The GOP has numerous themes that it has foisted on the public. Let's take a look at them.
Free market: A belief in the 18th century free market system of the Founders. Of course, at that time , coporations
were few and had very limited legal rights
Autocratic leadership style. Government and corpoations are
very different. Many corporate leaders use a top down command and
control model borrowed from the US military Government leaders are often more democratic and seek consensus and use a more collegial
approach to problem solving and decision making.
Only corporate leaders should be in government. A corollary of free enterprise is that only people who have worked in corporations are the only ones fit to lead this nation. Republican free enterprise leaders
like Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and GW Bush led us into the
Great Depression and the Great Recession. Yet job growth and deficit reduction has been far better when Democrat presidents were leading
the nation.
Religious based values. Many Republicans have suggested a real American has to believe in God,
although the Constitution, notably, the First Amendment, says
otherwise. Many "family values" that the GOP has on sex education based on abstinence, and on Planned Parenthood display a religious bias.
Emphasis on defense and the police. Defense and policed protection are also critical to Republicans and conservatives. Both are means of
social control and the GOP is hypersensitive on protecting private property, even it it means blowing away a few 'undesirable immigrants. ' After all, Republicans own most of the private property in the US.
Is anyone surprised that defense spending increased
by 40 per cent since 911 and the Department of Homeland Security and
the police now have unprecedented powers? The GOP likes it that way. This is also the reason the GOP is adamantly opposed to gun control and has passed concealed carry laws in several states.
Corporate "in the box" Career. The GOP wants Americans to live in
the box they say the Founders built that has benefited the affluent
prior to the Great Depression and again starting in the Reagan era.
They want to bring you into the box when you are 20 and throw you
out of the box 30 years later. That's when you are older and making too much
money and before you are eligible for a corporate pension.
The Republicans attack programs
like Social Security and Medicare which are there because of these
corporate shortfalls. The GOP corporatists know only one in five Americans will retire with a pension, yet they constantly attack Social Security as being a Ponzi scheme.
Zero sum Game. Although the GOP claims it has a
strong religious values, it plays a zero sum game that works like
this. The US has an economic systems in which 15 per cent of the
population is in poverty so one per cent can live like emperors or
kings.
Republicans say what is wrong with that? That's the American way.
This US is the fifth most unequal
nation in the world according to Alan Grayson. Politifact called his statement true. This is a dubious honor for a first world industrial nation but it
is unlikely that few Republicans are bothered by this fact.
Inequality is the GOP American Dream. Marco Rubio said as much!
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