{"id":7540,"date":"2012-04-14T13:06:45","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:06:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7540"},"modified":"2012-04-14T13:06:45","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T20:06:45","slug":"construction-of-the-republiconjob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/14\/construction-of-the-republiconjob\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of the RepubliConJob"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"14conjob\" alt=\"14conjob\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/14conjob.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Republican party can appear quite confusing to many, and that can make it difficult to understand their tactics.&#160; Therefore, I shall attempt to make sense of the different components that make up the party and how they interact.&#160; The one guiding principle to remember is that everything the Republican party does is intended to further one of their two key goals.&#160; Their lesser goal is the transfer of wealth from the poor and middle classes to the super-rich.&#160; Their greater goal is the establishment of a permanent regime of totalitarian, one-party Republican rule, in which elections function only as a sham justification for that regime.&#160; Traditionally the Republican Party has had four wings, and they recently added a fifth.&#160; Sometimes the wings overlap.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Neocons<\/strong>:&#160; Neocons support basing US foreign policy (and domestic if needed) on the use of military force.&#160; The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) are neocon organizations.&#160; Dick Cheney is a perfect example.&#160; Neocons serve the lesser goal, because few things transfer wealth more easily than spending on war.&#160; They serve the greater goal by propagandizing the ignorant through fear and nationalism disguised as patriotism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>The Corporacons and Plutocons<\/strong>:&#160; These two are very similar.&#160; The difference is that that the former support primarily corporate criminals while the latter support primarily super-rich individuals.&#160; Both falsely claim the be the job creators, requiring special privilege in the tax code.&#160; Paul Ryan is an excellent example.&#160; They embody the lesser goal and serve the greater goal by financing Republican efforts to establish one party rule.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>The Theocons<\/strong>: Theocons support religious freedom, as long as that freedom is only for their interpretation of Christianity.&#160; They try to force their own piety codes on others, but seldom follow those codes themselves.&#160; Rick Santorum is a definitive example.&#160; They do little to help the lesser goal, but they have willingly abandoned Jesus\u2019 teachings on our obligation to care for the poor.&#160; They serve the greater goal through their ignorant acceptance of authority.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">These are the four traditional wings, and even though they cooperate far better than we Democrats ever do, the party was in decline.&#160; They were able to hold the Presidency in 2000 and 2004 only through overt election theft, and their unfitness to govern virtually destroyed the nation\u2019s economy.&#160; After 2008, they needed a transfusion.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">There are extremists on both the left and the right, such as anarchists and the KKK respectively.&#160; Normally both sides have ignored their extremist fringes.&#160; But in desperation, the Republicans embraced their fringe and created the Tea Party as a vehicle to make hatred \u201crespectable\u201d like never before in our nation\u2019s history.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>The InsaniTEA Wing<\/strong>:&#160; Teabaggers are a collection of bigots, racists, misogynists, homophobes, xenophobes, militias, birthers, tenthers, birchers and every other fringe abomination you could imagine, financed by Plutocons like the Koch Brothers.&#160; With them are also a significant number of decent people, who have been taken in by the slick rhetoric, created by well financed propagandists, and furthered by the Republican Ministry of Propaganda, <em>Faux Noise<\/em>.&#160; Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, Marco Rubio, and Clarence Thomas are good examples.&#160; They serve the lesser goal by ignoring their own purported economic philosophy.&#160; They serve the greater goal as the Republican Party\u2019s Brown Shirts.&#160; They are inconvenient, because they often insist on having their own way instead of goose-stepping with the other four wings of the party.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Hopefully you have a better picture of the Republican Party.&#160; Again, remember the lesser and greater goals.&#160; If you are confused about why they are doing something, ask yourself how it relates to those goals, and it should become clear to you.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Most of all\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><font style=\"font-weight: bold\" color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans do NOT represent YOU!<\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican party can appear quite confusing to many, and that can make it difficult to understand their tactics.&#160; 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