It shouldn't shock anybody that enough Republican senators conspired with the Democrats to deliver a whopping victory to Biden, Pelosi and Schumer. It's how the Republicans operate. Conversely, the Dems NEVER conspire with Republicans to deliver victory to a Republican president unless of course all the R and D neocons are singing in unison for the neocons, MIC and forever wars.
Republicans voters scream they will vote them out of office...well, primary them out of office but that never happens. Republican voters are like dutiful slaves; they have their hissy fits, then suck it up and OBEY their corrupt to the core Republican masters. Its's no secret that the Republican Party elites and GOP officials laugh at the GOP base. quite contemptibly I might add, because they know that the rat bastard traitor Congress Critters are nearly 100% safe from ever being voted out of office. The voters are just too damn dumb to get rid of them. Ditto for the Democratic Party.
Anway, the list of 19 Republican Congress Critters is a list that can be labeled the 'usual suspects' or mostly reliable Dem allies. They are listed by the Senate class, Class I (up for reelection in 2024), Class II (up for reelection in 2026) and Class III (up for re-election in 2022).
7 Up for Reelection in 2022
Blunt (MO) (he's retiring, open seat)
Burr (NC)
Crapo (ID)
Grassley (IA) age 87
Hoeven (ND)
Murkowski (AK)
Portman (OH)
4 Up for reelection in 2024
Cramer (ND)
Fisher (NE)
Romney (UT)
Wicker (MS)
8 Up for Reelection in 2026 (just got reelected and view themselves as safe from voters with short memories)
Capito (WV)
Cassidy (LA)
Collins (ME)
Graham (SC)
McConnell (KY)
Risch (ID)
Sullivan (AK)
Tillis (NC)
The above senators do NOT represent their constituents or even their state. They are just power hungry puppets of the oligarchy and special interests that fills their campaign coffers (banksters, MIC, big tech, whatever...).
STOP: If primaries are supposed to be a WE THE PEOPLE THING then why does CORPORATIST SPECIAL INTEREST MONEY control the process and shit all over We the People?
It's the most valid question in politics because herein lies the great flaw in our demented fraud of a democracy. It's not a We the People thing. It's definitely a corporatist, oligarch and special interest thing.
When real conservatives think about getting rid of corrupt Congress Critters, the first thing that functions as a knockout punch to the primary process is the MONEY advantage, a money advantage so powerful that only other big money players can take it on. It's how Trump defeated the establishment and Hillary in 2016, that and taking a powerful message directly to the people.
In 2020, many Republicans openly and not so openly conspired with Democrats to defeat Trump, well, that and a boatload of election fraud ranging from dead people voting to mysterious un-creased ballots magically showing up in the middle of the night to allegations that the votes were somehow counted in Spain, Germany and possibly other foreign nations.
So welcome to the sorry state of American democracy...the best democracy that oligarch money can buy!
Going forward, conservative voters, small government advocates and constitutionalists don't have a lot of options. They are just perpetually stuck with being on the losing side of every election that they have ZERO control over.
The ONLY thing that can change the equation and outcome is to get the special interest money out of the election process but hardly anybody in Congress will do that in a Pay to Play town where everybody is drunk on power and money.
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Our only hope is to control our state. Push for legislation that says a candidate can take donations ONLY from an individual, not corporation or PAC, etc, who can legally vote for that candidate. No money from some rich guy in another state. Our vote is suppressed when outside money influences who our candidate is. If I'm not in the candidate's district, for races at ALL levels of government, then I can't donate to him. That would reduce cost to run and also not dilute the value of my vote.
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