If you were to ask a Republican/rightie, "What would it take to straighten out the USA?"

[raccoon]

what do you think they would say?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Among the righties I know, I think the first answer would be "immigration reform." n/t

[ThomWV]

2. Lower taxes - its the only "solution" those asswipes can ever come up with

[BOSSHOG]

3. Round up all the liberals

close public schools. Shut down public universities, don't need no stinking education. Declare war at least twice a year. Do away with any form of taxation (I just love that solution.) Make being gay and non white and non christian illegal. By golly thats a good start to straightening out the land of the free.

[trotsky]

6. Well c'mon BOSSHOG, it's only logical

I mean, lowering taxes ALWAYS raises revenue, so why not eliminate taxes completely? If it's an inverse relationship, then dropping the tax rate to zero should provide INFINITE revenue! It's so damn easy!

[tom_paine]

7. Yep, but they'd only say that if they thought no actual Americans were listening.

I have been in on a few of those conversations, where Bushie Aristocrats or Stormtroopers (who rarely mix between groups - different classes, you know) didn't realize a Loyal American was among them and thus they felt free to talk.

Oh, the things they say, when they think they are in Bushie-Nazi-friendly company!

I'm betting, due to your lifelong occupation and where you live (no offense, pal, there are good and decent people evrywhere...and Bushies everywhere, too), you have been the Loyal American in a group of Treasonous Bushies Expressing Opinions They Wouldn't DARE When Loyal Americans Are Listening.

People reading your post think you're joking, and maybe you are.

But just a little bit. Based on what I have heard the Bushies say to each other when they think no one is listening,you could only possibly be joking a little bit, if at all.

:hi: Chief. Always good to respond to a post of yours! :hi:

[Fumesucker]

23. Eh, I think you and BOSS are optimists..

Even Murphy is an optimist, after all he thinks that anything that *can* go wrong will, those of us who deal with the real world know that even stuff that *can't* go wrong will. Hell, *especially* stuff that can't go wrong, will.

All liberals and fellow travelers to the camps is the first thing on the right wing agenda for a "better" America.

[BOSSHOG]

25. Hey Tom, Happy New Year My Friend

You sure do know my neighborhood. Not joking at all. "They" would attempt to enforce their "values" given the slightest of chances and down deep in their evil hearts they'd think it was the right thing to do.

[Jamastiene]

They would say get rid of gay people.

No pun or joke intended. That is literally what they think.

[tom_paine]

24. Ever see the movie Borat? Not only is it funny as hell but there is a candid moment with a Bushie

Rodeo Owner where he quite casually says just that.

If you have not seen the movie "Borat" it's funny as hell in spite of that one scene, and you just might want to see the scene I am speaking of for curiosity's sake.

Some of the funniest parts are where Borat (a Jewish guy masquerading as a Jew-hating Kazakhi) gets the Bushies to let their hair down and say what they wouldn't normally because it's just some immigrant who is leaving soon anyway or whatever.

But it's not just about that shit all movie, and where it is the Bushies are usually made uncomfortable and sent scurrying or exposed for what they ARE!

Sascha Cohen, the Jewish comedian who plays Borat, has jumbo coconut balls and once on his HBO Show got a whole barful of Deep Southerners (Georgia or Mississippi) to lustily accompany him singing "Throw the Jew Down The Well", and believe you me, the bar crowd was quite enjoying the song for real.

So I do understand at least a little how you might feel. It's still a funny as hell movie and at least a few Bushies get mocked and discomfited badly.

Bottom line is, that scene in Borat quite supports your thesis.

[dmallind]

4. Surely we know the enemy well enough

1) More egregiously imposed Christianity in government and society

2) Lower income taxes and make them flat

3) Drastically reduce welfare spending

4) Aggressively deport illegals and use military tactics to keep more out

5) Draconian punishment for any legal infraction other than white collar crime

6) Reduce regulations and taxes for corporations

EDIT - 7) How could I have forgotten - criminalize homosexuality and reproductive choice.

Wouldn't work of course, but hey.

[dmallind]

Delete - dupe NT

[Jamastiene]

5. dupe delete

[burythehatchet]

8. the past 8 years hold all the answers you seek, Grasshopper.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

9. The same things they always say:

Lower taxes
Cut labour and environmental regulations
Deport more immigrants
Increase defence spending
Lock up more criminals
Ban abortion
Bring Christianity further into public life

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

10. "Kill the liberals"

Paraphrased from Ann Coulter.

[Stevenmarc]

11. They would say whatever Fox told them.

It's not like they are the critical thinking crowd.

[beltanefauve]

26. Good answer

and welcome to DU! That's right, if our government lies, cheats, steals, covers up, limits our rights, and revises history (such as, "America is a Christian nation founded on Christian ideals) then its all for our own good! Dissent is unpatriotic, dontcha know? Now be a good little authoritarian lamb and just go shopping!

[zbdent]

12. Death penalty, more guns, and a constitutional amendment requring the words

"Under God" to be shouted during the Pledge of Allegiance, right after the morning prayer ...

or, just as effective, "MORE COWBELL!"

[jmowreader]

13. You know what they would say

The Ten Point Republican Plan for Straightening Out the USA:

1. Cut Taxes: eliminate personal income tax in favor of a national sales tax

2. Build a 100-Foot Wall on the Mexico-US Border

3. Cut Taxes: abolish the inheritance tax

4. Abolish Separation of Church and State

5. Cut Taxes: reduce corporate income taxes by one-half

6. Privatize Social Security, Medicaid and AFDC

7. Cut Taxes: eliminate Capital Gains Tax

8. Amend the Constitution to ban homosexuality, non-Christian religions and the use of any language but English within the corporate territory of the United States

9. Cut Taxes: eliminate fuel taxes

10. Close all public schools, including public universities and fully fund Christian schools

[hfojvt]

16. #7 is doubly redundant

You may know that, but Republicans often speak as if there is a capital gains tax that is separate from the income tax which you already eliminated with point #1 and sometimes even good progressives get caught in Republican frames.

[jmowreader]

20. We're talking Republicans, dude...

There is no doubt in MY mind, nor should there be in yours, that if you asked many random repukes off the street how to fix the economy, they'd say something like "have a national sales tax instead of an income tax, and get rid of the capital gains tax." Neglecting, of course, that CGT is a preferential income tax rate on a specific kind of investment income.

[hfojvt]

22. yeah but I have also had arguments on DU

where a DUer was all :wtf: when I said "there is no capital gains tax"
Which may be a semantic thing because it sounds too much like "there is no tax on capital gains" which is patently nonsense.
As I said, there is a good chance you already knew that, but I decided to chime in for Mr. Justin Case.

[Brewman_Jax]

14. So many choices

but, the general consensus seems to me, in no particular order:


Deport/jail all of those that aren't "true Americans"

National sales tax and get rid of the IRS

Cut corporate taxes and taxes in general

Make prayer in school mandatory

Get rid of all social services, make it all faith-based

Close all bars/restaurants at midnight

Get rid of all unions and labor rules

Increase military spending and invade (insert unlucky country here)

[TwilightGardener]

15. Lower taxes, more defense spending, make abortion illegal, no gun laws, no industry regulation.

That's it--that's their whole agenda.

[surrealAmerican]

17. "Privatize everything ...

... because government is always the problem, never the solution."
It somehow alludes them that private industry is a bigger problem, since they are less accountable to the people.

[Alcibiades]

18. Institute a monarchy

Abolish Congress and hand over all power to a president elected by white male property owners. Privatize everything, using no-bid contracts awarded to Halliburton. Make evangelical protestant Christianity the state religion and make heresy a capital crime. Ban abortion, birth control and the gays. Declare war on everybody.

[L0oniX]

19. Make Ann Coulter head of the CIA. Establish a KKK government office and repeal civil rights.

Imprison Muslims and torture them. Merge the military with local police departments. Change from saluting the flag to bowing down to the flag. Force everyone to wear flag pins or go to jail. Make Pat Robertson head of homeland security.... too many things to list here.

[treestar]

21. the following

1. Eliminate all entitlements - any welfare programs -
2. Eliminate all civil rights laws and affirmative action
3. Do away with public schools - this will allow prayer in the schools (in all fairness, non-Christians can have their own schools - they won't do as well academically anyway) - and allow schools to hire and fire whomever they choose as teachers, so as to be able to eliminate nonChristians, gays and the divorced.
4. Make abortion and birth control illegal again.
5. Deport illegal aliens, but if that is not possible, their children born in the US should not be Americans.
6. Recognize that Obama was born in Kenya and can't be Prez. :rofl:

They may fail to account for the fact that under their rules, Jewish and Atheist and Muslims schools could exist. They could fire all the gay teachers, but then what would stop anyone from opening a gay school? They usually fail to account for this, presumably thinking everyone else will just go away or be proven inferior. Some schools could decide to take illegal aliens.

They don't seem to account for the fact that their own paradise is impossible. As long as people could pay, they could still do things.

They also seem to believe that Christians will always be in a majority and vote along those lines so that they can see the government functionaries praying and acknowledging only one religion again. Their plan works only if white Christians have more babies. They are unrealistic about this - not going to happen. When the majority ever elects a nonChristian President, they would be in trouble, but they don't recognize that.

[lame54]

27. Liberal death camps

[leftofthedial]

28. lower taxes

less gummint interference with the magic of the "free market"

a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, patrolled by troops with shoot-to-kill orders

requiring Obama to prove that he wasn't born in Kenya

start bombing Iran

[Kansas Wyatt]

29. Nuke everyone & keep Democrats out of the fall-out shelters / bunkers.

Yes, they are that ate up.