Another reason to not donate to the RNC
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Well, you don't understand union politics then. It is entirely about winning elections. And the challenge is whether the union bureaucracy will put its thumb on the scales.
The Republican Party is far more than its administrative organs. It is mainly the membership. The question is how to cultivate and mobilize them. This is a grass-roots effort.
You were doing fine up to the point of corporate interests, who have no concern for "stopping" the Democrats. Any more than background money has any concern over who wins a boxing match. They simply determine who will take the dive. Cutting off those interests by throwing out the entrenched bureaucracy is a necessary act.
In the union, we had it bad. Top-level corruption: the hired Executive Director bribing the elected officials to allow him to manage all their duties for them. Slush funds. Keeping the membership in the dark by violating IRS and NLRA regulations. Yet we were able to surmount all these obstacles with volunteer effort, propaganda (campaigning), a slate of candidates and a policy agenda. It took 5 years and thousands of dollars, but we finally were in a showdown moment. He sneered at us and told us we were transient but he was here to stay. So we fired him. (The best way to establish who runs the show.) He had his counter-coup plan to return, but the membership made it clear that if he did, they would enact a campaign to decertify the union. He did not come back.
So, that is my personal experiment in corruption-fighting. It can be done. You just want to give up and let these bastards continue. You don't need to destroy the Party (what can that possibly mean?). You only need to throw them out. Are you afraid to do that?
Fear aside, it is mandatory. You don't retire from the field of political combat to lick wounds and seek greener pastures, leaving the enemy intact with lots of infrastructure. You sound to me like we should destroy the nation in order to get rid of the Deep State. That's absurd. So, it is equally absurd to seek to destroy the Republican Party when we need it as infrastructure for an America First Republicanism. But what about the RINOs we throw out? Who cares? They will wither and die, having nothing to perch on. What about the corporate interests? Well, they will only have the Democrats left to throw money at. Mjuch good it will do them.
Like I said earlier, I agree with your idealistic view that the republican party simply needs to be cleaned, and reformed. The problem is, this nation does not have the time to waste doing it. Seriously. We need immediate action. The party has had 6 years to fix itself, and it did not. Time's up, burn it down, start fresh.
If the party decides to repair itself at some point in time down the road, great. But until that happens, this country needs a change of direction. And, it needs to happen now, before a lame duck Biden, or establishment republican involves the USA in war with Russia, while dictating 2 extra jabs per year for the next 6 years, plus more lockdowns, and of course, monkey plops vaxx too. We don't have time to put up with any of that shit for 1 minute longer.
We need action now, not wishful thinking.
It will take less time to do that than to destroy one party and build another from scratch.
And it is NOT an "idealistic" view. I did it in real time with real people. It is a practical view, from experience. You are the one with the idealistic view, no experience, and imagining (1) that stamping out the vermin is not necessary, and (2) it is no problem to build the structure of a new party from scratch.
You are complaining that "the Party" has taken too much time to correct itself? I have heard that complaint before. And my question to you is: what have you done to effect the correction? In my union campaign, I met many right-thinking but feckless people who complained about the union and its policies, but always refused to get involved to reform it. "Oh, it can't be reformed." After we reformed it, that argument wasn't heard much more.
Besides which, walking away from the GOP and leaving the RINOs in charge is just offering them an opportunity to (1) denounce us as a failed brand and keep the special interest money flowing, and (2) inject MAGA-fakes into the new party to undermine it and make it ineffectual. Why would you allow that kind of pest to remain in existence? (Your approach assures that they would.)
The "Party" is always the people, which you seem not to understand (and makes me think your concern for the party lacks any real identity with the party). The people are coming to the fore by killing off the RINOs in primaries. With God's blessing, there will be a red MAGA victory this fall, and that will mean a turning of the tide. If you want to help, get your oars ready. According to the adage: lead, follow, or get out of the way. Carping on the sidelines is useless.
I'm curious, does this reformed union you speak of contribute money to any political campaign's? Care to show a list?
A list of what? As far as I know, there were never any political contributions from union funds, even before the coup. (The union did submit dues to other labor organizations, and because money is fungible, it is possible it was ultimately used politically. I have no knowledge it was.) That sort of thing was a political hot potato in the union, so it was scrupulously avoided.
It was the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and mostly pertaining to The Boeing Company and Spirit Aerospace (the successor to Boeing Wichita). The ousted executive director was Charles Bofferding. I've been gone for a long time, so I can't vouch for current conditions. All my political allies have also retired.