It might be said that the title of this article is more of a blanket statement than anything else… and you would be right. What I am attempting to do in this brief article, though it could be delved into in a far more specific, detailed account of a history that spans decades, which has been done before (e.g. Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds), is to explain just how much modern Republicans, in particular, have failed us, politicians and supporters, in fact. I am not meaning to insult anybody in this article by simply stating clear facts, except for when it will be extremely clear and not through my own word, but their own actions which are an affront to order and the cause of liberty; and it is important to keep in mind, as the masterful comedian Dave Chappelle put it, (a paraphrase here but more or less what he said) “I don’t make generalizations: I speak of averages.”
Republicans: what a word with such complex history. The party was, of course, founded in Lincoln’s time, March 20th, 1854 to be exact, of which he ran through and became the first Republican president, a basic fact. The party itself was founded on the basis of opposing slavery after such actions as the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which made it so that some lands bought from the French via the Lousiana Purchase would not become slave states, but the con was that the lands south of Missouri would be slave states.
Republicans, in other words, in the old days were the party of standing up for the oppressed, Radical Republicans from the Reconstruction Era especially wished for racial harmony and justice, and not just that, but the total humiliation and ostracization of the Confederates for starting the Civil War in the first place. Republicans used to be in favor of expanding the federal government: think of Teddy Roosevelt, who was trust-busting, or the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1920, also known as Prohibition.
But what are Republicans nowadays? Cold, careless, cowards. Other c-words too, like classless and curt (did you think I meant something else?). Also losers.
Let me give an example that should be the end of the discussion.
Now, you might say, “yeah didn’t that happen a couple of weeks ago?” You would be sort of correct, barely inaccurate: the Senator from South Carolina proposed a fifteen-week ban a few weeks ago. No, this ban was from 2019. I remember seeing the headline saying that the Senate massacred this measure by vote. I did not even know he did this yearly, making it all the more infuriating that it still has not passed:
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, is once again introducing the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks. Graham has sponsored this bill every year since 2013 only to have it defeated again and again in Congress.
Quite simply, what the hell guys? How could this be allowed to happen?
One thing that Republicans aren’t but Democrats are is uniform. Republicans are still divided on the plainest issues, not even libertarianism versus taking control of the political order, which is impossible to do by definition of libertarianism, but whether we should mutilate children, the redefinition of marriage, and hell, even child murder, as we have seen.
On the marriage question, my friend Carl Loid wrote an article recently on this. I used to think that “gay marriage” should exist because it did not make any sense in my small brain why it should not: I thought it was immoral and the behavior behind it too, but it still did not make any sense as to why we should limit others’ “freedom”. Then, I realized something; gay marriage is not marriage. I am Catholic, so I am obligated to oppose “gay marriage” legalization. Why? Well, the entire discussion comes down to one question: what is marriage?
Marriage is marriage, the principle of the reflective property (some of that geometry coming out of me). A thing is equal to itself. Marriage is a male-female bond instituted by God and recognized by society as the basic unit of itself, dedicated to the rearing and education of children and creating stability in a society. We have seen what society can become without marriage: hookups, inner cities, fatherlessness, crime, drugs, theft, hardship, abuse, hatred, and overall destruction. The question comes down to whether the individual is the basic unit of society or the family, Locke’s life, liberty, and property against Burke’s “little platoons.” Much of the party has flipped on the issue that even Barack Hussein Obama the Second and the cackling witch Hilary Clinton once took the “nay” answer on, and Hilary’s marriage is famously stained (get that? Blue dress anybody?).
We could not even win the midterms. Now, correct me if I am wrong because I was less able to follow the candidates as much as the other years, besides Georgia and Ohio Senate races, because I had to create a presentation on them for a class project, but the fact that we lost alone in some says, no, screams poor candidate quality. We got lucky with Trump. We really did. We had little idea of what he would actually do in office as an ex-New York Democrat, which is why some abstained from voting altogether, after we knew his personality, especially considering that ridiculous John McCain comment, although he did do a half-decent job backtracking that. But Mehmet Oz? Herschel Walker? Really? How could they not win? That means that even though this election should have been a referendum on Biden, it was a referendum on them, or that even though it was a referendum on Biden voters straight up went for a corpse that has ruined lives with poor economic and disastrous, disgusting foreign policy. Do not assume people are dumb. Lots are, but lots are not. Calling over fifty percent of the population dumb seems to be a bit of a stretch. It is not that these candidates were bad in a sense, they were just not what we needed. We needed candidates like Blake Masters, Kari Lake, and J.D. Vance that were defending the family and the political order and while the first lost, the latter disputed, and Vance won, they all fought hard for American ideals to be present in government.
I played football last season. I had played freshman year, but I was a small kid; I could not hit. Sophomore year, I gained weight and got a lot of attention. The coaches loved me. They knew I could hit and that I was not scared. But the idea of games still made me uneasy. Before my first few games, I would get nervous and it would be hard for me to “lock-in” although I knew I was trusted. I would think of making mistakes, because after all, I know I am not the most athletic out there. My team was number two in a twelve high school county. That’s pretty good. We went 8-1. But then, I would get out on the field and crack somebody and it would be the best feeling in the world. I would yell from the sideline to disrupt the other team and make my team yell with me, which actually worked. I would always be active in the game. This is the exact opposite of what most Republican politicians are. When they get to the opposing team’s stadium, they quiver. Instead of fully turning around, they are scared. They waste their time; it’s not that they don’t think they can play: they don’t want to play. They do not want to be subject to any criticism from the other team but are just fine with criticism from their base. They cannot see what is in front of them: a winning chance. They want the power but do not want to do anything with it, like Creon in Oedipus Rex, grateful for being the brother-in-law of the king but not the monarch, so he can live it up and satisfy his greed and need for influence without any of the responsibility and blame. At least the Democrats do something and then more.
Republicans cannot even unite on a common front, which only makes the process more complicated because then conservatives must consider the possibility of a) not voting at all, b) voting for a third party, and c) creating a new party that could both stand a chance in the order and not contain any RNC influence. Option C, at least for now, is extremely unlikely. There is a fourth option though: d) actually voting for a candidate in the primaries that can not only stand up to Democrat overreach and harm but combat them with laws that will support conservative ideals. In short, don’t squish, fight hard, and the country will benefit from this. Democrats have representation by pushing their bills on their rules. Why can't Republicans do the same by legislating morality, which is what all laws do?
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