The Republicans are rewriting the social contract

[BurtWorm]

and they haven't consulted the poor and working people. Bankruptcy is now going to be strictly a rich person's game. And the scales of justice are being tilted toward corporations and away from the classes of citizens their policies occasionally harm.

Republicans can say that they have consulted all Americans (via Fox news) and the fact that they've held majorities in both houses of Congress since 1995 (except for one wasted sliver of time after Jeffords defected) signals their consent. But I'll bet most Americans don't have a clue what these criminals are doing in their name.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. But

they DO know everything about Jacko's wacko trial. Please put things in perspective. *sarcasm off* :silly:

[AverageJoe]

2. You're right

And most of the folks who vote Republican do it only because they:

1. Hate black people
2. Hate gay people
3. Hate women
4. Hate non-Christians (smirk)
and/or
5. Hate themselves

They have no clue that the sorry bastards they put into office are screwing them, and them personally. I'd be sad for them, if they weren't enabling the sorry bastards to screw the rest of us, too....

[Dr Ron]

3. Not totally true of all

Some think they are voting for smaller government--but they are really getting bigger government (and one which is more intrusive in people's lives).

Some think they are voting for a stronger defense, but they are really getting a state of permanent warfare which makes us less safe.

[BurtWorm]

4. The ones who are voting for smaller govt. are the ones most likely

to wake up and smell the coffee about their alleged heroes, for some reason. The ones voting for strong defense don't get it, and the ones voting on cultural war issues are most clueless of all.

[madinmaryland]

5. Those voting for the stronger military,

may have some financial incentive in the industrial military complex. They're building a hell of a lot of weapons.

[AverageJoe]

7. You're right about some of them

and I didn't say that they all voted out of hate. I think most of them do, though. I may be wrong, of course.

[papau]

8. And they vote against smug know it all elitist coastal intellectuals

:-(

We need a good actor as a front man - Reagan born again whose past does not count because he has found God and the path, who is obviously a great guy per those in the media that meet him, and who speaks in little words that connect to the common man.

[mmonk]

6. People have been conned

into thinking whatever is good for corporations is good for them and will make them rich.

[EC]

9. and some tend to think that if you don't give the corporations

all the breaks that there won't be any business...ha, ha, the jokes on them, there actually was more business when there were restrictions and regulations...because then the little businesses had a chance...not any more....no one but the rich get rich...

[begin_within]

10. Rewriting it? They're abolishing the social contract, little by little.

[BurtWorm]

11. Unfortunately, you're wrong.

If they were abolishing it, no one's rights would take precedence over anyone else's in the courts. As they're being rewritten, the corporations and the wealthy are being given greater and greater weight, and the less powerful are having their ability to redress their grievances and seek justice diminished. But they're still liable to redress the grievances of those they're in debt to, for instance.