The 10 Step Republican Plan (To Destroying Our Country)
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computer generated image released by the SITE Intelligence Group on May
28, 2008, shows Washington, DC, in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. A
video entitled, “Nuclear Jihad: the Ultimate Terror” released on May 25
has inspired jihadists on al-Ekhlaas and al-Hesbah, two
password-protected al-Qaeda-affiliated forums, to discuss the
possibility, permissibility, and risks for a nuclear strike in the
United States or Great Britain, according to a SITE statement. SITE has
translated several chatter sessions taking place on al-Ekhlaas and
al-Hesbah sites discussing the topic of a nuclear bomb in the US and the
west. One of the sessions posted the computer-generated picture
depicting what would be the aftermath of the destruction of the capital
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Step 1: Support Among the Rich and Powerful
Anyone who has ever watched the news can tell you that the
Republican party would bow down and kiss the shoes of the rich if they
were asked to, that is how devoted they are to their masters. Therefore,
the first step in any Conservative plan to ruin a country must be: to
gather support among those with the money to finance their campaigns.
The problem with the Conservative agenda is that it is not very popular
among the people. Polling from ABC and the Washington Post
showed that 78% of people are opposed to cutting Medicare as a way to
cut the deficit. So why is the GOP able to push on and still continue to
get elected? On to step 2!
Step 2: A Propaganda War
It must be asked, what the purpose of the right-wing making friends with the rich is if they don’t expect something in return? Obviously, the right-wing needs money to finance their politics; and they need more of it than the Democrats because, simply, their message is less popular. Therefore, the right-wing uses war tactics to win such as, propaganda.
Over the past few decades, the GOP has slowly been transforming from the party of somewhat noble values to a party controlled by far-right activists, the “Tea Party.” The important aspect of this is that the party’s voting base hasn’t changed; it’s the same as before. So how are they kept voting on party lines for a party they should, by all measures, no longer support? The answer, and always will be for situations like this, is propaganda. The Right bounces from enemy to enemy but the pattern is clear, to maintain your electorate you must: demonize the enemy to the point where even your ideas are more acceptable than “the other side’s.”
Take the Tea party’s relentless attacks on President Barack Obama. Posters of him bearing “Hitler’s Mustache” and the swastika on an arm band, or where he’s given the likeness of Stalin, are everywhere. Very few men can claim the title of “More Evil Than Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin”. You can’t simply out-murder them; their policies led to the deaths of millions, even when they were not intentionally killed. The message clearly is that Obama is evil, and he must be stopped! The demonizing of Health Care Reform as “socialism” is another example of these unfair attacks.
Another strategy in the right-wing propaganda war is, word association. To many people, the term “liberal” is now something of a curse; the unfair, absurd use of the word is an effective tactic. Socialism too, is a good thing that has been destroyed by association with “death panels” and Stalin. Tax reform, according to them, is class warfare: destroying our country because it is putting an unfair burden on our “job-creators.” Enough people actually believe these things that it is difficult to use the terms, while the exact tactic the Left is accused of is used by the Right. Class warfare is alive and well in the tactics of the Right, but it is associated with the Left.
This is where the rich have always been essential to the GOP. It is difficult to organize a rally no one should support or to put campaign ads on TV, without a significant chunk of money. Take the Koches, for example, it has been estimated that they have donated upwards of $85 million to right-wing think tanks and Political Action Committees, all to advance their allies’ radical, pro-business agenda.
Now, with a suitable base established among those won over by
images of heroic veterans cowboys (I’m talking to you, Rick), step 3 can
be initiated.
Step 3: Elected for Jobs
The Republican Party has a carefully crafted image. In many ways, it resembles the kid in High School that knows he’s different but just wants to fit in and be accepted. The difference is that the GOP is willing to do what it must to get into power and then its true colors will show. George Bush did this, Govs. Rick Snyder (Michigan) and Scott Walker (Wisconsin) both did this, and the freshmen Tea Party officials elected to Congress have done this.
Everyone remembers the pledge of the GOP in 2010: Jobs, with a capital J. The Republicans campaigned, saying that their focus would be creating jobs for the struggling economy. Hell, I don’t remember an election cycle with so unified a message. Of course, this fits right in with the general tactics of radical conservatives, everywhere. Confirming Godwin’s law a second time in only 800 words, this tactic is the same that was used by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. This is, undoubtedly, a good tactic; so its success here is hardly a surprise.
This is the shortest, and the easiest, step for the GOP. With many
businessmen and women running for office on the Republican/Tea Party
platform, it was easy for them to cast the image of being about the
economy and creating jobs; which has, clearly, not been the case since.
Step 4: Shock Doctrine and Social Policy
There is no longer a doubt about where the GOP stands on politics. Social issues take precedent over actually helping the economy, end of story. “We have a deficit? Good! We can use this to end Planned Parenthood, PBS, and NPR!” This tactic is called Shock Doctrine, and has been used for centuries by dictators to seize more power. The theory is simple: when a catastrophe or something of the sort occurs, then the people are willing to be subjected to a more powerful government to help them. We’re seeing this all over the country: Michigan has the, now-infamous, Emergency Financial Manager law, Wisconsin was bullying public unions, and the Bush Administration’s Patriot Act and massive grab for power over the Executive Branch.
We have seen the use of the crisis to grab national attention. Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann is using both a social platform (God called me to run….and to stop gays from getting married) and an economic platform (no new taxes! Cut! Cut! Cut) to run for President, an office he and she is much, much too dangerous to hold.
However, a combination of good propaganda and an energized base has given Santorum, Bachmann, as well as Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, large amounts of support. Mitt Romney is a very, very wealthy person and his interest in the Presidency is interesting. He has money, so what is his motivation? That is yet to be seen. However, he has shifted his propaganda from a "Progressive Republican" when he ran for Massachusetts governor, a 'Severe Conservative."
The party loyalists are not so excited about Mitt, but he has huge support from the very wealthy and large business constituency. The reason he has won the states he has during the primaries is because the wealth have been showing up at the polls in much larger numbers than ever before. If it was not for them, Rick Santorum would be the front-runner. Romney has been able to purchase more media time than the other candidates so he is more able to get his propaganda pushed into the minds of Republican base and attack his opponents unmercifully, the scorched earth campaign that Karl Rove and Lee Atwater perfected; that is destroy the opposition at all costs with lies if you have to, create fear and demonize the opposition so they are the anti-Christ.
Very few people in this country support any type of government other than a Republic, or, as it is so often called by the Right, our “democracy.” According to an A.P. U.S. Government book sitting on my bed, 93% of Americans consider democracy to be the best type of government. With such a high number of people honestly believing in democratic principles it must be asked; how are the people letting their rights be infringed? Some laws have thin veils of being “for the greater good” (Michigan and Wisconsin). While some snubbing of our system is done without any reason at all: confiscating cameras at town hall meetings, congressmen refusing to meet with constituents with whom their views differed.
Paul Ryan is guilty of the last mentioned, but he will be
re-elected. Why? Because he is the golden boy of the Republican Party
right now. His now defunct “Path to Prosperity Bill” is a bill that not
only symbolized everything the GOP stands for today, but spelled it out
as well: tiny cuts to military, “entitlement” spending cuts, and no new
taxes on the rich. That this can be done and then Ryan can be
re-elected all goes back to the second step, the propaganda war, but it
also links to the next step…
Step 5: The Domino Effect
Once power is gained, steps must be taken to ensure that it can be
held, or at least retaken in time. This is where the true agenda of the
right-wing begins to finally show through the cracks in their facade. No
longer veiled in the shadows of economic recovery or foreign wars, the
true agenda is clearly seen. This is especially obvious in the form of
exclusionary voter ID laws, once again in Wisconsin. Once in power, the
GOP has no intention of leaving without ensuring they have made it too
difficult for anything to be reversed. By enacting policies that make it
difficult to oppose their agenda, the GOP is initiating a sort of
domino effect with the first domino being the election; after that the
progress can’t be stopped.
Back in the 1970, the Goldwater conservatives where so angry that they had lost the 1964 presidential election the Pres. Johnson that they formed an organization call ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council. Today's leadership of ALEC are: Rep. Noble Ellington Louisiana, Rep. Dave Frizzell Indiana, Rep. John Piscopo Connecticut, Rep. Linda Upmeyer Iowa, Rep. Liston Barfield South Carolina, Rep. Tom Craddick Texas, Sen. Curt Bramble Utah, Rep. Harold Brubaker North Carolina, Sen. Jim Buck Indiana, Sen. Kent Cravens New Mexico, Rep. Jim Ellington Mississippi, Sen. Billy Hewes III Mississippi, Speaker Bill Howell Virginia, Sen. Owen Johnson New York, Sen. Michael Lamoureux Arkansas, Rep. Steve McDaniel Tennessee, Sen. Ray Merrick Kansas, Sen. Dean Rhoads Nevada, Sen. Chip Rogers Georgia, Sen. William Seitz Ohio, Rep. Fred Steen II North Carolina, Rep. Curry Todd Tennessee, Sen. Susan Wagle Kansas. There are many more members that are not in the board.
Some of their private sector membership consists of , Mr. W. Preston Baldwin, Centerpoint360; Mrs. Sandra Oliver, Bayer Corp.; Mr. John Del Giorno, GlaxoSmithKline; Mr. David Powers, Reynolds American; Ms. Maggie Sans, Wal-Mart Stores; Ms. Sano Blocker, Energy Future Holdings; Mr. Don Bohn, Johnson & Johnson; Mr. Jeffrey Bond, PhRMA; Mr. William Carmichael, American Bail Coalition; Mr. Derek Crawford, Kraft Foods, Inc.; Mr. Robert Jones, Pfizer Inc; Ms. Teresa Jennings, Reed Elsevier, Inc.; Mr. Kenneth Lane, DIAGEO; Mr. Bill Leahy, AT&T; Mr. Kelly Mader, Peabody Energy; Mr. Richard McArdle, UPS; Mr. Mike Morgan, Koch Companies Public Sector, LLC; Mr. Daniel Smith, Altria Client Services; Mr. Randy Smith, ExxonMobil Corporation;
Mr. Russell Smoldon, Salt River Project; Mr. Roland Spies, State Farm Insurance Co. There are also many more private sector members who are not in the board.
If you have noticed, the states that are controlled by Republicans are submitting and generally passing similar laws from immigration, anti-abortion, anti-union, lowering taxes on business and the wealthy, reducing regulation and oversight of corporations, anti-climate change, voter restrictions and anti-women's rights. The money behind these laws are the private sector members. This is the oligarchy that is now governing our states and the Congress.
Step 7: Stack the Courts
In order to insure their agenda is not overturned by the federal courts, the Republicans have constantly delayed and obstructed the appointment of federal judges during Democratic administrations. This has left a huge shortage of judges and has slowed down any legal action a citizen might have, both civil and criminal. This obstruction is intended to hold the appointment open until they can capture control of the White House and the Senate, then they can continue to stack the court will conservative ideologues that will rule in their favor.
This is evident in the Supreme Court and their ruling of Citizens United that overturned decades of election finance laws and opened the door for the corporations above and others to spend unlimited amount of money on propaganda to sway the vote in their favor.
They are hoping that they win in 2012 and have the opportunity to replace the very elderly justices who happen to be more centrist or liberal, Ginsberg and Breyer are both due to retire in the next 4 or 5 years. If they are replaced with very conservative loyalists, then the court will have a 7 to 2 majority conservative that could change American law and policy for decades to come. It could ultimately establish a permanent conservative government, prohibiting progressives from any legislative changes. That would mean voter restrictions would not be found unconstitutional and therefore restrict those voters who vote more for Democrats or Progressive. They have done some in-depth analysis to know how to write these restrictions so that they restrict the voters they don't want to vote, mainly the poor, college students and the elderly (because of Medicare and Social Security, but otherwise tend to be conservative).
Step 8: Repeal The New Deal and Great Society
As soon as they have control of both houses of Congress, the White House and the Supreme Court, they can dismantle these two major programs. Not just changing them, but actually doing away with them completely. In their place would be mandatory savings accounts with private banking institutions that then get to invest your money in high risk investments so they can obtain high returns without any risk to themselves, and either you win with them or you loose it all, it doesn't matter to them, because they will insure their loss with credit default swaps, so they are held whole and you loose your retirement.
Medicare will be privatized, meaning senior will have to try to find an insurance company that will insure them first and that they can afford with their fixed incomes. That was the reason Johnson created Medicare, because no insurance company would insure people over 60 years old because they cost too much. If they priced the premium to cover these high costs, they premium would be in excess of any reasonable retirement income for the average worker. Thus no buyers for these policies.
Step 9: Privatize All Service Now Performed By Government
All public services will be replaced with private enterprise. You will be charged separately by each company, electronically, for every mile you drive on any given road, including the street in front of your home. Also for police (actually they will be private security companies, no a police force for the entire community. Each person or family will hire their own security service for any violence or civil action that someone had done to you. You will have to have your case submitted to private arbitration, the courts would be eliminated. So you have to pay for this arbitration and if your are imprisoned, then you or your family must pay for your imprisonment at a privately owned prison. If you have no money, then you must work for the prison or some other company contracted with the prison company to pay for your imprisonment. If that is not enough money, then the victim can choose to pay for the imprisonment or agree to let the convict released. Everything that is now performed by local and federal government will be private and a separate fee for each thing. Have credit card ready...
Step 10: Eliminate all elected offices
The final step is to do as Michigan has done, the oligarchy will appoint a manager to every city and town to manage all these private companies and to insure they and the people are following the mandates established by the oligarchy. The final solution will have been completed.
All gays will be imprisoned or deported, all Muslims will have tracking bracelets attached and monitored, all non-Christians will also have tracking bracelets and monitored. everyone will be mandated to attend an approved Christian church every Sunday, every person will have to register with the Manager of that city or town and carry an electronic ID card, your entertainment will be restricted to only that approved by the oligarchy. All education will be private and only those who can afford it will be educated. Schools will be prohibited from teaching certain subjects that are in conflict with Christian theology, such as evolution.
Welcome to the new America.
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