Why Pretend That The GOP Actually Gives A Damn About You?

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Why Pretend That The GOP Actually Gives A Damn About You? Or ‘Liberals Hate America? Who Are You Kidding?’
July 27, 2012
By Justin "Filthy Liberal Scum" Rosario

For a long time now, Republicans have spun a fascinating story of how liberals hate America. It’s peaked with the election of President Obama who is secretly a raging (read as: angry Negro) America hater intent on getting some pay back for…something. Slavery? Imperialism? Who knows? All we hear is that he hates America and so do we liberals. We’re all anti-American traitors plotting the absolute destruction of the United States. All of our policies are designed to do exactly that. This worked as a political tactic well enough to put all three branches of the government under conservative control for most of the last decade and the House back under GOP control in this one.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the conservative hegemony that Karl Rove bragged about in 2004. Following the blueprint of conservative gimmes, the country swerved off the road and crashed into a tree at full speed. Massive tax cuts and massive deregulation did not spur corporate reinvestment or boost the economy as predicted. The wealth it generated for the already wealthy did not “trickle down” to everyone else. These are two of the main economic tools of the GOP and they have been using abusing them since the Reagan years. “Government is the problem” is the mantra of the Republican. “We’re taxing our most productive citizens to poverty!” is the mating call of the lobbyist-friendly conservative Congressperson. “Fiscalus responsibilitious!” is the spell the Right Wing cast upon the gullible.

<..> If government is the problem, why does it seem that only Republicans grow it uncontrollably? If deficit spending is the most evil of evils why is it the worst under Republican control? There’s an actual answer to this: Because the long term objective is to make the government seem to be as ineffectual as possible, thereby reducing the legitimacy of its power to regulate everything from environmental issues to financial issues to social issues. Am I starting to sound Glenn Beckish to you? Do you think I’m becoming a crazed conspiracy theorist? Worry not. I am of sound(ish) mind and, as usual, reality bears me out, or rather, I allow reality to point me in the right direction.

<..> Suckers.

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Good rant.