This four-part series examines why newly disgruntled Republicans, seeking to return the party of their birth to honor and integrity, have reason to side with Democrats for the short-term. While they may resist changing parties officially, they will understand that the first step in taking their party back is to defeat the #CORPservatives who have corrupted it.
By every measure, today’s GOP is now leading America towards #RepubloFascism. After all, with 87% of the gains in the #GOPtaxScam bill going to the top 1% and corporations, it’s been proven that GOP leaders are only out for CEOs not average Joes.
These evolving voters noted above will know that only progressive election legislation, including public not private financing of campaigns, will allow more moderate Republicans a chance to survive the primaries. Only then will incumbents not sail through on billionaire backing.
And with the imminent downfall of Trump, restoring honor to American democracy can only go through Democrats. Republicans who put country over party will have to support that shift. What follows in four parts is how that process of unlikely bipartisanship can be born, fostered, and ultimately used to salvage the American dream.
Here are the links to the other parts of the series:
-Friday, April 19 - How Democrats Can Benefit from the Birth of the #TrueCon; Part 2 of 4: How We Party TrueCons Can Unseat the #CORPservative GOP www.dailykos.com/...
-Saturday, April 20 - Part 3 of 4: How Dems and Woke Conservatives — TrueCons — Can Save America. www.dailykos.com/...
-Wednesday, April 24 — Part 4 of 4: Putting the Nails in the #CORPservative Coffin, and How the #TrueCon Can Factor into Post-Trump Healing www.dailykos.com/...
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Part 1: What to do When TrueCons Face the Music
Many Trump backers want to keep the President’s taxes under wraps and refuse to acknowledge evidence in the Mueller report. They see these desires as heroic. The rest, however, are wondering why absolute secrecy is warranted in the former and absolute denial is required for the latter.
This combination of secrecy and denial will have millions of self-described conservatives feeling the weight of this last straw. As evidence mounts they will want to abandon the GOP for supporting a lawless president, sensing that he indeed is inching us towards #RepubloFascism unchecked. But the Fox/Limbaugh imprinting has these people distrusting Democrats as gun-snatching elitists, and they won’t feel comfortable becoming Dems. Instead they will fall into the #SilentCenter, figuring that no voice will reflect their plight.
Tens of millions of progressives would like to shout in their faces, “I told you so!!” for all the vitriol that Trump supporters have inflicted upon them. But big picture thinking means not yielding to the reflexive. Each of us needs to #GetYerGandhiOn and think of these woke folks in a different way.
We have to humanize them, and realize that they can represent the winning margins for Democrats across the nation. They are in the position of allies, whether they like it or not. Some have embraced that roll, as the popularity of the #GOPvotingBlue hashtag last November proved. But others will see themselves as lost in the ether.
Yet they still will hope for a future where they can rebuild their party. And rather than try to destroy the GOP completely, Democrats need to see the potential in helping these folks achieve that dream - if not immediately.
These people can be #TrueCons, true conservatives who have spit out the Trump kool-aid and freed themselves of the twisted world presented by Fox News and the GOP. These new truths will ignite the religion or love of country within them to do what’s right, and shed the bonds of disinformation, hatred, and division.
What’s more, all the lies can be backtracked to the motivations that created them. And many perhaps had a sense of where this would end up. Budding TrueCons will have these misgivings validated when Trump falls. And it won’t be just the man that will have failed them, it will be the entire GOP that knew the truth all along and chose to protect him while extracting as much as they could from the middle class, and their grandchildren’s future, for as long as they could perpetuate the myth.
The ethical disconnects will show. How can an unborn child be so valuable while the born child is quickly forgotten, degenerating from a wonder of potential to a burden on society? Wouldn’t funding of pre-K and affordable daycare be tops on the list if they were valued equally? Why does the GOP choose to fight raises to the minimum wage, single-payer healthcare, and public school funding when these things are crucial in the economic success of new families?
And the methodology of racial, xenophobic, and even misogynistic hatred will be laid bare. These flames were fanned for political power by absolutism and unjustified fear.
The generation coming of voting age now will lead the revulsion of rampant judgement to drive political gain. TrueCons will heed that message, understanding that #SwissCheeseChristianity, absent of compassion and equality, is simply a #GoldenRuleFail.
Some TrueCons will be Evangelicals who have seen that their religious leaders, with a singular and disproportionate focus on the abortion issue, have strayed from Biblical teachings. Having been born again previously, perhaps the third time will be the charm. Let them be #ReVangelicals, with their focus redirected towards the shoring up of the social safety nets that progressives continue to fight for.
Whatever their reasoning, Democrats need to welcome these evolving TrueCons.
And on the abortion issue, both should agree that while virtually every abortion is a heartbreaking event, many can be avoided by education and contraception. And Planned Parenthood is an ally in that sense, not a foe.
The GOP has used this issue not to minimize abortions, but instead to
Punish Perceived Promiscuity
Rather than
Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy
The time for Republican men to dictate what women must endure with their bodies is over. The time to hate those that don’t look or act like us is over. The time to ignore the health of our planet, our society, and our towns is over.
Progressives and TrueCons will see that #22ndCenturyThinking is required to sustain our way of life, equality for all, and minimize the challenges of the future. Although some may cringe at the notion, we are in a 99% vs. 1% battle. The bed has been well made for oligarchy and monopoly capitalism. But the hopeful among us will strip the sheets starting in Nov. 2020, and pave the way for a decade of healing to come.