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From: Cliff on 24 May 2010 16:37

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"Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All Social
Progress"
"You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation,
women's rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, LGBT rights, welfare,
immigrant rights. "
[
May 23, 2010 As much as they may grumble, there is a legitimate reason why the
Republicans have been labeled the �Party of No.� For decades, the party�s
kneejerk stance has been to oppose any legislation or policy involving social,
economic or political progress.

You name it, the right has opposed it: civil rights, school desegregation,
women�s rights, labor organizing, the minimum wage, social security, LGBT
rights, welfare, immigrant rights, public education, reproductive rights,
Medicare, Medicaid. And through the years the right invoked hysterical rhetoric
in opposition, predicting that implementing any such policies would result in
the end-of-family-free-enterprise-God-America on the one hand, and the
imposition of atheism-socialism-Nazism on the other.

Republicans are obstructionist for one simple reason: it�s a winning strategy.
Opposing progressive policies allows the right to actualize the ideals that both
motivate and define their base. Rightist ideologies are not without
sophistication, but right-wing politicians and media figures boil them down to a
crude Manichean dualism to mobilize supporters based on group difference: good
versus evil, us versus them. By demonizing and scapegoating politically marginal
groups, the right is able to define �real Americans,� who are good, versus those
defined as parasites, illegitimate and internal threats, who are evil.
......
Sara Diamond neatly summarizes the politics behind the right�s obstructionism in
her book, Roads To Dominion. She writes, �To be right-wing means to support the
state in its capacity as enforcer of order and to oppose the state as
distributor of wealth and power downward and more equitably in society.�
(emphasis in original) These principles, in turn, flow from four interrelated
political philosophies that animate the modern right: militarism, neoliberalism,
traditionalism and white supremacism.
.....
]

From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 24 May 2010 17:35

On Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:30 -0400, Cliff wrote:

> "Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All
> Social
> Progress"

You spelled "Socialism" wrong.

From: JoeSpareBedroom on 24 May 2010 17:39

From: Sid9 on 24 May 2010 17:43

"Hachiroku ハチロク" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
news:diCKn.74930$0M5.59856(a)newsfe07.iad...
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:30 -0400, Cliff wrote:
>
>> "Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All
>> Social
>> Progress"
>
> You spelled "Socialism" wrong.
>
>
>
..
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You only know Limbo's definition of Socialism.

Where was Limbo today, anyway?

From: Jeff Strickland on 24 May 2010 18:51

"Hachiroku ????" <Trueno(a)e86.GTS> wrote in message
news:diCKn.74930$0M5.59856(a)newsfe07.iad...
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 16:37:30 -0400, Cliff wrote:
>
>> "Party of No: How Republicans and the Right Have Tried to Thwart All
>> Social
>> Progress"
>

Just because it's called progressive does not mean it's progress.

Republicans believe you have no right to demand anything, Democrats believe
they have a right to demand everything.

What's mine is mine. That's Republican.

What's yours is mine too, that's Democrat.

Republicans would teach people to fish so they can collect their own food.
Democrats drain the lake so people look to them for the fish.

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