What if the entire GOP agenda were accomplished?

[dave123williams]

Would the world be a better place?

Just askin'.

[snowbear]

1. If their agenda is eventually accomplished....

We will all be dead. Me, You, all of us.

[cyclezealot]

2. Is there not more world strife compared to CLintons' presidency

GOP agenda would be a world at constant war. Enemies would multiply significantly for the US. THe world does not like bullies or imperialists.
At home. We'd all be on our own. THe GOP agenda is to enrich corporate masters and if you don't make it on your own, there is alwasys the street. Schooling would be private , expensive, and segregated. Gated communites would proliferate. You better save with your minimum wage jobs, because social security would be bankrupted.
Health care private insurers would be unregulated and in total control of what services you deserve.
As for the rich, what category exceeds a definition of 'gilded era.'

[DanCa]

3. I have parkinson's and I am on SSDI

I guess if the GOP's agenda ever come's through that you can just dump my twitching lump of a body onto the white house lawn. What the hell it beats the gutter at least the rats in the white house wear suits.
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[snowbear]

5. Aww Dan,

Wow, as much as I've talked to you or have read your threads & comments, I didn't know.

Remember always, through all this GOP crap, that in our little corner of the world here at DU.. we will always be here for you!

~~ xoxoxox!

[DanCa]

6. Thank you.

It just sucks that the gop made a wedge issue of my life. I am just so angry at them that its beyond rational thought. :hug:

[ERF]

4. What if the entire GOP agenda were accomplished?

What would you define as the "entire GOP agenda"?


Are you talking about their party platform from 2004 or something different?

It seems to me there "agenda" while rightwing is fairly amorphous and would, upon the accomplishment of one item, quickly adapt to add additional ones.

Thus, "accomplishing" the agenda of any political party would probably mean its full control of government and the banning of other parties vis a vis the communist party in China, the USSR, etc.

[Skittles]

7. look how badly they suck with full power

imagine how much worse it could get if they are not stopped

[ERF]

8. I dont think they have "full" power. That is the genius of the system

The courts still reflect a much longer and liberal time-horizon. The American system is brilliant insofar as it is democratic, but also allows for a long-term view because the courts are long-term.

In 10 years we might have a very liberal legislative and executive that will, in turn, be halted in an agenda by a more conservative judiciary.

All in all, it works. 10 more years of conservatives and then we might have a real problem with the whole system and not just the current leaders.

[Skittles]

9. get a clue, ERF

those bastards own the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court, the voting machines and the media. They have very likely stolen the last two presidential elections. I am already starting not to recognize my own country; ten more years of these conservative pieces of SHIT will make us a third-world country.

[ERF]

10. Of course if believe that, you would think that.

[Skittles]

11. that is not even a sentence, my dear

try again

[ERF]

12. I realize that DU is a realm of perfect grammar so

my apologies to have offended your sensibilities.

Nevertheless, an attack on syntax is certainly preferrable to ad hominem.

[Bridget Burke]

17. How about an original thought?

DU'ers have already gotten very bored with Right Wing Talking Points.

[Skittles]

22. yes Bridget, that is where I was going

since I couldn't decipher the FOX-speak

[ClintonTyree]

14. Another one with a disabled profile.......

they're so easy to spot. ;)

[ERF]

18. Thanks. I didn't realize it was disabled. Just clicked on "yes"

A bit counterintuitive, if one has an aversion to actually reading.

[cyclezealot]

16. You sure are optimistic.

Yes, the people have the power to take it back; should elections not be rigged.
But as to the courts. Think judges have to be fair minded! They are political appointments just like everyone else.
Lots of disrespect for our democratic traditons originate in the courts. I suggest you look into the kinds of freepers Bush has appointed, particuarily to the DC court.
Example, Clarence Thomas. I sure would not like to be tried by him.
Or maybe better yet. Examine the political/judicial history of the last gilded age, when robber barrons ran the country. We then had one party rule. The courts acted as a slave to the robber barrons, as did the militia, who were just an unofficial arm of the "Pinkertons."

[ToeBot]

13. The problem with Feudalism is the lack of a middle class...

to maintain the industrial base. Sure, they think they can just outsource, but then the country is reduced to a police state (or a theocracy) to keep the mobs from stealing all their cool stuff. If the entire GOP agenda were accomplished, it would be an unprecedented and total disaster.

(on edit) Make that a total Fucking disaster.

[iamahaingttta]

15. Free Market Utopia?

Yes, the world WOULD be a better place!

It will be Heaven on Earth™ for the 500 or so extended families that will own the planet. For the billion or so worker/slaves owned by the corporations, it won't be so bad either. Bread and circuses, you know. Of course the 5 or so billion people who are killed in the corporate/resource wars won't know what they are missing!

[Nimrod2005]

19. The people will perish?

[silverojo]

20. You'd hear jackboots marching down your street

Just before you and your lib'rul family were carted off to a concentration camp.

[boolean]

21. It already was accomplished once...