VA Cowboy
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The reason Trump and Cruz lead in the primaries is because voters voted in the GOP in the mid-terms in 2010 and 2014 to combat the liberal Obama, Pelosi, Reid agenda. Instead the core GOP basically capitulated, compromised and caved at every turn.Except its not. The country is moving left, because the right wing is broken. Because the non-liberal political wing is so toxic, a lifelong Democrat has been firmly in control of the presidential primary, just because he's willing to say the most ignorant shit imaginable.
Because when the Democrats chose Carter over Wallace, his odious constituents were welcomed to the Republican party with open arms, and have ruined the party from within.
The Trump phenomena is due to so many R's fed up with the establishment R's for reneging on their promises over the last 6 years and basically handing Obama whatever he wants. So these Trump supporters are more about protesting against the establishment and supporter the outsider candidate. The problem is it's totally misguided though because Trump is actually more to the left on most issues than the establishment GOP these people are mad at. But he rarely talks policy other than immigration. Most of his campaign is empty political rhetoric and catchy slogans while feeding off the anger of the masses against the media and GOP.
At least with Cruz, he is an actual conservative and has risen because like Trump, his viewed as being outside the moderate GOP establishment. He has taken on the moderate leaders like Boehner and McConnell as much as he has the lefties like Reid, Pelosi and Obama.
This entire GOP primary season has been Trump, Cruz, Carson, etc which all have one thing in common, anti-GOP establishment. Hopefully when it's said and done it'll solidify around the actual conservative.
Not sure why conservative need to change their philosophies. Never hear people talking about liberals and Dems needing to change their philosophies. They just keep moving further left and the reason we have the anti-establishment GOP movement now is because the core GOP has been moving left. The base obviously wants a more conservative party that will be an alternative to the leftist/socialists Dems, not a moderate GOP caving and capitulating at every turn.The reason why the nation is moving left, is because much like 19 year old college girls, Republicans have been hiding within a "safe space". Because at some point republicans receded to the comfort of an echo chamber, and have become content to sooth themselves rather than change philosophies. Somehow they think their religion, their God, their way of life is under attack all the time, whenever it's questioned.
Shielding your beliefs from new eyes and new interpretations is the surest way to kill them within a generation. Republicans may have just accomplished that.
As for echo chambers, the left has their's as much as the right. Funny how we just hear liberals rail against Fox News and Rush, etc but the libs have their own MSNBC, NPR, a plethora of internet forums, sites, blogs where they engage in their group think. Not to mention the bulk of the mainstream news media. There's been surveys over the years showing over 80% of news reporters, producers, execs, etc vote Democrat. ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN all sway to the left. Execs from all these networks have ties and spouses to the Obama admin. It constantly shows up in their reporting, slanted stories and even subtly in which stories get aired and which ones get pushed under the rug.