Near Future GOP Platform: Repeal All Social Programs and Reinstate Slavery.

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The modern GOP mindset that overwhelms all of their thoughts can be summarized as follows:


As long as there are limits to my abilty to expolit the labor of others, and as long as I am forced to reduce the suffering of those not of my kind, I will never be free.


Is my title realy that far fetched? I think not.

[Gothmog]

1. Have you read the Ryan budget?

That budget is based on these concepts

[blkmusclmachine]

2. GOP: "There's been a lot of advancement in this Country over the last 150 years. And we've been

against every single bit of it."

[Anansi1171]

3. brilliant!

[2naSalit]

4. Sounds about right.

[jmowreader]

5. The GOP base (read: rich businessmen) do not want slavery reinstated

Trust me on this: it is FAR cheaper to work someone part-time on minimum wage and force them to supply their own clothing, food, shelter, childcare, transportation to work, off-duty recreation, and medical care, than to provide all those things in lieu of pay.

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6. Well

I was trying to say that is the ideal and logical platform for the GOP. Of course its not practical or even possible to reinstate slavery (doesn't mean some will not try), but it seems like the logical conclusion if you espouse the modern GOP mindset, which again, I feel considers ANY restrictions on the ability to exploit the labor of others as "tyranny" or contrary to freedom.

[AverageJoe90]

7. That all may be true, but some may try anyway.

Hell, it's even well-known that slaves, per capita, weren't really close to as productive overall as free workers, as some smaller plantations actually sometimes had trouble keeping up with family farms, despite the fact that slaves always worked significantly longer hours & there were several times more slaves working an average plantation(about 20-30 or so, roughly), compared to your average family farm(about 7 to 10 people). But did it matter much to men like John C. Calhoun or Robert Rhett? No, they saw a means of excess personal profit, and not just that, but even a tool for the perpetuation of social control, poor whites be damned; and many poor whites *were* screwed over by slavery as well, in the form of lesser job availability. It mattered not to them that it held back the South's economy as a whole, or that it hampered employment prospects for poor whites. Not one whit.

It was all about their personal wealth, pure and simple; same general logic helped create the outsourcing phenomenon the century after(in fact, had outsourcing been available after the Civil War, I'm sure that many slaveholders who could do so, *would*, just so they didn't have to hire people for any real wages.)