Comments by "MarcosElMalo2" (@MarcosElMalo2) on "The Lincoln Project"
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@HeyMildred The majority of Republican politicians sacrificed their conservative principles at the altar of Donald Trump. Not all, but most. And for as long as these enablers and cheerleaders remain in office, Trump authoritarianism will infect the GOP. It’s not true to say that Trump hijacked the GOP. It is true to say that the anti-democracy white supremacist strain already present strangled whatever conservative and American values remained in the party. Until they’re removed, the GOP’s claim on conservatism is false. It’s packaging, marketing, PR. The GOP is not going to reform itself into a party of decent, honorable, patriotic conservatives from the inside, and the Trump Republicans will fight such a change tooth and nail, as we are already seeing. As we have seen for the past 4 years.
And it’s possible that the cancer afflicting the GOP is inoperable. In which case, a quick painless death is preferable, and traditional conservatives can form a new party. Fact is, the Republican Party split off from the Whig party, which went extinct. We might call this new party The Lincoln Party in honor of our greatest president and as a nod to our friends here at TLP.
Creating a new party might be a Herculean effort, but it might be a better investment of time, effort, and treasure compared with trying to resurrect the decrepit and corrupt GOP.
Another possibility is to form a conservative faction within the Democratic Party. This could effectively turn hyperpartisan obstructionism into factional compromise. It would turn the legislature (but not the government structure) into a quasi parliament. A lot of democrats would cry foul, if not scream bloody murder. But the fact is, a large part of the country remains conservative. Conservatives joining the Democratic Party would move the country towards unity and away from division.
That’s all something for the future. Right now, the immediate goal is to do all we can to give Democrats control of the Senate, and that means the Senate run offs in Georgia.
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@maryjaneneels5536 I left in 2006, after 25 years or so. I was hoping to help remove the racist strains, both the overt ones and the more subtle. I guess I was the token model minority. I actually liked Bush, despite his weaknesses (his biggest mistake was choosing Cheney and Rumsfeld). I was against the war in Iraq, but once the invasion began, I backed my country. It was the “peace” in Iraq that I worried about, and I was proved right by the incompetence and corruption of Wolfowitz and Cheney, and the general imbecility of Rumsfeld.
The straw that broke the camel’s back, though, was what happened with Abu Graib and the debate about torture. I was shocked that the President, who I thought was a moral man, would allow the pretzel logic justifications of “enhanced interrogation”. But it was the rank and file “ordinary Republican” response that sickened me. Many gave up the justifications, and argued for worse torture as a matter of revenge for 911. Much of it came down to religious bigotry and racism.
It was no longer worth it to me to fight for what was right in the Republican Party. I wasn’t missed, I’m sure. I was already being called a RINO and a traitor who supported Islam.
Despite all I knew, I was still shocked by how the GOP so neatly embraced Trump’s overt racism. How easily they slid into deplorable fascism. How comfortable they were with being their worst selves. Jesus wept.
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@Maggie-zr2ow I recommend learning a smattering of Spanish from free apps or websites! There’s a couple of reasons to do this: One, it’s just generally enriching, and you might find it useful at home or while traveling. Two, someday you might be able to help a Spanish speaker in some way, either trivially or in an emergency. For example, I once helped an elderly couple by translating to a pet store clerk that they needed help getting a heavy bag of dog food the the check out and then to their car. Another time I was able to direct someone to the hospital (I don’t know that it was an emergency, but it could have been). It wasn’t complicated, I just told them to continue straight and they’d see it on the left.
With the little Spanish I knew, I decided on a vacation to Mexico back in 2004, and I attended a school while there to learn more Spanish (There are schools geared toward visitors where you can take classes for a week.) I fell in love with the area I visited and seven years later I retired there. The point is, learning a language can open up your horizons!
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