Suddenly, the airwaves are filled with conciliatory Republican
rhetoric. I listen to McDonnell, Jindal, Ryan, and the like-minded Tea Party
driven people trying to sell the idea that Republicans know how to govern; they
are for the middle class to have freedom to succeed; for fairness in
government; for building infrastructure (the very thing they prevented) and
then go on-and-on ad nausea with similar declarations. Beware! They are not telling the truth. They are for top down economics,
the failed trickle down concept of Ronald Reagan.
If you are ever in a situation where you can, please challenge
them with the question, “How do they reconcile their newly proclaimed position with
basic Republican philosophy?” Their philosophy is based on Ayn Rand’s radical “takers
and maker’ concepts. How do I know this? All you have to do is look at what
they are doing in the 24 states where they have control of the legislatures. The most recent example is in North Carolina where
the new Republican Governor McCrory with his radical republican legislature has
increase the salaries of all of his high-level employees (the makers) and
lowered and cut the benefits for the unemployed (the takers). These red-states
are introducing sales tax to replace Federal Income Tax—sales tax is the most
non-progressive form of taxation there is.
For example, Scott Walker in Wisconsin, in the cesspool of
radical Republicanism, lied mightily to be elected, and then instituted a
radical Ayn Rand program, a monarchist program he did not campaign on and a
program the people do not want. Note that Wisconsin served as a model for all
these newly “reformed” Tea party types to jump on the winning bandwagon.
Wake up Democrats; pull your heads out of the sand. The fact
that many Democrats do not believe radical Tea Party people are winning is
dangerous. They are! The victories they won in the 2012 elections have caused
them to bury their collective heads in the sand. Look at it this way. Twenty-four
states have Republican governors. Republicans control the United States House
of Representatives. Eric Cantor is Majority leader and Paul Ryan is head of the
budget committee in the House of Representatives. Republicans have reelected Reince
Priebus to be the head of Republican National Committee, even after the so-called
“reasonable conservatives” in the Party knew his radical philosophy. Sen. Harry
Reid, a blue-dog therefore vulnerable democrat, sold out to Mitch McConnell on
cloture in the United States Senate, in essence given the Republican minority
control of the Senate. They sold out the Supreme Court nomination process to
the whims of politics with the Citizens United decision as the result. Now, they
are working to corrupt the Presidents cabinet nomination process the same way
they corrupted the courts—Hagel is a case in point.
What is even more ominous is they sold out to the evangelical
church groups to initiate faith based initiative meaning, tax money and political
power goes to churches in matters of abortion, gay rights, and control of our children’s
education—much to the shame of our country in an enlightened world, they breathed
new life in to the creationist debacle. They claim to be the party that will
follow the constitution; however, separation of church and state and usurping
the right of all people to vote apparently is
not in their copy of that document.
I want to call your attention to one fact; each one of the
people named in this lexicon of political sins is based on a known policy
position conceived in the shadow of Ayn Rand. Each one of these people denies
what is obvious, is that they believed
themselves to be the makers and that selfishness
is a virtue. The only way the can
win is to burn the constitution. The only way that can happen is if they lie,
and you believe them, and that is their objective.
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