In The New Politic I claim that the “Republicans are nothing more than mean-spirited, religious fanatics who prefer gated communities locking out undesirables and any real answers to the real problems of our society; hypocrites and thieves who have what they want and adhere to their own new world order defined their own selfish motivation: whatever helps them and theirs. Created out of anti-slave activists it now is defined by moral-slave adherents: the religious right and evangelicals of the Christian cult.” They promote brainwashing the nation, the idea that educating the public is simply another capital investment to be made by anyone who has enough money and the “correct” moral drive. The Republican Party is nothing more than a new American monarchy that preaches individual freedoms while defining those freedoms as a commodity that can be bought and sold by the highest bidder. This is possible to the Republican because (according to the protestant goons who support the Republican party) God sanctions morality with riches while condemning immorality with poverty. The new Republican ideal is nothing more than a religiously defined morality coupled with welfare and tax breaks for the rich.
Ronald Reagan ripped off the solar panels installed on the Whitehouse by Jimmy Carter, and dismissed all subsidies for alternative fuels such as wind and solar. He did this for no good reason. Now those technologies are huge exports from countries such as Denmark and Japan. His action can be interpreted as nothing more than a spiteful move by a narrow-minded individual that defined his morality through his even more narrow gauge of politics. George Bush Sr. claimed that atheists have no rights as citizens of the U.S.A. in essence defining what was before assumed to be a secular and free society as a totalitarian theocracy. This was nothing more than what is at the foundation of all Republican morality: believe as we do or be damned. George W. Bush claimed that God meant for him to be president of the United States and that there is a divine plan that he is following. This evidently includes what amounts to the illegal and immoral war that the Bush administration took upon itself to wage against Iraq based on what they have themselves described as questionable proof and vague premises and which has been proven to actually be the case. This sort of stupidity can only come about from defining rationality as wishful thinking, which these and other religious peoples continue to do to this day.
There is no secret that the Republican Party has been taken under the religious right’s wing, and has accepted their role as the party supported by God. But, not just any god: the Christian God as defined by two cults: the Catholics and Protestants, and now the Mormons. In the past twenty years or more, Republican politicians have waged war against science, against any chance of quality education and against individual freedoms from religion while at the same time proposing individual freedoms. It is not possible to have a society of free individuals while at the same time legalizing religious belief, i.e. Christianity, and calling religious propaganda education. In fact, religious viewpoints have all but become the defining aspect of the Republican Party. Republican definitions of “individuality” evidently only include those that are based on being a gift from God. The continued dependence on religious “morality” is only possible because of the Republican’s continued dependence on the credulity of the general public.
While they tout individual freedoms they continue to destroy the means to achieve it: freewill and personal choice. Freewill and choice become “gifts from God”, but not any God especially not the Islamic God. Freewill is God’s will (to the Republican) and God’s will is only able to be interpreted by the wealthy (evidently). The Republican does not want people to have true freewill, vying instead for the façade of freewill. True freewill leads only to questions, and questions to rational thought. It is not a rational nation that the Republicans want. Rather, they want sheep, they want followers, they want those who never question authority but pretend that they stand for individual freedoms: they want the dull-witted and religiously addled. The Republican does not want intelligence under any circumstances. Faith is the goal of the Republican: faith in their nation and faith in their God.
While they claim equal opportunity, berating the Democrats for driving us all towards a socialist regime, they continually adhere to what amounts to corporate welfare. The Republican Party hides behind the auspice of individuality while privately holding that individual freedoms are commodities that that can be bought and sold to the few that can afford them. This sort of economic basis is nothing more than the very welfare systems the Republican Party claims to be fighting. There are three aspects that make up the pathetic shell that the Republican Party has become: religion, fear and special privileges. With fear they create fanatic nationalistic fervor and with special privileges they create a special class of what seems to be considered ultra-pseudo-moral and authoritarian class of the wealthy. While the Democrats carry the dying torch of altruism, the Republicans carry the flaming torch of hypocrisy. Equal opportunity is nothing more than class favoritism based on economic standing.
The recipe for Republicanism stands as follows: 1) redefine terms to fit ideology. 2) Make ideology a legal doctrine to ensure consistent and unquestioned acceptance. 3) Give the power of defining law to a special class. 4) Mix well until confusion sets in. 5) Half-bake until rationality is no more. The Republican Party, driven by its blind faith in tradition in all its forms, is nothing more than the party of hypocrites with the money to legalize their hypocrisy. Make no mistake, the Republican Party does not stand for equal opportunity, it does not tout personal responsibility, and it does not give a damn about anyone but those with the money to prove their moral standing. The Republican Party is the party of the wealthy Christians that expect nothing less than total and absolute abjection by everyone in “God’s land”.
