Jim Banks' House GOP Memo | Tell Me What You Really Think Ep. 109 with Matt Peterson
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Something I find interesting is this 30% of the GOP Faithful mentioned in this interview and the memo who are not on board with the GOP appealing to working class voters. I know a number of them and outside of a handful of libertarians who are completely against pulling the levers of government power for any reason, most seem to oppose the move on stylistic grounds (it requires mean tweets and they're totally against that) or their afraid it requires taking positions that will upset Democrats.
Don't know if there's any way to accommodate this bunch.
Banks hit the bullseye, and it's long past time for the GOP to realize its future hangs on the middle class. Without our work ethic, creativity, our craftsmen, service providers, small business owners and other entrepreneurs, we'd soon lose all spirit of entrepreneurship, liberty, and self-reliance. We worker bees are clearly being targeted by the Left. The Left is not "pushing their radical agenda"--THEY'RE OUT TO OBLITERATE US! We the People in the trenches can see it; we're being starved out economically and all the GOP can do is...what? [crickets] Trump gave us a voice, and better yet, outstanding, tangible RESULTS. The Lincoln Project's Pyrrhic victory against Trump has already cost America dearly, in lives and freedoms and life savings lost. Whether our nation can ever recover remains to be seen. Banks' plan is a good one, and no time like the present.
You can go to Churchill Downs and bet on the longshots all day. There's a small possibility that one of them will win. But most of them will lose. They are longshots for a reason.
Why do you think the Democrats abandoned "blue collar" workers? Because they could win more without them. There really are people who follow the stereotype of Obama's "clinging to guns and religion". These are people who don't read and don't think. I don't know what to do about them, and their number is growing rapidly. But even if there is truth in the "hillbilly elegy", it remains true that every person is responsible for his own happiness, no matter how sad the story and how unfortunate the circumstances. Government can't be responsible for "happiness". We can't even get elections right, and we need to figure that out first before moving on to other topics.
Surprisingly weak analysis. Defensive and dismissive rather than analytical. Puzzling. Do you think politics is like football, where you pick a team for life and "my team good, other team bad?" Why are you even using the term "working class"? Is there a "class" of people that doesn't work? Is there a class of people that deserves our respect? Are there jobs that automatically bestow virtue? Let's not romanticize anyone into these amorphous abstractions. From the beginning, America hasn't even had "classes" the way that was understood in Europe. That was one mistake colonists wanted to avoid: the idea that your life and identity were determined at birth and there was nothing you could do about it. Blue collar, white collar, working class are basically Marxist terms that say: you have a collective identity rather than an individual one. In a recent interview Shelby Steele was referring to blacks when he said, "When do we get to be human beings?" But you can apply his frustration to everyone. We are constantly being subsumed into these collective categories, when the truth is, down to the molecular level, we are all uniquely different from each other. Jim Banks is trying to counter the fact that business leaders are afraid of these radical left-wing groups. They're afraid because the greatest "sin" in America today is being called a "racist", something else Steele has discussed. But you don't counter one fallacy by adopting another for your "team". Sting had a song that said, "Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one."
Knowledge, courage, and sheer will with a righteous focus creates leaders. Some will fail but if a person has these traits they will already know this and will do it anyway. Others will succeed and plow the road. These people make others worry about them.
A group of people with these traits would be an unstoppable force.
The focus should be what’s right for all Americans and to stop the abuses, stop the excuses, and stop the madness.
For example...
Letting crazy and abusive parents decide they want their child to be a different gender through permanent mutilation is madness. So called Doctors performing this on children is madness. No one is for this but a small minority and they’re crazy or part of Big Pharma. The Governor of Arkansas who is a perfect example of not doing the right thing.
Letting male criminals go to female prisons...Eventually most of the male criminals will volunteer. Nothing bad could come of this right!!! Also madness!
Open borders =no western countries! A free market that is really controlled markets, War on drugs but not a real war just a make money off of all the pain war, etc...abuse and madness
All abuses with attached excuses.
Europe and mainly England have experienced all the above years ago and it’s still going. Why are we following? Why aren’t the rest of the worlds countries and peoples following if it’s so great? Why would a sane Republican or Democrat would think this is good? Abusing people, pumping in poison, allowing adversaries to rule is good when again?
Be the plow. Protect freedom for all Americans. Never give in and never give up.
How typical is all this? The call is supposed to be what the damn GOP in DC can and should do and the answer is let the voter commit employment suicide and, channelling the awful Kevin Williamson, move out of your trailer park.
How typical is all this? The call is supposed to be what the damn GOP in DC can and should do and the answer is let the voter commit employment suicide and, channelling the awful Kevin Williamson, move out of your trailer park.
Something I find interesting is this 30% of the GOP Faithful mentioned in this interview and the memo who are not on board with the GOP appealing to working class voters. I know a number of them and outside of a handful of libertarians who are completely against pulling the levers of government power for any reason, most seem to oppose the move on stylistic grounds (it requires mean tweets and they're totally against that) or their afraid it requires taking positions that will upset Democrats.
Don't know if there's any way to accommodate this bunch.
Banks hit the bullseye, and it's long past time for the GOP to realize its future hangs on the middle class. Without our work ethic, creativity, our craftsmen, service providers, small business owners and other entrepreneurs, we'd soon lose all spirit of entrepreneurship, liberty, and self-reliance. We worker bees are clearly being targeted by the Left. The Left is not "pushing their radical agenda"--THEY'RE OUT TO OBLITERATE US! We the People in the trenches can see it; we're being starved out economically and all the GOP can do is...what? [crickets] Trump gave us a voice, and better yet, outstanding, tangible RESULTS. The Lincoln Project's Pyrrhic victory against Trump has already cost America dearly, in lives and freedoms and life savings lost. Whether our nation can ever recover remains to be seen. Banks' plan is a good one, and no time like the present.
I just wanna add that earlier today a Democrat mayor in Nevada just switched parties arguing from the same position the memo comes from.
I just wanna add that earlier today a Democrat mayor in Nevada just switched parties arguing from the same position the memo comes from.
You can go to Churchill Downs and bet on the longshots all day. There's a small possibility that one of them will win. But most of them will lose. They are longshots for a reason.
Why do you think the Democrats abandoned "blue collar" workers? Because they could win more without them. There really are people who follow the stereotype of Obama's "clinging to guns and religion". These are people who don't read and don't think. I don't know what to do about them, and their number is growing rapidly. But even if there is truth in the "hillbilly elegy", it remains true that every person is responsible for his own happiness, no matter how sad the story and how unfortunate the circumstances. Government can't be responsible for "happiness". We can't even get elections right, and we need to figure that out first before moving on to other topics.
Surprisingly weak analysis. Defensive and dismissive rather than analytical. Puzzling. Do you think politics is like football, where you pick a team for life and "my team good, other team bad?" Why are you even using the term "working class"? Is there a "class" of people that doesn't work? Is there a class of people that deserves our respect? Are there jobs that automatically bestow virtue? Let's not romanticize anyone into these amorphous abstractions. From the beginning, America hasn't even had "classes" the way that was understood in Europe. That was one mistake colonists wanted to avoid: the idea that your life and identity were determined at birth and there was nothing you could do about it. Blue collar, white collar, working class are basically Marxist terms that say: you have a collective identity rather than an individual one. In a recent interview Shelby Steele was referring to blacks when he said, "When do we get to be human beings?" But you can apply his frustration to everyone. We are constantly being subsumed into these collective categories, when the truth is, down to the molecular level, we are all uniquely different from each other. Jim Banks is trying to counter the fact that business leaders are afraid of these radical left-wing groups. They're afraid because the greatest "sin" in America today is being called a "racist", something else Steele has discussed. But you don't counter one fallacy by adopting another for your "team". Sting had a song that said, "Men go crazy in congregations, they only get better one by one."
Knowledge, courage, and sheer will with a righteous focus creates leaders. Some will fail but if a person has these traits they will already know this and will do it anyway. Others will succeed and plow the road. These people make others worry about them.
A group of people with these traits would be an unstoppable force.
The focus should be what’s right for all Americans and to stop the abuses, stop the excuses, and stop the madness.
For example...
Letting crazy and abusive parents decide they want their child to be a different gender through permanent mutilation is madness. So called Doctors performing this on children is madness. No one is for this but a small minority and they’re crazy or part of Big Pharma. The Governor of Arkansas who is a perfect example of not doing the right thing.
Letting male criminals go to female prisons...Eventually most of the male criminals will volunteer. Nothing bad could come of this right!!! Also madness!
Open borders =no western countries! A free market that is really controlled markets, War on drugs but not a real war just a make money off of all the pain war, etc...abuse and madness
All abuses with attached excuses.
Europe and mainly England have experienced all the above years ago and it’s still going. Why are we following? Why aren’t the rest of the worlds countries and peoples following if it’s so great? Why would a sane Republican or Democrat would think this is good? Abusing people, pumping in poison, allowing adversaries to rule is good when again?
Be the plow. Protect freedom for all Americans. Never give in and never give up.
How typical is all this? The call is supposed to be what the damn GOP in DC can and should do and the answer is let the voter commit employment suicide and, channelling the awful Kevin Williamson, move out of your trailer park.
The GOP cannot be save.
How typical is all this? The call is supposed to be what the damn GOP in DC can and should do and the answer is let the voter commit employment suicide and, channelling the awful Kevin Williamson, move out of your trailer park.
The GOP cannot be save.