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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 05:44 PM Jul 2013

Imagine If The GOP Got Its Way On Every Issue And Implemented Every Policy

If the GOP ever got all three branches of government again, they would pass and implement every policy they have proposed.
Such a prospect is actually terrifying just from what policies we know of.

Really think through what they propose but how the country would evolve to. Even any Republicans who have two brain cells function together would have to pause. And I am not optimistic there are that many voters who understand on that side.

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Imagine If The GOP Got Its Way On Every Issue And Implemented Every Policy (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jul 2013 OP
then you would get bad policy and very unpopular politicians dsc Jul 2013 #1
Why do you think they would allow anymore elections?.... socialist_n_TN Jul 2013 #5
everytime i see one of the tapeworms on TV i wonder the same thing olddots Jul 2013 #2
It's a game to them, and they feel they should be the winners. haele Jul 2013 #3
And when it's too late, there will be no one there to hear the screams. freshwest Jul 2013 #4

dsc

(52,166 posts)
1. then you would get bad policy and very unpopular politicians
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 05:47 PM
Jul 2013

who would get voted out of office. If they win, their policy should get enacted, elections ought to matter.

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)
5. Why do you think they would allow anymore elections?....
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 08:27 PM
Jul 2013

Or the next best thing (for them anyway), any more FAIR elections.

 

olddots

(10,237 posts)
2. everytime i see one of the tapeworms on TV i wonder the same thing
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 05:49 PM
Jul 2013

It would be giving them enough rope to hang themselves .they are spoiled little babies who want all the toys .

haele

(12,674 posts)
3. It's a game to them, and they feel they should be the winners.
Tue Jul 16, 2013, 06:36 PM
Jul 2013

They think they will live like the princes of their imaginations, without any checks to their power because "they deserve it". The rest of the world will just have to fall in line because only they know what's best for everyone.

The Libretarian "virtue of selfishness?" check. Corrupt Levitican/Sharia law without any consideration of the unlucky or poor? check. Survival of the richest? check.

To most who follow that creed, it just needs an innate selfish desire for comfort, and a blind worship of Mammon. The sort of world-view that allows one the certainty that "if you are suffering, you either deserved it or you'll get your reward in Heaven", and a person is only free if s/he is able to put a foot on the necks of neighbors or others in the community to get to a more comfortable social position.

It's very easy to be casually cruel until it's your neck that's getting stomped. And by then, it's too late.

Haele

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