Gov. McCrory/ Lt. Gov. Forest ticket with a Republican Legislature
is coming to North Carolina. One of the rules of Republican greediness is that
once they have gained power then they will do what ever they can to keep it. For
them it is an unrelenting and continuous process carried out at all levels of society.
The most egregious examples were in Wisconsin and Florida but any state with a
Republican majority is subject to their underhandedness. We elected both a
Republican governor and a Republican Legislature, now we are going to see North
Carolina unfairly turned in to a bastion of Republican power following the
Wisconsin model. Legal or illegal, honest or not honest, makes no difference;
they will do it. They will operate state
government like a committee where the chair can appoint new members. If they have
legislative power, they use it to destroy union, which are a source Democratic
support. Tax the middle class and give breaks to the big business but
especially to energy companies. Open up all land to gas fracking. Increase the
cost of power to the people. They will initiate voter suppression measures. We
have seen these things happen in state after state. They redistrict to construct districts only
Republicans win in. In North Carolina, even before they had control of the governor’s
mansion, the Republican legislature stripped the Democratic Lt. Governor of
funds and employees so he would be ineffective, and then accuse him of being
ineffective. Now with a new Lt. Governor Forest (R), they will be on a roll;
all of a sudden the Lt. Gov. office will be refunded. You can shame them, call
them names, or do what you will but it will make no difference they won even if it was a narrow
margin, which in their mind is enough to act as dictators. Once you voted for
them, you can never get your vote back.
I am reminded of a conservative couch saying to his little
league team, “To win is not the important thing; it is everything.” “It is not
a matter of how you play the game; it is a matter of winning.” To a Republican,
to play fair or not to pay fair makes not difference. If they have a majority of
one, they have a mandate. If the Democrats have a majority of one, Republicans
tell us it means we have to negotiate. Why do we seem to believe them? Because these
traits seem to be universal among Republicans and Democrats, I think it must be
in our genes. How else can, you explain why North Carolinians voted against their
own interests?
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