Reply #8: They'd have a succession fight right before elections [View All]

[kenny blankenship]

few things are more important to their political hegemony than the perception of strength and unity. It's very important for their base, and they really need the base to turn out. Republicans win because they are strong. Democrats are puny and whiny and divisive. Notice that the Republicans and their media proxies are always claiming victories regardless of the outcome, or the sense of such claims. They won that one, they are winning, or despite present appearances all the gains of the Dems are about to boomerang and cinch another Republican victory. Their own fuckups, we're told, are Democratic plots which they promise will backfire on the Dems, only making the Republicans more strong. (Thus you see Freepers actually claiming the Foley scandal will destroy the Democrats and work to sweep Republicans to more power) Republicans win because they are right and they are right because they win. It's the agreement between their ideology and natural law, you see, that makes them naturally strong. That natural law is: Whatsoever the strong can take from the weak belongs to the strong by right. Strength is a natural symptom of their philosophical correctness, an attribute they possess because (as Fascists) they believe it is everything. Their God is the personification of the Will to Power. As a party they attract other strong force based institutions--the military and business--because of their evident strength and rightness.
Now if they were fighting among themselves they'd begin to look guilty and what's far worse, they'd look weak. If might makes right, and they certainly act as if they think it does, then appearing divided risks appearing wrong, possibly wrong right down to the core.
It's better then to stay unified in a stance of denial and to displace guilt on Democrats between now and the elections. There's too little time between now and Nov. 7 for their lies and misleading versions of the scandal to be fully exposed, which means they can say anything they want about it and deal with the consequences only after the election.