Republicans have to be deceptive or they would never win an election. (global warming, drug)

[Kode]

They try to make their plans to degrade our quality of life sound attractive. Republican Party on the Issues

Note how they want to shift costs from collective responsibility to individual responsibility and abandon the assurance of uniform success:
"Increase access to higher education with savings accounts." (privatize)
"A reformed Medicare will give seniors choice, flexibility." Privatize and give incentives to drug companies!!!)
"Give individuals tools to manage their own health needs." (privatize)

The republicans cannot openly advocate what they really stand for because it is all highly unpopular. The American people want the opposite. For just a few examples:

Republican issues that they can’t openly declare:

Opposition to equal pay for women
Tax benefits to billionaires
Support for Citizens United
Increased military/war spending
Opposition to action against global warming
Opposition to gay rights
Opposition to gun control
Opposition to women’s healthcare regarding reproductive rights
Opposition to infrastructure spending
Opposition to increased taxation for those who can easily afford it
Opposition to abortion
Support for private prisons
Support for trade agreements
Opposition to renewable energy
Support for oil industry
Opposition to national healthcare
Make individuals responsible for funding their own healthcare
Support for privatization of education
Complicate healthcare for seniors by “giving them choice and flexibility”
End Social Security as we know it; let individuals fend for themselves
Merge state interest/responsibilities with church interests/responsibilities
Diminish welfare and other assistance to the needy and let churchs handle it
Opposition to the U.N.
Opposition to physician-assisted suicide

[T-310]

The difference between the two is that republicans want people to take care of themselves.

Democrats want big government to redistribute wealth in the name of "fairness" by taking it and keep the dependent class dependent on handouts and to make decisions for you since they believe they know better and you are too stupid to decide for yourself.

[T0103E]

Not sure about anyone else, but I got a pretty good chuckle out of this. Thanks OP.

[Nepenthe]

Originally Posted by Kode

...they want to shift costs from collective responsibility to individual responsibility and abandon the assurance of uniform success...

I'm nowhere near a Republican, but I generally lean libertarian on economic freedom and the role of government, and I have to say that's a pretty good summation of some of my ideas. It seems odd you would use the above line as if it were some kind of indictment.

[bluesjuke]

TO103



"Not sure about anyone else, but I got a pretty good chuckle out of this. Thanks OP."






Ha!


Me too.
They walk among us.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by T0103E

Not sure about anyone else, but I got a pretty good chuckle out of this. Thanks OP.

It's a pretty good comedy bit.

[bawac34618]

Originally Posted by T-310

The difference between the two is that republicans want people to take care of themselves.

Come to Oklahoma and you'll see that isn't the case. All Republicans care about here is controlling who you can love, what you can put in to or do with your body, and what the official religion of the state is. And the ultra-fundamentalist populace loves it and continues to re-elect them because they think they are gaining favor in heaven.

[PedroMartinez]

Originally Posted by bawac34618

Come to Oklahoma and you'll see that isn't the case. All Republicans care about here is controlling who you can love, what you can put in to or do with your body, and what the official religion of the state is. And the ultra-fundamentalist populace loves it and continues to re-elect them because they think they are gaining favor in heaven.

Is it all they are concerned about or issue that you are conerned about?

[T-310]

Originally Posted by PedroMartinez

Is it all they are concerned about or issue that you are conerned about?

I've lived in Tulsa and it's nowhere as described.

[War Beagle]

Originally Posted by Kode

Note how they want to shift costs from collective responsibility to individual responsibility and abandon the assurance of uniform success:

"Uniform success"... How does this uniform success work? . If everyone is successful, is anyone successful? If the industrious entrepreneur would be as successful as the person who watches TV all day, how does society function?

This sounds like a very Portlandia concept.