“I know it’s in the Constitution, but I don’t care! Make me!”
-Senator Mitch McConnell
The Republican Party has sold its soul to the Devil! That’s all there is to it.
The Republican Party started out as a noble party under Lincoln, was against the spread of slavery, and eventually urged Congress to abolished it, even adding an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, the 13th Amendment. This is one of the greatest accomplishments even achieved by any group of people.
Under Theodore Roosevelt, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was passed, breaking up large corporate monopolies that were choking the U.S. economy, not to mention American workers. Roosevelt went on to establish the national park system, preserving the beauty of our natural wonders for future generations to enjoy.
President Eisenhower presided during the 1950s, the decade after World War II in which Americans prospered. He also established the Interstate Highway system.
Nixon, it has been forgotten, was for the working man, establishing safety regulations, and attempted to establish a living wage and a health care system back in the 1970s. The term “Nixon Republican” meant the working man. He also supported the Equal Rights Amendment, and helped to establish the Environment Protection Agency. Congress, however, rejected many of these proposals, and then Watergate intervened. Nixon’s greatest fault, which led to his downfall, was that he hated everybody, and acted upon that emotion.
It was Reagan who began to cut taxes for the rich, with his belief in trickle down economics, and many of the wealthy flocked to him, and the present state the U.S. is in was where this all started.
Today’s Republican Party, and I mean every U.S. Senator and Representative, is participating, or condoning, unethical behavior. I mean cheating! Openly cheating. Everyone knows this, they know it, but they don’t care. In fact, they are doing everything to advance it. This is worse than Watergate!
How, you might ask?!
First look at the laws they are attempting to pass, with voter suppression. The Republican Party is attempting to make it harder for people to vote, especially people in low income areas, and minorities, that would normally vote Democratic. They, the Republicans, are trying to eliminate early voting. They are trying to take away the voting rights of convicted felons after they’ve been released from jail and have paid their debt to society. (Yes, I abhor the crimes they’ve committed, and they deserve be punished, but after they do their time and paid their debt, and have their voting rights restored, they should not be taken away from them again on a whim.)
They want to cut down the number of polling stations in cities, especially those with large minorities to discourage them from voting. Normally in a typical polling place, lines are short, and one would wait a maximum of 15 or 20 minutes, which isn’t bad at all. This is because normally there are many polling places in a city, serving small areas, so everyone will have easy access to polls and vote for whomever they please in a short span of time. Now, many cities, especially those run by Republican governments, have few polling places, and depending on income and ethnicity, the fewer polling places there are, and the harder it is to access them.
Long lines of voters result in this, having to wait long hours to vote rather than a few minutes. This is done deliberately by the city and state governments, run by the Republican Party. The purpose here is to discourage voters so that after waiting in line literally all day, they would give up and go home without being able to vote. This is to the benefit of Republican candidates.
Now Georgia has pass laws not only restricting voters, backtracking to Jim Crow, but they have also passed a law forbidding anyone to distribute food and water to anyone waiting in line to vote
They want to eliminate voting by mail.
Then there is the case where ballots with votes are torn up and thrown away, without being counted. This happened in Florida in 2000 during the Bush-Gore debacle, where both sides where fighting for the electoral votes to determine the outcome of the presidential election. A little known fact is that ballots from low income areas of the state were thrown out without being counted. If they were counted, Gore would have been president rather than Bush, and the direction the U.S. was taking would have been for the better. No such luck.
They, the Republicans, are intent on taking away voting privileges from anyone they can who would vote against them.
At present the Democrats in Congress are attempting to pass H.R.!, the voting rights bill. This will give access to ALL qualified voters, removing any restrictions Republicans are trying to place on them for fear of losing elections. The Republicans are opposed to this. Why?
Trump tried to overturn the election of 2020, in which he lost to Joe Biden. He pressured Georgia’s Secretary of State to subvert the election and give Trump a victory. He failed, but he plotted his revenge on this. More on that shortly.
When Trump declares voter fraud, Republicans believe him.
When state bills pass denying certain people their right to vote, or make it difficult for them to do so, Republicans support them.
Their excuse to all the laws they pass is to “prevent voter fraud.” The reality is, voter fraud is extremely rare, and the perpetrators will most likely be caught, even during these turbulent times.
This is downright cheating. Not only that, but its unethical, immoral, wrong, dishonest, unconstitutional, and is against all freedoms and beliefs on which this country, this democracy, this republic (we are both) stands.
I have presented only a few examples, but there are many more, enough to fill volumes. Just from all that I mentioned here, what does this tell you about the Republican Party? What is their objective is all this? I feel that it wants to be the single ruling party of the United States to which they can eventually take away the rights of all American citizens and give privileges to those that would support them. They want to eventually eliminate the Constitution for which it stands. Does this sound far-fetched? Remember what Mitch McConnell said when he refused to hold a Senate hearing for Merritt Garland when he was nominated for a Supreme Court judge by Obama:
“I know it’s in the Constitution, but I don’t care! Make me!”
McConnell was the Senate Majority Leader when he said it, but now he’s the Minority Leader, and he seems to be losing more power day by day, thank God!
What does the above quote tell you about him?
The Republican Party knows that it is losing support in a big way, and they know that they will be voted out of office should events continue as they are doing, so they are making a last ditch effort to remain the majority and will stop at nothing to do so, even breaking as many laws as possible, and they are openly doing this.
There is one more issue in this subject alone: revenge. The New York Times published two articles on its front page (March 25, 2021), side by side, about this very issue. In the first there was the issue of Georgia, when state officials from the secretary of state down to the county boards to stop Trump from overturning the decision of Georgia’s voters when they voted in Biden’s favor, given Georgia’s electoral votes to Biden, rather than Trump. Now state Republicans are trying to strip all these officials of their power. They tried the same thing in Arizona. What these people have in mind is to permanently oust them from their position and replace them with loyal Trump Republicans, who will bend to the will of Trump and his cronies, no matter what. Forget about ethics and what is fair and what the voters want.
In a parallel article, the Democrats are making the effort to ban gerrymandering, mandate automatic voter registration, and expand early and mail-in voting. The Republicans are opposed to all of this. Their reason is that more Democrats would be registered to vote and the Republicans would be permanently in the minority.
They want to stop all this and will go as far as firing, and ruin the careers of any official who gets in their way, including judges.
How about if the Republicans would offer something that would really benefit the U.S. and the American people as a whole, and make them want to vote for them because they believe they would be the better choice for the American people as a whole, meaning ALL Americans?! They will not do that.
All they care about is money and power.
This is only the tip of the iceberg!
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As of this writing, two shootings have occurred in Georgia and Colorado, resulting in the deaths of 18 people. Both killers had assault rifles, able to shoot a massive amount of bullets at once. Other shooting throughout the past few decades was the same story, be they at schools or other public places. The shooter was always deranged, with an assault rifle and huge amounts of ammunition.
In 1994, President Bill Clinton put a 10-year ban on assault rifles, to last until 2004. In that period of time, shootings decreased a great deal. Some did happen, such as Columbine, but in general, they decrease, and less lives were lost because of it. When the time came up for renewal in 2004, President Bush, who is a Republican, and Congress let it pass. Then the shootings and killings went up again. Is this a coincidence? I don’t think so!
Whenever a shooting, whether in a school involving young children or in a supermarket involving innocent shoppers, a bill aways comes up to ban assault rifles. There are speeches and serious, sometimes inflammatory debates, with Republicans saying that they (assault rifles) are needed, banning them would only increase the murder rate, and would be a violation of the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the right to keep and bear arms.
First, I support the Second Amendment as much as anyone would, and having a gun can be necessary for one to protect his or her own home and their families (if you don’t discount people playing with guns, resulting in a killing due to their own stupidity), but assault rifles, machine guns, etc., are not necessary. Hunters don’t need them to hunt deer or other meat. Second, it has been proven that the easy acquisition of assault rifles increase mass killings, not decrease them. They make things worse, not better.
The real reason is that the N.R.A. (National Rifle Association) is a very powerful lobby that funds Republican candidates for office, and keeps on supporting them, so the N.R.A. can determine what weapons are banned or not, and these Republicans got along. They are simply puppets. I have never seen Democrats being pawns of this organization. In other words, it’s the money. Buy a Republican politician and he or she will do anything you say. Note: I am aware that this equally applies to many Democrats, but with them, the problem is not yet severe. Notice I said “yet.”
So the Republicans refuse to help ban assault weapons, and the killings
continue.
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Economically, there is a lot to say, but I’ll try to get the point across without saying too much.
Tax cuts for the rich are the main liability here. First, it’s based on the beliefs of trickle down economics. Cut taxes on industries, they will spend the windfall on more production, creating more jobs, employing more people, and increasing the revenue based on taxes from these additional employees, which will be greater than the amount of money cut.
Nice thought, except it doesn’t work. It never has, and it never will, yet Republican politicians keep doing this. In reality, the money that is cut is simply stashed away in private bank accounts and the money benefits nobody.
Many of the wealthy people who have their tax cuts simply hoard it in a bank account in Switzerland or the Cayman Islands, any tax free haven they can acquire. This is of no benefit to the United States.
In reality, the rich do not need tax cuts at all. The money that they have paid in taxes is never missed by them, so what is the point? Simply to buy votes for the candidate who made these cuts in the first place.
This tax money goes to our police force, fire departments, municipal systems, schools, roads, everything that services our societies. Tax cuts mean that these necessities will be cut and society will have a lot less of this, which can be detrimental to our society; i.e. less tax money for the police means less policemen leading to an increase in crime. Take it from there. Yes, a lot of tax money is wasted on useless projects and grants, but these are never cut from the budget, nor will they be because local politician support these so they can receive more votes.
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As for the environment, National Parks have been set up in the early 20th century by none other than President Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican) to preserve our natural heritage for future generations to enjoy.
Nonetheless, today’s Republicans are passing laws for companies to mine these parks, cut down old growth forests, pump oil, all of which will destroy the environment of these parks and nature preserves, and kill a lot of endangered species. The Republicans don’t care. A long as it makes money for them, these companies can destroy the environment.
And that is exactly what these Republicans are doing. They are destroying the United States in any which way they can, and they don’t care. I have given a few examples, but a lot more can be added. Under President Clinton, we had a budget surplus, and we were well on our way to paying the national debt. When Bush came into office, he cut taxes, the surplus was gone, and the debt increased, and we are in worse shape than ever.
This is what I mean. The Republicans are destroy our economy, our environment, destroying the rights that women and minorities have fought for these past few decades, and ignoring the Constitution of the United States. They are passing laws denying certain citizens the right to vote just so they can become the majority permanently, because they know that if everyone voted, they would remain a minority. They will now openly lie, cheat, and steal to obtain power, and it has been shown that they are becoming a tyrannical force, threatening the very existence of the United States.
To sum it up, the Republican Party is not an asset, but a liability and a serious threat to the American people as a whole and if they are allowed to continue as they do, the United States will be destroyed, as a country, as a position in the world, and the American people will discover what it is like to live in a third rate country with no money, with a tyrannical ruler. No, I am not exaggerating. I mean this literally. If the Republican Party continues to exist, America will be destroyed, along with all our freedoms, wealth, privileges, and our standing in the world.
The Republicans now in charge know this, but they don’t care, as long as they have their wealth and power.
Remember what Mitch McConnell said: “I know it’s in the Constitution, but I don’t care. Make me!”
Does this sound far-fetched? Let’s list this, one by one.
- They are opening lying and cheating in our elections, and will stop at nothing either to win, or to overturn the elections in their favor.
2. They do not care about gun control, or how many innocent men, women or children are killed in massacres by crazy people. They are being funded by the N.R.A., and will do anything they ask.
3. They do not care about the environment. They are destroying the environment, mining and logging sensitive parts of the world, including our national parks, just to make money for big companies, who will continue to fund their party, and themselves.
4. They do not care about people’s rights.
5. They do not care about the economy. As long as they have money in their own coffers, which they have obtained illegally, and it increases, they will have no regard for anyone else.
6. They do not care about rebuilding our infrastructure, which has greatly deteriorated and needs to be rebuilt, badly.
7. They do not care about education, or providing new opportunities for the young and less fortunate.
8. They do not care about jobs and the unemployment rate, although they claim that they do, and some of them believe it.
9. They do not care about the U.S. Constitution. If it were up to Mitch McConnell and his cronies, the Constitution would be abolished.
10. They do not care about the American people. They do not care that America is declining, just as long as they have and can keep their wealth. Basically, they want to destroy, or abolish, everything that made America great in the first place. i.e. It was immigration, with their hard work and talents that propelled America to be a world power, and the Republicans now want to abolish it. Yes, we have a problem of illegal immigration, but it can be fixed to everyone's benefit, but they don't want to do this. This is one such example.
11. They do not care about morals and what is right.
12. They do not care about anything, or anyone, but themselves.
On January 6, 2021, the U.S. Capitol was attacked by thugs, incited by outgoing President Donald Trump. After the insurrection, which failed, the Republicans did absolutely nothing. They refused to indict Trump and exonerated him, giving him the full right to run for office again and his privileges restored, all of which should have been taken away from him. I think the main reason here is that the Republican Senators voted to pardon him was because they did not have the guts to prosecute him, fearing retaliation.
What does this say about the Republican Senate? They are MORAL COWARDS! Nothing more!
So there you have it. The Republican Party, once a noble party under Abraham Lincoln when it was first established, has deteriorated into a self-serving party with no regard for others, no regard for human life, and no regard for the freedom and well being of the United States.
We, as Americans, can’t have that!
We can no longer afford it! The Republican Party must go! Permanently! And it must be replaced by a party that’s a lot more decent and far-seeing. A party, a common-sense party, that will put the interests of the American people first, that will stand up for what they truly believe in, even if it is unpopular at the times, and will put country before party, and is willing to see eye-to-eye with other parties as they do their business in Congress. Above all, they must be willing to work with anybody and everybody, regardless to party affiliation after the election is over. Once the election is over, it’s over. The winners have their seats. Now let’s get down to business and run this country right!
I would call it the Progressive Party, but don’t be certain on the name. If you have a better name, I would like to hear it.
Anyway, at present, we must permanently get rid of the Republican Party and all of its amoral and immoral ways it wishes to govern this country. We need to form a new party.
We deserve better!
-Alastair Browne
