Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Richard Giles on Republicans

RichardGiles
13 Minutes Ago
Words Worth Repeating:

Grover Norquist, the professional Republican intimidator of “anti-tax pledge” fame, has said that it really doesn’t matter what the qualifications of the next Republican president are as all that he / she will have to do is sign the bills sent to them by Mitch McConnell and John Boehner. That arrogant and cocky attitude says it all and should really scare the majority greatly. What they are literally saying is that all they want is to have “puppets” who will perform as instructed and that there are others who actually “pull the strings”. We saw it with George W. Bush and we have seen it in their selections with Sarah Palin, Christine O’Donnell and others. Bachmann, Perry, Cain and so many more actually fit that same profile of just being bought, owned and controlled performers. We see it in the stubborn and arrogant actions of John Boehner, Mitch McConnell, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and others as they present their “my way or no way” mentality. As we experienced, learned and actually suffered because of Bush-Cheney, we know that no where in there is there any concern for the majority. In fact, with the money and power behind them they are confident they can just con the people and manipulate public opinion, being literally cocky, even emboldened from past success and just confident they can do whatever they want. Without having any conscience and with their insatiable “more” appetite, those “pulling the strings” are steadily pushing towards a two-class society where the few compete in having it all and the majority has nothing - to now give them the power again will just expedite that.

We, the majority, have experienced a constant decline while the wealthy have experience continued growth. Wall Street use to say to expect 6% average return for retirement and now they say your are lucky to count on 4% all while their own compensation has increased dynamically. Corporations have been laying off people, cutting salaries and exporting jobs all while the executives’ own take home has grown to as much as 3-400 even 500 times employees’ salaries. There simply is a growing number of poor and of the struggling middle-class but also a growing number of millionaires and billionaires. The spread between the middle-class and the wealthy just keeps getting larger as the one class continually benefits and the other looses. We have seen repeated cycles of exploitation by the few in Savings and Loans, banks, dot.coms, investment, mortgage, financial industries and even in corporate corruption, like Enron and others, with a permissive government looking on as the majority looses substantially. News from all of the media, who are all owned by “big money” and have their subtle controls, constantly bombards us with the story that things are tough, getting worse and that the majority must sacrifice, that there is no choice - except for the wealthy. This isn’t a hard luck story of someone down and out, it is the literal truth for a nation. The people are being consistently conned all across the board and it is being done by “big money” who are “pulling the strings” and using the Republicans as their totally owned and controlled “puppets”. Their current aim is to con the people into supporting a return to “more of the same” - and there is the real problem!

Obama is not the problem! We are constantly and aggressively being told that he is the problem and if we buy into that, we are then set up to buy into returning to “more of the same”, Bush-Cheney style, which is the problem. It literally is a con! Obama inherited the problems, he didn’t cause them, and ever since the Republicans have constantly, stubbornly and belligerently done everything they could to fault and block all efforts to address the problems. Groups like Norquist’s, Cheney’s, Rove’s, others and also SuperPacs provide, money, influence and the power to intimidate and coerce their own, squelching individual consciences and assuring total unity behind “the money’s” goals. They even brag they can “make or break” anyone who does or doesn’t conform. We have seen well organized, well directed and greatly financially supported efforts like the manipulation of the Christian block, the Swift-boat propaganda and the Tea Party movement all aimed to sway people in the same single direction. The Republicans / Tea Party have put their political ambitions above all else, at any cost to the people, and are striving to have Obama fail, which really means America fails, just so they can gain political advantage. It actually is literally a con! That is the reality and if we don’t see it, if we can’t check our own rationalizations, emotions and loyalties, then we have simply been conned and set up to give the perpetrators their sought after reward - that being control and a return to “more of the same”.

Obama and the Democrats have not solved the problems but they have not had a real chance, a honest opportunity, they have been intentionally blocked at every turn. Our government is designed to work with bipartisan cooperation, to have compromise work in order to get the best answers and the Republicans have strongly and stubbornly rejected all of that for their own selfish interests. The Republicans / Tea Party are owned and controlled by “big money”, those hiding behind calling themselves “ultra conservative”, and they aggressively use their money and power to first, intimidate and coerce their own into total unity behind their interests and second, to appeal to the public’s fears, emotions, prejudices and biases in order to manipulate public opinion - again, to perpetrate their con and always with “the money” in control. None of that is in the majority’s best interests, all of it is fully and deceptively just aimed to benefit “big money”, and as Bush-Cheney proved beyond any doubt, the “trickle down” theory is a total fraud. If we are returned to “more of the same” as they want, it will literally be a continuing catastrophe for the majority and a continuation of moving towards a two-class society that takes advantage of its own people.

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