Again it has
been a while since I have posted anything. Not because there isn’t anything to
talk about but because I’ve been too lazy to write. Watching the Republican
debates and the race for the Republican nomination has given me enough
motivation.
I knew this
round would be good once Donald Trump made it to the top of the polls. This is
all being driven by the Tea Party followers. I’m loving it. The Tea Party is
the extreme Right-Wing part of the Republican Party. Consisting of the extreme
religious fundamentalist and the money backed capitalist people like the Koch
brothers. The Tea Party people have been sold a bill of goods that pretend to
be supporting the best interest of the country but in reality they are
destroying it.
This current
core of the Republican Party is driven by fear. They are afraid of the loss of
power they once had and desperately fighting to retain it. They can’t accept
the fact that this country is changing. The demographics are not what they used
to be. It is becoming a majority minority or non-white country and that scares
the hell out of them. They are fighting to retain that fading glory that once
had them in that top seat of power. Power that really was just an illusion.
This country
was built on the idea of a system of free market capitalism. Over the years
corporations any been allowed to grow and gain power. They have used that power
to remove the restraints that kept them in check. The truth is there is no more
“free market” in this country. The rules of the free market have been all but
eliminated by removing government regulations/regulators. Without government
regulators there can be no free market. It would be like playing ANY sport
without referees. The referees are there to enforce the rules of the game. The
players or in this case the businesses are there to win. Most of the businesses
will do whatever it takes to win while others will always play by the rules. Some
of these businesses have gotten so big that they are paying people in Congress
to change the rules to help their company. That’s just a fancy way of saying
cheating. There once was a time that if a company got too big the government
would break it up to keep it in check but those days are gone. I’ll give you one
example of how broken the system is. Pharmaceutical companies are allowed to
pay generic medication makers NOT to make a generic brand of their medication
so they can keep their prices high. The game is rigged and the tables have been
tilted to favor the very rich and very powerful people and companies in this
country.
These rich
people/companies have been allowed to grow by creating fear in the minds of the
people at the bottom. Telling them they should be afraid of the immigrants and
minorities because they are coming to take their jobs. Telling them they should
hate immigrants and minorities because they don’t want to work and they only
want to live off of the government. How can it be both? Another good one is,
the religious right is against abortion and also against child care assistance.
They call themselves pro-life but they are in favor of the death penalty. I
could go on and on but I won’t.
Now the
Republican Party has created this mess for themselves by bringing the Tea Party
into their tent and they have grown too big for them to control. They are
pushing their own agenda by way of Trump, Carson, and Fiofina. Those three are
the current front runners and all three are running campaigns that are void of
facts. They can do this because that is what the Republican Party has become. A
Party that is void of facts. I’ll give you a couple of examples. First, Planned
Parenthood. It has been proven that the videos being used to attack Planned
Parenthood were edited to portray the organization in a negative light and are
not accurate. Never the less, Republicans continue to quote and site those
videos as the source of their information. The second one is Benghazi. There
have been more than 10 Republican investigations looking into the death of 4
Americans and the role Hillary Clinton played. Every one of those investigations
have come to the same conclusion and found “no fault” on the part of Secretary Clinton
but Republicans continue to say that she did something wrong. This is what the
Republican Party has become.
This is not
something I am happy about. It is entertaining to watch on the debate stage but
it is bad for the country. We need the Republican Party. We don’t need the
country going only to the left just as we don’t need the country only going to
the right. Republicans have created Frankenstein’s monster and it is tearing
them apart and taking the rest of us along with them.
The front
runners are running on nothing. Their platforms are built on absolutely no
substance. When I listen to them in interviews and in the debates I hear
nothing. They just repeat things that have been proven to be false as if it is
fact. They are saying things that feed into the fears of the Republican base.
The base that is the Tea Party is eating and drinking it all up with gusto.
The monster
they created is beating us to death while the creators of the monster are
picking our pockets and robbing us blind. We just need to get the people to
understand that their fear and anger is misplaced. If we can do that then maybe
we can move us all in the right direction.
