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15 slimy, bulling things the republicans would do if they ever got into power again.
Dennis Rahkonen (a Finn) lays it out.
rich or well connected.
Not the lower (slave) classes.
for having babies and domestic chores.
beliefs and life style the disagree with.
corporations and go hopelessly into debt. Just like the
company store in the old mining towns.
elites and upper classes.
passages they find uncomfortable and inconvenient.
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1) Greatly reduce or entirely eliminate taxes on theAnd business, the banks any other tax they did not agree with.
rich, thereby forcing hard-pressed working families to
painfully make up resulting revenue shortfalls.
This is wet dream of republicans for sure.
2) Bust labor unions, cruelly preventing the collective
bargaining that's the key reason why US workers ever
won decent wages and benefits.
But maintain and add to regulations on those who are not
3) Stubbornly deny the existence of ominous climate
change while blithely pumping more pollutants into the
environment from lucrative, dirty industries and
practices. Although reputable scientists say 350 carbon
parts per atmospheric million is the safe limit for
sustained life on Earth, Republicans dismiss the
frightening fact that we're already at a carbon level
of roughly 390 ppm.
4) Remove "restrictive" regulations on everything from
investment banks and credit card companies to a broad
array of "profit-eroding" consumer protections, leaving
the American masses exposed to a host of resulting
abuses and dangers.
rich or well connected.
Besides....only the rich and elite deserve an education.
5) Continue to criticize and insufficiently fund public
education, advocating private schooling instead, thus
entirely ignoring that progressive public systems are
used in every country that has education outcomes
superior to our own.
Not the lower (slave) classes.
Because they firmly believe that women are only good
6) Outlaw abortion, under a fraudulently moral guise,
compelling the US to bloodily join those benighted,
backward nations where thousands of already-born,
living, breathing, socially functioning females perish
because of sexist denials of their basic reproductive
rights.
for having babies and domestic chores.
Anything THEY do not agree with is of course treason.
7) Continue to recite a Pledge of Allegiance whose last
six words are "with liberty and justice for all," while
remaining numbly oblivious to the harsh hypocrisy of
preventing our homosexual citizens from marrying.
8) Speak often and loftily of freedom, but engage in
secret wiretapping, repression of domestic dissent,
neo-McCarthyite witch hunts, Red-baiting name calling,
and a panoply of Patriot Act transgressions against the
Constitution of the United States...all under the
misused rubric of "national security."
Or any other country whose resources they desire and whose
9) Show the rest of humankind nothing but bullying
world-cop arrogance through endless US interventions
and aggressions on foreign soil, resulting not just in
countless lives extinguished in indefensible wars, and
billions of badly-needed dollars flushed down the
drain, but constant al Qaeda recruitment against hated
Yankee interlopers.
beliefs and life style the disagree with.
We would be forced to buy from these robber baron
10) Generally drive down the income levels of America's
working-class majority, as a purported cost-saving
corporate measure, without appreciating that a populace
that's too poor to buy back what society produces is
doomed to economic ruin. A living wage is the ultimate
"stimulus," but try to find even one Republican who
favors it!
corporations and go hopelessly into debt. Just like the
company store in the old mining towns.
Heath care, like education - is only for the deserving rich
11) Continue to lie about the alternative, affordable
health care for all that some fifty world nations'
people overwhelmingly support, thereby
propagandistically leading Americans to think that
having private insurance whose premiums are rising at
rates three times higher than our pay -- and which
routinely denies coverage when it's required most -- is
somehow preferable
elites and upper classes.
No doubt using some of Hitlers own techniques.
12) Unleash de facto ethnic cleansing against 12
million immigrant men, women, and children, making them
contemporary equivalents of the Jewish scapegoats that
Hitler blamed for hardships Germans experienced during
a prior period of capitalist economic distress.
They already want to rewrite the bible removing those
13) Shamefully try to lend credence to their avarice
and social irresponsibility by revising the Bible to
obscure passages that place human need before abject
greed, attempting to turn it into a facilitating guide
for modern peers of the temple moneychangers whose
tables Jesus angrily knocked to the floor (and who
undoubtedly wouldn't be mentioned in the amended
version that one conservative group is actually,
amazingly trying to put into circulation).
passages they find uncomfortable and inconvenient.
And believe me they most assuredly would.
14) Give full vent to the intensely bigoted hatred that
has crazed extremists dreaming of literally tearing
Barack Obama to pieces and gassing all liberals...if
only they could.
Or some other religious wacko extremist.
15) Place the livelihoods and lives of over 300 million
Americans in the hands of incompetent ideological
"purists" such as Sarah Palin.
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Unless the republican party somehow moves back toward center they won't get in power again. Our elections end up mostly with finding the numerical mean to the available propositions. This mostly excludes the far left and far right. The further you move from a center the less likely your proposition will win the day. Where this gets messy is when the entire country moves and relocates the ideological center. Under Bush the advent of 9/11 made this happen. Now it is moving the other way again and is pulling against those on the right who have 9/11 still fresh in their minds. This is a societal dynamic more than a political one.
November 14, 2009 7:14 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah that just about covers it.
November 14, 2009 11:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
1) refuse to pass EFCA 2) expand war in Afghanistan 3) refuse to repeal DODT 4) restrict abortion rights 5) support the Patriot Act 6) increase defense spending 7) oppose truly universal, single payer health care 8) do nothing on climate change 9) support FISA 10) fail to repeal the Bush tax cuts 11) do nothing about jobs 12) bail out Wall Street 13) fail to support gay rights 14) continue occupying Iraq 15) continue to let Israel dictate our foreign policy
What have I missed? Oh, sorry, wrong party.
November 14, 2009 11:18 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry left out:
16) domestic spending freeze/cuts
Who needs jobs!
November 14, 2009 11:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
The republican never gave up their power in Congress...they put it in cruise control back in 2006 and the democrats only think they're in the driver's seat.
Case in point - health care reform is loaded with tons of republican IED's set to go off if the bill ever gets signed.
November 14, 2009 2:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow.. this post was just a full vent to the intensely bigoted hatred that has crazed extremists dreaming of literally tearing Republicans to pieces and gassing all conservatives...if only they could.
Never ceases to amaze me...
November 14, 2009 10:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cmaukonen - where do you get this trash?
1) Reduce or eliminate taxes on the rich? Right, because that's what they did historically. That's why the top half of the country pays a greater share of taxes than they did 20 or 30 years ago.
2) Bust labor unions? Again, that's not something that they've done over the past 10 or 20 years but feel free to live the dream.
3) Carbon change - please show me the proof that our climate problem is man made and not cyclical. Please show me how much of it is driven due to the car I drive and its emmisions.
I could go on but Cmaukonen's list is so outrageous in the first place it's a waste of time. Once I read the parts about ethnic cleansing and Hitler's techniques I realized it's just a bunch of trash.
November 14, 2009 11:32 PM | Reply | Permalink