The Republican Party is totalitarian.

[KlatooBNikto]

In its words and actions, time and again, the party has shown itself to be against the interests of common people, not just in the U.S. but everywhere.It is the party that waged a war of character assassination against loyal Americans by branding them Communist agents during the McCarthy era.It developed the notorious habit of producing black lists of "undesirable"people.It made us ignore the existence of China in favor of an elitist clique headed by the corrupt Chiang Kai Shek.It laid the ground work for the Military Industrial Complex despite warnings from one of our foremost Military heroes, Eisenhower, himself a Republican.It has consistently sided with Southern Racists in denying the rights of black people, has actively sought to intimidate black voters, has actually disenfranchised black voters in the 2000 elections and now threatens to repeat the same in 2004 in several states.Its the party that has violated the Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners, has wilfully withheld vital information on the Iraq war from Congress and stonewalled all attempts at an independent inquiry on the 9/11 tragedy.

It really has no claim to legitimacy in our political system.Because it believes so little in our Constitutional safeguards, one should think of it not as a party at all in the usual sense of the word but as an organization that is bent on subverting our system.

[UL_Approved]

1. Don't forget

The GOP started its great totalitarian tendencies before WWII. Don't forget, the GOP wanted to stay OUT of WWII, and many Republicans were NAZI sympathizers. It's also been rumored that NAZI transplants worked their way into the CIA. These guys are up to their same old tricks.

[KlatooBNikto]

2. True, True as Bill Cosby would say.

[DBoon]

3. Those aren't rumors

I believe they are well documented.

There was a scandal during the Reagan years when it turned out some of the eastern european ethnic organizations supportint the republicans were headed by ex-nazis. I believe it was one of the baltic state's emigre organizations.

[Maiden England]

4. finish this phrase NEO-

con??? or nazi???

gee I can't tell the difference anymore.

[leftofthedial]

5. they are unamerican traitors and dangers to us and the rest of the world

we must remove them from the political landscape, along with their fascist neocon corporatist masters

[Zorra]

6. "......an organization that is bent on subverting our system."

Yes. It seems that a large number of republicans hate democracy,, particularly republican legislators and other elected or appointed officials.

We need to implement a massive, comprehensive investigation, and indict, try, convict, and imprison all these republicans that have been involved in the recent illegitimate attempts to overthrow our democracy through covert internal manipulation of our government, subversion of the voting process, and a myriad of other crimes against the People of the US.

These people are traitors. Plain and simple. We can not allow them to go unpunished or they will try to destroy our democracy again in the future.

[KlatooBNikto]

8. Republicans, like the religious fundamentalists, seem to be unable to

grasp the idea that active Democracy implies a populace willing to raise questions about our rulers and come to their own independent coclusions unfetterd by any pressure.It also implies a government that is totally open and honest with the people, what Norman Mailer has called a "modicum of openness between the governed and the government".The Republican Party appears to have bested Orwell's dark vision of Oceania in its contempt for and fear of, common people and their independence.

[OutsourceBush]

7. Clinton's 100,000 cops is bull shit too, helps Nazis if they are in power

If we are lucky enough to win, we need to roll back this fascist police state. Why do we as dems want to put more storm troops on the streets to fuck with us and help the fascists? It just makes no sense.

[UL_Approved]

9. Not really

Clinton set up funding for 100,000 plain-clothes police offices. Bush has cut funding for this and funneled it into Homeland Security and other such clandestine organizations. We need more police, less Gestapo.