Republican themes that are faith and inequality based

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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