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Rick said, "In effect, the base is criticizing the Republican establishment for acting like a political party and not a college debating society."
In my opinion, the reality is that the GOP establishment has been acting like a college debating society...small, private college (NTTAWWT). They considered plans to more power in terms of their personal power and while considering what to do the grassroots considered the plans to power in terms of "We the people's" power and beat the establishment (whose perspective was ill-fated). If anything, the "base" is communicating it has very little faith the establishment even understands their perspective let alone power. In times of less change, the "base" might wait longer and try and reason with the establishment ...but there is no time to wait. The intellectual is not the real target of the base. In my opinion, the establishment, grass roots and base all have their share of intellectuals. My question is, was the establishment taking their base for granted? You are going to have a mess on your hands if you do that as a political party. For the establishment to ask the base to be more than a private party, the establishment needs to stop acting like one toward their base.
We can have a growth in our democracy based on the Constitution powered by freedom and ingenuity of the American people. I agree with a commenter on PJMedia who said "NY-23 is not “magic.” No special circumstances obtain there. It’s just an example of the alterations to political dynamics caused by the new modes of communication available to us....And so NY-23 will happen again…and again…and again, until the power-brokers of the Republican Party learn who’s now subservient to whom in the national political discourse."
Hey, the comment I liked on PJ Media that I quoted from above was in response to your "Unruly Conservatives" post. Good post too. Commenter #2.
Comment Posted By Public Online Schooling Mom On 3.11.2009 @ 14:11
