After reading Senator & presidential wanna be Marco Rubio's comments laying partial blame for the nuttiness that is the GOP Primary 2016, have come to the conclusion that a weekend retreat for all Republican representatives, senators & leadership is the party's last great hope. A weekend with Brene Brown, fashioned on EST seminars - bare bones surroundings, not glitzy meals, minimal potty breaks. Just the GOP & Brene.
This seems to me their last recourse because the party is clearly entrenched, encased in shaming & blaming. Brene can help them with that challenge. She can help them connect with a healthy sense of their own vulnerability, to move past feeling & giving blame & shame; to open up to their vulnerabilities; to accept their own story, because its only by owning it that they can write their own ending.
Gosh darn - Brene's cute as all get out, southern, perky & blonde, so they can relate to her as a viable woman worth their attention.
Yes, Sen. Rubio went on to say that Trump & others bear some responsibility for the outbursts of violent energies at the Chicago rally & other places. But he leads off with President Obama's speeches on racial inequality that have divided the country "along haves & have-nots, along ethnic & racial lines, gender lines," so am guessing he means ones like the president gave on June 26, 2015 in Charleston, which blatantly ratcheted things up.
Have had a good night's sleep between reading those words & writing this post. Yesterday was my first post in response to what I experienced as Sen. Rubio's unhinged, harried & heedless attempt to off-load blame for the current unspeakable state of the Union's disarray. What has me replaying his comments is the glaring fact that the quotes supporting his claim are flagrantly innocuous. I remember rereading the article a couple times, thinking that I must have miss something. Nope - there was just nothing there.
Come on - he doesn't even bother cherry picking blatantly out-of-context quote to make his blaming & shaming stick. Guess he figures it's enough to just point his finger & say, "YOU did it!"
And it is. Enough. I've had enough with the GOP resorting to blame & shame instead of looking at the crazy disarray in their own house.
They lost the 2008 election - they blamed the market meltdown & ineffective messengers & messaging, not the message.
They lost the 2012 - they blamed the primaries for weakening their ultimate candidate, they blamed the Tea Party who blamed Romney for being a moderate. Again, their message was held blameless.
If they are to have a chance at winning in 2016, the party needs this intervention, needs an intense weekend of looking at where shaming & blaming has gotten them, of learning that they are going to have to fully look at & accept their vulnerabilities as healthy parts of being a whole self if they are going to come back from the current toxic times.
Brene - the GOP's last great hope.
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