Ted Cruz wants to be king: Make no mistake, the GOP extremists’ real goal is absolute control

[yuiyoshida]

As Republicans in Washington struggle over who will assume the duties of the Speaker of the House, pundits plot the rise and fall of the candidates with blow-by-blow doggedness. But behind the story of political jockeying within the Republican Party is a much larger issue. The Movement Conservatives now calling the shots in the Republican Party are forcing the nation toward a Constitutional crisis. A very small number of extremists are trying to bend the federal government to their will. They want to force the president to abandon his own policies and adopt theirs. If he refuses to cave in to their demands to kill Planned Parenthood, they will refuse to fund the government. They will force it to shut down. The thirty or forty people in the secretive “House Freedom Caucus,” elected by voters only from their own deeply Republican districts, want to erase the constitutional role of the president. They want to impose their will on the American people.

They have deliberately set out to destroy the American constitutional system.

This is not the first time the America government has seen such an assault. The nation faced a similar crisis after the Civil War. Then, Americans saw the threat for what it was. That the revolutionaries were attempting a political coup was obvious. Only twenty years before the very same men had tried to dismember the United States government using cannons and rifles. The crisis of 1879 looks much the same as today’s, although the Republicans and Democrats have traded positions.

In 1879, Democrats took control of Congress for the first time since the 1850s. Voters had backed Democratic candidates primarily because of a deep recession that they blamed on the Republicans in power. A small cabal of former Confederates within the party, though, insisted they had a mandate to reverse the course the country had taken since they had seceded in 1861. They set out to return the South to white control once and for all. “The great blunder of our section was in abandoning our seats in Congress in 1861,” one Democratic representative told the New York Times. The better plan was to seize control of Congress and run the entire United States.

http://www.salon.com/2015/10/18/ted_cruz_wants_to_be_king_make_no_mistake_the_gop_extremists_real_goal_is_absolute_control/

[hobbit709]

1. Democrats want to govern, Republicans want to rule.

[Wounded Bear]

6. Ding! Ding! Ding!

How much time did the pundits spend parsing Trump when he slipped and talked about 9/11 happening "during George Bush's reign?"

Their true beliefs are starting to creep into their dialogue and they don't think people are listening. Unfortunately, many aren't. Hopefully enough are.

There a lot of Authoritarians on the Right, and the Dominionists are some of the worst of the breed.

[RKP5637]

2. Watching Carson now on ABC with Stephanopoulos. He falls apart when deeply

questioned about his positions. He's clueless! Scary that some want him as president.

[DhhD]

3. Panic attacks are soothed by medicine.

[RKP5637]

4. He has a very strange and peculiar persona about him to say the least. n/t

[DhhD]

5. Seems like a Cruz Confederacy is trying to rise so he can sit at the top of the Seven Hills.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/david-barton-advocates-seven-mountains-dominionism

Cruz and his extremist are going against Biblical teachings of separation of church and state. Cruz would like to be ruler over North America; The Republic of the Seven Hills, where there is not a constitution for Canada, the U S or Mexico. His main goal is to move all of the money from the working class to the wealthy and have a state of slavery based on using the decreesion of Biblical permission, like in the Old South.

Dominionism does not teach the Second Coming of Christ like Evangelicalism does.

[DhhD]

7. Seven Mountain Mandate from DUer, madfloridian. Contains a video of Curz's anointment.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017152422

[OregonBlue]

8. They believe 7 "kings" will arise to control the 7 mountains. Cruz is the "king" of government. His

father goes all over the country preaching that very thing. These seven mountains are business, government, media, arts and entertainment, education, the family and religion.

[Faux pas]

9. K N R

[mulsh]

10. Ever notice how pols and journalist refer to Repub presidencies as "reigns" but Dem presidencies

as "terms"? A subtle yet obscene bit of semantics.

[meow2u3]

11. This is a coup attempt, plain and simple

These fundie agitators ought to be brought up on charges of seditious conspiracy, inciting insurrection, and any and all charges of subversive activity. These extremists won't stop trying to overthrow the government until and unless the Feds stop them.

[Aerows]

12. Oh, what a lovely picture of the wit family -

Dim, Half, Nit and Fuck.

I agree with you, though, that is exactly what they want. Cruz is a Dominionist, and that is what their goal has been forever.