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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Sat May 5, 2012, 11:28 AM May 2012

What The GOP Won't Tell You - Their New Order Version

There is so much GOP blather out there that is nothing more than generic political code talk. If I hear one more mention of "freedom" I am going to puke. How many times does Romney or his cronies or some GOP asshole have to say "FREEDOM" in one of their GD speeches. The only thing they say is that if you give the rich all the money we will prosper.

The GOP is intent on having a society where there is no middle class. People with a little money and a little freedom always cause trouble. That is what they believe. If you keep 80% of the populace poor and desperate and hungry you have a stable society. You have the police forces and the military to enforce order and make sure no one "rocks the boat". That is why they are intent on driving wages down to starvation level. If you really want a metaphor for our times just watch Scorcese's "Gangs Of New York". It was not until the Nativists and the Irish figured out the game and started going after the rich that they had that Navy shell them and kill their leaders.

In medieval Europe the monarchs kept their subjects in line by starting wars or building monuments to themselves. They shed a few crumbs to keep people just happy enough that they would not refuse to fight their little follies and military squabbles. The castle was for the elite. The outlying areas were for the peasants. And of course there was not vote because the kings declared a "divine right" to rule.

The GOP is no different. Their castles are the private and gated and guarded communities. The GOP has almost declared a divine right to vote with its voter ID tactics. The ultra rich and big money are funding these activities so they can tip the vote to their interests.

And if you notice the GOP reps and Senators always are hiding. They never really engage with their constituents. To be able to go to their town halls you have to declare loyalty and promise not to ask any uncomfortable questions. And if you do you are immediately arrested. And if you want to protest there is a convenient "free speech" zone 20 miles away in the woods.

As a military veteran this is NOT the kind of democracy that I supposed spent a year in Vietnam defending. And I will not defend the kind of government the GOP intends to establish. It is one where they favor stability at all costs even if it mean GOP dictatorship. Just look at Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Florida and Arizona and see what you get with these thugs.
And these examples are mild in comparison with what they are really going to be like with power. The DEVIL is in the details that are conveniently not shared.

I think calling them a bunch of fanatical neonazies is quite appropriate by the way they act.

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What The GOP Won't Tell You - Their New Order Version (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis May 2012 OP
K & R MoreGOPoop May 2012 #1
I fully agree gopiscrap May 2012 #2
This is what happens when you get extreme right presidents in office. They give southernyankeebelle May 2012 #3
And the mechanism for them to achieve this usrname May 2012 #4

gopiscrap

(23,726 posts)
2. I fully agree
Sat May 5, 2012, 12:46 PM
May 2012

The only way we will stop is this is by taking to the streets and making life awfully uncomfortable and scary for the rich fuckers!!!

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
3. This is what happens when you get extreme right presidents in office. They give
Sat May 5, 2012, 01:56 PM
May 2012

us a conservative supreme court. Why bother sending any through the courts because you know it gets to the highest courts we lose. We are screwed.

 

usrname

(398 posts)
4. And the mechanism for them to achieve this
Sat May 5, 2012, 02:30 PM
May 2012

is called by its code word, "FREEDOM". In reality, it is to privatize everything in the government. It's already started: privatized military services, privatized the post office, privatized FEMA. Rand Paul wants the TSA gone, but not gone as in no longer doing searches at the airport. He wants the TSA gone from the government's duty and have it privatized. Prisons are being privatized. Monitoring of citizens have been privatized (AT&T eavesdropping on people, the TIA, speed cameras, general surveillance cameras). Health care is being privatized. Education... EPA... management and maintenance of our national parks...

It's because RWingers are too narrow minded to be creative and invent new ideas and new businesses. So they take existing businesses or solutions and try to own them.

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