IS THE GREAT REPUBLICAN PARTY,
THE GRAND OLE PARTY?
OR THE GREAT, OVERPLAYED
THE CORPORATE WAY, PARTY?
Thank you, Jeff Flake, for your steadfast confidence in a party that has ushered in a great depression, a great recession, and then a greater recession. all in a span of 150 years since its inception before the Civil War, by Abraham Lincoln. Although, a beacon for things like ending slavery (I think, mostly because of the economic advantage it gave the South), but also for busting up monopolies, thank to TR, right at the turn of the 20th century.
Growing up in a Republican family during the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years left me with a mixed taste of politics at a young age and ultimately, turned me off to politics until awoken rather rudely by a bully invading my government. This has forced me to take to my keyboard to type out my thoughts of discontent with the manner in which this Grand Ole Party operates in today’s world of modern politics of fear mongering. Their fear-mongering, at the insistence of Donald Trump, is the lowest form abasement our country can possibly do to itself.
Their intentions weren’t always to divide. Before Donald T. they stood for unfettered regulation to allow freedom of expansion, no matter the consequences. The bottom line is the all-important marker. “Must make enough to pay dividends to encourage investment.” It’s the first law of Capitalism. If you can’t pursue that goal, there’s no point in being in business. That’s the law of our jungle.
RELIGION OF DEREGULATION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES
During the 1870’s through the 1920’s deregulation was more rampant than it is today or was 30 years ago, or even 15-20 years ago in the early 2000’s. In 1920 Warren G Harding (R) was elected President. Considered one of the worst Presidents we’ve had, he was replaced by his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge (R), after he died of a heart attack on August 2, 1923. Not much better, of a President, he Coolidge was replaced by another Republican, Herbert Hoover, who one year into his presidency witnessed the worst stock market crash in history, to that point, ushering in the Great Depression that lasted through the thirties. The economy never really came back until WWII.
During the Reagan, Bush years in the White House, the deregulation of the banking industry leading to the S&L collapse and another stock market dive in October 1988, due mostly to faulty mortgages, just like in the twenties. It created a recession soon into Bush’s administration, which led to Clinton being elected. Strange enough, it was faulty mortgages that triggered this last great recession of the 2000’s. It took Barack Obama two years to bring us out of that one. That was about the same amount of time it took Clinton, in 1992. It too Roosevelt much longer in the Thirties. It took him ten years and a war to bring us out of the Great Depression.
When I look at the statistics above and which party was in charge prior to each collapse or crash, it was the Republican party. All 3 administrations in the Twenties were Republican prior to The Stock Market crash in ’29 that led to the Great Depression that lasted my parent’s entire childhood. Then I look at the excesses of the Eighties leading to the collapse of the S& L industry led to another recession that another Democrat brought us out of.
Deregulation got us again in 2008 leading to the Great Recession which we’ve just climbed out of, at least until we’re hit with the lack of funds to run our government thanks to a massive tax cut. Inflation is already starting to set in, erasing any gains from a strong job market. Our massive deficit isn’t helping that any, with the high interest we get to pay on all that debt. Can someone tell me how starting a trade war by establishing tariffs, is going to replace the lost revenue from the taxes? Isn’t that another tax on the producer? How does that make sense? I, for one, am not anxious to see the next stock market crash. Will it be greater than the one in 1929? Will the ensuing depression be greater than the one in the thirties? I can’t help but wonder. Everything that has led up to every previous depression or recession, came after deregulation and excessive expenditures from the Republican party.
Sorry, Jeff, That is not a good record to run on. If there is anybody that can explain how this tactic of unsuppressed excessiveness coupled with lack of regulation has benefited our country, please educate me? I want to know how pilfering the people to benefit corporate and elite America has done nothing but keep America from really being great. And, with a world that looks to us for leadership, our decision to become nationalists, is making them all look elsewhere for guidance, making us shun our responsibility as the nation the world looked up to. No one does anymore due to the division that Putin created with his interference in our election.
Your party has brainwashed too many of our population to believe that fear has our country’s best interest. You deny completely what Roosevelt had to say in his inaugural address, “FEAR IS THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR.” Case in point; look at this poor soul from Georgia who honestly believes your falsehoods and irrational policies of and idiocy, that your party is espousing, like cutting back on EPA regulations after being hit by some of the worst hurricanes in our history.
Georgia from Georgia, I can’t possibly understand the gibberish that runs through your demented, brainwashed mind. Brainwashed you are, by a glamour bum by the name of Donald Trump. Nice try on blaming the “Dems” again. You listen to too much propaganda from a false prophet. Where do you go to Church? Don’t you know anything about false prophets and the antichrist?
Your assessment about half of what you stated were falsehoods. Just because the President does it does not mean that you can. Lying And to say that blacks are just too stupid to follow instructions as the most condescending thing you could have subconsciously uttered and you spew it because the President does. You think that his racism gives you the right to be a racist. You Georgia, of Georgia, are a known liar, now. You’ve lied to the nation and you did it boldly, just like your racist President. I wouldn’t talk to you in any voting line. You’re too full of falsehoods and fake news. We know who you listen to. Is it Smart News? From Fox Fake News. I pity you for the rude awakening you’re setting yourself up for.
Trump is a known criminal soon to be proven criminal, guilty of more than 30 verified crimes, all visible on Do I smell a Rat or a Mole. This list is a continuously growing list, update on a semi-regular basis. I’d like it to be regular with all the crimes being committed, but time limits my ability to give it attention. At his .current rate, his list will be over 50 provable act of criminal nature, before he’s done. If you could count every time he lied as a crime for intentionally misinforming the public on the factual truth, his crimes would number over 8,000, and at his current, closing in on 10,000 really quickly.
What happened to the Republican party that used to be respected by both sides? The Republican list of accomplishments is impressive. Lincoln, who started the party put an end to slavery, Lincoln was replaced, one month into his second term of presidency, after being assassinated, by his Democratic Vice President Andrew Johnson from Tennessee. He was chosen to run on the National Union ticket because Lincoln was trying to reach voters in the south. Although the voters accepted him, John Wilkes Booth didn’t and for the subsequent 4 years, a split congress worked with a Democrat, until Grant won the election in 1868 to reinitiate a Republican dominance of our Presidency for the ensuing 28 years. They came close to impeaching Johnson but narrowly missed by 1 vote.
Although Garfield (R) championed civil right for freedmen, his tenure in office was cut short by assassination after 200- days. But his policies were followed up by Chester Arthur who was replaced by Grover Cleveland (D) the only president to serve two terms, not consecutively, but spit by Benjamin Harrison (R). That tells me that Harrison was not a good President.
However, William McKinley (D) took the helm for 6 months before he was assassinated and left Theodore Roosevelt, President. He, not unlike McKinley, worked to reform the corrupt tendencies that were overtaking our civilization, such as monopolization of industry and commerce that TR put an end to. Although reelected for his first full term, he didn’t make it, his second full term and lost running on the Bull Moose Party, because his Republican party deserted him to nominate another in his place, while he was President, due to his breakup of corporate alliances that were harming America.
What TR expressed in his policies, was, in my opinion, what the Republican party should stand for, now. Not, for all the deregulation throughout history that’s led to all depressions and recessions our country has seen, since the Civil War. Now, our whole society has been governed by a conservative force that’s attempted to gain influence through excessive lobbying, to ensure that influence. It’s goal is to maintain their control, through every branch of our government ensuring a continuation of those policies of self-serving regulations, not caring what, that lack of government regulation, does to the citizens of our nation, in their abuse of that power. I define that as a corporate assault on democracy, due to their refusal to accept responsibility for their destruction, to our society. Jeff, If this is how you gauge the success of a political party, I think you need to reset you parameters of what you access is successful.
THUS, THE PRICE WE PAY FOR, “PERSONALITY” PRESIDENTS”
WHO’RE BUSINESSMEN WHO KNOW NOTHING ABOUT GOVERNING ITS RESIDENTS.
IF YOU’RE A TRUE REPUBLICAN YOU CAN DO THIS FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD;
RETURN YOUR PARTY TO THE PARTY THAT FREED THE SLAVES
AND BROKE UP THE MONOPOLIZATION OF AMERICA
TO PREVENT AMERICA FROM COMING UNDER CORPORATE CONTROL,
MONEY THAN PRIVATE AMERICA.
THAT IS OUR DOOM, THAT THE TRUMPUBLICAN’S ARE ENDEAVORING TO DELIVER UPON US.
EXCEPT IN THIS GOVERNMENT,
THE CORPORATE INTEREST IS ONE PERSON
BY THE NAME OF TRUMP.
AND THEIR DOING BEST, THEY ARE DOING.
IN NORTH DAKOTAH IN SUPPRESSING THE NATIVE AMERICAN VOTE.
IN THE SOUTH TRYING TO SUPPRESS THE BLACK VOTE
BY A WHITE NATIONALIST RUNNING THE ELECTION AS THEIR SECRETARY OF STATE.
SPEAKING OF WHICH,
MITCH MCCONNELL,
YOUR FUNNEL OF CUNNING INSTABILITY
FREELY GENERATED TO INITIATE OUR SUFFERING
ALL FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR INCREDIBILITY
HAS BROUGHT ME TO A POINT
OF STIFLING MY CONTEMPTIBILITY
FOR EVERY LAST BIT OF YOUR ACTIVITY
FOR ANYTHING FROM KENTUCKY,
SOLELY DUE TO YOUR INSECURITIES,
AND DETERMINATION TO HANG ONTO
THAT WHICH IS COMPLETE INSANITY.
INSANITY LIKE THAT,
CAN ONLY BE DRIVEN BY FEAR.
WHAT IS IT, THEY ALL FEAR?
ARE THEIR DIETS GETTING THE BEST OF THEM?.
LEARN YOURSELF OF THE GLYPHOSATE POISONING
THAT RAMPS UP THIS FEAR
YOU CAN TRUST ME THIS IS SOMETHING WORTHY OF IT,
DUE TO HOW IT TAKES ALL YOU HOLD DEAR;
