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.
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November 18, 2008 2:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like it...
November 18, 2008 5:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
I like it too. Bumper stickers will be available next week!
November 18, 2008 5:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome. Would prob. go right over their heads, tho.
November 21, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Now, now, now that is not bipartisan. Democrats want to be the corporate party too. If you've figured out you don't have a party to represent you, you're on the right track.
November 18, 2008 8:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
I recognize malfeasance in the Dems, too. I am not some team-joiner. But they are who I choose to get behind now, as a party with the ability to put a candidate in the office. I would be a green party member if I thought they could get someone seated.
Rather than dump the Dems because corporations successfully seduce them too, I would instead try to hold their feet to the fire, and eradicate corporate influence buying wherever we can.
November 21, 2008 12:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
A post totally lacking in historical nuance. Democrats and republicans alike have had a hand in our current crisis of character.
It wasn't too long ago that a democratic president worked with a republican majority to eviscerate our manufacturing base and dramatically intensify the War on Drugs. In fact, that democratic president continued efforts from previous republican presidents that didn't take root until he had lost the democratic majority a few years after taking office. Of course, that democratic majority he lost was the same clowns who gave Reagan everything he wanted for two terms.
This country is a study in contradictions and contrasts that doesn't yield easily to such broad generalizations as "Democrats good, republicans bad!"
November 19, 2008 9:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
Spoken like a true rightwing apologist.
If we took and enacted all the democratic proposals in the last 100 years, and we did the same with republican proposals
you would have a pretty fair and harmonious and prosperous country with Dem policies
and you would have a smoking wasteland with Rep policies.
Dems - Pretty Good
Reps - Idiot Agents of Evil
Oh, by the way, did you forget to include all the Republican proposals that were intended to help the Avg. American?
November 21, 2008 11:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Spoken like a true left wing demagogue who doesn't want to get anything done moving forward by worrying about who did what to whom and for whom in the past. Ironically enough, your reply is still lacking in context and nuance.
You seem to think that things in this country happen in some black and white world where ALL the democrats vote for good shit and ALL the republicans vote bad stuff. Where JFK didn't start Vietnam and Nixon didn't end it. That is just recent history.
Without republicans, we would be a smoking ruin. Our liberal and conservative methodology goes back to the founding of the nation under various names and guises, but both modern parties trace their roots back to the Constitutional Convention. It was a republican president who ended the Civil War and started the National Parks system. A republican president, while admittedly crazy as hell, signed OSHA and the Clear Air and Water acts into law.
In just the last democratic administration, Bill Clinton signed NAFTA and GATT and Most Favored Nation trading status for China. That pretty much killed our manufacturing base into ghosts and sent millions of workers making $50K a year working one job to making $35K working two. Thanks for looking out for the Average American democratic party!
If you really want to convince this country to move forward with Barack's very progressive agenda, you might want to stop commenting on things that you are clearly not educated or empathic enough to discuss. This is a serious time for our country that requires serious people to more clearly see where we have been and how we got from here to there. That takes work and not just quoting from whatever the last Nation magazine had to say.
Perhaps you could do your homework before calling someone a right wing apologist. There is nothing in what I wrote that absolves anyone of any party of anything. In fact, you make the same exact point to bluebell above that I made to you - that no one party is fully responsible for our problems.
That being the case, what possible good could come from continuing to berate "conservatives" or republicans, when the democratic president-elect is busy mending fences and preparing the way to deliver on all of his very ambitious goals? I haven't heard a word about assigning blame, much less taking credit, from Barack's mouth. He obviously smarter and more sympathetic to what this country has been through over the last 60 years than any but his most astute democratic followers.
Or whatever you call yourself, as you claim to want to be a Green Party member above. Takes courage to follow your convictions, despite being on the losing team. Which is why I joined the republican party in August of this year after two decades of being an independent, in effort to help the moderates change their party.
November 22, 2008 9:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, I wasn't so much saying that Dems=Good and Reps=Bad
I was saying
Dems=People
Reps=Corporate
November 21, 2008 12:07 PM | Reply | Permalink