Class warfare isn't the problem. Identity warfare is the problem. (along with Democrat abandonment of an extensive list of basic social contract responsibilities.) Dems have adopted identity politics; that leaves the class politics lane wide open. We should take it. Identity is a construct. Class is real. Doesn't matter what are your gonads/pronouns, you still need a job, car, etc..... "son, we are arguing about things that do not matter...."ATL Bear said:It isn't how we look, it's how we act. Partnering along side the class warfare warriors will get us to acting like them quicker than any demographic change. That's the danger of being a society seeking comfort over prosperity.Redbrickbear said:ATL Bear said:As opposed to this loser "poor me" populism that carries the same message as liberal socialism and "blame the rich" siren song? I mean I can't believe people keeping more of one's own money, regardless of economic status, was such a bad thing. We became a great country because we don't coddle average, yet here we are trying to champion being average. How is that "making America great"? What reference point of prosperity and wealth are we referring back to? Let me help you, it isn't there. With periodic variances, the trend line for wealth in all classes is up consistently. We succeed in spite of government, yet here we have parallel tracks from both sides of the aisle of class warfare. It takes prosperity to wallow in its advantages like the complaints we hear. I used to be able to lambast the liberals for it, yet here we are.Redbrickbear said:RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:
The country is burning down around us and all the Republicans can do is act like mean girls at a slumber party. All the while, the Dems are laughing. Not a good look.
You act like McCarthy and the establishment faction of the GOP was going to do anything to stop that or help the country anyway.
All they want to do is pass tax cuts for the wealthy and fund the Ukraine war.
Just one small Symbolic thing…during the race riots and violence of the summer of Floyd the last speaker Pelosi removed various portraits from the Capitol of past speakers and important historic southern congressmen.
McCarthy did not even put them back up.
The GOP is a joke and refuses to even symbolically support it's voter base.
As America begins to look more like South Africa or Venezuela…it will begin to act more like them.
The age of affluence in the USA is coming to an end…so is the age of being a high trust society.
Get used to it.
And no amount of libertarianism or "cutting regulations" or arguing about the ideal tax rate is gonna cure that.
The GOP is becoming a multi-racial working class party. That will involve different issues and dynamics than the typical college educated GOP'er (like us here) are accustomed to. But none of them are incompatible with Reagan-esque notions of balanced budgets, strong national defense, and religious liberty. Quite the opposite. All you have to do is come to terms with a more rhetorically muscular style of politics than what you are accustomed to. And that starts with cutting deals FIRST with the people on your own side, and sticking with them thru thick & thin.
never fight your base.
If you win, you get a smaller party....weaker.
If you lose, well.....you lose.
