CAN AN ELEPHANT CLIMB A "GREASY POLE"? IF NOT, WE WILL HAVE ONE-PARTY DEMOCRAT RULE IN AMERICA
Vol. II | Issue. 130 | December 1, 2022
Benjamin Disraeli was perhaps England’s Greatest Prime Minister until Winston Churchill. Upon being elected Prime Minister in 1868 Disraeli said: “I have climbed to the top of the Greasy Pole." With that, Disraeli was referring to the Greasy Pole of electoral politics.
Disraeli, who started his career as a Liberal Member of the British Parliament until he saw the fundamental deficiencies of the Liberal philosophy, ultimately reached the Summit of the Greasy Pole as a Conservative. When referring to the Greasy Pole of Politics, Disraeli was less cynic than the quintessentially practical statesman of vision who knew that politics was a tough and dirty game. With that reality in mind, he set his course on winning, not just making bloviating speeches in Parliament. Disraeli became a close confidante of the then-reigning Queen Victoria and was able to consistently outfox his political rivals.
Sadly, our "Conservative" Party, aka Republicans or to use a more vaunted sobriquet “The Party of Lincoln", have performed like rank amateurs in climbing Disraeli’s “Greasy Pole". It is true that Republicans have had their share of electoral victories the most recent strike of which was the election of Donald Trump in 2016 at which time they also controlled the House and Senate.
All was lost in 2020… But even with the 2016 Republican victory for the White House and control of Congress, the Elephant was very much a paper tiger.
The Democrats are always playing the long game… The Big Red Elephant is always moving from election to election grasping for an ever-shrinking piece of their pie from the last election cycle.
The long game of the Democrats is following their North Star of Marxism to create an America with a population completely dependent on informational control through the Censorship of the American Pravda, government handouts, poisoning the American classroom at every level with their Leftist inculcations, and using any and all political tactics available to them in snuffing out any dissent in their elected officials to vote along the Democrat Party line as dictated to them by their Left-wing overseers.
The French use the term raison d'être which is loosely defined as "reason for being”. The Democrat Industrial Complex is ever cognizant of its raison d'être. It is their mission to destroy America as a constitutional republic and replace it with a one-party Democrat-controlled political system with a few Republican lackeys holding office in order to create the Potemkin Village appearance of a well-functioning electoral democracy.
The Democrats have a clear understanding of their mission and a clear understanding of how to get there. The "Party of Lincoln", not so much…
If the Elephant doesn’t learn how to climb the “Greasy Pole” of politics and fails to define and understand what its mission should be, we are in big trouble.
Now the optimism, which as they say in the military is a "force multiplier"…
It can be done because the Republican party now has a strong field of newly emerging leaders in DeSantis, Younkin, Haley, Pompeo, and those unmentioned who have a chance of leading the Republican Party to a rejuvenated future fraught with potential.
But in order to succeed, the Elephant will need to better learn how to climb the “Greasy Pole” of politics in getting candidates elected.
Let’s get out there and fly Dumbo!
-Emes