Let's Explore The Comment "to advance the interests of the 1% who own them" In Relation To Repugs...
I actually posted this in a thread about the Tea Party and I thought that it warranted a thread of its own so I can get a feel for what others here on DU feel about how some Senators and Congressional Reps that sell out to special interests.
What does it take to own someone?
It always troubled me that some of these Repugs that espouse these wild and crazy positions are said to be owned by the 1%er's.
Do they own them because they fund their elections and re-elections so that they can maintain their job and power? Is it only a money thing? Is it an ego thing? Or is there something more sinister going on? Are they being blackmailed in any way?
I'm asking this because I've always thought that these Repugs have family, friends and associates that are also effected in a negative way by their crazy positions. How can they do that to their family, friends and associates? How can they live with themselves knowing that their positions can hurt their own family, friends and associates?
How can they get up and say things and sometimes boldface lie? How can they take positions on gays, abortion, voters rights, women's issues - knowing that they most probably have a gay in the family or a gay friend; a wife or daughter that could be raped; friends that are in the minority, old, poor, students - that they are preventing them the right to vote?
How can they live with themselves? Does the position of being a Senator or Congressman mean so much to them that they are able to compromise their ethics and morals and possibly hurt someone that they love?
I know that I couldn't face myself in the mirror every morning if I took some of the positions that they take and espouse. I would also be embarrassed to face others.
What type of person are they if they are able to compromise their good names for a few shekels or fame? And how is it that the Repug Party seems to ferret out these types of people?
I've struggled with these thoughts for a long time and just can't get my arms around it. What does it take to become a sell-out?
Here's a link to my original thread about the Tea Party: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023682841#post17
