“Each man is an island unto himself. But though a sea of
difference may divide us, an entire world of commonality lies beneath.”
I want to begin with
that premise.
When The World’s Most
Dangerous Community Organizer won the presidency in 2008 Republicans of every
stripe bemoaned the humiliating subjugation of John McCain.
Beltway Republicans
lost Middle America because they were ideologically incapable of addressing two
great concerns: economic insecurity and
the perception that we are losing the
America that we grew up in.
Economic insecurity
is traceable to NAFTA-GATT globalization, under which it makes economic sense
for US companies to close factories here, build plants in China and export back
to the United States. Manufacturing now accounts for less than 10 percent of
all US jobs. The most recent such
example is Carrier which makes furnaces in its Indianapolis plant. The plant is moving to Monterrey, Mexico.
Social insecurity is
traceable to the unprecedented massive illegal immigration which has brought in
scores of millions who are altering the
character of our communities and competing with US workers by offering
their services for far less pay.
As long as the “establishment
elite” in the Republican Party are addicted to K Street cash and the monomania of
their own reelection it will not address either.
These transfixions
have caused the Party’s base to splinter.
We are witnessing good Republicans savaging each other at the water
cooler, neighborhood block parties and most especially on conservative websites
and cable television. We are destroying each other.
There can be no
uniting the Party at this point. Passions
are running high in both the Cruz and Trump camps. The loyalty pledge each GOP candidate signed
in late September of last year affirmed they would endorse the nominee
regardless of who it was. With neither
candidate abiding by that pledge they have, by default, engendered a visceral
loathing of the other’s supporters.
Cruz and Trump
supporters are focused on eviscerating each other with venomous insults. What in the name of all that is holy does
this accomplish? The fuse has been
lit. Rather than doing battle against
the gargoyle Hillary Clinton we are fighting each other. I could never have imagined such toxicity.
Is this how the
Republican Party passes from this Earth?
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