I know, I know, who gives a crap about polls, right? And while I choose to simply ignore most, it was a poll that was released just this past Monday that did manage to catch my eye. You see, it was a Gallup study that seems to show that support for a third political party is now at an all-time high. And while I must admit that I have never really been much of a fan of going the third party route, what I saw from the Republicans during the last four years, and from some over the course of just the last few weeks, has definitely got me thinking. And what I saw from Mitch McConnell, just this past weekend, got me thinking even more that something now needs to be done!
So anyway, it was according to this latest Gallup
poll that pretty much a majority of voters now believe that the “parties do
such a poor job representing the American people that a third party is needed.”
In fact, it’s just 33 percent of Americans who now believe that the current
political representatives are doing even an “adequate” job serving their most
essential purpose. And it was also according to this poll that 50 percent of
those polled now actually refer to themselves as being Independent voters, as
opposed to members of either side. And so Gallup’s most recent results come
from poll data that was collected between January 21 and February 2.
Overall, 37 percent of the population feels positive
about the Republican Party, while it’s 48 percent who actually approve of the
Democrat Party. It’s that number alone that I find rather troubling. After
having watched the Democrats cheer on rampaging mobs burn, loot and seize areas
of some of our largest cities, put the country through not one but two sham
impeachments, combined with the outright theft of the most recent presidential
election the fact that nearly half of the population actually approves of the
Democrat Party is, quite frankly, more than a little disheartening. And it
paints a rather stark picture of what America has become.
The desire for an alternative to either side of the
aisle has grown considerably since Gallup’s initial research into the subject
back in 2003 and is an opinion that has been held by the majority of voters
since going back to 2012. While independent voters have consistently held this
opinion in the past, it’s Republicans who are now almost as likely to support
the idea. In September 2020, just 40 percent of Republicans wanted to see a
third-party alternative. By late January, that number had spiked to 63 percent.
Meanwhile, as the Democrat Party has become more radical, support for a third
party among Democrat voters has dropped from 52 percent to 48 percent.
Many Republicans and conservative independents favor
the RNC moving further right. Among the largely dissatisfied voters, more than
two-thirds want former President Trump to remain the party’s leader. It’s 40
percent of conservatives want to see their party become moreso, while 34
percent want it to stay the same, and 24 percent to shift toward the center.
Meanwhile, among Democrats, 34 percent would like to see the party move further
left, while 25 percent want to see the party become more moderate. And 42
percent of left-leaning independents want to see Democrats move toward the
center, while 35 percent believe it is still too conservative.
As things stand right now, the most likely result
from the creation of a third party would be to split conservatives between
Trump loyalists and those who would rather the RINOs remain at the helm. As
2022 looms large for many seated politicians, on both sides of the aisle, I’m
just not smart enough to know what is the right way to go. I do know that I feel
ignored by those whom I routinely vote for, and so my first response would be
to ignore them and let the chips fall where they may. And minus a Trump
endorsed candidate in any contest in which I would be voting, I would likely be
tempted to simply stay home. But is that really the right answer? I don’t know.
I have previously made very clear my displeasure
with our leaders in the Republican Party. And what we are now in desperate need
of are politicians who do what it is that they are elected to do, not just what
THEY wish to do. What we have now is a uni-party whose members seem far more concerned
with lining their own pockets and selling out the very same hard-working
Americans who elected them. Trying to take over the Republican Party is viewed
as a waste of time by many because of how many elections would be needed to successfully
purge all of the squishy RINOs. But a message must be sent and an example must
be made. So what to do? I don’t know!
Despite the growing number of voices from within the
Republican Party establishment claiming that the party is dead unless it
chooses to move itself just as far as it can from Donald Trump, it’s just the
opposite that is so very obviously true. Because, in reality, the Republican
Party is dead WITHOUT Donald Trump. While I can very safely say that I will
never again donate to the party, I could find my way to donating to a specific candidate
if he, or she, happened to be endorsed by President Trump. It’s the leadership of
the Republican Party who seem to be totally devoid of those true conservative ideals
to the point where I tend to favor just letting them sink.
It’s hard to deny that RINOs have done more damage
to this country, courtesy of their smoke and mirrors, than the Democrats could have
ever hoped to do. It’s been for the four years that we’ve watched the RINOs fight
right alongside the Democrats in what was a continuing effort to put every speedbump
imaginable to front of Donald Trump in the attempt to stall or to derail completely
his ‘America First’ agenda. Add to that the fact that the RINOs knew the
election was fraudulent and yet refused to stand for honesty and election
integrity and let Trump fall. And then there were the RINOs who recently joined
the Democrats in voting to impeach. It’s time for a serious change.
But I’m torn when it comes to what the right answer
is. Yes, I have said that I am done with the party, because I am tired of the
lies and all of the broken promises. But do we take those actions which we know
that, without a doubt, will result in allowing the Democrats win, and with relative
ease, election after election? And then hope that after maybe two election
cycles the Republican Party would be sufficiently decimated and enough voters would
abandon ship and then sign on to a third party? If only we could look into the
future. So personally I’m at the point where I will vote for those Republicans
that I feel I can, and not for those that I simply cannot support.
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