The Imminent Demise of the Party

[GreenPartyVoter]

The REPUB Party, that is.

Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Imminent Demise of the Republican Party
by David W. Orr

Following the election of 2004, much has been made of the weaknesses of the Democratic Party, even its possible end. But it has escaped the notice of our blow-dry television pundits and political observers alike that the Republican Party, in the full blush of triumph in control of all the branches of government and large sections of the media, stands on the edge of certain extinction. The reasons grow daily more evident. Over the past three decades, the moderate, business-oriented party of Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower was captured by its extreme right-wing thereby becoming a party dominated by ideologues, increasingly divorced from unmovable facts. But no organization, political party, or nation can long survive by ignoring realities of ecology, social justice, law, economics, and true security. Sooner or later, it will step off the proverbial curb into onrushing traffic of events, forces, and trends that it refused to see.

The Republican Party has already stepped into the road. The question is not whether it will survive as presently constituted, but what else will be destroyed as it collapses in ruin and ignominy, sooner than later. Beneath the noisy spin of its media echo chamber, the true platform of the Republican Party, its future epitaph, is founded on denial. The rules of the Republican Party of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Tom Delay, and their brethren are these:

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[txaslftist]

1. Since the alternative is the end of Free America...

I hope you are right.

[pilgrimm]

2. Hope it does not take the whole country down with it

[Old and In the Way]

3. What thinking person today, coming of voting age, would find

anything of value in the message or leadership of present day Republicans?

I'm convinced that we've seen the oily high water mark of the Republican Party....it's all downhill from here.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. "Thinking person" With the way the repubs have broken the education

system, thinking people are getting harder and harder to find.

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[David Zephyr]

5. Democratic Party Will Soon Be the Cheaper Alternative for Corporations

Thanks for the article.

John Adams long, long ago figured that a bicameral congress with hundreds for Representatives and Senators would be a better bet for the people because it would be nearly impossible for the powerful to purchase them all.

Well, he never foresaw the clout of the multinational corporations that now run the world.

The Republicans had better look out because more and more the Corporations are able to buy off the Democrats at lower prices, which when you think about it, means that the Democrats will work harder for them for less money sort of like the cheap labor that corporations love, huh?

There's a cartoon for you: Democrats standing outside the Capitol with their hands held out to their Corporate bosses claiming that they will work for less than their Republican counterparts.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Great image, and all too true. Drives me nuts how

these corps will give $$ to both parties, but it's almost always less to the Dems.

A foot in both camps, but we know which one they feel most at home in.

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