30 Pieces Of Legislation Republicans Are Using To Destroy America

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30 Pieces Of Legislation That Republicans Are Using To Destroy America
March 14, 2011
By Hrafnkell Haraldsson and Sarah Jones

Let no one doubt the Republican platform for 2011 is one of nihilism. Let no one mistake their threat to America as a promise, unless it was a promise to destroy America. The Republicans have been on the attack non-stop since day one and their targets have included education, the environment, the middle class, unions, healthcare, women’s reproductive rights, and marriage equality. They really haven’t offered anything on a positive note: their goal seems to be to roll back the New Deal, the Great Society, and any other progressive legislation that has come along since 1900, including some signed into law by Republican presidents, effectively aiming at a return to the abuses of the Gilded Age, when rich Republican oligarchs ruled the country.

Remember when we saw all those crazy Tea Partiers in the primaries, Angle, O’Donnell and the others and we thought “Oh boy, here we go!” Well, our fears were justified and in some respects, it is worse than some of us ever imagined. Let’s look at some of the areas of attack. The truly frightening part? This is not an exhaustive list of what the Republicans have been up to:

Women’s Reproductive Rights

There is no doubt that the GOP’s first goal is to deprive women of their reproductive rights. It’s so important that we find Mike Huckabee promising Christian conservatives that his number one priority if he runs for president will be abortion

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Marriage Equality/Anti-Gay Agenda

To demonstrate how serious the GOP is about depriving a segment of Americans of their constitutional rights, conservative activist Alan Caruba called Obama’s DOMA decision an act of “societal suicide” in a column titled, “America’s Gay White House.” So the equality guaranteed by the Constitution is societal suicide?

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Unions and Collective Bargaining/War on Middle Class

This is more than an attack on unions, teachers, the public sector and collective bargaining and it is far from being the budget/deficit issue Republicans claim. It is, as Noam Chomsky writes, an attack on democracy itself.

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1. And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for

grossly overreaching in their illimitable greed, and waking up those "meddling kids" who actually compose the vast ocean of American working people, and their noble history of claiming human dignity for people who live by work and not wealth.

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2. morning kick nt