Say it with me - Corporate Party
Can we just say it?
The Republicans should just be called what they are....The Corporate Party.
Why are we calling them Republicans? Why are we floating around the horsehit mantras, which were always empty and contrived, about SMALL GOVT, personal responsibility, fiscal conservatism...BLAH BLAH BLAH
There are no such things. Every time we mention them, we give them life. We breath some cache into them.
They are dead. Empty husks, never was anything inside.
We can't call them Republicans anymore. Corporate Party will do, in lack of a more precise name. But I don't think you can get more precise than that.
Name me one (even minor) initiative from the Republican Party, in the last 15 years, that was aimed to help a big chunk of the avg. american population.
Prez. Buusch his all-out-assaults on the environment in his last days, and the "burrowing" of dozens of political appointees into Career positions is purely for Corporations.
*The response to the financial crisis has been to lavish billions on favorite firms in a cloudy, hazy, unaccountable and untraceable way.
*The response to Katrina was to allow poor people to be washed away. Outwaited. Outmuscled, and out Zoned so that huge conglomerates could buy up the new coastal property and clean out low rent neighborhoods, and rebuild money-engine luxury resorts. They even made rules that hurt the local folks from getting jobs in the cleanup projects.
*The response to the Twin Towers disaster was to twist patriotism and national-def into reasons to declare unending war on shadows and boogeymen and basically enrich corporations to carry out the neverending battles.
*Bailout - maybe some flimsy and ragtag oppostion to the bailout. None of their usual precision and lockstep dirty tricksterisms. There was an election coming in a few weeks and everyone was fleeing PrezBuusch and there was no cohesion. It was panicky everyone-for-themselves talk. So there is your one example. Some last minute flailing about the bailout....any other examples in the last 14 years of the Republicans lifting ONE FINGER for a large chunk of avg. americans?
Just ONE example? I asked this on a blog at TPM and the only response I got , from a fairly learned crowd, was Buuusch Sr. did something in his opening days for the disabled...or was it mentally impaired children? I am not sure how sizable a "chunk" of America that is, but at least it wasn't a total boon to corporations. Then again, I have no proof that it wasn't.
I mean it. The Republicans have not lifted a finger for the avg. american, as a party. Buuusch has one bright spot on his Prez Resume (Prez Rez)....AIDS assistance .... IN AFRICA! But not here.
I know that all Dems are susceptible to greed and get romanced pretty heavy by corporate interests. But as a party, they are reliably trying to pass laws that affect and help avg. americans. Out of all the Senated and House Dems, prob. 60% are very decent people who constantly act in accordance with the wellbeing of avg. americans. Of the remaining 40%, most of those are OK folks who at least vote properly, even if they are feathering their own nest. And I make quite a distinction between personal greed and ambition (Dems) and all-out cult membership tool of The Corporate Borg cabal (Repubs).
A lot of republicans don't even know WHAT they are voting for. They just know how the BORG told them to vote. They shrug their shoulders, and cast the ballot.
The reason this all hit me now, is that we have seen a lot of ink spilled over Republican Values, Republican Policies, are they dead? Rats fleeing the ship? Bring them back into the fold? Retool and come back fighting?
What the hell are we talking about? The Republicans have no ideals, unless they are Corporate. They have no goals, no policy positions, that are ONE JOT different from the Corporate wishlist.
I am not naive. I have railed against corporatism, and esp. the political arm (The ReFoolAgins) for almost 25 years.
But after all this time, can we stop calling them what they want to be called, and call them what they are? The Corporate Party.
We are only fooling ourselves, allowing them the masquerade, the disguise, the cover.
We are not in some idealogical battle with equal or opposite opponents. We are not dueling with our principles, ours against theirs. We seem to frame the Dems as fighting for a bulk of the people, against the Repubs who represent something less than 50% of the people. But the repubs DON'T. They represent the Corporations, not a large chunk of the populace. No, the repubs do NOT represent some huge, but still minority, segment of american people. Their policies represent Corporations only. Non-persons. Yes, there is a slim number of americans who own these corporations, and I guess the repubs do a bang-up job of representing them.
I think we will help ourselves enormously, if we call them what they are.
We do not help ourselves by pretending the republicans have VALUES and LOST THEIR WAY. They never HAD ANY!! They never WERE trying to help any chunk of americans except the ones who own the Big Companies.
We have got to stop giving them cover, lending them credence.
The Republicans should just be called what they are....The Corporate Party.
Why are we calling them Republicans? Why are we floating around the horsehit mantras, which were always empty and contrived, about SMALL GOVT, personal responsibility, fiscal conservatism...BLAH BLAH BLAH
There are no such things. Every time we mention them, we give them life. We breath some cache into them.
They are dead. Empty husks, never was anything inside.
We can't call them Republicans anymore. Corporate Party will do, in lack of a more precise name. But I don't think you can get more precise than that.
Name me one (even minor) initiative from the Republican Party, in the last 15 years, that was aimed to help a big chunk of the avg. american population.
Prez. Buusch his all-out-assaults on the environment in his last days, and the "burrowing" of dozens of political appointees into Career positions is purely for Corporations.
*The response to the financial crisis has been to lavish billions on favorite firms in a cloudy, hazy, unaccountable and untraceable way.
*The response to Katrina was to allow poor people to be washed away. Outwaited. Outmuscled, and out Zoned so that huge conglomerates could buy up the new coastal property and clean out low rent neighborhoods, and rebuild money-engine luxury resorts. They even made rules that hurt the local folks from getting jobs in the cleanup projects.
*The response to the Twin Towers disaster was to twist patriotism and national-def into reasons to declare unending war on shadows and boogeymen and basically enrich corporations to carry out the neverending battles.
*Bailout - maybe some flimsy and ragtag oppostion to the bailout. None of their usual precision and lockstep dirty tricksterisms. There was an election coming in a few weeks and everyone was fleeing PrezBuusch and there was no cohesion. It was panicky everyone-for-themselves talk. So there is your one example. Some last minute flailing about the bailout....any other examples in the last 14 years of the Republicans lifting ONE FINGER for a large chunk of avg. americans?
Just ONE example? I asked this on a blog at TPM and the only response I got , from a fairly learned crowd, was Buuusch Sr. did something in his opening days for the disabled...or was it mentally impaired children? I am not sure how sizable a "chunk" of America that is, but at least it wasn't a total boon to corporations. Then again, I have no proof that it wasn't.
I mean it. The Republicans have not lifted a finger for the avg. american, as a party. Buuusch has one bright spot on his Prez Resume (Prez Rez)....AIDS assistance .... IN AFRICA! But not here.
I know that all Dems are susceptible to greed and get romanced pretty heavy by corporate interests. But as a party, they are reliably trying to pass laws that affect and help avg. americans. Out of all the Senated and House Dems, prob. 60% are very decent people who constantly act in accordance with the wellbeing of avg. americans. Of the remaining 40%, most of those are OK folks who at least vote properly, even if they are feathering their own nest. And I make quite a distinction between personal greed and ambition (Dems) and all-out cult membership tool of The Corporate Borg cabal (Repubs).
A lot of republicans don't even know WHAT they are voting for. They just know how the BORG told them to vote. They shrug their shoulders, and cast the ballot.
The reason this all hit me now, is that we have seen a lot of ink spilled over Republican Values, Republican Policies, are they dead? Rats fleeing the ship? Bring them back into the fold? Retool and come back fighting?
What the hell are we talking about? The Republicans have no ideals, unless they are Corporate. They have no goals, no policy positions, that are ONE JOT different from the Corporate wishlist.
I am not naive. I have railed against corporatism, and esp. the political arm (The ReFoolAgins) for almost 25 years.
But after all this time, can we stop calling them what they want to be called, and call them what they are? The Corporate Party.
We are only fooling ourselves, allowing them the masquerade, the disguise, the cover.
We are not in some idealogical battle with equal or opposite opponents. We are not dueling with our principles, ours against theirs. We seem to frame the Dems as fighting for a bulk of the people, against the Repubs who represent something less than 50% of the people. But the repubs DON'T. They represent the Corporations, not a large chunk of the populace. No, the repubs do NOT represent some huge, but still minority, segment of american people. Their policies represent Corporations only. Non-persons. Yes, there is a slim number of americans who own these corporations, and I guess the repubs do a bang-up job of representing them.
I think we will help ourselves enormously, if we call them what they are.
We do not help ourselves by pretending the republicans have VALUES and LOST THEIR WAY. They never HAD ANY!! They never WERE trying to help any chunk of americans except the ones who own the Big Companies.
We have got to stop giving them cover, lending them credence.
