The GOP Is No Longer A Conservative Party

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10. Stop Calling Them Conservatives; They Are Radicals

Stop Calling Them Conservatives; They Are Radicals

by Claire Conner

We have to stop playing nice with the radical right starting with calling them who they are. They are NOT conservatives. These people are radicals; and they are bent on changing America.

Let's be clear about who these people are: the radical right is a coalition of Koch Brothers and their corporate pals, the old religious right with even more tendency toward repressive religious rule, libertarians who never met a central government they didn't want to get rid of and the John Birch Society.

These people envision an America that looks like this:

1. The New Deal dismantled.
2. All safety net programs eliminated.
3. The federal government shrunk by 75%.
4. Federal programs gutted and whole departments erased
5. Labor unions, labor protections and even child labor laws severely limited.
6. Taxes on the wealthy reduced to nothing.
7. Minimum wage laws repealed.
8. Voting so restricted that the radical right always wins.

In the new America -- a right wing dystopia -- business and the uber rich will be free to do anything unrestrained by rules or taxes.

This is where we are headed if we don't rise up -- in the activist political sense . . .now.

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