positions and agency directors. Our direction is always the same. Our government was hijacked long ago, politics is smoke, mirrors and talking points, but the direction remains the same and we seem to love the theater, which is exactly what it is.
At The Last Refuge, Sundance has been writing about the UniParty and the Fourth Branch of Government for years. Search for each at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/.
The LP had a real opportunity leading up to the 2020 election with Hornburger. Instead, they took a page right out of the woke playbook and put the vagina at the fore. While some of the most egregious civil liberties violations were happening in our lifetimes, they decided her campaign should probably be one of "anti-racism." 🥴
The parties are similar, but different. One is always better. We aren't often given good choices in life, so success comes from choosing the least bad. Idealists who stomp their feet and demand their notions of perfection are otherwise known as losers.
The biggest mistake many people make is assuming their responsibility, and their capability, is only to cast an occasional ballot. That's not how it works. Political parties aren't some monolithic organism controlled by nefarious shadowy puppet masters, but groups of people who collaborate to improve their individual leverage. Those who are dissatisfied with the directions of politics can join a party and advocate for changes. Those who are still dissatisfied with that collaboration can learn to be more effective leaders, or assemble sufficient forces to take control, which also requires considerable leadership.
This isn't Burger King-- we can't have it our way. But we can help make it better.
Actually, both Democratic and Republican Parties are privately held corporations, with corporate boards who set policy. And they choose the candidates they want, which means that outsiders - "members" of the parties - can't change things, the only thing they can do is to not vote for the candidate chosen by the board. The Democrats are the most blatant about this, it's pretty obvious their "primary process" is a sham, done only in order to "increase voter engagement" with the chosen candidates. Same case for the Republicans, whose board screwed Ron Paul out of the nomination in 2012. A friend of mine with (then) ties to the Republican National Committee, told me in 1997 that George W. Bush would be the nominee in the 2000 election - so all of those primaries were a sham, too. And here's something interesting - during the Kavanaugh hearings, the Reps and the Dems were going at each other tooth and nail, calling each other the worst things you could imagine ... and then they had two 15 minute breaks. During those breaks, they went in the Senate chamber and voted, in a stunning display of bipartisanship and friendly collegiality, 97 to 3, to give the Military Industrial Complex/National Security State something on the order of 800 billion dollars - 100 billion more than Trump asked for.
So, in short, the two party system is a fake, it's a diversion - and Congress runs nothing of real import.
Apple is a corporation, too. All corporations try to produce what their customers want. If they do, they're successful. If they don't, they aren't. Political parties are led by back room elites, but they depend on grass roots support to point them in the right directions. Don't underestimate your influence, if you choose to use it.
Watch most any episode of Steve Deace to see how much many people despise Lindsey. But he wasn't elected by the party, or by back room deals, but by SC voters. He doesn't need to convince you or Steve, only a majority of SC. If he really sucks, SC voters will figure it out. If Steve disagrees, he can work to elect his own senators who will nullify Lindsey's votes. That's how federalism works.
I have been watching this for decades, regardless of which party seems to control the White house, the critical cabinet positions are always held by the same group of people with the same agendas. Trilateral Commission for all of the intelligence agencies, been that way since the early 1970s when Trilateral was 1st split off CFR. They control what fantasy intelligence goes to the congress and the President and his advisors. It is false intell. I know this 1st hand, I worked for NSG, an operational part of NSA and gathered eye-witness intelligence on Soviet surface to surface missiles during the early and mid 70s. The safest place to be when the soviets fired a missile was the target. targets were never threatened, which saved them money or not as they could use them again and again. the report that the Director of NSA sent to the Senate Armed Forces Committee was a pure fabrication during the time I collected intel. It spoke of extremely accurate missiles, a sure fire threat, which it was most definitely not. I had to ask myself why? the answer was that if the truth be told, much less money would go towards our defense contractors, no need, no viable threat. Trilateral, CFR and Bilderberg people always hold the major and important cabinet positions and agency directors. Our direction is always the same. Our government was hijacked long ago, politics is smoke, mirrors and talking points, but the direction remains the same and we seem to love the theater, which is exactly what it is.
At The Last Refuge, Sundance has been writing about the UniParty and the Fourth Branch of Government for years. Search for each at https://theconservativetreehouse.com/.
The LP had a real opportunity leading up to the 2020 election with Hornburger. Instead, they took a page right out of the woke playbook and put the vagina at the fore. While some of the most egregious civil liberties violations were happening in our lifetimes, they decided her campaign should probably be one of "anti-racism." 🥴
The parties are similar, but different. One is always better. We aren't often given good choices in life, so success comes from choosing the least bad. Idealists who stomp their feet and demand their notions of perfection are otherwise known as losers.
The biggest mistake many people make is assuming their responsibility, and their capability, is only to cast an occasional ballot. That's not how it works. Political parties aren't some monolithic organism controlled by nefarious shadowy puppet masters, but groups of people who collaborate to improve their individual leverage. Those who are dissatisfied with the directions of politics can join a party and advocate for changes. Those who are still dissatisfied with that collaboration can learn to be more effective leaders, or assemble sufficient forces to take control, which also requires considerable leadership.
This isn't Burger King-- we can't have it our way. But we can help make it better.
Actually, both Democratic and Republican Parties are privately held corporations, with corporate boards who set policy. And they choose the candidates they want, which means that outsiders - "members" of the parties - can't change things, the only thing they can do is to not vote for the candidate chosen by the board. The Democrats are the most blatant about this, it's pretty obvious their "primary process" is a sham, done only in order to "increase voter engagement" with the chosen candidates. Same case for the Republicans, whose board screwed Ron Paul out of the nomination in 2012. A friend of mine with (then) ties to the Republican National Committee, told me in 1997 that George W. Bush would be the nominee in the 2000 election - so all of those primaries were a sham, too. And here's something interesting - during the Kavanaugh hearings, the Reps and the Dems were going at each other tooth and nail, calling each other the worst things you could imagine ... and then they had two 15 minute breaks. During those breaks, they went in the Senate chamber and voted, in a stunning display of bipartisanship and friendly collegiality, 97 to 3, to give the Military Industrial Complex/National Security State something on the order of 800 billion dollars - 100 billion more than Trump asked for.
So, in short, the two party system is a fake, it's a diversion - and Congress runs nothing of real import.
Apple is a corporation, too. All corporations try to produce what their customers want. If they do, they're successful. If they don't, they aren't. Political parties are led by back room elites, but they depend on grass roots support to point them in the right directions. Don't underestimate your influence, if you choose to use it.
Case in point - https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/01/30/sunday-talks-lindsey-graham-goes-full-color-revolution-supports-race-based-political-judges-unilateral-war-against-putin-and-j6-targeting/
Watch most any episode of Steve Deace to see how much many people despise Lindsey. But he wasn't elected by the party, or by back room deals, but by SC voters. He doesn't need to convince you or Steve, only a majority of SC. If he really sucks, SC voters will figure it out. If Steve disagrees, he can work to elect his own senators who will nullify Lindsey's votes. That's how federalism works.