Republicans want a government like that of the 1920s when the rich
were given free rein to economically rape the American people…
Many Americans are unaware of the many programs and policies put in
place by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in his New Deal, but even if they did
it is certain that a fair number of Americans would demand its
elimination immediately. Republicans have been chomping at the bit, and
plotting behind the scenes, over the past five years in particular to
abolish all of the New Deal
programs
and send Americans back to an era where wealthy industrialists
dominated the population and kept them in poverty fighting for survival.
It is no secret that Republicans hate the government with religious
passion, and the current crop of candidates for the Republican
pretender nomination are jockeying for supremacy in who can promise
to change America; for the worse. Thus far, the Republican candidates
demonstrating a fierce hatred for, and ignorance of, the federal
government have garnered the greatest support among Republican voters.
Despite President Obama creating over 12 million jobs in five-and
a-half years and presiding over economic recovery and solid growth,
typical Koch Republican Cruz has the key to help the economy
recover: by recreating the government of a century ago in the process.
Cruz pledged to return the government to the 1920’s and according to his
estimation create 4.9 million jobs by the end of the next decade or so.
Cruz
said,
“
If you look at the history of America, there are three levers
that government has to facilitate economic growth. The first is tax
reform. I have rolled out a bold and simple ten percent flat tax for
every American. The second element is regulatory reform, pulling back
regulations. The third element is sound money. When we pursued those in
the 1920s with Calvin Coolidge the result was incredible economic
growth. We have done it before and with Republican leadership we can do
it again.”
Now it is true daddy Cruz is a Cuban-Canadian immigrant to America,
but it is likely that at some juncture during his tenure in his adopted
country he has at least heard about “
The Great Depression”
that was caused by the very policies he lusts to revisit. In fact,
Cruz’s economic policy recommendations are regularly cited as the three
primary reasons there was a Great Depression in the 1920s; namely a lack
of regulatory oversight, gross income inequality, and the gold
standard.
What Cruz is proposing, and the Koch brothers pant to see realized,
is eliminating each and every one of FDR’s New Deal provisions that
economists assert caused and accelerated America’s economic recovery out
of the Great Depression. Still, there are a significant number of
Republican voters who want, as Slate’s Digby explains, an apocalypse
with a Republican pretender leading America to economic ruin.
Actually, the reason extremist Republicans with no experience are
faring well in the Republican cabal primary is because the base wants a “tough guy”
who does not understand, or care, how America’s system of government
works. As an ardent Cruz supporter, Republican strategist, and wingnut shrieking head
said,
“
Republicans don’t want reform, they want revolution. They don’t want a better government, they want a new government.”
They want a government like that of the 1920s when the
rich were given free rein to economically rape the people and send the
world into another, more intense economic crash. A crash, by the way,
that increased the wealth of the very richest industrialists beyond
their wildest dream; not unlike today when the wealthiest Americans have
taken the lion’s share of wealth in the current recovery.
The Republican base wants a dictatorial pretender willing to
challenge the Constitution and pledge that the system of government
created by the Founders, the system with legislative checks and balances
and regulations, is abolished and replaced with a theocratic
libertarian “no government.” The wingnut base demands a Trump, Carson or
Cruz who will assure them that the federal government “
will no longer be a hindrance to wingnuts who are Hell-bent on achieving their agenda” no matter what it takes or how many Americans are adversely impacted.
It really is a sad and pathetic commentary on wingnut Americans who are sick and tired of waiting for the promised “
revolution”
to create a new government to replace the one Republican demigod Reagan told them thirty years ago is the source of all their misery. To
add to their angst, the base have heard Koch Republicans and extremist “
TeaPublicans”
promise for five years they will remove Obama from the White House and
send him to prison, close the borders, criminalize homosexuality and gay
marriage, end political correctness, ban public education, abolish
women’s reproductive rights, eliminate all federal regulations, “
christianize”
all aspects of American society, repeal workplace laws and social
programs, and put a quick and permanent end to the idea that all
Americans “
are created equal.”
Oh, and they really demand their new 'christian' government be created
solely to engage America in several wars against Muslims around the
world and severely punish any “
traitor” who dares suggest that
diplomacy should ever be a part of the nation’s foreign policy. If one
looks back over the past five years that President Obama has been in
office, it is much more than just Republican pretender candidates
panting for war against Muslims; it is a hard and fast rule to qualify
as a Republican politician.
There is a serious state of affairs in America when one segment of
society is frustrated that Republicans have successfully prevented the
government from doing what it was created for to protect or provide for
the welfare of the American people, while the right is furious that the
government does anything whatsoever for Americans. Republicans have
claimed they want to take America back, but this is likely the first
time a Republican had the audacity to admit “
taking America back”
is going back to an era and the exact same conditions that created the
Great Depression; and claim in public that it was a time of “
incredible economic growth.”
It is looking more and more like Republican voters do want “an
apocalypse” that will certainly eviscerate them as much as the rest of
the population. There is nothing wrong with the government; Republicans
just hate that it exists in any form except to make war, enforce
religious edicts, and create incredible wealth for a select few. There
are likely several reasons for why so many Republicans have a death wish
for America, and even considering that they are incredibly stupid does
not completely explain their mindset. It is more likely they are just
angry and full of hate which informs why they support equally angry and
hate-filled candidates who promise to fulfill their wildest dreams and
“make America great again;” by taking it back to conditions that nearly
accomplished today’s Republican’ goals of creating a nation of peasants
serving a few wealthy industrialists.
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