No one comes home poor from Capitol Hill. We all know that, don’t we?
We’ve learned to call it “the Swamp.” Elected officials, appointed officials, career bureaucrats–all feeding from the public trough. Feeding their families from the public trough. It’s all tax money, an infinitely renewable resource. And just having a connection to some big gator in the swamp can land you a fabulous no-show job on a Ukrainian gas board. Your whole family can eat the public’s flesh and suck its blood.
So along comes Donald Trump with a cry of “Drain the Swamp!” And the American people realize they want to drain the Swamp. Only the Swamp doesn’t want to be drained, and it’s fighting to keep its hold on the country’s major blood vessels.
Enter Joe Biden, doddering, lying, corrupt Joe Biden. A lifelong creature of the Swamp. Now the Democrat front-runner, the Party establishment having crushed Crazy Bernie Sanders like a bug.
And enter assorted “conservatives” who’ve been kind of quiet about all this so far, but have suddenly discovered unexpected wonderfulness in Jibbering Joe.
A few days ago on townhall.com, it was some “conservative” rhapsodizing on “Joe’s fundamental decency.” Good grief. Where did that come from? The next day it was another writer, this one praising Biden’s “good common sense.” Here we have entered the Twilight Zone. And yesterday it was someone else again, saying how Biden’s the business as usual candidate and surely we can live with that, it’s not that awful.
What kind of jolly-juice are they drinking? Dudes, Joe Biden is not from the Swamp. Joe Biden is the Swamp.
They’re even talking about bringing back creepy John Kerry for another go-round as secretary of state. “We can too arm Iran with nuclear weapons! Just see if we don’t!” And we can go back to full-blown Obamacare.
Oh! and if the Democrat platform is to be believed, we can erase our southern border, get those illegals into the voting booth, lock up everybody who doesn’t believe in Man-Made Climate Change, and see how many trillions of dollars we can piss away, and how fast we can do it, before the whole shebang collapses.
Evidently there are Republicans who like the Swamp just the way it is, one big, happy family up there on the Hill, don’t rock the boat, there’s plenty of goodies for all. They’ve been afraid to come out as Never-Trumpers. But now they’re Sometimes-Bideners.
I’ve felt for a long time that the Republicans and Democrats are different faces of the same coin.
But they’re not. That only applies to the Swamp creatures on Capitol Hill. Rank-and-file Republicans love America; Democrats hate it. Republicans don’t trust big government; but for Democrats it’s the answer to everything. The difference between the two is as stark as night and day.
You surely don’t think a Hillary Clinton presidency would have resembled Trump’s in any way–do you?
Yes, we have our share of slithering weasels in the GOP–who can forget Speaker of the House Paul Ryan? Or bums like Romney and McCain. They will have to be run out of the party, if we ever get the chance to do it.
But the job immediately at hand is to prevent Democrats from ever again getting power in this country. If that happens, we’re toast.
The rank and file, no problem. I agree, most Republicans are salt of the earth. There are some higher ups in the party that are swamp creatures and would be glad to go along with the liberal agenda.
I can remember when the Democrat Party had its share of good and decent people: heck, I interviewed enough of them. I wonder where they all went.
How pathetic. Not one person, really, to trust. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
“Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal democrats are the lowest form of politicians”-General George S. Patton
The GOP tent of today is where believing Christians can have a say, and where conservatives can find a home. The problem is it has not been that way in the past. Trump is leading the way to a renewal of patriotism like Reagan did. We don’t look to a man, but when one is willing to fight for us like Trump and take such ungodly abuse, we must stand by him in thick and thin. Our trust is in the Lord, and the Lord is using Trump for His purposes just as He uses us.
Sometimes I think that, in worldly terms, President Trump is all we’ve got. And I know that we are all he’s got.