by Loren Adams, 21
August 2011
In the 30s
Republicans dreamed of destroying Franklin Delano Roosevelt while dismantling
all social, banking and labor programs that were helping the country recover
from Republican-born Depression.
Eighty-years later, Republicans
dream of destroying Barack Obama while dismantling all social, banking and
labor programs implemented by Democrats over 80 years that prevented the
country from falling into Republican-born depressions like the 30s.
Republicans have
always despised “safety-nets” because they believe only free-loaders and
parasites partake. The unemployed stay in that condition only when granted
support, they claim, and their favorite slur for a food-stamp recipient is
“welfare queen.”
Everyone should know
by now – Republicanism is an illness, not a cure.
Enough rant; it has long
been determined the root cause of this century’s pending Great Depression
– the final product of Republican politic. But what’s it like living the
Republican dream (as opposed to the American)? It is now time to understand how
to survive; past time to analyze why – as if no one knows except media
bent on establishing false equivalency.
Let’s take ourselves
into the near future to maybe get assimilated.
Republican America
is one of declining wealth, dwindling resources, poor to no services, and dead
or nearly dead industries resembling salvage yards. High interest rates are
charged to the few approved. It’s a nation of freeways deteriorating to gravel pocketed
by privatized toll booths, of collapsed bridges, and flights reserved only for
the very rich. It’s a country of urban blight, one-third homeless, rusting
factories, and boulevards boasting tattoo parlors, casinos, and check-cashing
scams. Businesses are boarded on Main Street, skyscrapers crumble, while millions of homeless live on streets
lined with empty houses.
Survivors in
Republican America are forced to compete for vanishing commodities, resulting
in riots, looting, theft, and murder. It’s simply the natural progression
anyone could have predicted. With only scarce supplies and no mechanism to
enforce rations, what other aftermath could result? Rightwing America is a very
unsafe, unstable, and violent place where even the upstanding must compromise
principle to survive and put food on the table. It deteriorates to the classic
primitive contest – survival of the fittest where only the most brutal
bring home the bacon.
Republican America flaunts
unpaid, non-credentialed teachers, run-down schools, vacant colleges, and volunteer
firemen and police. There are no unions; they’ve been decertified and busted. There
are no student loans. Only a fraction seek higher education – and then
only from wealthy families.
Textbooks are
written and published by Christian right organizations. Subjects discarded are
evolution, labor history, climate change, and sex education. Inserted are
Judeo-Christian heritage and how devoted the founders were to Christ and
church. Ronald Reagan is deified more than the framers, and “American exceptionalism”
is the daily lecture.
Republican America,
like Walker’s Wisconsin, restricts voting to citizens with government-issued
photo IDs and “active” bank
accounts, but makes certain these
are almost impossible to obtain, especially in Africa-American and Latino
districts.
Only white,
evangelical precincts are favored. (One can catch a glimpse of future voting by
observing Republican legislation in states
captured by the Tea Party in ’10.)
In Republican
America, fundamentalist Christian “morals” are legislated while crime
skyrockets to historic levels. The more rightwing laws, the more crime. Gun
violence runs rampant; still gun owners are protected. In fact, every citizen
is encouraged to carry a weapon, and the right to carry concealed firearms is
ensured federally across state lines.
Gay marriage is
banned; all former marriages and state laws legalizing same-sex contracts are
annulled. Indeed, gay sex is criminalized [like it was in the good ol’ days].
Thus, gays are again routinely victims of violence and unpunished murder. (The
ultimate transgression is “justifiable” in the name of Jesus to eradicate
evildoers, they assert.)
Abortion is banned.
Roe v. Wade is overturned. (Meanwhile, wealthy Republicans send daughters,
wives and lovers to Europe, Asia and South America for the “procedure.”)
Republican America
is a police state. Except the “police” are no longer local, but poorly-paid federal
troops. Major violence erupts first in urban centers, then spreads across the
country. The Republican government feels compelled to suppress the outbreaks,
then eventually suspends all civil liberties and elections.
Republican America,
in the literal, is Third World.
Republican America
paves the road to revolution, for which true libertarian Tea Partiers achingly
lust so they can try out their precious weapons on “undesirables.”
The religious right will never believe Republicans brought
America to its knees. Neither will characters like Karl Rove, Grover Norquist,
Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, Sean Hannity, and Frank Luntz. But, of course, they
are all major contributors to the fall.
Question is – How are we going to genuinely survive?
Really?