badgenome said:
And yet, in any political thread here, you never seem to move past blaming Republicans for your bad life and every other thing under the sun. It is peculiar in the extreme how you can believe that Republicans are both a cabal of heartless Ayn Rand worshipers who want to gut the state and a bunch of spendthrift politicians who are somehow invariably more to blame for government gone wild than the Democrats. |
The reality is that Ayn Rand worship had overwhelmed the GOP. Romney's 47%, which echos the "We are the 53%" retort to Occupy Wall Street also echos that. Combine this with the Tea Party mentality of "We are a Republic NOT a Democracy" and you have a mindset that there are people, the rich and successful, who are an entirely different species of humans, and worthy of all they get, than the slimy underclass who won't take responsibility for themselves. This lies at the core of what you see in the Fox News Propoganda spin. It doesn't mean ALL Republicans are this, just it is what is driving the GOP at the core. Any deviation from this leads to candidates getting punished politically. This happened where I am located, where a Republican state congressman, who had YEARS of tenure, and won easily prior to this past election, ended up getting a hard core conservative challenger in the primary who then ran and cost the seated congressman, in the general election. The isssue that did him in? Gay marriage. The state congressman voted for a Gay Marriage law in NY state, and he was done in. This is the rhetoric. It is very much social Darwinism and praising success to a large degree and "don't punish the successful and job creators".
And the reality on spending is the opposite though:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/06/stoking-the-beast/304862/
The GOP, like the rest in congress, spend like drunken sailors and don't even cut anything. They really can afford to. More to blame than the Democrats? Not really. But about as much to blame, with a platform that is going to sentence them to extinction, built on talk radio and Fox News bile, to get everyone angry, wrapped up Tea Party paranoia over government. It is odd how the GOP can do this, but it is what they are currently. They made them that. And it is going to result in repeated losses as they run out of angry white men to keep them getting elected.
By the way, you can support pork and STILL be mean-spirited and hurt the poor.
As for "blaming Republicans for my life", well, I certainly don't see squat to give them credit for, but the problems do lie deeper. I can say totally tone deaf. But I do have a job now and am trying to pick up the pieces. My situation is certain better than it was 4 or even 12 years ago. NO correlation of GOP anything resulting in a better life. Doesn't mean that they are the core reasons, but pretty much irrelevant to myself being anything.
