How and WHY have the Republicans become an enemy of the people?
It is truly difficult to understand how an entire, entrenched political party would allow itself to become an outright enemyy of the people by standing so strongly against average Americans benefiting from anything at all in the way of political policy.
I have never been a Republican although I voted for Charles Percy of Ill. for senator because he opposed the war in Vietnam back in 1968. That is the only R vote I ever cast in my life. But what has happened to any semblance of sanity on their side of the aisle?
The only policy they are committed to is more tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans and any chance to jump into a war.
They oppose literally anything that benefits average people or the less fortunate in this country in terms of safety net social programs. Unemployment. Soc. Sec. Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, middle class tax cuts, equal pay, Dream Act, gay rights of any kind, you name it... they are diametrically opposed to any program that does not directly benefit the wealthy or largest corporations.
They would rather the NRA run roughshod over the Constitution with its distorted perspective than act in the safety of our children
They oppose anything Obama proposes on the budget unless it would somehow "penalize" most Americans and benefit the few at the top.
They oppose any cuts in the behemoth military budget and want to spend even more than is asked for.
It is like we are fighting a 7-headed hydra in the body of the Republican party.
Since this is how they want to play it, all we can do is cut off one head at a time till we're done with it once and for all and hopefully that day is coming.
Austerity sucks
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They have become a party that does NOT believe in democratic principles and thus do not fit well in a country such as the US (I suspect they would do great in Iran if they accepted Islam).
Welcome aboard. Stay a spell. 
demonstrated by their total body of work (obstruction). Almost everything they stand for is anathema to every founding principle, their almost every action is solely to promote the welfare of the most affluent and large corporations rather than to promote the general welfare. What more needs to be said? How can a der mittens-type get even 20% of the vote, much less 47%? 
Rather articulate actually. Somewhere along the way though, the one percent got hold of him and said, "Listen son, this is how the world is. You're going places and we like you. How'd you like to get rich along the way?" Suddenly he's a conservative Republican representing the interests of the one percent.
Some might think 
but I see it as perfectly logical and reasonable. One percent sees a guy who is going places, so they try to flip him. If they can't flip him, then they burn him. Think Eliot Spitzer.
