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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. "SAME econ and foreign policy?!!" Excuse me, but
Mon Jun 5, 2017, 08:53 AM
Jun 2017

that strikes me as every bit as clueless as what most on the right are saying.

While others are being so usefully distracted by rump's circus performances, why not look around and find out what else is going on, mostly behind the scenes? What the right-wing extremists driving the real current economic and social policy are up to?

I've give you a kick-start: The worst of the extremists, including the Koch caucus in the House are fighting for: NO government programs or regulations/constraints on business and personal gathering of wealth beyond those strictly necessary for personal and national security, plus elimination of all civil rights laws, plus radical reinterpretation of the Constitution to make it possible. No, nada, zilch. They're nuts who want to take us back to the 19th Century.

Destruction of all New Deal programs and all those expanding on them in the decades since, most civil rights laws, plus repeal of most regulations/constraints on business is the least the least extreme Republican blocs want. They want to take us back mostly to the 1920s, with a few limited advances here and there allowed to remain to please middle class voters.

Compared to Republicans of Reagan's days and before, though, they've virtually all become extremists. And right now they are very busily advancing their goals, tearing away at and dismantling our governments, federal and red state, from the inside.

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+1,000 malaise Jun 2017 #1
I sure hope you're right! CaliforniaPeggy Jun 2017 #2
More likely H.L.Mencken is correct on this... NWProf Jun 2017 #7
That'sounds my favorite line from Tora, Tora, Tora film. BigmanPigman Jun 2017 #3
Great message. But rump is nothing. It's the people Hortensis Jun 2017 #4
Love that quote Soxfan58 Jun 2017 #9
The voice of experience, obviously plenty of hair-pulling Hortensis Jun 2017 #10
Democrats need to offer more than a nicer version of the same economic & foreign policy yurbud Jun 2017 #19
"SAME econ and foreign policy?!!" Excuse me, but Hortensis Jun 2017 #22
Not 1920 sab390 Jun 2017 #23
Agree enough. :) TR tried to turn the Republican Party from Hortensis Jun 2017 #24
Yes, the it all needs to crash group sab390 Jun 2017 #25
Oh hell yeah, John. James Comey. Robert S. "Three Sticks" Mueller III. Eric Leghorn21 Jun 2017 #5
I hope you're right too! 50 Shades Of Blue Jun 2017 #6
It is not the threat of waking the giant randr Jun 2017 #8
A short snippet from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" book bora13 Jun 2017 #11
and the giant isn't just in America azureblue Jun 2017 #12
Icing on the cake BigBearJohn Jun 2017 #13
You're so right!! tiptonic Jun 2017 #14
So true PatSeg Jun 2017 #15
Trump thinks all Americans are as easily manipulated as his supporters. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2017 #16
From your keyboard to God's ears, BigBearJohn catbyte Jun 2017 #17
Trust the force, cstbyte! BigBearJohn Jun 2017 #20
I love your optimism. SleeplessinSoCal Jun 2017 #18
can completely understand. BigBearJohn Jun 2017 #21
With a BIG sharp stick MFM008 Jun 2017 #26
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