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cynatnite Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:18 PM
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What does the repuke party mean to you?
Edited on Sat Mar-20-10 09:22 PM by cynatnite
1. Deny people health coverage
2. Deny women the right to reproductive choices
3. Deny the GLBT community to marry who they love
4. Deny the GLBT community the right to serve openly in the military
5. Deny people the right to unionize
6. Deny children the right to learn about history and science
7. Deny the GLBT community to adopt and raise children
8. Deny non-christians everything. Period.

This is what they mean to me.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:20 PM
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1. All the above and more! n/t
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:21 PM
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2. and NO democrat should embody any of those
but, shamefully, some do.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:21 PM
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3. A much shorter answer
Corporations good, people bad.

Unfortunately much of our own party is trying to emulate them so they can get some of that money for themselves.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:24 PM
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4. Death and hatred for all living things on Earth.
That is the GOP in a nutshell.


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tabatha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:40 PM
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8. plus
love and devotion to money and luxury.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:53 PM
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10. Yes, I should have included that too.


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stuntcat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:37 PM
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21. ALL things..
for real, Fuck The Entire Planet.. long as I got what I want and a big gate around it.
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:25 PM
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5. Hate
then there is Hate, and a bit of hate, then a bit more hate, well don't forget hate, did I mention hate?
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:28 PM
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6. You've pretty much got it, but I need to add Hate. nt
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rufus dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:29 PM
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7. Damn! sorry I missed that.
But we both missed Hate.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:12 PM
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14. Just checking, did you say hate!!! n/t
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defendandprotect Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:41 PM
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9. All of the above . . . they are the destroyers . .
Sadly, Dems are are becoming as corporatist as the Repugs ...

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Golden Raisin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 09:58 PM
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11. Arrogance, Scorn,
Hate, Racism, Narcissism, FEAR, Projection, Lies.
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Shandris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:02 PM
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12. Hate is a natural response to fear.
I see the Repukes as the party of the terrified. Sure, they want to deny everything useful to normal people, because that is who and what terrifies them the most -- normal people.

They are afraid of being held accountable. They are afraid of average workers. They are afraid of gays and lesbians. They are afraid of science. And without the comfort that somehow Jesus will come rescue them, they're afraid of life itself.
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:15 PM
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15. Oh how I wish Jesus would come and take them all away with him, but they
would reject him as a hippie or gay.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:16 PM
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16. Exactly. I'm usually compassionate with those who are fearful, I want to help
them to not be afraid, but these people don't elicit that reaction in me at all.
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Shandris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:24 PM
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18. I guess I'm still at that point where I feel something for them, even if it is mostly pity.
I'm from a 'conservative' family, I live in the heart of the Bible Belt, all that. I once believed as they do, wholeheartedly. So I know they're not completely beyond redemption...but that's probably what makes it hardest to feel something also, knowing that if I saw through it, SURELY these people who I've looked up to all my life can do the same.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:43 PM
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22. You're a better person than I. I can't even pity these people. I really want
to, and as I said, it's my usual natural reaction, but they've taken it too far.

I'd venture to guess you and your relatives wouldn't have sunk so low as to flaunt your hatred in public. Or spitting on a black man. I just can't get past that.

I'm so glad you saw the light and that you are a big enough person to see the good in these folks. I just can't. I lived in NC for six years and nobody ever said anything racist in front of me, and I know it was hard. And these were GOOD people. I just can't see that far into those who are takin' it to the streets.

:hug:
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UTUSN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:07 PM
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13. "Repuke" pretty much covers it. I usually use "Rethug." n/t
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miscsoc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:20 PM
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17. fuck you
got mine
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:25 PM
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19. you summed it up nicely
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ismnotwasm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:33 PM
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20. A failed political experiment
That continues to be supported by the spiritually dead and sociopaths. Or, put in another way, an antiquated belief system on a par with the theory that life, as in rats and maggots, can evolve from garbage-- oh wait, you did say repuke, didn't you? We may need to revisit that one.

But those things you listed? All of the above.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:44 PM
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23. GOP is a Cargo Cult of OCD Wealth Hoarders, they believe that wealth is the Measure of God’s favor
of a man, therefore it is a sin to tax a Rich Man/Corporation. the poor are being punished by God, therefore it is a sin to help them. and they use Mafia tactics to enforce their ideology to keep the money/power coming.

Psychotic Oligarchs think anything they do to horde more wealth is ordained by God, anyone they hurt deserves it..

the GOP is a Psychotic Cult.. their ideology Kills People, men women children in their quest to Horde more and more needless Wealth/Power... they ae mentally ill

the GOP has been taken over by these guys... the main players, leaders in the GOP studied under Strauss at U of Chicago
http://doggo.tripod.com/doggchrisdomin.html

"snip...Leo Strauss was born in 1899 and died in 1973. ... He is most famous for resuscitating Machiavelli and introducing his principles as the guiding philosophy of the neo-conservative movement. ... More than any other man, Strauss breathed upon conservatism, inspiring it to rise from its atrophied condition and its natural dislike of change and to embrace an unbounded new political ideology that rides on the back of a revolutionary steed, hailing even radical change; hence the name Neo-Conservatives.

Significantly, Dominionism is a form of Social Darwinism.<48> It inherently includes the religious belief that wealth-power is a sign of God’s election. That is, out of the masses of people and the multitude of nations, wealth, in and of itself, is thought to indicate God’s approval on men and nations whereas poverty and sickness reflect God’s disapproval.

(It was not until I read this article that I realized that this is a fundamental tenet of Dominionists.

Worldly wealth and power are signs of God's favor -- to attempt to limit or decrease one's wealth and power is to disrespect God.

On the contrary, God's elect on Earth are called upon to increase their wealth and power.

It is not sufficient for a man to be a millionaire, or for a country to have sovereignty within its borders -- a man must strive to increase his wealth as much as possible, and a Dominionist government's behavior toward its neighbors must be "invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity".

Furthermore, any attempt to decrease a person's or a country's wealth and power -- to take from the rich to give to the poor, to reduce military spending and power -- is a direct attack on God.)

If “Secular Humanists are the greatest threat to Christianity the world has ever known,” as theologian Francis Schaeffer claimed, then who are the Humanists? According to Dominionists, humanists are the folks who allow or encourage licentious behavior in America. They are the undisciplined revelers.

Put all the enemies of the Dominionists together, boil them down to liquid and bake them into the one single most highly derided and contaminated individual known to man, and you will have before you an image of the quintessential “liberal” -- one of those folks who wants to give liberally to the poor and needy -- who desires the welfare and happiness of all Americans -- who insists on safety regulations for your protection and who desires the preservation of your values -- those damnable people are the folks that must be reduced to powerlessness -- or worse: extinction.

What would a “reconstructed” America look like under the Dominionists? K.L. Gentry, a Dominionist himself, suggests the following “elements of a theonomic approach to civic order,” which I strongly suggest should be compared to the Texas GOP platform of 2002, which reveals that we are not just talking about imaginary ideas but some things are already proposed on Republican agendas.<60> Dominionism’s concept of government according to Gentry is as follows:

“1. It obligates government to maintain just monetary policies ... fiat money, fractional reserve banking, and deficit spending.

“2. It provides a moral basis for elective government officials. ...

“3. It forbids undue, abusive taxation of the rich. ...

“4. It calls for the abolishing of the prison system and establishing a system of just restitution. *...

“5. A theonomic approach also forbids the release, pardoning, and paroling of murderers by requiring their execution. ...

“6. It forbids industrial pollution that destroys the value of property. ...

“7. It punishes malicious, frivolous malpractice suits. ...

“8. It forbids abortion rights. ... Abortion is not only a sin, but a crime, and, indeed, a capital crime.”<61>
. . .

* Gary North describes the ‘just restitution’ system of the bible, which happens to reinstitute slavery,
like this:


“At the other end of the curve, the poor man who steals is eventually caught and sold into bondage under a successful person. His victim receives payment; he receives training; his buyer receives a stream of labor services. If the servant is successful and buys his way out of bondage, he re-enters society as a disciplined man, and presumably a self-disciplined man. He begins to accumulate wealth.” ...snip"
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salguine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:53 PM
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24. Very true, but if you're going to be honest, you'd have to confront the fact that
labor unions got done over pretty bad under Clinton, and the Democrats haven't exactly done right by the LBTG community themselves.
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bigmonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 10:56 PM
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25. Go On, Plunder!
Said to their real supporters, the corporations.
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tavalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 11:28 PM
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26. Bat shit crazy instead of spineless and half bat shit crazy
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Rincewind Donating Member (682 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 02:02 AM
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27. Death nt.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 05:37 AM
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28. Thatcherism, combined in many cases with religious extremism
Edited on Sun Mar-21-10 05:49 AM by LeftishBrit
I think Tom Paxton summarized the general principles of Republicanism pretty well:

A Truly Needy Family of Your Own
Words and music by Tom Paxton

Did you vote for Ronnie Reagan?
Howdy-do!
We've got a wonderful surprise in store for you!
You get more than lowered taxes
And a larger, lovelier home
You get a truly needy family of your own

Yes, you can get an actual family in the mail
Once a month you'll get a letter without fail
With a picture of how they're doing
And a plea for help each time
But the best part is you never send a dime!

Oh you got your boy in the White House
Like you always knew you would
And now it's time to take the poor
And stick it to them good
You get the same heart-warming feeling of
Denying a dog his bone
With a truly needy family of your own

You got more than a new cold war when
You cast that vote
You got a chance to grab some poor folks
By the throat
Now it feels like a million dollars to
Take some ghetto kid and say
"Yes, you had a chance but
I'm taking that chance away."

You get lists of all the help they used to get
You can hear the old folks cough on the tape cassette
You can hear the rats all squealing as they
Scurry across the floor
And the sounds of a street gang
Battering down the door

It all comes in a plain brown wrapper to your address
Please regard it as a tribute to your success
For success alone is not enough
To make a life complete
It's seeing the other guy fail that
Makes it all so sweet


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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 06:13 AM
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29. They each seem to have the same Sociopathic Misanthropic Antisocial Personality Disorder
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 06:35 AM
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30. The GOP endorses and actively supports hatred, racism, violence against
other Americans, ignorance, stupidity, greed, hypocracy, sexism.

They are as close to the concept of "Evil" as I think we get here in the US - they now are our Nazi Party, and they are getting worse by the week.

I am amazed that people still consider the republicans a legitimate political party instead of a terrorist group, and I think that perception may change as the republicans move to overt violence later this year.

mark
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3324SS Donating Member (101 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 06:39 AM
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31. Selfish Pricks! N/T
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NuttyFluffers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-21-10 08:12 AM
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32. violent psychotic reactionaries ran by genocidal sociopathic "multinationals"
i'm in the party; i can freely make this up-close assessment. staring into the abyss, although entertaining, can be an unhealthy hobby. but i'm also a fatalistic absurdist, so dancing on the edge ruin doesn't disturb me as much.
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