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Tuesday, February 16, 2021

A THIRD PARTY…WHAT TO DO, WHAT TO DO???


I know, I know, who gives a crap about polls, right? And while I choose to simply ignore most, it was a poll that was released just this past Monday that did manage to catch my eye. You see, it was a Gallup study that seems to show that support for a third political party is now at an all-time high. And while I must admit that I have never really been much of a fan of going the third party route, what I saw from the Republicans during the last four years, and from some over the course of just the last few weeks, has definitely got me thinking. And what I saw from Mitch McConnell, just this past weekend, got me thinking even more that something now needs to be done!  

So anyway, it was according to this latest Gallup poll that pretty much a majority of voters now believe that the “parties do such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.” In fact, it’s just 33 percent of Americans who now believe that the current political representatives are doing even an “adequate” job serving their most essential purpose. And it was also according to this poll that 50 percent of those polled now actually refer to themselves as being Independent voters, as opposed to members of either side. And so Gallup’s most recent results come from poll data that was collected between January 21 and February 2.

Overall, 37 percent of the population feels positive about the Republican Party, while it’s 48 percent who actually approve of the Democrat Party. It’s that number alone that I find rather troubling. After having watched the Democrats cheer on rampaging mobs burn, loot and seize areas of some of our largest cities, put the country through not one but two sham impeachments, combined with the outright theft of the most recent presidential election the fact that nearly half of the population actually approves of the Democrat Party is, quite frankly, more than a little disheartening. And it paints a rather stark picture of what America has become.

The desire for an alternative to either side of the aisle has grown considerably since Gallup’s initial research into the subject back in 2003 and is an opinion that has been held by the majority of voters since going back to 2012. While independent voters have consistently held this opinion in the past, it’s Republicans who are now almost as likely to support the idea. In September 2020, just 40 percent of Republicans wanted to see a third-party alternative. By late January, that number had spiked to 63 percent. Meanwhile, as the Democrat Party has become more radical, support for a third party among Democrat voters has dropped from 52 percent to 48 percent.

Many Republicans and conservative independents favor the RNC moving further right. Among the largely dissatisfied voters, more than two-thirds want former President Trump to remain the party’s leader. It’s 40 percent of conservatives want to see their party become moreso, while 34 percent want it to stay the same, and 24 percent to shift toward the center. Meanwhile, among Democrats, 34 percent would like to see the party move further left, while 25 percent want to see the party become more moderate. And 42 percent of left-leaning independents want to see Democrats move toward the center, while 35 percent believe it is still too conservative.

As things stand right now, the most likely result from the creation of a third party would be to split conservatives between Trump loyalists and those who would rather the RINOs remain at the helm. As 2022 looms large for many seated politicians, on both sides of the aisle, I’m just not smart enough to know what is the right way to go. I do know that I feel ignored by those whom I routinely vote for, and so my first response would be to ignore them and let the chips fall where they may. And minus a Trump endorsed candidate in any contest in which I would be voting, I would likely be tempted to simply stay home. But is that really the right answer? I don’t know.

I have previously made very clear my displeasure with our leaders in the Republican Party. And what we are now in desperate need of are politicians who do what it is that they are elected to do, not just what THEY wish to do. What we have now is a uni-party whose members seem far more concerned with lining their own pockets and selling out the very same hard-working Americans who elected them. Trying to take over the Republican Party is viewed as a waste of time by many because of how many elections would be needed to successfully purge all of the squishy RINOs. But a message must be sent and an example must be made. So what to do? I don’t know!

Despite the growing number of voices from within the Republican Party establishment claiming that the party is dead unless it chooses to move itself just as far as it can from Donald Trump, it’s just the opposite that is so very obviously true. Because, in reality, the Republican Party is dead WITHOUT Donald Trump. While I can very safely say that I will never again donate to the party, I could find my way to donating to a specific candidate if he, or she, happened to be endorsed by President Trump. It’s the leadership of the Republican Party who seem to be totally devoid of those true conservative ideals to the point where I tend to favor just letting them sink.

It’s hard to deny that RINOs have done more damage to this country, courtesy of their smoke and mirrors, than the Democrats could have ever hoped to do. It’s been for the four years that we’ve watched the RINOs fight right alongside the Democrats in what was a continuing effort to put every speedbump imaginable to front of Donald Trump in the attempt to stall or to derail completely his ‘America First’ agenda. Add to that the fact that the RINOs knew the election was fraudulent and yet refused to stand for honesty and election integrity and let Trump fall. And then there were the RINOs who recently joined the Democrats in voting to impeach. It’s time for a serious change.

But I’m torn when it comes to what the right answer is. Yes, I have said that I am done with the party, because I am tired of the lies and all of the broken promises. But do we take those actions which we know that, without a doubt, will result in allowing the Democrats win, and with relative ease, election after election? And then hope that after maybe two election cycles the Republican Party would be sufficiently decimated and enough voters would abandon ship and then sign on to a third party? If only we could look into the future. So personally I’m at the point where I will vote for those Republicans that I feel I can, and not for those that I simply cannot support.

I mean there is reason for hope. After all, the recent election was a clear rejection of Democrat values and showed that this is still a majority conservative nation. More states voted for President Trump and more states have both conservative governors and legislatures. The Republicans won more state houses, governorships, more House seats for the simple reason that President Trump sat atop the ballot. Republicans maintained 50 senate seats, picked up 14 house seats and won every one of the 27 projected tossup House elections. So is totally abandoning the Republican Party the best option here or does selectively abandoning RINO candidates make more sense?

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