Republicans are Shocked, Shocked I Tell You!

By Rich Kozlovich

On April 06, 2021 David M. Drucker, Senior Political Correspondent posted this piece, Georgia voting law sparks messy divorce of GOP from big business, in the Washington Examiner saying: 

The cozy relationship between corporate America and the Republican Party is unraveling after top brands denounced Georgia for enacting a new GOP voting law to satisfy complaints from former President Donald Trump about how the state administers elections.

Criticism from multinational Georgia companies Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, along with Major League Baseball’s decision to retaliate by yanking this year’s All-Star Game from Atlanta, is driving a wedge between Republicans and corporations at a time when tensions between the longtime political allies were already raw. Democrats claim Georgia Republicans wrote the law to protect their dwindling power base by restricting access to voting, especially in black precincts — attacks parroted by sectors of the business community.

Republicans are outraged by what they argue are gross mischaracterizations of the Georgia voting law and feel betrayed by corporate America, whose interests they defend in Congress......Republicans are cautioning big businesses they believe are increasingly taking orders from the Democrats...............“Corporations will invite serious consequences if they become a vehicle for far-left mobs to hijack our country,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky said Monday in a lengthy statement he issued as a stark warning to the business community.

Well, whaddayaknow, Old Mitch is now having to eat a bit of crow.  He, and his follow Republican leaders like John McCain, and a host of others, were at one with them for decades.   And now he has to face the wrath of the Republican base, only it's not the Republican base he and his fellow RINO's are comfortable with.  It's a new base.

About ten or fifteen years ago there was an article outlining the make up of the Republican Party.  Thirty five percent were left wing Rockefeller Republicans who had been in the leadership for decades.  Five percent were Libertarian Ron Paul Republicans and sixty five percent were varying degrees of Reagan Republicans.  

As a side bar, that reflected the Ohio Republican party also.  Well, that's all changing nationwide as it is in Ohio.  And that's an important point, as one commentator called "Ohio the political center" of the nation.  Why?  Demographics going back to the 13 colonies!  But that's another story for another day, except to say this.  The base is now far more conservative and and so too is the leadership, but being a rock in the current isn't for the faint of heart. or for fragile political leaders.  

Here are some basic historical truths. The Republican party was never conservative, it just wasn't radically left, with the possible exception of Richard Nixon, and I will happily respond to anyone who disputes that.  But it was very pro business, and often times, unfairly so.

The Republican party would have been considered a Classical Liberal party at the beginning of the 20th Century,  but that was true for both parties, with the exception of Southern Democrats who were adamant on keeping blacks "unequal". 

However, leftist radicalism wasn't absent in either party. Far left Republicans and far left Democrats were hidden components in both parties masquerading as something other than socialists and communists.  That's why there called themselves progressives in order to conceal who they really were. European style socialism is fundamentally atheistic, and that just didn't play well in American in those days, even up until the 1960's,  and Nelson Rockefeller was one of them. 

There was  no conservative party or movement!  Let me repeat that.  There was no conservative party or movement.  Why?  What's now considered conservatism was the social paradigm of American society.  If that's true, and it is, why would there be a need for a movement to promote and define what was already in existence and how everyone was already living their lives? 

In the 20th century there were only three conservative Presidents.  Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Ronald Reagan, all Republicans who had to fight their own party as hard as they fought the Democrats.  That only covered eight years, since Harding died half way through his term.  Coolidge became President and unfortunately, Coolidge, who hated being President, didn't run for his second term in 1928.  Hoover became President and between he and FDR, both big government Democrats, they led the nation into the Great Depression and a massive increase in the size of government and outrageous and irresponsible spending practices that have continued for almost 100 years.  

Big business isn't conservative either.  Big business will sell anyone down the river to make a profit.  Take a look at positions taken by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, including immigration.  

On any given issue, as allies, they are leaky vessels at best, and at worst, will turn on anyone if there's profit to be made.  The big corporations have no values, irrespective of the squat you hear from these CEO's about the Georgia Voter ID law is in opposition of their values.  That's a load of horsepucky. At best Big Business can only be considered "Enemy Allies".

"Enemy allies will go back and forth depending on how the issue affects them. They cannot be trusted at all since their motives are totally self-serving. They can be temporary allies only, but can be used when it suits your purpose. How you deal with them will affect how much support you can maintain from your friends and allies. Many times these people have egos far larger than their talent or intelligence. Dealing with this group may require you to be somewhat self deprecating and you may have to tolerate a certain amount of personal attacks and abuse in order to keep them unaware that you know who and what they are in order to attain your goals. Eventually you will have to crush them. Never let them know that they don’t have the upper hand before you do it."

And since the Republicans were their favorite party, it also meant the Republican leadership's moral foundation was as equally flawed.  That's why they loved Nixon opening up China for trade.  There was money to be made and it was Nixon who did it, and Republican leadership supported and promoted it all these years in spite of the damage it was doing to our economy.  

The result?  

America saved China's economy after the destructive policies of Mao, which in turn saved the Chinese Communist Party via our trade agreements.  

The subsequently consequence?

Instead of China going broke and the Chinese Communist Party collapsing, large international corporations, especially American corporations, had in practical terms, financed their recovery, along with the continuation of the Chinese Communist Party and their military expansion and aggression all over the world.  And they would love to keep on financing it, as long as there's a profit to be made, with a total lack of concern about the long term consequences. 

And now Mitch is shocked.   Shocked I tell you, and just as big a hypocrite as Captain Renault!  Does anyone beside me see a comparison between Captain Renault and Old Mitch?

Real conservatives, especially those who read history books, aren't shocked at all, just disappointed and seriously concerned of the that will arise as a result of this fraudulent election.   A fraudulent election Old Mitch previously wanted to ignore.  

Remarkable.