Republicans Woefully Out of Touch With Reality...

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i wonder how much longer can our political system continue as-is, where the democrats pay lip service to protecting their constituents from the depredations of the upper class, while the republicans do much more than lip service in protecting the privilege of the upper class while socking it with malice aforethought to the lower classes.

I'm coming to this thread three pages and a day late so it might seem like an anachronism that I'm referring to the OP:

The kinds of Republicans who believe that anyone who can't take care of themselves is by definition lazy is a small and caricatured lot. It's a lot that doesn't mesh with the real issues of why most people would still vote Republican.

Most people, at least in urban areas, who'd identify as Republican have the nagging realization that we literally cannot bankroll what we're doing. They're people who'd really like to see economic justice work out but also understand that having an economy that adapts to present needs is like tending a fire; you can wet it right out or you can burn your house down. It's a disheartening feeling that a lot of the disaster right now, if we try to make everyone snug and comfortable, will mean no country left when its all said and done - we'll have financially collapsed. I think this is also where Republicans strongly prefer charity to government wherever it can be supplemented; it's people who can give and want to give giving.

I wouldn't at all argue here that orphans shouldn't be taken care of, that disabled or unemployable vets aren't financially assisted for their service to our country, that the physically and mentally disabled aren't assisted - it's boiler-plate human decency that we have a safety net for those who can't fend for themselves. I don't know of many Republicans who would disagree with that, maybe some anarchocapitalists and some kinds of extreme libertarians but people of that kind of particularly Randian bend would consider Republicans, especially neoconservatives/neoliberals, way too squishy.

I think we're in a place where we need to do a couple things - bring jobs back as much as possible and also find ways to house people in such a manner that most people who can work, doing the work available for them to do, can live responsibly within their means without any government assistance. Until we do that our system is badly out of equilibrium and there's hardly another step in one direction or another we can take that doesn't have significant secondary effects that ripple out. Some things, like taking care of those who can't physically or financially take care of themselves, has to be done regardless of the consequences; much over or above that though it's incumbent on other people to try and help carry the sling rather than without qualification to do so jumping in it.

Lindsay might be a little light in the loafers and not okay with it but probably wanting to bomb and occupy every country on earth is probably a bigger part

The way I see it (how-ever you wish to define what « IT » means) is that...: Get rid of wars & debt-slavery = mega-wealth & prosperity for everyone

The middle class has to vote Republican as a defensive move, because the Democrats want to take our money.

In my state, the Republicans are smartly lowering the state income tax slightly, and raising the gas tax. Democrats cry that this will hurt the poor disproportionately.

Thanks Republicans, for letting me keep more of my money!