LAMENT FOR THE REPUBLICAN PARTY 3/18/2016
It is interesting that the Republican party still does not understand what is destroying it today, it is not Trump or some outside force attacking it, it is the rot and cancer within the party itself.
I was a conservative Republican all my life and then I saw my party taken over by nation building neo-cons who only wanted war and more war. These warmongers dominated the Republican party and then lied us into needless wars, that like Iraq, cost us 5000 dead, 50,000 wounded and 4 TRILLION DOLLARS wasted all for nothing. We did not win anything, no one was prosecuted for lying us into that war and the controlled mass media continued to function as a propaganda tool for the warmongers.
To understand the owners of mass media and their manipulations of the news all you have to do is look at what they have done with the two anti-war candidates, Ron Paul and Rand Paul.
The second part of the destruction of the Republican Party was brought about by letting the Evangelicals spout their values on a free people. We hate the religious views of Islam, the Sharia laws in government, but then we turn around and invite the religious opinions into the Republican platforms. The evangelists immediately attack the gay agendas, they attack abortion, they attack stem cell research and declare for the sanctity of all life yet want more wars in the Middle East and a confrontation with Putin.
The third strike against the Republican Party comes from the visibility of the 1%.
Cut taxes on the rich and jobs will be created…yes in China, not here. This little ploy has not worked out, the trickle down is a bunch of bull. So…as the good jobs have disappeared and the middle class about destroyed and America is in debt the Republican Party offers us more wars in the Middle East, stop abortion, stop stem cell research, legislate against gay people, cut taxes on the 1%, deport illegals, and we can begin to see the end of the Republican Party.
Trump and Bernie are the symptoms of a hurting society. Some journalists like John Zogby write in Forbes explaining that the party stopped breathing because of demographics that were stacked against it and its inability to adjust to a different America demographically, culturally, and having a worldview that recognizes new global realities.
I differ from Zogby and say that the warmongers, evangelicals, and 1%’s, destroyed the Republican Party.
To me the old Republican Party represented sound thinking in world politics not running around policing the world and nation building. They represented a value system that said there is no free lunch, everyone must be forced to work and earn their way. Everyone has to compete for everything based on their talents not on the color of their skin. All their principles were bartered away and today we have the glaring results of a failing society grasping at dictatorships and socialism as the last straws.
Sanity must be restored in our politics, Sharia type Evangelicals must be shut out from political platforms, the 1% must be shut out from buying elections, the welfare state must be brought under control, our news media must be set free from the puppet masters, and a proper understanding of global economy must set in so we can make good trade deals.
See this blog in…..repairmanualforamerica.com Val
