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| Why the Republican party keeps losing |
| 2023-11-09 |
| [Zman] There are three aspects to problem solving that seem obvious when stated but are not always obvious to philosophers of problem solving. One is that you have to identify that there is a problem, as in an unwanted result. The next step is to then narrow in on the possible causes of the problem. The final step is to then produce a list of possible corrections to these complaints and causes. In the world of problem solving, this is known as Complaint, Cause and Correction. If you are a working man who does productive things for a living, this is something with which you are familiar. If you fix big scary trucks for a living, every day someone points at a big scary truck, hands you a list of complaints and you then set about finding the causes of those complaints and their corresponding corrections. If you are a philosopher of big scary trucks, then this is a bit of a mystery. You wonder how any of this fits in with your particular school’s philosophy or ideology. This disconnect is obvious in politics. The Republicans have been vexed by one primary complaint for close to a decade. The people they want to swindle into voting for them do not like them very much. In fact, they went so far as to vote for the one guy the party said was off-limits in 2016, Donald Trump. Despite the party’s best efforts to rid themselves of this troublesome man, the rank-and-file voters still prefer him over whatever the party offers as an alternative. In other words, the party’s complaint is that the voters refuse to support the blocks of wood the party is selling and they support the guy they hate. This turned up in the local elections yesterday, where the Republican Party underperformed again. They even put up a based black guy in the Kentucky governor’s race, but the Democrat still won, in a state that is reliably Republican. In Virginia, the party failed to win the state house, despite their claims about the governor’s popularity. Going back to the big scary truck idea, the complaint is that it is the wrong sort of big scary truck, and the driver wants his old truck back. You, the big scary truck fixer guy can certainly figure out the cause of the complaints. The company bought the wrong truck, or the driver is a knucklehead. The trouble is you have no correction for these causes, so the complaint must remain unaddressed. That is the problem for the Republican Party as it sinks into irrelevance. The philosophers of political problem solving, like the philosophers of big scary trucks, will immediately point to their favorite correction. No matter the complaint, no matter the cause, they will argue that the correction is to do whatever it is they are paid to promote or what their ideological school promotes. They will skip that middle part, the cause, and maybe even recast the complaint to their liking. This is why politic punditry is endless rounds of more of the same. There will be some who pretend to be smart by focusing on the cause. They will roll out some polls claiming that the party does not appeal to this group of new people or this other newly labeled identity group. They will argue, for example, the GOP lost support among young female Tinder users in Ohio. They failed to capture the one-legged lesbian Elvis impersonator vote in the Northern Virginia suburbs. The point of this analysis is to avoid looking too closely at the complaints and the causes. The place to start for this result and what will be a similar result in the 2024 election is the complaint portion of the work order. If you asked white people to list their top-5 complaints with the party, none of them can be found in the op-ed section of major news sites or in the talking points of candidates. For close to a decade now these voters have been pilloried by the diversity rackets. The party’s corrective to this in Kentucky, a very white state, was to offer up Jeb Bush in blackface. -- SNIP -- If the Republican Party were operating the big scary truck shop, the salesmen would be festooned in the flags of foreign countries and showing the prospects pictures of the one black guy they have working in their shop. Meanwhile, the mechanics would be spending their days driving penis pictures on the work orders. No one would do business with them because no one would understand the point of their business or know why they should do business with them. In fairness, the party leaders probably know this at some level. They are smart and clever in the rat-like way that is common in politics. They surely see that they are running a generational bust out. The demographic that makes the Republican Party possible is sinking into permanent minority status. The goal here is to keep them from noticing while the party squeezes the last drops from the racket. The big scary truck shop will then be set on fire for the insurance money. |
| Posted by:M. Murcek |
| #18 Do not forget election theft. I still think its' a big part of the way the Democrats work in some areas. |
| Posted by: Ruprecht 2023-11-09 17:41 |
| #17 A chicken egg is not a chicken. a female egg is not a human but a female egg with a heartbeat is. the life is in the blood. |
| Posted by: irish rage boy 2023-11-09 15:18 |
| #16 The, even. |
| Posted by: Zorba Lumplump4352 2023-11-09 14:35 |
| #15 Right-Handmaid's Tale For Atwood, a story too awful To tell, but for Moslems, quite lawful: "Ofabdul, quit bitchin', Get back in that kitchen, And fetch me another falafel... No, wait... make that a baby!" "Okay, okay. Hey, I thought you were gonna get me a slave... and in case you haven't noticed, this ain't a kitchen, it's only the back of the tent!" "Yeah, yeah. If you wanted the perfect man, maybe you shoulda got groomed by Mohammed." "Y'know, Abdul, I sometimes think you'd be happier if you'd married--" "Careful, now!" "What? I was only gonna say, if you'd married one of your lodge brothers. Or a camel. Or just found yourself a nice Jewish girl in the first place." "One of these days, Ofabdul... Salaam! Boom! To the moon!" "Abdul, baby, you're the greatest!" [muezzin wails theme over tiny twinkling star, big broad scimitar] |
| Posted by: Zorba Lumplump4352 2023-11-09 14:34 |
| #14 ^^^ Facts have always been optional with the "kill the babies" crowd. |
| Posted by: Tom 2023-11-09 14:20 |
| #13 I hear people say a fetus is just a "clump of cells". Then I look at a sonogram and I wonder how they can say that. Moral decay is the only answer that comes to me. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-09 14:12 |
| #12 If you leave Abu, don't look back. "Pillar of salt" and all that :-( |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-09 13:38 |
| #11 mossomo, it does appear that we have lost on that issue and clearly the pragmatic thing would be to move on. But the moral decay that is indicated by such a loss depresses me to the point where I'm almost ready to abandon this country. Dunno where I'd go. I always thought I'd rather fight than flee but it seems the fight is lost. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-09 13:34 |
| #10 For one segment of voters, social/moral issues like abortion and gay rights and legalized drugs are more important than anything else. It blinds them to the far more important issues of the economy, national security(which includes the border) and election integrity. When the nation becomes a one-party police state, is overrun by illegal aliens and in the throes of an economic collapse, these voters might wish they had paid more attention to matters outside of their extremely narrow focus. Then it will be too late. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-09 13:27 |
| #9 Republican Base is not motivated by platitudes, ie Abortion. Fact: They do not show up. If you change the messaging, I bet you will change the outcome. But do you know who platitudes do motivate? Single Moms. They will never vote against their "Reproductive Rights". That does motivate them to show up. IDK why this does not make sense to the Establishment. The Left has won that messaging, and the RNC lose that messaging battle every time. Shaming the rest of us wont encourage us to show up. But this Abortion Battle does encourage Single Moms to show up and vote en block ~70% for Dems. That's one reason, a main reason, Repubs keep losing: it's the abortion. Sad, but true. If you want to win, move on. |
| Posted by: mossomo 2023-11-09 13:21 |
| #8 /\ Black AND white. * File under ultimate embarrassing inconvenient truth. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-09 11:52 |
| #7 /\ Exactly. I've often wondered about the racial stats. Not black or white, but black AMD white. Did I really just type that ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-11-09 11:47 |
| #6 You wanna know the cause? Here it is... |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2023-11-09 11:36 |
| #5 They lose like it's their job - it is. Winners like Reagan and Trump had to 1st defeat the GOP prior to defeating Dems. They weren't supposed to win as it's not the GOPs job to win. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2023-11-09 09:08 |
| #4 ...why do you ask? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-11-09 07:44 |
| #3 Why does the Republican party keeps losing? Maybe because they are still using 1980's moral/civil election tactics, and failing to look down the road and OUT the LSD's long term agenda goals of destroying a FREE America. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2023-11-09 07:43 |
#2 After the US financial system self-destructs, the grid and internet collapse and food deliveries to grocery stores and restaurants end The big scary truck shop will then be set on fire for the insurance money. |
| Posted by: Elmaper McGurque1612 2023-11-09 05:28 |
| #1 Because they're morons who spit on their constituents in order to be politically correct? Because they think that you get "Black votes" by running a Black candidate? Because they alienate female voters by their asinine anti-abortion platform? |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-11-09 03:07 |
