Making Sense of the GOP

I know this is  partisan blog today. Some of you need to read these words to maintain your faith in the American system. Others need to read these words because you may be supporting a movement that is counter to your nation's best interest. Still, other readers should be reading this material to broaden their minds and keep the machinery of the brain working. For whatever it is worth, here's today's blog.

Stephen Colbert explained the GOP strategy this way:

“The rules are I go first, and I refuse to take my turn. And you can’t take yours until I’m done. I know you’re upset, but we’re both at fault here, so let’s negotiate. I agree to take my turn if you agree that I win.”

I know this sounds like a kid’s game that ran amok. Well, it is; and it has!

Noted economist Paul Krugman stated it this way:

“The economic costs of GOP attempts to rule by extortion didn't begin with the shutdown/debt crisis, and haven’t ended with the (temporary?) resolution of the crisis…We’d be looking at a vastly healthier economy if it weren't for the GOP takeover of the House in 2010.”

And Bernie Sanders, Independent Senator from Vermont, says it this way:

“What Paul Ryan is saying is yeah, I lost the election. It doesn't matter. I want you to implement all the ideas that I campaigned on and lost. You know what, Americans don’t want to see cuts to Social Security, or privatization of Social Security. They don’t want to see cuts in Medicare. They don’t want to see cuts in Medicaid. They don’t want to see the EPA abolished, the Department of Education abolished. They don’t want to see the VA privatized. They don’t want to see the minimum wage done away with so the people of America would work for four bucks an hour.”

And Ryan must be dreading Bernie’s recent appointment to the Senate Budget Committee!  Justice, folks. Justice!

And if these comments haven’t painted a dire picture worthy of GOP fretting, none other than John McCain, Republican Senator from Arizona stated:

“We can’t get much lower in the polls. We’re down to blood relatives and paid staffers.”

Yep, you are. And the achievement was earned every step of the way in spite of millions telling you the direction was faulty. You just didn't believe in the people enough!

The American People get it. They understand how bullies work: they propagate fear, manipulate those with a poor understanding of the issues, and threaten physical harm, economic instability and rampant deterioration of the social fabric of our land. Funny thing is, they have not succeeded yet we are having all the undesirable effects they fretted about because their rhetoric destabilized the machinery of the American Democracy.

The American People I think are much more just than the GOP gives them credit for. For one they believe everyone should have access to worthy employment, a stable and fair wage, access to medical treatment, freedom to dream their long term vision and acquire the education to make it happen, equality of all of its citizens to love, marry and respect each other…Yes the American People get it. Much more so than the GOP.

The republicans appear to be so worried about losing something that they lost it while they attempted to strip it away from others. Could it be this simple? Really?

October 24, 2013