{"id":17571,"date":"2015-11-16T14:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17571"},"modified":"2015-11-16T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T22:24:37","slug":"plans-to-implement-a-republican-reich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/plans-to-implement-a-republican-reich\/","title":{"rendered":"Plans to Implement a Republican Reich"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have said over and over again, If you want to understand the Republican Party, what you need to see is that everything the Republican Party does is intended to fulfill one of two goals.  The lesser goal is the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to billionaires.  The greater goal is the establishment of a permanent Republican Reich, a fascist plutocracy, in which elections have predetermined results and exist for show only.  The following article helps explain the greater goal.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"1116RepReich\"The Federalist Society is the intellectual nexus of America\u2019s conservative legal establishment. It was the incubator of both Supreme<\/a> Court suits<\/a> that tried (and failed) to gut the Affordable Care Act, and its events are often the best indicator of what Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s opinions<\/a> will say two years down the road. The Society\u2019s annual national lawyer\u2019s convention, moreover, typically showcases the many diverse strategies its members have devised to implement conservative policy in any branch of government willing to listen to them. Past convention speakers offered proposals as ambitious as eliminating anti-discrimination law<\/a>, eliminating the minimum wage<\/a>, and declaring much of the twentieth century unconstitutional<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s convention, however, which was held this past weekend, took on a decidedly different tone. While flagship conservative ideas such as eliminating unions<\/a> and protecting anti-gay discrimination<\/a> certainly were mentioned at the Federalist Society\u2019s 2015 National Lawyers Convention, the panels were fixated on a single idea \u2014 restricting or abolishing the power of federal agencies to regulate<\/strong>. Indeed, this topic came up so often that one could be forgiven for assuming that this year\u2019s convention schedule was planned by Captain Ahab, with the Obama administration\u2019s regulations playing the role of Moby Dick. <\/p>\n

Given the Federalist Society\u2019s influence among Republican lawmakers \u2014 especially the kind of Republican lawmaker who wears judicial robes <\/strong>\u2014 it is very likely that many of their proposals will be implemented if the 2016 election gives the GOP control of all three branches of government. It should be noted, moreover, that their proposals to hobble federal agencies are likely to give a structural advantage to Republicans that could very well become permanent<\/strong>. Republicans would still be capable of implementing their preferred policies, while Democrats would struggle to do the same even in the immediate wake of an electoral victory\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>> <\/p>\n

Click through for the specifics on how Republicans want to do this.  If you\u2019re wondering how Republican hatred for and\/or discrimination against Blacks, Latinos, Asians, Native Americans, LGBT people, women, students, and seniors fits into the two goals, it\u2019s  simple.  They need their  rabid base to win elections, so it satisfying that base contributes to establishing a permanent Republican Reich.  The discrimination against the poor serves the former goal.  We must prevent them from  achieving either!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have said over and over again, If you want to understand the Republican Party, what you need to see is that everything the Republican Party does is intended to fulfill one of two goals.  The lesser goal is the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to billionaires.  The greater goal is […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}