DON'T READ THIS IF YOU ARE GOP

If you are a Republican, can you tell me what your party has accomplished? As a Democrat, I can list a large number of things, especially as related to the last 5 years. We are no longer fighting a crazy war in Iraq. We are getting out of Afghanistan. We are not fighting wars in Pakistan, Egypt, Tunisia, Syria, or Palestine. On the domestic front, we have an integrated society as evidenced by having a mixed race President and public schools that open their doors to everyone. We have maintained freedom of religion while living under secular laws. Although it was a long time ago, we were world leaders in how to take care of the problem of old age poverty with the Social Security program (1935). Now, we are on the verge of catching up with the rest of the world in health care.

As a Republican, what are you proud of? A bomb, bomb, bomb foreign policy to invoke an American business hegemony by violence and not merit. A pledge to undercut Social Security by privatizing the program causes your chest to swell with pride. Are you proud of your drive to destroy public schools with voucher programs? Perhaps you think voter suppression meaning only the “right kind of people” can vote, is a source of pride. Perhaps you feel destroying women’s rights to maintain an authoritarian style of family structure is some how morally right. On health care, the subject of current interests, perhaps you are so proud of the fact that free enterprise failed so miserably that you want to try it again. As for the president, some people dislike Obama because he is a progressive, which is honest; therefore, something to be proud of, but for people to hate him because he is black is not—that is racism.  

The title “Don’t Read this if Your GOP” is an effort to protect my republican friends from the embarrassment of looking in a mirror.

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