UNDERNEWS: The GOP confederacy argues with itself

August 7, 2015

The GOP confederacy argues with itself

Sam Smith - The first GOP debates confirmed a point I made the other day, namely that the current Republican Party is the most reactionary and destructive major political organization in American history since the secession by the South. This is not just about political arguments; it is an effort by the Republican Party to secede from the history of American democracy and the progress it has brought, some dating back over 200 years. Here again are a few of the examples:

240 years; Post Office
226 years: Voting rights.
216 years: Estate tax.
177 years: University of Wisconsin
155 years: Education labor unions
99 years: Planned Parenthood
82 years: National Labor Relations Board
80 years: Social Security.
77 years: Federal minimum wage
49 years: Medicare.
45 years: EPA
37 years; FEMA

Ironically, given the debates' obsession with ISIS, the GOP is, in a nonviolent manner, involved in an attack on America's culture and past that has scary similarities to what is going on in the Mid East, which is to say not so much a revolution as a counter revolution against history and culture. The Republicans want to destroy two centuries of American progress in order to do things their way. This is not only insane; it is psychopathic.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: The recent QE of 10 trillion recalls the colonial transfers to the British Empire from India, China. Bankster colonialism asks Americans to turn over their wallets at gun point. Rome fell because Christianity undermined the divine power of the emperor. The US republic fell because the religion of economics and its sacred piggy banks undermined the power of the IRS to raise a social surplus. The GOP trace their philosophy to the Visigoths.; August 9, 2015 at 1:48 AM
Anonymous said...: Don't forget the party bosses sit as a majority on the Supreme Court. Gone but not forgotten: Art. 1 of the Constitution, Amendments 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 11, 13, 14, 15 and counting.; August 9, 2015 at 10:33 AM

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