{"id":10590,"date":"2023-10-24T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/the-speakers-race-may-get-worse-before-it-gets-better\/"},"modified":"2023-10-24T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:46:48","slug":"the-speakers-race-may-get-worse-before-it-gets-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/24\/the-speakers-race-may-get-worse-before-it-gets-better\/","title":{"rendered":"The speaker\u2019s race may get worse before it gets better"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amidst all the hand-wringing and outrage about the ill-timed replacement of the Republican Speaker of the House, it\u2019s easy to lose sight of the big picture: this is what freedom looks like.<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t easy. It isn\u2019t fast. And it often isn\u2019t pretty. Sometimes it\u2019s a knock-down drag-out power struggle. That\u2019s what governance from the bottom up looks like. Our Founders knew that. And they chose it anyway. \u00a0<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because the orderly, top-down power structure of dictators like Chinese president Xi Jinping comes at a huge cost to the people. Here in America, our power struggles happen out in the open, at least mostly in the open. Our representative republic can be cumbersome and chaotic, but only because we allow so many different voices to engage in the political process. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The battle playing out in the halls of Congress is a feature of our system, not a bug. We can disagree with the actions of those who precipitated this vacuum of leadership at such a critical time. I disagree with their strategy even as I sympathize with their grievances. Nonetheless, I\u2019m grateful the Speaker\u2019s race is competitive \u2013 at least on the Republican side.<\/p>\n

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Certainly the Democrats enjoy less chaotic leadership changes. They fundamentally believe in top-down leadership, with a strong central government calling all the shots. \u00a0It\u2019s in their DNA. \u00a0I believe this translates into a kind of lockstep caucus in which Nancy Pelosi was allowed to call all the shots.<\/p>\n

For the Democrats, they profess to represent the American public, but their power structure emanates from the top. The elitists and big money control today\u2019s Democrat Party, not the working man or woman despite the desperate attempt to brand the party as swelling from the grassroots.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s much less true in the Republican Party, but more true than the \u2018progressives\u2019 of today. For the most part, Republicans remain the party of individual rights, self-determination, grassroots leadership, and local control. That translates to how the body functions in the U.S. House of Representatives, the people\u2019s house. In the GOP, they squabble, negotiate, disagree, and actually debate.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m as frustrated as anyone about the House Republicans\u2019 fruitless quest for consensus at this critical time. But for all the Republicans complaining about one person wanting to re-vote on who is the Speaker, you voted for that right in the Rules. Hard to complain about something you voted for, but now dislike less than a year later.<\/p>\n

Yet, we should all be grateful for a system that still enables such battles to play out where power is not absolute and perpetual.<\/p>\n

Freedom is not for the faint of heart. It\u2019s for people who can handle the chaos of a representative republic. We can. And we will. Somehow, some way we will figure out our way through this and be a stronger republic because of it.<\/p>\n

The speaker\u2019s race may get worse before it gets better. It could be a long battle. \u00a0But in the end, we are better off for letting it play out. We must be patient, even as we make our own demands known. This is the system that produces the greatest happiness, growth and prosperity the world has ever known.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Jason Chaffetz is a FOX News (FNC) contributor and the host of the Jason In The House podcast on FOX News Radio. He\u00a0joined the network in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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