Week 43

[cactuswatcher]

I am saddened that it took the events of yesterday in DC. for certain Republican members of Congress to realize Donald Trump's campaign to defraud the American nation into giving him the power to stay in the White House as long as he chose was more than an innocent political maneuver, and that Donald Trump was never just some "good ol' boy meaning no harm." I am not surprised that 2 Senators and over 120 Congressmen did not learn that lesson even then.

If the Senate had done its duty and convicted Trump months ago when he was impeached, none of this could have happened. Putting party loyalty above your duty to your country is inexcusable. If as some pundits think, the Republican Party is coming apart over this, Republicans have only themselves to blame.

Well over 74 million people voted for Trump this time. I maintain most of them were suckers, and they mostly have themselves to blame for that, too.

Comments

[shadowkat]

Many were just "Republicans" and voted along party lines. My mother knows a lot of them, and they just always vote Republican. They don't really care who is running. They vote for the party not the candidate. Kind of like the Brits do, in a way.

But quite a few of those have been freaked out by this, and may leave the Republican Party. My uncle (not blood related) did. And so did his brother in disgust.

This was the implosion of the Republican Party. And it is in its death throes. I honestly think the Libertarian and Independent Party may take its place in the years to come.

[cactuswatcher]

Many Democrats vote the same way. One definition of a sucker is someone, who despite having all their faculties, insists on having someone else make their decisions for them.

[shadowkat]

Yep.

Some are party affiliated.

Also, quite a few are...racist. There are people who switched from the Democratic Party in the 1960s to the Republican Party, because of the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act passed by the Democrat administrations under LBJ and JFK. They did for racist reasons.

People vote for a whole host of weird reasons.

That said - I do think anyone who voted Republican in this last election needs to be held accountable for their actions, no matter what their reasons were.