Professor’s Classroom
Subject: Political History/Political Science
In case anyone is confused….I have been an activist for over 40+ years and yes I was a Leftist radical in the 60’s……so I did a lot of studying of the history of the Left so I could better try to work magic in political history……well….I tried and it was disastrous….back in the day all the Left did was fight each other on who had the proper ideology….Socialists fought Communist…..Trotskyists fought Stalinists…..Maoists fought Leninists…..Anarchists fought everybody…..there in fighting made the whole movement ineffective in American politics…..
In the early days of the 20th century, shortly after the Russian Revolution, all Leftists parties, most notably the socialists, tried to get the endorsement for Lenin and the Russian Communist Party ….lots of back and forth…lots of lies about the other parties….lots of intrigue until in was given to the Communist Party-USA……..and then the jealousy and games began in earnest…..
Ideology was the battlefield…..which party or organization had the most accurate ideology on the Left…..all this fighting and bickering continued for decades….in the 50’s and 60’s purges were the rule…if people did not hold the proper ideology then they were purged from the party….there was NO compromise….either you believed the ideology of the party blindly or you were purged…..once again…..all this purity BS totally marginalized the Left in American politics…..
Why do I bring up all this “ancient” history?
Excellent question…….it looks like that the GOP may be entering into the pitfalls that the Left suffered from back in the day. In the last election cycle…..it had begun….the purity thing…….that is if you do not hold the “proper” ideology then the far right will do everything to undermine the moderates and liberals in the Party.
Look at NY-23….the moderate candidate had to bow out because the far right did not like her stands and put up a guy they approved of….even though he could not vote in the district he was running for….he did not know the issues of the district….his ONLY qualification was that he held the “proper” ideology.
And then there is Charlie Crist, the governor of Florida who is running for the Senate and he is a Repub, but the far right endorses Rubio, once again, he has the “proper” ideology.
He should be — he’s no Republican: “This election will be a litmus test to define the will power of party leaders to return to our values,” says Armando Valladores in The Miami Herald. Charlie Crist “hoodwinked” conservatives by raising taxes after promising they would “drop like a rock,” and he trampled conservative values by appointing a pro-abortion justice to the state Supreme Court over a “more-qualified” conservative. “No Republican should vote for Crist.”
“Crist doesn’t deserve GOP support”
These are just a few of the purity issue that I see ….and it looks like it is far from over…..the far right is trying to purge ALL moderates and liberals from the Party.
The far right seems to have NO tolerance for dissenting view within the Party and is trying desperately to purge all who do not have the “proper” ideology. But the important question is: can they, the far right, do enough damage to the GOP to make it possible for a successful third party?
I seem to recall that Nazi Germany was pretty much about purity and Aryan and Non-Aryan ideology.
Do you mean something like that? 😈
Exactly…..I think they should try another word to describe the list…..
I was hoping that the tea partiers would create their own party instead of hijacking the republican party. Unfortunately, it seems the best case scenario is that the RINOs and moderates to do some. That assumes the media and laws that protect the duopoly does not derail them.
Terrant……I believe that those teabaggers are running in what they call the conservative party…..,do not know if they will try to make it a national party or not…..