Wisdom from the ages.
Come November, save the nation, vote out Republicans from office everywhere, and at every level of government.
Continue to support the independent investigations and the rule of law.
The modern Republican party has been usurped, and has completely abdicated all responsibility to be a check and balance against this erratic and dangerous president who seeks to undermine and overturn what truly makes America great.
If you truly love and care about America, vote out Republicans everywhere. If you are a Republican, the time has come to recognize that the party you love and support has been taken over and corrupted. It has to be removed from power and built new.
The Republican party as we once knew it has ceased to exist, and in its place has risen the cult of personality that surrounds Trump, and those who have been bamboozled by him.
It is not just about policy differences, the very soul and existence of the nation is at stake.
In the meantime, support reforms like Instant Runoff Voting, to give We the People, the tools and opportunity to course correct the nation. Sadly, now is not the time to split votes and allow Republicans, who have already gamed and gerrymandered the system to extreme advantage, to use party machine shenanigans to stay in power. “Majority Rules” needs to be the basis of our election systems.
Now is definitely not the time to sit home. We must stand against, advocate against, and vote against, the path that Trump is dragging the nation.
Don’t let alternative candidates sway you to throw the advantage to “team Red”.
The Democrats are a flawed party at best, the Democrats may not deserve your support, you may not agree with their policies, but nor are they the existential threat to America that Trump represents.
If there is a viable alternative or independent candidate that truly has support, by all means choose them, but where it appears that split votes will throw races to Republicans, I call upon the candidate who looks like they will be the spoiler to drop out of the races where this is a possibility, whether that is the Independent/Alternative candidate or the Democrat.
Now is not the time for meaningless protest votes. The stakes are too high.
It is time for Progressives, Liberals, Moderates, Independents, disillusioned Republicans abandoned by their own party, Democrats of all stripes and varieties, and disaffected voters to rally together and stand up and be counted for America.
We must compromise, and come together to support candidates to oust Republicans who have abandoned America to support a con man, and quite likely, a traitor.
HelloJerk says
On the one hand, we constantly hear stories about Republicans speaking out against Trump. The narrative from this post tells us that those same Republicans are part of some Trump cult. If you believe both, you are either experiencing cognitive dissonance, or you have spun a really great story in your mind about how someone can speak out about a person and be a sycophant, simultaneously. This narrative seems to use the argument that the Republicans who speak out about Trump are not “real” Republicans. This narrative is committing the rhetorical fallacy known as an Appeal to Purity (sometimes referred to as “no true Scotsman”). Fair enough
Mitch says
Have you considered the fact that many Republicans are against Trump, yet there is still a core group that is for Trump?
It is certainly possible to address both groups not think they are the same.
I note George Will and Max Boot Both right frequently about the need to move the Republican Party away from Trump, and both are conservative Republicans.