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The Republican Party has finally failed to be a political automatic default button for this country.
It's about freaking time that the American people did not fall for the okey-doke.
For the last 28 years, that's been their whole game plan. That somehow, it's in the best interest of ordinary citizens to slit their own throats in the voting booth, by installing oligarchs and their cronies, who wrap themselves in a gauze of God, Guns, Guts, Gametes and Gays. That despite every bit of proof to the opposite, they are the party that a naturally conservative American nation would automatically gravitate to. Of course, that's the main part on their okey-doke strategy; the truth is that every thing that they profess to stand for, they are in fact, diametrically opposed.
The key to understanding Republicans is knowing that they are the "Against" Party. They fool Americans into ignoring the real issues in their lives by casting attention on what they're supposed to be opposed to, rather than what they are supposed to be for. It's done by distorting a particular issue, turning it around and smearing Democrats with it. Tools to divide and conquer the American electorate. We see it all the time. And up to this recent election, for the most part, Americans have kept falling for the same old crap to their own detriment.
They claim to be conservatives, and were they to follow a purely classic definition they actually wouldn't be too bad. Patriotic, conserving the land through conservation, or letting Americans live their lives without government interference, or being or being fiscally responsible (thus making lower taxes a naturally occurring state), or being responsible in general. These are merely a few things of the many that they've failed to live up to as so-called conservatives.
The actual picture is quite clear. I'll give you one particular example, which is Abortion.
Abortion is a medical procedure, that if Americans would actually focus on doing the things that would prevent it from being a form of birth control, it would be relegated to the level of appendectomies or kidney surgery. All we have to do is follow the recommendations of pro-choice advocates; common sense and appropriate sex education, safe, readily available and affordable forms of contraception, such as access to RU-486, the "morning after pill", available and viable prenatal care, especially for women who choose to have children and just generally a true conservative attitude that dictates that the individual is the best person to run their own life.
Unlike John McCain's air quotes, deriding the health of a mother as some phony baloney cover for the "Abortion industry", it really is about preserving the health of women, whose lives would be in danger without a concerted effort by organizations like Planned Parenthood and NARAL.
Let me be clear, no one in this country is "pro-abortion", except for Republicans as another wedge issue. They are the ones who would suffer politically, if under the circumstances I've outlined, the number of first term abortions dropped to an imperceptible level. All late term abortions are medical procedures to save the life of the mother. Only by distorting the actual picture, like the way they misrepresent when life begins or when a fetus becomes a person, they muddle the picture and force abortion to become a moral, religious and emotional issue rather than a medical one.
Case in point, the recent effort in Colorado to grant fetuses the status of personhood. A ridiculous notion to label cells that are dividing on a intrauterine wall the same legal status as you, your Uncle Larry or your Cousin Marcia. It had the possibility, if enacted in to law, to classify a fetus as a viable person in the census, or impel a charge of manslaughter for a miscarriage. The penchant for the Republican Party to be against things as wedge issues has driven them into the category of utterly insane. The people of Colorado, thank God, did not fall for the okey-doke.
Outside of Abortion, they have huge trick bag of goodies for smearing the truth with ugly lies. Racists code words, hate for the poor and gays, cultural superiority and isolationism, fear and intimidation, outright lies, utter hypocrisy, and the is goes on and on.
In the wake of Democratic Party victories in the recent election, they've tried to drive home the completely untrue notion that America is a "Center-right" nation. To insist that the Democrats and President Barack Obama do not have a "mandate" to pursue their policies is a way that Republicans are furthering their distortions. Only a fool would believe that the Democrats, by dint of their victories, have to maintain the programs and policies of their Republican predecessors in a self-evident environment of "Change". This is where the media becomes complicit with the Republicans to maintain their facade, by advancing the notion that it's a good idea for Barack Obama to keep some of Bush's cabinet cronies on the payroll instead of showing them the door.
According to the Republicans, an Obama Administration would hurt itself and the country by deferring away from the Republican default, instead of pursuing its own agenda. This is the tool that the Republicans are using to try to kneecap President Obama before he's even inaugurated. Frankly, I find it appalling that anyone in the media is deferring to any Republican opinion in the wake of the repudiation of republicanism in this last election. The Republicans are utter failures, in every sense of the word. They haven't changed their tune and to credit any of their delusional meanderings with a grain of credibility is nothing except the pinnacle of intellectual dishonesty.
Such is the very heart of the Republican Party. A tool to shift power and money out of the hands and pockets of the majority and into the coffers of the ultra-rich. They are the first to cry foul, "class warfare", when class warfare is their bread and butter. Class warfare that they have masked with a facade of patriotism, an utterly cynical exercise to damage the American ideal for their own benefit.
This is their greatest fear, to turn their default off.
To reverse the standard by which wealth and power trickles up, instead of down.
To preserve liberty, instead to subverting it under a gaze of fear and intimidation.
To stand by the rule of law, instead of an arbitrary rule of power.
To pursue necessary peace, instead of elective war.
Off and on for the last twenty-eight years, this nation has been at the beck and call of barbarians who have sought to make their standard the only one to follow. Now while the worm has not completely turned, as evidenced by the passage of anti-gay proposals like California's Proposition 8, the body politic is poised to slay the faux power of Republican ideology once and for all. The Reagan Revolution, which heralded their artificial default, is dead. Killed by the self-immolation of greed, incompetence and malfeasance. It was an artificial default because it could not meet the standard imposed by true American idealism, Constitutional mandate, common sense and basic decency.
I, for one, am thankful to see this happen in my lifetime. I've never believed that the Republicans were the one true Default party, because to me they've always been so very wrong in so many ways.
What I'm also happy to see is that America has finally corrected herself... But, if I've ever doubted that she would, I'm ashamed to admit it.
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