HOW MUCH MORE RADICAL RIGHT WING CAN YOU GO?

This upcoming Presidential election is more like a referendum of what kind of country Americans want to live in.

 

The question I have posed before is this: Who are they left with?

There has been a wide range of issues the Republicans have carried so far to the right that even if they were successful in misguiding some Americans, disenfranchising millions of voters  and rigging the elections it is hard to envision a victory for the GOP in 2012.

I don’t think there is a single item the Republicans have not stood on the wrong side of the public opinion or the wellbeing of our nation, in other words – they are consistent in being on the wrong side of history.  Starting with the failure to deliver a functioning economy under Bush to the loss of a lot of the freedoms he instituted; going into the pervasive elimination of regulations that kept most businesses honest, continuing with the obscene tax reductions and loopholes that have been accumulating for a few decades.

The result of all these failed Republican policies came to a virulent explosion at the end of the Bush Presidency and what the newly elected Obama had to confront was not only to fix all the mega fuck ups the Republicans left but also make an attempt at revitalizing the economy and bringing prosperity back. Of course, he has accomplished some and could have done more if the Republicans had not presented him with opposition, delays and even sabotage that inflicted even more damage to the economy and the country. The segments of society that suffered the brunt blow of this recession were the poor and the middle class.

For Republicans patriotism is measured by the right wing bumper stickers and lapel pins

As I said, this will be a referendum on what kind of country we want to live in and since the middle class has been under attack for the past decades and losing ground, becoming poorer and their lot in life a lot harder…the very wealthy and the corporations are raking in unprecedented profits; do we want a continuation of that?. 

The Republicans have gone after women’s choice and women’s health; it isn’t just the abortion issue…they want to outlaw contraception! They want to extend tax cuts for the wealthy, continue with loopholes for the rich and the corporations, the Republicans also want to erase all the gains blacks have made in the past 50 years and even have rolled out the red carpet to fringe white supremacist groups as well as their endemic homophobia has opened the doors of the Republican halls to those who want to continue the discrimination and humiliation of gays with the help of government. 

There is even one Republican who suggested that those receiving welfare or food stamps should not be given the right to vote. Seriously? But I saw that one coming when I saw a number of Governors and states introducing laws that would require drug tests from welfare recipients. Hell, they actually want to criminalize and punish being poor.

If you disagree with Republicans they will pepper spray you and beat you up with batons.

 

“Corporations are people my friend”, “fire all the janitors and replace them with students”, “Separation of church and state makes me want to vomit”, “We can’t raise taxes on the wealthy because they are the job creators”, “trickle down economics”, “government is too big”, “government is the problem”, “I work for a living therefore I am a Republican”, “Drill, baby, drill”, “marriage is only between a man and a woman”, “they are taking away my America” and we could go on and on with all these absurd and hateful messages that are totally out of the way mainstream America thinks but are the bumper stickers of those Teabagger Republicans.

Off the Deep End - Michael Keegan 

A message to People For the American Way supporters from PFAW president Michael Keegan:

Fighting contraception. Stopping domestic violence protections. Extending tax cuts for the wealthy, while hiking taxes on the middle class. Welcoming white supremacists to a conference, but banning gay conservatives. The GOP has followed its extremist fringe off the deep end, leaving the rest of us back in the reality-based world befuddled. Their strategists warned them not to do this, but it appears that to the GOP, radical fringe issue positions are like catnip. In last night's Republican presidential debate in Arizona, the candidates even spent several minutes discussing which of them is least in favor of allowing rape victims to have access to emergency contraception.

 

I have often said that America is a divided country, a very dysfunctional society with an extremely partisan and ineffective democracy where the rich and the corporations have the power by virtue of their money and influence and the people that elected officials are supposed to represent do not.

I do think that the next elections will decide once and for all what kind of country America is…is it a Republic with a plutocratic government? Or is America indeed a theocratic, Evangelical-Fundamentalist nation…or even a combination of both…Or are we the America that our Founding Fathers envisioned and that America that our Constitution so aptly described and prescribed?

The Republicans risk of having left at the base of their support only WASPHREOM (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, Heterosexual Evangelical rich old men)