{"id":34089,"date":"2018-10-23T13:13:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=34089"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:18:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T20:18:33","slug":"republican-dirty-tricks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/republican-dirty-tricks\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Dirty Tricks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">For Democrats and Progressives, voting is a minefield.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing the Republican Reich won&#8217;t do to steal your vote through trickery, of failing that, through depriving you of your vote.\u00a0 Republicans have a long history of dirty tricks to win elections.\u00a0 They do this because, if they depended on their policies, they would lose.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"meme-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; margin: 0px auto;\" target=\"_blank\" src=\"https:\/\/me.me\/embed\/i\/21401631\" width=\"700\" height=\"710\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/me.me\/i\/new-republican-party-logo-republican-anyone-wants-to-party-with-21401631\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">via me.me<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Be Prepared to Protect Yourself and Fight Back<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once considered liberal and progressive, the Republican Party has been taken over by right-wing conservative con artists who lie, cheat and steal to gain and maintain power. From voter fraud and suppression to smear campaigns, personal attacks and media manipulation, they have been using the same strategies for more than a hundred years.<\/p>\n<p>While Democratic Dirty Tricks prominently show up around FDR&#8217;s first election in &#8217;32, Kennedy\/Nixon (Chicago) in &#8217;60 and Lyndon Johnson in &#8217;64, these lead to The New Deal, Social Security and Civil Rights while Republican Dirty Tricks give us depressions, poverty and massive national debt.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans know if most people vote, they would never win so they try to demoralize the Democratic base and suppress the vote as much as possible, they buy some people off with tax cuts and scare the rest into voting against their own interests and that&#8217;s how they win. It&#8217;s a divide and conquer strategy that has worked well and they refine and expand it every election year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Republican Strategy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demoralize the Democratic base with phony press releases and whisper campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>Attack oponents strength with character assasination.<\/li>\n<li>Suppress the vote in every possible way.<\/li>\n<li>Buy some people off with tax cuts.<\/li>\n<li>Scare the rest into voting against their own interests.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the 2004 election there was massive GOP voter fraud and suppression; from black box voting fraud, vote tabulating fraud, re-registering people into different precincts, destroying voter registration forms, misinformation in poor neighborhoods, moving polls close to election day, old ballot machines in poor and black neighborhoods that spoil votes, ballot checking machines in wealthy neighborhoods that allow wealthy voters to re-cast spoiled ballots, police intimidation, caging lists and on and on and on. The result was an 8 million vote discrepancy between the official results and exit polls. The official results had Bush winning by 3 million votes but the exit polls had Kerry winning by 5 million votes.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have two major factors on their side; a fanatical base willing to carry out the dirty tricks and the greediest billionaires to finance them. They deceive good people by raising the red flag of abortion and gay marriage to divert attention away from their arrogant and greedy policies which cause the poverty, war and pollution we are facing today.<\/p>\n<p>The next time a Republican tells you \u201cAmerica, love it or leave it.\u201d Tell them you love America. You just want right-wing conservatives to stop molesting her. If they act like they don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re talking about, send them here&#8230; [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/gopdirtytricks.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GOP Dirty Tricks<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">The above article is over ten years old.\u00a0 Click through for a history of right wing dirty tricks from the founding fathers on.\u00a0 We need to be clear that Trump is just a symptom.\u00a0 The Republican Reich is the disease.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FDm0sVBOlNs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rachel Maddow<\/a> covered contemporary Republican dirty tricks in this 18 minute video.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/FDm0sVBOlNs\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Don&#8217;t let Republicans steal your vote!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">PS. Apologies to the rat.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">VOTE BLUE!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">14 DAYS!!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Democrats and Progressives, voting is a minefield.\u00a0 There&#8217;s nothing the Republican Reich won&#8217;t do to steal your vote through trickery, of failing that, through depriving you of your vote.\u00a0 Republicans have a long history of dirty tricks to win elections.\u00a0 They do this because, if they depended on their policies, they would lose. via <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/23\/republican-dirty-tricks\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34089","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\/34089","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=34089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}