How to Keep the Democrats in the White House.

Just take the power out of the hands of voters!
by David Brooks

The Republican presidential campaign just changed. ... Suddenly the delegates have all the power and the candidates have to woo them for their support. The crucial question is, how are delegates going to use their power?

Well, they could go the solitary path. ...

Or they could choose the collective path.

This is the path that recognizes that the situation we’re in now is more like a parliamentary process than a presidential process. Even very small groups can have an amazing influence over big candidates who are trying to build a majority coalition. Think of the way small Israeli religious parties extract concessions from the much larger Israeli parties.

I've long said, on this blog and consistently in my real life, that America is not Israel.  The idea of our becoming a religious state like Israel, where our political religious extremists "extract concessions" from the much larger political parties is not a path Americans wish to pursue...  Duh!*

(How far is Brooks removed from "minority" status in the United States to see how that type of alleged power sharing is working for our true political minorities here??  Check your privilege, David.  We simply don't have enough haters here, Thank God, to elect religious extremists like Ted Cruz who believe in the natural superiority of some like himself and his family, over the human rights of allegedly lesser others.)

In the end, David Brooks is really trying to teach the Republicans how to continue losing in the alleged service of a greater good:

The first thing the Lincoln Caucus would do is plant a flag for a different style of Republicanism. Members of the caucus would remind the country that there still are Republicans who believe in prudent globalism, reform conservative ideas to lift up the working class. There are still Republicans who believe in certain standards of polite behavior in public and pragmatic compromise.

If the Republican ticket gets devastated in November, members of the Lincoln Caucus could say, “We stood for something different,” and they’d be in a good position to lead the rebuilding process.

If he were listening, he'd understand that American voters are already rebuilding their parties -- from the ground up -- starting yesterday...  No more promises about Change from our political "leaders" gifted with speechmaking;  we are already making changes, and they are adding up...

Unlike Israelis, Americans are not enamored with political stagnation.   The leaders, and pundits, will learn to follow the direction being set by the voters in this race.  We do not need outside money telling us what we need;  we know.

And most importantly, we know what we don't need:  more Middle East wars that displace populations and lock them into refugee camps for decades.  If that is the New Normal, then Israel and America ought to agree to part ways, with dual citizens like Brooks free to follow his heart, afterall.

Just don't expect the American collective to join your pilgrimage journeys, Mr. Brooks.  We have a country here, and we'd like to keep it.
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* Reread the Bill of Rights to understand the special distinction between the guarantees America makes to her minority citizens compared to ... how Israel does it.

We. Don't. Want. To. Go. There. and start treating our minorities as second-class citizens again under the  law.  Ted Cruz preaches hatred and division;  having him at the helm assures defeat and America is not a country of losers or victims but of equals.  Never Forget.

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