re: RINOs

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What makes you the expert?

You know nothing about me.

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I know what you posted, and that's all I needed.

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You are making one hell of an assumption.

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No, I'm not. It's pretty universally acknowledged that the Republican base has been taken over by MAGA. Or at least infiltrated to the point that MAGA has a significant influence. Do you really think that's debatable?

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What is the collective philosophy you speak of?

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Populism.

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I would be stunned if bill cassidy wins.

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Who is in charge of the voting machines in each parish? I bet there's more than a few who won't be stunned when Cassidy finishes on top.

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When primaries become the focal point of elections, there is zero incentive for any legislative body to ever get anything done.

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Your TDS gas caused you to make an incomprehensible post.

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Congrats on electing twitter warriors.

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You mad, bro?

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The current example of staunch conservatives is Massie who has only passed one bill in 14 years cosponsored with a radical dem. If that is what conservative means, yeah I’m far fricking from it.

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BOOM!

This is one of the best posts I have ever read on this site. While your post before this one was accurate, this post is way more effective. Every point you make is stronger than the one before it and the ending brings it all together. If you can speak half as well as you write, you should consider running for office.

Speaking of, I have a question for you involving the collective and elections. What you said is absolutely true: the collective (I.e. political groups) will always move left. Taking this into consideration, how do people like you and I get good candidates elected to office without some sort of organizing?

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When primaries become the focal point of elections, there is zero incentive for any legislative body to ever get anything done.

Congrats on electing twitter warriors.

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The two party system moves at the leisure if it's leaders. The Dems know this and you hardly ever see splintering. In fact, Bernie was absolutely kicking everyone's arse in 2020 when the powers-that-be just decided to crater him. Remember that? And they all just seemed to take the orders and move on.

The GOP however seems to empower retards to "think for themselves", i.e. do the OPPOSITE of what is clearly a mandate and the will of their constituents. From the onset, was it not pretty obvious that Bill Cassidy's voting base felt Trump was being absolutely attacked by lawfare. They were mad. They felt victimized. But Bill was sooooo much smarter than them, you see? He was smarter than his voting base. He was voting to protect them all from themselves because he's so much smarter than them.

Vote the will of your constituents or step down. If you refuse, they must vote you out. That's what you see happening here. Thing is - it's really not THAT difficult. Dr. Cassidy, as well as these state legislators are learning that the hard way.

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For some reason you MAGA types really have no idea what is a "conservative" thing to do and what is not. Redistricting WAS the conservative move on this.

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I don't care one bit if something is conservative or liberal. I only care about if something is effective and beneficial. You get lost in the conservative/liberal paradigm and end up making bad decisions since it is the "conservative" thing to do.

You severely limit yourself with such a myopic approach.

We have had "conservatives" on this board complain about spending money on border security and law enforcement. I thought secure borders and law and order were conservative values. Not spending money is one as well, so when these values collide, you just look foolish by trying to tell everyone how conservative you are and trying to demean those that place more emphasis on a different conservative value than you.

You conservatives can't not contradict yourselves in your race to be crowned the most conservative of all. In reality, all you are doing is chasing a label so you can feel like you're the most pure.

It's no different than leftists attacking each other for not being left enough, but you just can't see it.

Also, invoking the name of one of the most deranged idiots on this board in your defense was a bold choice but unconvincing.

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Y'all need to stop obsessing over imaginary threats and realize that the government is by far the biggest threat you face in life. Stop trying to harness it to do your bidding and start trying to reduce its power.

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This is very myopic as well. Without government intervention, how will we undo the 20 million illegals Biden let in? How will being conservative and having a smaller government rectify this mistake?

You guys think building from scratch and fixing existing problems require the same approach. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The "conservative" approach in many instances is to simply do nothing, and we all know how that works. We've spent years watching the politicians you conservatives elected do nothing while Marxism flourished.

But now that we have a president willing to use the power of the government to fix longstanding problems, you want to bitch about it.

You also love to use oversimplifications in your description of populism which doesn't move the needle for people who can think for themselves without an ideological framework and understand nuance.