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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf Puke's Like McConnell Are Not Conservative Enough, What Is The Real Teabagger Agenda?
With the number of already ultra conservative GOPPERS facing primaries, what IS the real agenda of the teabagging crowd socially and economically. Do they want to jail or execute gays, transgendereds, and other "undesirables". Do they want dictatorial religious tyranny? Economic anarchy? Massive starvation? Medical care for only the "deserving"? etc,
They are pretty non specific about what they would do and how they would actually govern. Or maybe there would be no government at all. They seem to hate everything and everyone.
The fact is that we really do not know what they really would do. I do not like what I suspect at all.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)power to the states. This is too radical for most of the republican establishment.
brooklynite
(94,483 posts)...its an unwillingness to accept political compromises and the notion that incremental change is worse than standing hard on principles that won't get passed.
Sort of like some people on the far left.
Comatose Sphagetti
(836 posts)Do they want dictatorial religious tyranny? Economic anarchy? Massive starvation? Medical care for only the "deserving"? etc,"
The answer is yes.
Baggers, who are by and large the most recent and vocal manifestation of the religious right, desperately want a theocracy.
Every bagger I know talks about "deserving." You can have it only if you deserve it; and baggers have somehow - their religious teachings of compassion, caring and understanding and god as the ultimate judge aside - have somehow made themselves arbiters of who deserves and who doesn't.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I believe they are growing under the radar through the fundamentalist church movement and are encouraged by the uber rich for economic reasons.
libodem
(19,288 posts)That you are entirety correct.They would subjugate and punish everyone else for the privledge of not accepting any one different than themselves. They want to be free to be intolerant so nobody else can be free. They would do unto others before it might be done to them. They would love one another but...nobody else. Selfish, self centered, egomanics. They really don't get it.
We don't exterminate minority opinions in America. We have protection for the odd man out. Not so with the American Tea-la-ban.