The Republican Culture: Death, Hate, Selfishness, Lack Of Compassion!

The Republican Party, in its mad dash to the far Right with Texas Governor Rick Perry in the lead, is demonstrating its ugly side, arguably the most despicable agenda since the creation of the party in the Civil War era!

Always a major backer of corporations and the rich upper class, the party always maintained some sanity, and while not promoting the social safety net as a principle, we saw members of the party in different northern states and in Congress who worked in unison with Democrats to support the Progressive Era reforms, the New Deal, and the Great Society, and reforms under Richard Nixon.

The one time the party went this far to the Right, they suffered a massive defeat under Barry Goldwater a half century ago. When Ronald Reagan became President on much of the Goldwater agenda, he managed to work across the party lines and take away the rough edges of the right wing, mouthing support but not pursing much of their agenda.

But now with the advent of the Tea Party loonies, the party is adopting a new culture, that should sicken any civilized, decent American citizen!

Unfortunately, as witnessed at the recent Republican debates in California and Florida, there are many Americans who fail to act and believe in a dignified manner of behavior!

Now death, in the form of capital punishment endorsement and advocacy of letting people without health insurance die, has been endorsed enthusiastically by right wing Republican whackos!

Now, hate of illegal immigrants and their children, and wishes to deny them basic education, health care and ability to work and contribute to American society, is endorsed wholeheartedly!

Now, selfishness, including desire to destroy labor organizing, and lack of respect and appreciation of the contributions of public workers, including police officers, firefighters, prison guards, teachers, nurses, librarians, social workers and others is endorsed!

Lack of compassion for the poor, the sick, the disabled, the elderly, and for minority groups in America is hailed as a virtue!

One day, when this sickness in the psyche of the Republican Party is finally expunged, we will look back on this period with shock and regret, and wonder why a major political party would allow itself to engage in such insane behavior!

The great Republican heroes of the past–Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan–would be shocked and embarrassed by what the party has allowed itself to become!

But even the lesser Republican Presidents–William Howard Taft, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush–would, and in the case of the two Bushes, are very disturbed at what their party has become. This is the reason why Jon Huntsman and Mitt Romney are seen as mainstream by the Bush family, and why they are clearly against the horrible message of Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann!

Even the great heroes of the conservative Republican movement in the past–Robert Taft and Barry Goldwater–were not as ugly as these Tea Party Republicans are today!

Hopefully, this poison in the political debate going on, will be soundly defeated in 2012, by sane, intelligent people, who realize what the Tea Party control of the GOP has done is to make America far worse off than it was just nine months ago when they took power in the House of Representatives and declared war on basic values of decency!

2 comments on “The Republican Culture: Death, Hate, Selfishness, Lack Of Compassion!

  1. Mark K September 17, 2011 12:08 pm

    I just can’ believe any body takes those tea-baggers seriously. here is something fundamentally wrong with their ideology. How can such a small group with monetary wealth beyond imagination be so selfish and self centered?

  2. Tommy_In_Salem, NH May 8, 2012 10:57 pm

    The Tea Party has an undying racial purity hatred of developmentally disabled persons like me who has Autism & Cerebral Palsy. David J. Bettencourt, the Tea Party Republican NH House Majority Leader who lives across town from me has vowed to destroy the entire social safety net for the disabled here in New Hampshire. As a person, he has sent me an e-mail telling me that he “personally hates my living guts”. Why? Because I have “called him out” on his racist neo-nazi style hatred of New Hampshire citizens with physical & developmental disabilities.
    When it comes to my “feud” with NH House Majority Leader David J. Bettencourt (R) of Salem, NH, I do fear that if we 2 personally cross paths here in town, we will end-up in a violent physical fight with each other & he might pull out a damn gun & “blow me away”, & I am an “unarmed” person, except for my “words” & my zeal for fighting for the rights of those who have no voice in New Hampshire.

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