What has happened to the Grand Old Party of Lincoln?
The Republican Party is in shambles; anybody that has been paying attention in the past few years can easily recognize this fact.
It all started with DEAR LEADER REAGAN with his Ayn Rand based economic ideology and his disdain for anything progressive. Arguably one of the worst Presidents we ever had he set the Republican Party on a path to destruction, most likely that was not his intention…just the contrary, he thought that by dominating the political arena that America would return to its roots…its 19th century roots.
The divisions Reagan initiated were wide and far ranging, from wealth redistribution to racial divides, from religious acrimony to empowering the Evangelicals. This is where we stand today, with half the country being misled and motivated by racial biases, fears, homophobia and deep religious demagoguery.
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Unable to recognize the inevitable downfall, the Republicans almost handed over their party to extremists, gift wrapped and with an accompanying card that said: the Teabaggers are welcomed and even encouraged to seize the helm of the Republican Party. And thus the Tea Bag movement gained quite unnecessary and unneeded power. This take over has had a mixed bag of results; in some of the more backward states it has caught on as the majority of the population is wallowing in a mud puddle of ignorance and superstition…these are fertile grounds for Republican hate and fear rhetoric.
While on the other hand, most of America which is politically oriented somewhere in the moderate middle has rejected this Republican-Teahadist mentality and even though they elected some of them to office in key states…the voters are having buyer’s remorse and have embarked on massive recall efforts.
We could have seen this coming when Sharon Angle and other Teabag candidates were rejected in the elections of 2010; but the climate was not quite ready to reject them completely and with decisive repulsion…but it is happening now; we have seen it in Wisconsin and lately in the birth of the OCCUPY WALL STREET movement.
I have said this before a hundred times: you can’t win elections if you start to systematically and summarily throwing groups of people, minorities and the middle class under the bus. The Republicans have done just that, from rejection of Civil Rights for Black Americans to the denial of equal rights for gays; from the attack to women’s reproductive rights to the effort to do away with labor unions. It is all a concerted and organized plan that now includes the disenfranchising of voters and sabotaging the economic recovery.
However successful the Republicans have been…and the corporations and very wealthy have benefited from all this; the Republicans rewarded them with obscene tax cuts and a myriad of regulations elimination, by doing that they also tied the noose that will hang them, they procured the nails to their coffin and it seems that it is now irreversible because the hammer and the nails are now in the hands of the people.
This is what Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times:
Krugman: The GOP Is Self-Destructing
"How did American conservatism end up so detached from, indeed at odds with, facts and rationality? For it was not always thus. After all, that health reform Mr. Romney wants us to forget followed a blueprint originally laid out at the Heritage Foundation! My short answer is that the long-running con game of economic conservatives and the wealthy supporters they serve finally went bad. For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America’s defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security. Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control." - Paul Krugman, writing for the New York Times.
SOURCES: http://joemygod.blogspot.com/
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