Where'd my GOP go?
I'm
honestly starting to think that one of the biggest problems our country has, is just watching
too much Fox "news" (any, is too much), and not realizing that it is a movement, not
journalism. The neo-conservative movement in the country is a tool of a few
very wealthy and powerful people that want to get a lot wealthier, and most of
all, more powerful. They look at other countries like Mexico and dozens of
others, and long for the glorious structure those counties have of a few people
that own almost everything, and almost no middle class. In this country they
are people like Rupert Murdoch and the Koch brothers and others that are so
self-absorbed, they fashion themselves “Kings”, not just successful, wealthy,
and fortunate citizens of a democratic country. I think when they were young,
their parents didn’t just tell them they could be president, like Condi Rice’s
parents did, I think they were told they could buy as many presidents as they
wanted. But they picked the wrong country! And all the billions they spend
buying politicians and media outlets trying to get our fellow countrymen riled
up and mobilized about the few problems we do have in this country, is still,
so far, not enough to overcome the free thinking open mindedness that is
engrained in the average, educated, free-speech and free-press-benefited
American citizen. So far. ‘That’s what I think. But the gap does seem to be
narrowing, for some reason. Perhaps because of the new “global marketplace”,
which makes corporations more powerful than ever imagined. Enabling them to buy
more powerful laws than we ever imagined, like “Citizens United”. Which give
them more and more power to shape the public’s mind view into their twisted
version of what’s wrong with the country and how we should change it. Which always
seems to play on fears, and ends up with less rights, and income, for the
“little people”. They’ve hijacked the Grand Ole Party over the last few decades,
which is such a shame, as it used to be such a respectable group of people that
helped limit the size of government, when the democratic party would get too
carried away. But they changed it to the party that only talks about limited
government to get elected, and then expands it in the form of military spending
and massive debt, once they get in. Because that, and de-regulating commerce,
is what is needed for the “Kings” to take more power. They’ve also become the
“party of no” and, sadly, the “party of hate”. They are the “anti-party”. They
are anti-government, anti-taxes, anti-regulation, anti-jobs stimulus, anti-abortion,
anti-contraception, anti-women’s reproductive health care rights, anti-welfare,
anti-gay, anti-science, anti-stemcell research, anti-evolution theory, anti-rehabilitation, anti-public
lands, anti-electric cars, anti-renewable energy. What does that leave, that
they’re pro-about? I can’t think of anyth… wait,…they’re pro-war. 'If not
pro-veteran support services. I think
this presidential election won’t bring changes to the white house, but, if we
also don’t get changes in the House majority, we’ll still have the stalemate
that has crippled the country these last two years. And, long-term, I just
don’t know how long we can hold off these wolf “kings” at the door. ‘Troubling
times, indeed.
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