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There would be NO Social Security, Medicare, Medicaide, health care access for 150,000,000, welfare, unemployment insurance, minimum wage, taxes on the rich, labor laws, family planning, contraceptives, work hour limits, unions, collective bargaining, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, teaching of evolution, teaching of progressive ideas, voting rights for women, child labor laws etc.
There would be mandatory school prayer, loyalty oaths, book banning, covenant marriage, mandatory flag pledges, creationism, theocracy, RW dictatorship, anti cohabitation laws, anti adultery laws, contraception banning laws, forced child labor, criminal laws against gays, felony criminal laws for abortion, laws banning divorce, anti minority laws, pro segregation laws, etc.
Just use you imagination as you hear and see all the legislative initiatives they push in different parts of the country.
Would GOP land be the kind of place you would want to live.
Taverner
(55,476 posts)10 points to the first person who catches this reference
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)Can I have my 10 points, now?
Taverner
(55,476 posts)Now if I could just transfer that to my daughter's Webkinz account!
A Xtianist version of the Saudi theocracy combined with Big Brother for the 99% and Ayn Rand for the 1%. Repuke paradise.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)You are certainly correct. And you can count on it.
The GOP and evangelicals will never give up. They have said over and over and over they will take down the Constitution and replace it with the bible no matter how long it takes.
Glorfindel
(9,732 posts)I think you're exactly right. Such a flag would suit them just fine.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)or at least sell the copper skin to his buddies for a microscopically small percentage of its value ... for them to resell for outlandish profit ... with no taxation, of course ...
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)welcomes visitors and immigrants to our shores.
democrat_patriot
(2,774 posts)Much more powerful. And a great tool to pick and choose from for reputing talking points.
But very time consuming to do...
RZM
(8,556 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Do you think Republicans have been in favor of any of the progressive strides made since the Civil War? Have they not favored a religiously insane agenda and one that punishes women, minorities and gays?
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)in private not public schools
indepat
(20,899 posts)anti-Christ.