I did not know that Ace has, like me, given up on the GOP. That was made very plain today with
this post......there are only so many times one can say "I'm quitting this party and will henceforth only support third party candidates."
Well, I have said it. Many of us have. We mean it. And it's over.
Go ahead and do what you like, GOP. The divorce is final.
Done.
Chuck Shumer says he doesn't mind the Republicans' piecemeal strategy (passing small separate bills on immigration), because he intends just to collect them all up into a single bill which will be "conferenced" with the Senate, and then he'll deliver amnesty just as the Gang of Eight has long plotted.
I guess this is why I'm not terribly political anymore, or it seems as if I don't care as much. I don't. I knew this was coming, I knew there was nothing to stop it.
There will be a third party and there will be a 20 year period of Democratic dominance.
It is unavoidable.
So I have retreated into a sort of philosophical take on it all. Politics isn't fun when you always lose and worse yet your team plays to lose, because secretly they have a great deal of affection for and allegiance to the other side.
There's no point plotting this move and that move; all moves are failures and result in the same dismal outcome. I don't know if it is an effective strategy to just retreat into the completely impractical/philosophical, but I do know I have no interest in playing a ludicrous game in which there is only one set of permissible moves and only one permitted outcome.
I don't want to play this pretend-game. There is no point to this pretend-game, except to snooker people into thinking they have some input into the system, which they do not.
For those of us who are done: You may have our acquiesensce but you will no longer have our votes.
It's like I say about gerbils. Gerbils will always get out of their cages because all they do is plot 14 hours per day how to get out of the cage. They have no other thoughts. They have no other goals.
You cannot control something that is plotting every waking hour to escape the cage.
The Republican Gerbils want this, they will never stop wanting it, they will never stop, period.
I'm tired of fighting with them. At some point, you just accept that the Gerbil wants to be free to be eaten by the cat. And you let him go.
Because you have better things to do with your time than minding a Gerbil all day long.
You know, all these months that Mickey Kaus has been saying "Hey, don't go to sleep, we have to fight amensty," I've been thinking one thing: What's the point? It's kabuki. It's nothing but a never-ending string of "breakthroughs" and "dramatic compromises" and "billions of new dollars for border security" all with the exact same goal, to con us into acquiescence.
It's always the same deal, they just try to think of somewhat different ways to say it. Like a very bad tv show. Which it all actually is, in a very real way.
But I don't want to watch this crap. And I've said so continuously.
So I'm done.
I don't know if he already announced that he was finished with the GOP and I missed it or if this is the official announcement...it can be interpreted both ways. But, yeah, this is me now. I'm finished* if I hadn't made it clear already.
As some of you know, I was involved in local Republican party stuff. I was a precinct committee rep for my county. I quit that post and turned in my Republican registration (I briefly reinstated it to vote against Romney in the primary) and I quit giving donations to the party. When did I do this? During the push for amnesty during the GWB years. Now I'm not going to vote R anymore, either. Except maybe in the general election. If I really, really like the candidate like, say, Ted Cruz. Otherwise, no. I'm done with them. I don't think my one vote will matter one way or the other anyway. If no one else takes a principled stand like I am doing then it won't matter...we will continue on with the charade and my vote won't be missed. If a lot of the base does what I'm doing then it wouldn't have mattered if I had stayed to "fight the good fight" against the coming Democrat horde.
So, yeah...get ready for a few decades wandering in the wilderness. The Democrats are going to take over completely and the country will really, really race over the cliff at light speed complete with unsustainable debt, assaults on free speech and other liberties, ultra high mega taxes (plus regulations) that will kill most small businesses, socialist/Marxist appointments to the SCOTUS, and so on and so on. The country WILL get the government that they deserve and everyone will complain about it and it will only get worse until, like the alcoholic or drug addict, they finally "bottom out" and begin to look for a different way. And it could take decades. I may never live to see it. And it may never happen because, you know...sometimes the alcoholic and drug addict just die.
Perhaps Texas really will secede (they can, you know...unlike the other states which were merely territories, Texas was an actual country before joining the union) and if it does I will probably sell out here in CO and head to my property down there. But otherwise I am now resigned to living in a socialist/utopian hell hole of a country because that's where we are pointed and there is no foot on the brake and no one is fighting over the wheel.
But no more Republican party for me. I'm not fooled anymore that there is a reason to fight. There isn't. Screw them all. I do hope that someday they are all richly rewarded for their betrayal.
*Let me qualify that: Amnesty is my red line. Once crossed, I am absolutely, positively done. But I'm kinda assuming that it's going to happen so I'm sort of pre-emptively saying that I'm done.
