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Segami

(14,923 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:16 PM Nov 2013

America Has Never Faced The THREAT POSED By The Koch Brothers & Their OWNED Republicans





Most Americans are confident that their nation will remain fundamentally unchanged forever and in part it is due to the once stable functioning government. However, as world leaders, political scholars, and economists have noted, America’s government has been, for all intents and purposes, brought to a standstill due to Republican denial they lost two presidential elections. There is a faction in this country made up of wealthy oligarchs, religious fanatics, and conservative extremists who have intimated in various ways their only raison d’être is to destroy America from within and transform it into a mirror image of a stone-age nation like Afghanistan under Taliban rule. The war for America has been in the planning stages for two decades, but when American voters elected (twice) an African American man as President the insurgency began enacting their plan to destroy the federal government and by extension the country itself.



The groups lusting to destroy America and transform it into a libertarian theocracy certainly know that their goal could never reach fruition if they announced they were actively seeking to eliminate the functioning government, so they use catch phrases such as the Koch brothers’ infamous “transforming America” to fit their lawless vision of a nation without rules and regulations. Their staunch ally, Grover Norquist has been forthcoming that his goal is to “shrink government down to a size he can drown in a bathtub,” but his goal, like the Koch brothers, is a nation steeped in anarchy where peasants are at the mercy of a few wealthy industrialists. Although the Kochs and Norquist wield inordinate power and influence over a major political party, they are not elected representatives and depend on dark money and loyalty oaths to control Republicans at the state and federal level to enact their anti-government agendas. Now they have a powerful ally in the U.S. Senate who controls Republicans in the House and Senate and last Sunday he let it slip that his ultimate goal is destroying America.



It is fairly well-known that Rafael “Ted” Cruz is running the Republican Party due to being anointed the evangelical conservative messiah, and that he publicly announced the recent government shutdown and debt crisis was only the first battle in a longer war. Cruz has been unapologetic that his destructive strategy is part of a plan to achieve his future policy goals that he readily admits are more than defunding the Affordable Care Act he claims is responsible for the nation’s sluggish economy. However, when he spoke to Fox News’ host Sean Hannity on Sunday, he revealed that in his “multi-stage extended battle” he discovered “a model that I think is the model going forward to,” among other things, “abolish the IRS.” Cruz’s remark was a stunning revelation that his goal is defunding the entire United States government that will serve to hasten the Koch brothers’ agenda of a nation void of laws, regulatory agencies’ enforcement, education, Social Security, healthcare, and national defense. Abolishing the I.R.S. will also invalidate the U.S. Constitution’s Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 that gives the federal government of the United States its power of taxation to fund the nation’s government. Without revenue to fund the government, America as it exists now would become a lawless, uneducated, and dangerous fascist state controlled by the wealthy and policed by religious extremists imposing the bible as the de facto law of the land.



If the power of taxation is eliminated, the government may be able to function for a couple of years at best, but it would mean selling off all federal assets and raiding Social Security’s $2.8 trillion reserves just to fund this nation’s national defense and nothing more. All regulatory and consumer protection agencies would be eliminated, education funding would cease to exist, and domestic programs would come to a screeching halt. In fact, with no revenue, the entire federal government would disappear and with it all the benefits the people depend on whether it is safe food, safe medicine, disaster relief, clean water, infrastructure, and security the people are guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. Actually, without a government, the Constitution itself will be obsolete and it would open the floodgates of regional morality laws under the purview of whichever religious group had the largest armory to enforce their edicts and transform America into Afghanistan under Taliban rule.



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http://www.politicususa.com/2013/11/01/america-faced-threat-posed-koch-brothers-congressional-republicans.html
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America Has Never Faced The THREAT POSED By The Koch Brothers & Their OWNED Republicans (Original Post) Segami Nov 2013 OP
Actually, I have to disagree. Brigid Nov 2013 #1
I was just going to say the same. Cleita Nov 2013 #2
We need TR back. Brigid Nov 2013 #3
Somewhere he or she exists. I think Elizabeth Warren Cleita Nov 2013 #4
TR would love Elizabeth Warren. Brigid Nov 2013 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author PADemD Nov 2013 #8
I'm one of those descendants and I'm pissed off. I've been pissed off since Reagan. diane in sf Nov 2013 #9
Bingo. We need a real progressive populist demwing Nov 2013 #6
I can't recommend, but I can still kick a thread... AnotherDreamWeaver Nov 2013 #7

Brigid

(17,621 posts)
1. Actually, I have to disagree.
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:36 PM
Nov 2013

The nineteenth century, featuring robber barons like Rockefeller and Carnegie, was even worse. There was no income tax and no minimum wage. There were no workplace safety regulations, no housing standards, no public health laws, no environmental standards, and no food safety regulations. Today's 1% want to take us back there.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
2. I was just going to say the same.
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:41 PM
Nov 2013

What is wrong is that we didn't make the necessary legislation to insure we didn't have a repeat of that like we are having.

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
4. Somewhere he or she exists. I think Elizabeth Warren
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:52 PM
Nov 2013

could do it if given a chance and a big load of protection. I don't trust these guys. They are very much into the ends justifies the means guys. I think this is why many of our pols are afraid of them.

Response to Cleita (Reply #4)

diane in sf

(4,117 posts)
9. I'm one of those descendants and I'm pissed off. I've been pissed off since Reagan.
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 11:40 PM
Nov 2013

The selection of bush was the last straw.

 

demwing

(16,916 posts)
6. Bingo. We need a real progressive populist
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 10:19 PM
Nov 2013

I wonder if Grayson could do it? He's got a touch of the dark side, he likes to go for the throat!

AnotherDreamWeaver

(2,900 posts)
7. I can't recommend, but I can still kick a thread...
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 10:37 PM
Nov 2013

When I log in only two cookies come in, it used to be six or seven. I can't recommend a thread for some reason???

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