Zeal without knowledge is a runaway horse
Trump may be evil, GOP are worse
December 12, 2018
The GOP has been equally corrupt in taking dark money, pursuing agendas to direct profits to a few and allowing pollution to endanger us all. The Republican Party exists to preserve the privilege of wealth and white men. They possess a mythical vision of a past America that underlies every proposal. Soon the party men like Mitch McConnell, Tom Cotton, Steve Scalise will slither to find harbor from the Trump storm. They will join in pointing the finger of blame on Trump. Trump will become their scapegoat as they try to escape blame and preserve power. We must discredit the policies they support. The modern Republican Party is motivated by short-sighted greed and the materialistic drive of a miser. There are no good or rational actors left in the Republican Party. This is not the Watergate era.
We need majorities large enough to pass constitutional amendments to
assure fair elections, respect for the rights of all people, and the
limit corporate power. We need to limit the blackmail corporations use
to extort local and state governments. We need to rehabilitate our
healthcare system and bring health to healthcare. Large Democratic
majorities would mean debates between our most progressive and our
most moderate. Policy would start with people making decisions to save
our planet, get people healthcare, keep our economy on a level playing
field, treat everyone with equality before the law, and make all
citizens part of our democracy. These seem like American values, but
no one left in the Republican Party supports these goals, there’s no
money in it. We must keep the focus on GOP policy atrocities, while
using Trump and the investigations as the tool to leave the Republican
Party neutered and insignificant. Policy in DC has for too long been
influenced by a paradigm defined by think tanks. Conservative
ideological think tanks funded by the greedy and the eccentric. We
have the opportunity to usher in a new era of change based on
equality, efficiency, and promoting health both for humans and the
planet.
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