Do not ever make the mistake of thinking that the Republicans are anything but the enemy.

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80. The fact is that the Republican Party made a deal with the devil at any cost to win.

You only have to read President Eisenhower's 1956 State of the Union speech to see the dramatic change that has taken place in the Republican Party.

The Republicans embraced the worst aspects of our society, racism, extreme fundamentalism, anti-union pro corporate philosophy, hatred of gays, demeaning of women, etc., to gain the support of the ignoramuses by playing on their irrational fears and prejudices.

This is a war for the heart and sole of the Republic and its very survival is predicated on maintaining the Middle Class and providing avenues of opportunities for its expansion. Just as Aristotle concluded in his sweeping review of political systems, the maintenance of a large Middle Class is imperative to the maintenance of a Democracy. Its destruction only leads to tyranny and eventual revolution.

The intent of the wealthy is the destruction of the Middle Class and the economic enslavement of the working class in a return to the Gilded Age of the haves and have-nots. In essence the destruction of the Republic. It is past time to realize that we are engaged in war that threatens the well being of the vast majority as the common good is sacrificed to the unquenchable greed of the wealthy.