At times, politics seems a bit of a poker game. After the German defeat of World War I, Allies met with the Axis powers whereupon, from the standpoint of geography, the German nation shrank considerably. It was the price the Germans had to pay for peace. However, this tradeoff might have been too lopsided, as the Germans were right back a few years later, wanting their land back – and then some.
Lately, trades have been made among our country’s two main political parties.
Kamala Harris touted her newly received Republican endorsements on Twitter/X last week. “I have the endorsement of 200 Republicans who formerly worked with President Bush, Mitt Romney, and John McCain,” she said. The post included a graphic with a list of names, most of which aren’t recognizable by the average observer. The media was quick to pick up on the news, with the implicit subtext that Trump is so bad that not even his own party can stomach support for him.
But is the truth this simple? A closer look suggests otherwise.
Consider a post Bobby Kennedy made on the same day as the Harris post. “The reason why VP Harris has the support of 200 Republicans is that these establishment Republicans are closer to her views than to President Trump’s,” he wrote. “They exemplify what I’ve called the ‘uniparty.’ Trump is running against the establishment, and that’s why they hate him.”
After it was reported that Dick Cheney and John Bolton were endorsing Harris, Kennedy said, “The Harris campaign’s warm welcome of endorsements by disgraced Neocon leaders like Dick Cheney and John Bolton signifies the final takeover of the Democratic party by the Military Industrial Complex and its Neocon puppeteers.”
These crossovers are only the most recent examples. For instance, Democrats during the Bush years claimed to be for an enforced Southern border, back before they were aligned with business institutions like the chambers of commerce. In addition, a quick glance at the Democratic donor list reveals that it is the party of Wall Street, a group that, along with the rest of corporate America, used to be squarely in Republican ranks.
Clearly, moves are being made.
People don’t make political deals for nothing, however. Hence, we must ask ourselves what is getting exchanged in these switching political allegiances.
The best I can tell, the primary commodity exchanged in these tradeoffs is the corresponding acceptance of the left’s new sexual ethic.
How does one come to this conclusion? A mere observance of the facts should suffice.
Our government – whose foreign policy is run by the Neocons mentioned by Kennedy above – is now pro-transgender, proven by the fact that our foreign aid is dependent on the receiving country’s willingness to teach this to school kids. In addition, Corporate America has been accused of “going woke” for several years now, with Budweiser and Target being two of many examples. Therefore, it is only natural to conclude that what the Democrats are getting back for taking on the political motivations of these groups is that the groups accept the new morality.
These changing allegiances show just how important the transgender movement (and, to a lesser extent, Critical Race Theory) is to the Democratic Party. They were willing to sell out their previous positions, which were anti-war and worker-focused, in order to build the coalition for what some call their new cultural revolution. It is not a good trade-off, and the suffering and ugliness of our politics and culture are proof of this.
Republicans should not shy away from accepting this trade. They should embrace the middle-class worker that the Democratic party is abandoning, as well as become unabashedly the party of international peace and cooperation. In addition, they should now, more than ever, become the party of traditional mores, for the house that Democrats are building is one of cards that can only implode in time.
Why is this?
They’ve traded virtue for vice, and Republicans, if they play their cards correctly, can come out the winner.
Along with his father, Allen Keller runs a lumber business in Stevenson, Alabama. He has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University and an MBA from University of Virginia. He can be reached for comment at allen@kellerlumber.net.
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