Parties are best understood as teams. Club teams. People act to consolidate power with everything that entails. I think you find the slimiest people deep in the party machinery. They don't believe in anything but power.
I think in certain states you can be a good guy and put that R next to your name. How often that happens, I dunno.
I used “RINO” for a while, until I got sick of pretending that it wasn’t much more honest to apply “RINO” to the handful of them that might not be all-in uniparty. Corruption is the rule. Ethics is the exception.
Pence was never a Republican.
You need to let go of your team jersey and realize that the Republicans were always your enemy.
I took this particular blackpill 4 or 5 years ago. Republicans are not good, they're just markedly less bad than Democrats.
Parties are best understood as teams. Club teams. People act to consolidate power with everything that entails. I think you find the slimiest people deep in the party machinery. They don't believe in anything but power.
I think in certain states you can be a good guy and put that R next to your name. How often that happens, I dunno.
I used “RINO” for a while, until I got sick of pretending that it wasn’t much more honest to apply “RINO” to the handful of them that might not be all-in uniparty. Corruption is the rule. Ethics is the exception.