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slvemike4u -> RE: Truth to the GOP (11/11/2012 5:23:39 AM)
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ORIGINAL: DomKen
I've been following the post mortems inside the republican party and conservative movement with a great deal of interest and hope. It is becoming clear that the bulk of the right is intent on denying that what has just happened is due to any systemic demographic disadvatages that if they further purify their party they will naturally appeal to more of the electorate. That path leads no where but many more years of a hateful fearful subculture isolating itself from the rest of the US which will almost certainly lead to more violence.
So its time for some truth:
Women's reproductive health issues is one of those things most women will vote solely on. It's not that Ryan, Akin and Mourdoch were indelicate in telling women they should be forced to bear their rapists babies to term. It is simply unacceptable for government to restrain a woman's decisions in that circumstance.
Supply side economics is bunk. We've tried it twice and the only result was historically anemic growth and a growing income inequality.
The difference between a top marginal rate of 35% and 39.5% is inconsequential for most people who pay any taxes at that rate. However that amount in the aggregate will have a large effect on the structural deficit that you claim to care about so much. The carried interest exemption benefits only a few dozen mega rich fund managers, who do not employ more than a few dozen people total, and treating it as normal income, which it is, would bring in a great deal of tax revenue from people who are the very antithesis of your Randian philosophy.
Science is not subject to your wishes. The Earth is not 6000 years old. Man did evolve from more primitive primates. The global climate is warming and all available evidence suggests it is due to human activity. Poll samples do not need to be unskewed. People who tell the truth about science do not deserve to be attacked simply because you do not like what the science has to say.
The only conceivable way to end undocumented immigration is to implement a police state of the sort you claim to fear Obama will create. We can and should work to limit and control it but it is patently unfair to deny a young person who has lived almost their entire life in the US a way to regularize their status nd a route to full citizenship.
Your politicans cannot use code words or dog whistles to attract the worst sorts to their side without the rest of us noticing. Trying to make it harder to vote is both patently unAmerican but it was grossly ineffective. Accept that the demographic makeup of this nation has changed and your side has to find ways to appeal to this more diverse electorate.
Homosexuals are people and it is obvious to pretty much everyone that no one would choose to be gay even in today's world. Homosexuals are not out to recruit young people but maybe if young people who have strong homosexual urges saw more out homosexuals in their communities they would commit suicide less frequently. Your marriages are not threatened by couples of any sexual orientation entering into the same compact.
The right wing media is not telling you the truth. They are telling you what they think will confirm your biases and fears. The more you reject reality and ensconce yourself in a bubble of misinformation the less able you are to make good decisions.
Please take this to heart. I fear for this country I dearly love because of your continuing rejection of reality and your sinking into an isoationist culture.
I meant to reply to this last night,life happens;-(
I haven't looked,I don't know where the thread has gone since than,but I wanted to give props to Ken for what is/was one of the most lucid ,well thought out,OP's in recent memory.
It is,in my opinion ,a road map out of the wilderness for the GOP...whether or not they are ready to make the trek is still in dispute.
According to an article I saw in this morning's New York Times,Boehner has made some calls and informed his caucus that "elections have consequences" and that they will,as a result ,need to be more flexible in upcoming negotiations with the White House
We shall all see what comes of that,one thing we can count on is that the right on these pages will continue to claim that this is the most partisan President in all of history.
They will do so despite all evidence to the contrary,should House Republicans actually come to the table and make a deal I expect much teeth gnashing and cries of" betrayal most foul" from our own right. [8|]
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