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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 12:01 PM Mar 2012

GOP Boldness

The GOP boldness on every issue like contraception, ending unions, war on women, war of religion, war on workers, war on children, war on the safety net, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, etc is really unprecedented. Make you wonder what they are up to.

With all the initiatives that they are coming up with in the states they control any person with one brain cell can see what they have in store for the nation if they get the control they want. They are the terrorists. We have less to worry about the foreign ones than we do the republicans.

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AnnaLee

(1,040 posts)
1. I don't know, of course. But I figure it ends in transfer of any remaining wealth to a few winners.
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 12:56 PM
Mar 2012

Who proceed to make the game a world wide entertainment.

For example, I never really got a handle on what PNAC was all about. But it looked like a plan for the US or rather "multi-national" corporations to achieve something similar to the British and French empires, creating a small owner class to receive profits. I say this simply because of the need for new sources of depleted resources and control of these; sources that have "free market" (it's mine) ownership. If the US does not make things friendly, there is always some other center of activity but, darn, that US Armed Forces is a good thing to have.

I'll stop because I admit I am just speculating and I am sad that it looks like the people of this country are tired of the Great American Experiment because (fill in the rest; I would only offend if I did it).

BumRushDaShow

(129,053 posts)
2. First it was PNAC, now it is ALEC
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 12:59 PM
Mar 2012

The GrOPers are zombies to the world of white papers and policy wonks and hopefully Americans will wake up.

longship

(40,416 posts)
3. Short, concise, and poses the right question
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:02 PM
Mar 2012

In my opinion it's one which all voters should ponder when they vote this Nov. There is a stark difference between the two major parties which now more than ever should be apparent to anybody paying attention.

This needs to be our united message. What kind of future do you want for your country? The answer to that question will determine our future for generations to come.

I really think we're at a crossroads and if we don't take the correct path it may not be possible to find our way back to a sane course.

KatyMan

(4,191 posts)
4. I think they know they're out in November
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:02 PM
Mar 2012

and they're grabbing whatever they can, and creating draconian laws that the new legislatures will have to spend a lot of time repealing.

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
5. The institution of a modern version of feudalism
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:11 PM
Mar 2012

is the endgame. A few at the top with almost all the wealth in society, another 1-2% as their necessary retainers, and the rest of the populace living in a theocratically controlled, ruthlessly policed economic squalor that would make Dickens' London look like a holiday daycamp. That is and always has been the endgame of TPTB.

deacon

(5,967 posts)
6. Just wanna add to the list the ongoing wars they wage on minorities, the enviorment, voting, unions
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:19 PM
Mar 2012

and those that are gay.

EC

(12,287 posts)
7. Yes, they are acting as if it doesn't matter
Wed Mar 14, 2012, 01:33 PM
Mar 2012

that the majority is against all those things. It does make you wonder why they think they have it all wound up doesn't it? They are planning on gaming the system to win.

 

Scuba

(53,475 posts)
8. All part of the scheme to end women's suffrage....
Thu Mar 15, 2012, 05:37 AM
Mar 2012

... damned women tend to vote Democrat, don't ya know?

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