There is a baseline CTH readers are likely familiar with, but something we have not emphasized enough in quite some time.
The Republican National Committee (RNC), and the Democrat National Committee (DNC), are private clubs.
The RNC and DNC are corporations, private businesses; and just like all private businesses, they have the ability to make rules, bylaws, terms and conditions of membership and association that are completely arbitrary according to their charter.
The RNC and DNC are not entities of government. The RNC and DNC are not affiliates of government. The RNC and DNC have absolutely no connection to government, other than their arbitrary business model for helping politicians enter and remain within government.
In fact, the RNC and DNC are simply private corporations who engage in the business of politics. Whenever we start to forget the DNC and RNC are private corporations, we can slip into the mistaken belief that they operate on any form of baseline altruism.
These corporations exist for the fulfillment of their mission; and their mission is to use the business of politics as a method of financial reward to sustain the business model.
Some call these private entities, these corporations, “clubs,” because using that term helps to remind us that these groups do not operate without a private agenda.
The rules within the RNC club are determined by the people who control the club charter, primarily large donors who fund the corporate business. If they have a particular intent or direction, they wish the club to support or take, they control how the club engages in the process of achieving their outcome. That effort is taken regardless of the opinion from the subordinate members in the club.
Through the process of controlling the corporations, the private clubs, both the RNC and DNC control how political events take place. Nothing within this process is contingent upon the support of the voting electorate.
Each state and local precinct has their own chapter of the club, and often the corporate direction, specifically the club activity in/around Washington DC, is different from what the local groups want to see take place. However, just because the local chapter of the group disagrees with the parent company or board of directors, does not mean the larger corporate entity will change anything.
When we are evaluating political events inside the United States, it is critical to keep reminding ourselves that what is taking place, or what is not taking place, are outcomes determined within the executive suites of a private club. This is an unfortunate system dynamic, but it is a critical point that once fully understood explains many of the issues people have with the registered politicians within the club.
The RNC and DNC are businesses. Their decisions are business decisions. The club actions, or lack thereof, are all part of the business of politics.
The tenured participants in the club do not operate arbitrarily in a vacuum. They talk to each other, communicate with each other, organize with each other, plan with each other, and collaborate for the larger objectives of the private corporation.
Nothing within the business system of DC and club politics has anything to do with the constitutional framework of U.S. government.
Again, for emphasis. The governing process and constitutional aspects of the framework within the U.S. government, have absolutely nothing to do with the two private corporations known as the RNC and DNC.
A potato farmer has no influence on McDonalds, despite the fact the fast food corporation sells french fries.
Please keep this reference point in mind.
And as private corporations, they are all free to trade stocks, etc using the insider information they are all privy to. Four of them beat every hedge fund’s earnings last year. Top of the pile? McConnell. Who’s surprised.
One astute pro football player asked the relevant question. If they, as NFL players, are not allowed to bet on their games, why is Congress, both houses, allowed to trade the markets?
I think we have all we need to have to judge both parties serving in the House and the Senate as corrupt and amoral.
And I do use the term “serve” as loosely as I can.
They write the laws. They have us so busy running around in fear, so we don’t have the time or energy to focus on them.
As long & hard as you play Chicken Little, you’ll NEVER get America First Patriots to join you.
Corporations write the laws. The congress corrupticons read them later to see what’s in them.
Every member of the Chamber of Commerce has writer’s cramp.
The congress corrupticons’ aides read them later. The corrupticons are too busy fund raising to bother.
The RNC and DNC Are Corporations – it is called THE SWAMP!!
Like Sundance taught us way back when, those are private Clubs and we aren’t members.
“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it” – George Carlin.
bertdilbert,
WADR, “they” our “representatives” (meh) haven’t “written” a law in DECADES!
To paraphrase Sundance.. “K Street writes the ‘laws'”.
It’s CONgress’ job as “salesmen” to polish the merde’.
Best,
s
bertdilbert,
But to your larger point, that is EXACTLY the “strategy”!!! To keep everyone at each other’s throats, to save their own..
As always, bert, you are SPOT ON.
Well, actually, they don’t write the laws anymore. The Lobbyists do. See Sundance’s most excellent post about this.
Did they ever? (write laws). Just rewatched Mr Smith, and Saunders tells Jimmy he can’t just write his own bill, it requires a whole process, and outside expert input, and committees and meetings and hearings and research and such.
Even though the RNC uses the Trump name in its never ending appeals for donations I am not sending them one cent. I distinctly remember how the RNC was actually GOPE/Uniparty for much if not all of Trump’s presidency. Don’t trust those folks. I’ll donate directly to Trump but not to the RNC.
Correct, Garrison. Directly or not at all. Cut out the pretend middle man.
You are absolutely correct!! Right On!@
Spineless kevin mccarthy got hundreds of millions of dollars as did the good year blimp rona romeny – mcdaniel did so by using President Trump’s name by lying as to where the funding is going – they have done so thru fraud!!
Yes they did, Trump has told them quit using his brand!!
Good move, G.
Yes, I tell them to go to hell each time they contact me.
Hi Bet (Not Midler)!
You should see the survey I just received from from the RNC. “2022 Biden Agenda Survey”.
I sent it back with a hand written note: “Please see enclosed barf bag. Thanks”.
PS… I wrote some responses for you late yesterday on yesterday’s OT.
Love you sis✝️
I think you confuse INDIVIDUAL politicians and parties….the Congresscritters used to be banned from insider trading just like the general public even though they still did it behind the scenes…..IIRC in 2004, they passed a bill that allowed them to ignore that restriction on THEIR trades and those of their staff
Remember also that government at all levels is incorporated as well, and that members of Congress hold public office fraudulently since they are acting for their corporate business interests, not the public welfare as is assumed.
Great comment, especially since no one in politics ever approved anything Pres. Trump did or tried to do. Feckless Republicans were mostly worse than Democrats.
You can claim you’re not a ho, but your voting records & your financial statements always give credence to your failure to represent your constituents fairly or honestly.
Once a ho, always a ho. You cannot erase what you are, no matter how much our VP, President, senate & house leaders, etc., try to say it ain’t so.
“Government at all levels is incorporated…” – what??? I knew that SOME portions were, which I believe is unconstitutional. Can you clarify, please? Thanks.
They are absolutely guilty of insider trading but who it going to prosecute them? The wolves are in control of the catch the sheep game.
Thanks for this info.
Hegelian Dialectics. Fake Right vs fake left. Until PDJT & MAGA came along.
Goldwater & Buchanan were destroyed. Trump was able to surmount their cheats and steals in 2016.
every insulting dissection of how PDJT did something – needs to be reminded of your comment.
You cant point out the problem that few know of, without showing it. People dont listen. they have to SEE IT, and FEEL PAIN.
if PDJT picked the perfect person – we wouldnt know shit
I am 70 yrs old and ashamed to admit I didn’t know this. How could that be? Can someone recommend to me where I can get more information about ‘the clubs’? Thanks for your help.
Contact President Trump’s Organization directly and look to his political platform has operated in a short time compared to those other piece of traitorious deep state scum!!
Don’t be ashamed. This isn’t information the clubs or their donors want you to see. Read, read, read (this information is under constant threat of censorship). Read here, read links presented here and at similar sites, read older post here starting up to the 2016 election. Perhaps admin or @sundance has a reading list.
Watch highly esteemed Prof. George Carlin’s academic discourse on this very matter. I think the White Paper is called: “It’s a Big Club – and You Ain’t In It.”
Here, Prof Carlin opines about the SOTU:
Before Carlin’s “It’s a Big Club” speech came Walter Brennan’s “Heelots” speech. Very similar in spirit:
Awesome movie.
Used to get a prime slot around Christmas; I’m not even sure they show it anymore.
If you liked Barbara Stanwyck in Meet John Doe, then you’ll love her in The Furies. Awesome film.
The Furies:
What movie is this from, please? Thanks.
Can you add the link to this? I’d never seen it before… Sad & scary how true it all is – and, I never knew or suspected any of it until PDJT “lost” the 2020 Selection.
I entered it’s a big club in the search box at the top of this page on the right hand margin. Here’s what came up for your reading – will give you a good start on getting more information –
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/?s=It%27s+a+big+club
Sundance, simply put, is the disseminator of info on the “Club”. You are already where you need to be to learn more.
There is no separation of Democrats & Republicans. They are all members of the same Club, & if you’re not an elitist, party leader or party devotee, you aren’t in the “Club.”
There is only a Uniparty for the same reason. Unfortunately, that makes it doubly hard on us commoners who no longer want “club” members as our politicians.
audremyers, don’t feel ashamed. I too am old and totally STUNNED by the truths I read here and usually nowhere else. We grew up in a different era! If you stay here, you will learn fast how things work. Sundance keeps us informed way beyond what others know about the massive corruption that happens in Washington DC and just about anywhere politicians hang out. I’m no know-it-all, but I do know this is by far the best place to learn because there are many here who have been with Sundance a very long time and have been in positions very close to “the clubs”. MANY in THIS club will teach you enough to keep your head spinning, and the best part is, what you learn here you can take to the bank! It’s 100% safe here.No lies, no hidden agendas, no shocks you didn’t see coming.
Don’t be ashamed, please. I feel like I keep up to date on current events and politics but I hadn’t thought about the political parties in this light. Sometimes the most obvious is blurred. We just accept what we have always known and it takes some like Sundance or DJT to pull back the curtain to help us see what is really going on.
It comes as a shock, my siblings had no idea that the Federal Reserve is not Federal, just elites controlling banking.
These clubs have had as many audits on them as another infamous club, the FEDERAL RESERVE, ZILCH!!!!
I was going to post that the Federal Reserve is a private group of banksters. You are right on the money ropala.
And the Internal Revenue Service?
Incorporated. Their DUNS number is 040539587.
private ADN foreign in the majority…during the “housing bubble” financial crisis of 2007-9 European banks extracted and moved overseas $4T of American wealth that was public…who knows how much more that was not public
Impeccable instincts and timing, Sundance.
Respect and admiration.
If you recall the lawsuits brought on by Jared Beck regarding Hilary Clinton’s ‘win’ over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary…that case went to court, where the DNC advised that they were a private entity, and, in essence and despite voting results, could put forward any candidate they chose.
This is why Our Founding Fathers Wrote Our U.S. Constitution to set in place another revolutionary conflict if we found ourselves in the very same treasonous oppression!!
TAKE OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: “The Precinct Strategy” with Dan Schultz
By The Professor’s Record with David K. Clements
Published June 8, 2021
https://rumble.com/vi9kal-take-over-the-republican-party-the-precinct-strategy-with-dan-schultz.html
Good reason for a purge every so often
DESTROY THE BIG CLUB
Can the 25th Amendment apply to the Biden Administration and Congress? They are full-on crazy.
not representing the people is a violation of their position. they are not senators and congress at that point and GET NO IMMUNUITY ON THE FLOOR.
OMICRON TEAM – will not let a bioweapon harm us again.
Almost every culprit in the US Congress and throughout the Administration is in VIOLATION of their duly administered Oath…..now if that oath holds any legal significance you could sue the lot for malfeasance and misfeasance….incompetence and intentional neglect of their duties
Whereas they have been in breach of contract for generations, perhaps the sport would be to go after them by attacking their performance bonds. By law, every public official must be bonded. Given sufficient complaints against their bonds, the bonding companies will drop them like hot rocks, and without that bond they cannot serve in office. Nor is it likely that, once dropped, any other bonding agency will accept them. It may be the only way for the people to actually affect change at the federal level in the short term since they cannot be recalled like state and local officials.
People have started doing this with school superintendents. It takes a lot of work but can be a very successful strategy. Look up bondsforthewin.com
Enjoy the grift while you can, bureaucrats. It doesn’t last forever.
The moment you chafe at an order, the moment you become too inconvenient, your masters cut you right out of the picture.
And the Bernie Bros learned this the hard way, or did they?
DNC Lawyers Argue DNC Has Right to Pick Candidates in Back Rooms
Attorneys claim the words ‘impartial’ and ‘evenhanded’—as used in the DNC Charter—can’t be interpreted by a court of law
By Michael Sainato
1 May 2017
https://observer.com/2017/05/dnc-lawsuit-presidential-primaries-bernie-sanders-supporters
Court Concedes DNC Had the Right to Rig Primaries Against Sanders
By Michael Sainato
26 Aug 2017
https://observer.com/2017/08/court-admits-dnc-and-debbie-wasserman-schulz-rigged-primaries-against-sanders
Here is who picks. The super delegates, i.e., the political class:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automatic_delegates_at_the_2020_Democratic_National_Convention
What is true for the DNC is true for the RNC. It’s called Right to Rig.
BTW, they murdered the man who served the lawsuit on the DNC, Shawn Lucas, less than a month after he served them.
Just a reminder to all about how they operate.
CrowdStrike, an FBI contractor and private cyber security firm, received a $98,849.84 check from the Democratic National Committee the day after slain DNC staffer Seth Rich was murdered.
Less than a month after Rich was murdered, attorney Shawn Lucas, 38, was found dead in his bathroom on Aug. 2nd, 2016. The next day, CrowdStrike received a check for $113,645.77 from the DNC.
The source of the checks was the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
CrowdStrike’s computer software customers include Congress, the White House, the State Department, Democratic National Committee, SONY, and Google.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/05/fec-records-show-dnc-issued-checks-to-crowdstrike-day-after-murder-of-seth-rich-shawn-lucas/?omhide=true&utm_source=TGP+Communications&utm_campaign=27d601146e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_05_21_2018&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b3f16dae4d-27d601146e-18682153
WOW! I don’t think we have heard about Shawn Lucas. Was he the lawyer for Seth’s parents?
Nothing within this process is contingent upon the support of the voting electorate.
IOW: They aren’t there to REPRESENT you, they are there to EXPLOIT you.
Bingo! Now go look see how they’ve done it since the Civil War.
https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org.
This is a timely reminder. We get so involved with the details and the tricks and traps that we forget who it is and what it is that we are dealing with.
Thanks for the reminder.
Okay; I NOW get all this in its entirety.
So, can someone tell me why we as either republicans or democrats keep playing by these private business
rules? Why shouldn’t we start a third “honest” (initially at least) third party; one with transparency for the
citizens of this country?
it would be very difficult if not impossible in some instances…as they have been in power for a significant length of time, they have RIGGED the game making it hard to challenge either party outside their set structure…with the ability to regulate, legislate and set policy they have erected numerous roadblocks to any outside challenge
Why, indeed. Quit. Stop being a Republican or Democrat. In fact, you should exit their corporate system entirely by changing your political status and reclaiming your individual sovereignty and full constitutional rights. As sovereign Americans (as opposed to being corporate U.S. Citizens or CITIZENS who only have civil rights at the whim of Congress) if you have no federal income or receive no federal benefits such as welfare, you owe them NO INCOME TAXES. Think that through.
https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org
Because it will not make it, and if it does it will be 10 years too late. We must take over the Republican party and use their tools to our benefit. There is no other way.
Thanks for explaining the new folks.
They are organized crime; i.e., mafia. There are a few good ones, but the majority are corrupt. I once asked Nicholas Von Hoffman if he was a Democrat or a Rpubulican. He said, “I call them Demopublicans. The are the same.”
One thing I don’t get – Why do some state governments pay to hold primary elections? You are not voting for president (for example), you are voting to determine who the ‘club’ runs for president.In some states, you can’t vote unless you are a registered member of the ‘club’. Can you imagine the state government paying to hold an election of the next chairman of the Boy Scouts of America? With or without only parents of boy scouts being allowed to vote.
I don’t know about other states but in Texas the party has to pay the cost to conduct the primary election.
The money is distributed at the county level.
Take a look at Texas law 173.001 The state pays for expenses necessary for the holding of the primary. Unnecessary items are paid for by the parties.
This is why: In order to collect the moolah from DC, the sovereign states foolishly incorporated as well; they are now franchises of the (mostly foreign owned) Municipal DC Corporation. When they did that, they weren’t aware that they forfeited their sovereignty in the bargain. The Federal United States (with 57 inchoate states like Obama said) is a Constitutional Democracy (“Our Democracy”, as Nancy says, not the Republic as assumed.) The Federal Republic has not been operational since the Civil War; it was never reconstructed at the cessation of hostilities. Many Americans have awakened to this reality and we’re well along in the process of “getting the band back together”. Please join us!
https://tasa.americanstatenationals.org
It’a an outcome of the progressive movement. In the 1890s states adopted the “Australian ballot” system wherein government controlled the ballot. Then in the early 1900s progressives were concerned about Democrat control on the south, and gradually forced primaries on the parties. I guess president is different since you vote for electors and I think in most states parties have an edge in getting slates of electors eligible. My state is a caucus state and you have to sign a Hawaii Republican Party card to be admitted. We charge candidate committees if they want to have a candidate on the ballot. That’s just for President. You actually are voting for delegates to the national convention. For all other races Hawaii has an open primary system. Candidates pick a party (or no party) when they submit their nomination papers. Campaign finance laws provide some advantages to parties, but in these days of super PACs and post Citizens Untied party money isn’t as big a factor. RNC is the elected state chairmen, national committeemen, and national committeewomen elected at state convention.
BTW, political scientists argue about whether the Australian ballot helped or hurt parties.
this is a GOOD reminder….Madison SCOFFED at parties in the Federalist Papers as being antithetical to good republican government…he warned that no matter how pure their beginnings, they eventually devolve into self-serving organizations that are often at odds with the overall public good….boy doesn’t THAT explain the current actions of politicians
As Chair of a local Republican Organization, I’d like to encourage everyone to have a more nuanced view of the GOP. My organization is focused on state and local elections, including judges, which are vitally important and more or less ignored by most voters. As precinct committeepersons, we circulate petitions to get candidates on the ballot. We write letters advocating for candidates and distribute them in our precinct before elections. Many of us are considered a valuable resource by our neighbors. We rarely advocate for presidential candidates because most people have made up their minds already. But when it comes to Sheriff, County Board and Judges, we can make a real difference in the outcome.
And I can assure you, we have never gotten money from our state GOP, let alone the RNC. If you have a local Republican organization in your area, please consider joining them, or at least throwing them a few bucks if they ask.
Thank you Themis for giving us a little balance. I feel like after 2020, we did become a little more focused on state, county and municipal elections (especially school board elections) but yours is a good reminder to stay focused on things that are close to home.
In my opinion, governing should be done at the absolute lowest level possible where elected officials can be held more accountable. If we could stick to that, Congress should have very little to keep themselves busy and would perhaps focus on things that are more important, like passing a budget, than the wattage of our lightbulbs and the size of our toilet tanks.
One difference. The Democrat party was founded as a quasi mafia organization that used politics as a means to gain power and wealth for its members. It still operates that way. Conservatives keep ignoring that. However, that is the fact which can be used to completely destroy the Democrat party if Conservatives want.
As I understand it, the Republican party leaders in Wyoming have voted to remove liz cheney from the party.
If that is in fact the case, they have removed her from being eligible to be on the republican primary ballot in Wyoming.
It is a club decision. Not a state decision.
Obviously the discussion of whether or not we should have started a Third Party, with President Trump as the presumptive head of it, after the Election theft has arisen often and for good reason.
I was one of many who thought the time was ripe, many Independents (such as myself) and even many old style Democrats would have joined who could have never seen themselves voting R.
And yes, I get that even a successful presidential campaign would leave an Executive with nobody to work with in Congress. Turns out that was the case anyway.
But would a new party have had any of the big money donors?
Well, we saw right away that Republican elites hated PDJT for “stealing” the GOP presidential nomination from one of their “club” members, like Jeb!
They stabbed Trump in back when he was in office. They stabbed him in the back helping Democrats steal the 2020 election. They still stab away frantically as Trump grows ever stronger.
That’s why MAGA people should get involved in GOP county activities. We have the numbers to take control of the GOP away from RINOs. That would break their power. It would also make them cry, which I’d really enjoy.
That’s also why we should vote for candidates Trump has endorsed. That demonstrates the power of MAGA people. It also increase Trumps power when dealing with the GOP.
Fear works. We can make RINOs fear Trumps ability to destroy their careers. Since they are cowards at heart, their fear of MAGA and Trump is the best way to get them under control.
Politics is dirty. Politics is about power. We have the numbers to control the GOP.
But, do we have the discipline and will to actually make it happen?
Scratching each other’s backs & making tons of money doing it…
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All you need to remember is that the donors of these Clubs are the exact same ones who planned the release of the COVID bioweapon for their own profit and power! (They didn’t pay for it – that was at taxpayer expense!) Understanding this helps explain why their politicians didn’t do much about it!
In other words the American people are screwed.
Not by a long shot!
But it takes grit and determination to fight these bastards!
That’s why PDJT will not participate with them and why his PAC has made more money than the D’s and R’s together!
The Clubs are not getting the support that they used to because PDJT has such a significant presence and following worldwide. This is a MOVEMENT and the RNC & DNC ain’t in it!!!!
That’s what every freedom loving PERSON worldwide is discovering and why those powerful big Clubs are about to come tumbling down.
Pay attention to what is happening around the globe.
Remember when the Republicans were using President Trumps name (after 2020) for fundraising? He had to tell them to stop using his name. They sort of quit, IMHO. They still use him as much as they can.
MAGA Party
Constitution Party
American Party
+80,000,000 would eagerly join and rally round any of these in order to replace the now worthless (and enemy-friendly) Uniparty. How tragic that we do not have an alternative in which to place our votes.
I know the RNC and DNC are private businesses. I don’t vote in their fake primaries. I am a libertarian, not a member of either party. I will remain an independent.
Cannot even remember the last time I donated to the RNC. Has been years and will not ever again no matter how many times they beg for money. They tried using Trump as a money raising tool until he told them to stop.
Completely useless. I give to the candidates of my choice and will continue to do so. They are part of the SWAMP. They did absolutely nothing when the Election was stolen. Who needs them.
The “private clubs” of the RNC and the GOP. The country club, Chamber of Commerce insiders who pander to the middle class and lower classes about the virtues of freedom all the while they collude with Communists and Marxists to destroy us. They purposely fail to solve national problems in order to fundraise and campaign off of our misery. They would destroy us for their gain. They have sold our humanity to Big Pharma, our national security to Big Defense contractors, and even our Constitutional freedoms have been sacrificed to the vision of elites that they and not us are deserving of them by putting people on the Supreme Court who mouth fealty to our Bill of Rights but decide cases to achieve their own personal legacies. They will not be the ones who “cause” the packing of the Court and the destruction of the institution. No, they will not go down in history as that. Instead they will go down in history as destroying the entire Republic while the number of justices on the Supreme Court remains at 9 because the personal legacy of John Roberts Trumps the continuation of the Republic as a home of inalienable rights of those who have “consented” to governance. [pun intended].
I contacted my local RNC and volunteered to be a Precinct Committee Person. The woman admitted my area didn’t have one (said they had ‘coverage’) yet, she refused to even consider me. She asked me if I wanted to pass out pencils at the polling place in the next election! I told her that she could vet me-I campaigned for Ronald Reagan for chrissakes! The woman never even invited me to a meeting. It is definitely a club. A closed club. It was a real eye opening experience.
speaking of private corporations that are sometimes confused with part of the u.s. government, the owners of the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States are the Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Lehmans and Kuhn Loebs of New York; the Rothschilds of Paris and London; the Warburgs of Hamburg; the Lazards of Paris; and the Israel Moses Seifs of Rome.
https://www.bing.com/search?q=The+owners+of+the+Federal+Reserve+Bank+of+the+United+States+are+the+Goldman+Sachs,+Rockefellers,+Lehmans+and+Kuhn+Loebs+of+New+York;+the+Rothschilds+of+Paris+and+London;+the+Warburgs+of+Hamburg;+the+Lazards+of+Paris;+and+the+Israel+Moses+Seifs+of+Rome.++http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-federal-reserve-cartel-the-eight-families/25080&form=APMCS1&PC=APMC
Know that the top positions in politics like Speaker of the House, President of the Senate, at state and federal levels are Chair of FUNDRAISING for the political party who doles it out to “the party’s” picks for office. The power of this money (to advertise) continues to be overshadowed by the political action committee (PACs). Every candidate has an official campaign account to report official campaign contributions, loans and expenditures. Every major candidate is usually loosely affiliated with a PAC which has a catchy name like Americans for freedom, etc. The PACs don’t report finances as early or as regularly as campaigns do. By the time election month (no longer day because of early voting) begins significant sums are spent by the PACs with push polling, advertising, etc.-too late for any State Election Commission to do anything about campaign violations or courts to prosecute defamation claims.
Also, the case of New York Times v. Sullivan (US Supreme Court) requiring a showing of “malice” by the press before a public official can recover for defamation dissuades many from running for public office. Now add in corrupt judiciary, prosecutors, clowns in action and feebees and good people struggle to justify running for office. Thus, a no name like Rick Scott (former officer with corrupt HCA-fined $1.2 billion for Medicare fraud-Scott was paid huge sums to leave organization) was able to run for and win office as Governor of Florida and use that to step into US Senate. Little Marco is a problem but conniving Scott is worse. Neither are to be trusted. The Tea Party knew Florida’s Repub party (like the Dem party) was corrupt so they supported the outsider Scott (who has managed to hang onto their support). DeSantis is doing a delicate dance balancing the two factions-country club and tea party repubs.
Donate to individual candidates you personally vet, ONLY. Never donate to a party, group or PAC as you never really know who they are and what will be done with your donation.
They have become the “factions” that the Founding Fathers warned us about, they are the New Aristocrats of the self anointed.
Thank you for the refresher. At least I needed this reminder.
Honestly, this iceberg is just too massive to “correct”. I still say, the only way to ” fix” DC is a massive tidal wave that flushes it out to sea to sink to the bottom of the trench. We need a do-over. The enormity of these problems is what sends people into brain freeze so they just give up. Those are the people who finally had something to believe in for govt when DJT stood up, and the “deplorable” patriots movement came alive. Truth social will burn down the serpent’s “resistance” (Obama/Soros/WEF).
I haven’t sent them not one red cent since the 2020 election theft that the RNC allowed, participated.
I will not donate to Red Win either don’t trust them.
Fractured trust, nope don’t trust no politically motivated group, agency or persons anymore.
They are welcome to try and earn that trust if they’re interested either way I couldn’t care less.
You’re not serious?, there are people who don’t know this? Wow.
Time to slam our wallets shut, sit on them, and deny them any volunteer time to make calls, canvass.
Since the RNC and DNC are private organizations and can operate outside the constraints of government, I think all governmental involvement with them, including paying for primaries, should be withdrawn.
This is nominally A representative government, but sometimes it’s necessary to grab the govt by the ear and say HAY I’m talking to you!!
Can you think of any problem we currently have that is not a direct or indirect result of a lack of campaign finance reforms??
And why should we expect any sane individual to create a law that would disadvantage themselves??
<i>A potato farmer has no influence on McDonalds, despite the fact the fast food corporation sells french fries.</i> However, McDonalds has influence on potato farmers. When Poland opened up and McDonalds started moving it, they wanted to source locally- as it’s usually cheaper that way. So they called in a bunch of potato farmers and told them- this is the type of potato we need. (I believe they use Russets.) Well, the potato farmers told them these are the type we grow, and you’ll have to buy them (plain white potatoes- not good for fries.) Their previous buyer- The STATE- just bought tons, they didn’t care what type, as long as the potato crop came in. McDonalds explained to the farmers you can grow whatever you want, but if you want to sell to us, you’ll grow the potatoes we want, or we’ll get them elsewhere. We don’t have to buy from you. Competition. Takes a while to get used to.
Does it look like Mitch McConnell is about to grab his wallet because Nancy and Chuck are close by?
On the serious side, this is a subject that I haven’t thought much about. I keep coming back and re-reading the article and the comments because like many things at the Treehouse, it has made me think. Is Sundance saying that we can have party affiliations is not the the same thing as the RNC and DNC? The RNC and the DNC just like to make us think that they are in charge of the party. If they are not, then who is or who should be. It would seem like a rudderless ship without some leadership. Or is the point that we need to dissolve all party affiliations or at least the major two. Additional guidance requested because either way, how do we make them (the parties or the clubs) irrelevant?