The Republican Party (aka Republicrat) Has Become The War Party (aka Demopublican)

[Gdjjr]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

 

[Norman]

Republican party is the cuck party that is too afraid of being called racists to preserve America.

In general, you can assume them to be absolutely useless, except for the God-Emperor of course. We need to replace them with real Americans.

 

[White 6]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

 

[kyzr]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

 

[Penelope]

Sanctions cause civil wars and extreme sanction cause wars between nations.

 

[Dick Foster]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

All I can say to that is that it's a good damn thing that that nasty old Republican Barry Goldwater wasn't elected or we might have had a war in Vietnam or something.
Come to think of it, it seems to me that most wars America has been involved in were started during democratic administrations.

 

[Dragonlady]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

You missed the most important question of the age for your nation.

Are the people the merely the tool of the corporate establishment, or do the people matter? Are you governing for the people or for the corporations? Everything other question flows from this primary question.

 

[pknopp]

Obama was a war president for his entire 8 years. He expanded the wars. Democrats said very little. While the GOP is most certainly also the (D)'s have no soap box to stand on.

 

[22lcidw]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

Its difficult to be conservative when the current German Nazis are Progs and the Non Progs let alone any conservatives are becoming the Jews of the 1930's.

 

[Dragonlady]

Obama was a war president for his entire 8 years. He expanded the wars. Democrats said very little. While the GOP is most certainly also the (D)'s have no soap box to stand on.

Wrong as, usual. Obama brought the troops home from Iraq, in accordance with the Agreement W signed after before he left office. Clever move. Republicans could claim W ended the war in Iraq and was bringing the troops home in 2010, and then pillory Obama for following through with that Treaty, which allowed the surging ISIS to take over most of Iraq after the Americans left.

Here's Obama's troop withdrawals from Afghanistan:

CHART: How The U.S. Troop Levels In Afghanistan Have Changed Under Obama

Once upon a time, President Obama said he wanted to pull almost all troops out of Afghanistan. That has proved way harder than he thought.

www.npr.org

This in the Atlantic, basically confirms that while Obama has reduced the overall number of troops abroad, they are part of or monitoring a more diverse group of conflicts, but instead of executing the wars, the troops were providing training and support roles, rather than active combat, reducing both the loss of life, and the economic costs of the deployments.

Has Obama Started More Wars Than He's Ended?

The president’s military record, by the numbers

www.theatlantic.com

Quite frankly the mess in the Middle East, especially the rise of ISIS, and the Arab Spring uprisings, were all as a direct result of the USA destabilizing the entire region by taking out Saddam Hussein, with no one to replace him or any idea of what to do once he was gone.

Any time you create a huge power vaccuum like this, you better damn well have someone who can go in immediately and who the people will accept as their new leaders and follow, because if you don't, the new government may be even more unfavourable to your goals than the old one.

And you can't just go in, destablize the entire region and pull out while the region collapses into political and economic chaos. That's not going to help your cause either.

There are hundreds of reason to stay the fuck out of the Middle East, and this is just one of them

 

[kyzr]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

You missed the most important question of the age for your nation.

Are the people the merely the tool of the corporate establishment, or do the people matter? Are you governing for the people or for the corporations? Everything other question flows from this primary question.

That's actually a trickier question than you think.
Without a massive economy the government can't afford anything, no entitlements, no military, no tax base, not much of anything.
So the Wall Street corporate establishment uses every tool it can muster to make money, especially buying politicians who write laws.
Politicians are generally lawyers who need lots of money to run for office. Hence, CEOs buy pols and pols do what CEOs tell them to do.
The other important arm of the corporate establishment is the MSM, which sways public opinion to their will, except for FXN.

To answer your questions:
1. Yes the people are just a resource for Corporations, with their talent, skill sets, ideas, productivity, and company loyalty are what make Corporations function. Unions are generally a hindrance to corporations.

2. Pols govern for BOTH people and corporations to various degrees. You need to distinguish between the top 1% of people who own 90% of everything and the working class. The people with no talent, no skill sets, or no ambition are called "homeless".

3. Successful corporations, Apple, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Exxon, as examples blend politics and taking care of their workers and investors. Its actually an art form.

 

[pknopp]

Obama was a war president for his entire 8 years. He expanded the wars. Democrats said very little. While the GOP is most certainly also the (D)'s have no soap box to stand on.

Wrong as, usual. Obama brought the troops home from Iraq, in accordance with the Agreement W signed after before he left office. Clever move. Republicans could claim W ended the war in Iraq and was bringing the troops home in 2010, and then pillory Obama for following through with that Treaty, which allowed the surging ISIS to take over most of Iraq after the Americans left.

And then Obama put them back. And he left them in Afghanistan while putting them in Libya, Syria, Yemen and who knows where else.

 

[Gdjjr]

Demopublicans, Republicrats- two sides(?) of the same coin- Jefferson, (as in Thomas), believed that virtuous men had to be elected to office in order for the experiment to work as desired- as far as I'm concerned there hasn't been a man of honor (never mind virtue) in the District of Criminals since Davy Crockett left that shit hole.

 

[Gdjjr]

Successful corporations, Apple, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Exxon, as examples blend politics and taking care of their workers and investors.

They're quite adept at bending politicians to insure they're able to "help" those they desire to help. Mainly themselves.

 

[White 6]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

You missed the most important question of the age for your nation.

Are the people the merely the tool of the corporate establishment, or do the people matter? Are you governing for the people or for the corporations? Everything other question flows from this primary question.

That's actually a trickier question than you think.
Without a massive economy the government can't afford anything, no entitlements, no military, no tax base, not much of anything.
So the Wall Street corporate establishment uses every tool it can muster to make money, especially buying politicians who write laws.
Politicians are generally lawyers who need lots of money to run for office. Hence, CEOs buy pols and pols do what CEOs tell them to do.
The other important arm of the corporate establishment is the MSM, which sways public opinion to their will, except for FXN.

To answer your questions:
1. Yes the people are just a resource for Corporations, with their talent, skill sets, ideas, productivity, and company loyalty are what make Corporations function. Unions are generally a hindrance to corporations.

2. Pols govern for BOTH people and corporations to various degrees. You need to distinguish between the top 1% of people who own 90% of everything and the working class. The people with no talent, no skill sets, or no ambition are called "homeless".

3. Successful corporations, Apple, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Exxon, as examples blend politics and taking care of their workers and investors. Its actually an art form.

Well written answer.

 

[Dragonlady]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

You missed the most important question of the age for your nation.

Are the people the merely the tool of the corporate establishment, or do the people matter? Are you governing for the people or for the corporations? Everything other question flows from this primary question.

That's actually a trickier question than you think.
Without a massive economy the government can't afford anything, no entitlements, no military, no tax base, not much of anything.
So the Wall Street corporate establishment uses every tool it can muster to make money, especially buying politicians who write laws.
Politicians are generally lawyers who need lots of money to run for office. Hence, CEOs buy pols and pols do what CEOs tell them to do.
The other important arm of the corporate establishment is the MSM, which sways public opinion to their will, except for FXN.

To answer your questions:
1. Yes the people are just a resource for Corporations, with their talent, skill sets, ideas, productivity, and company loyalty are what make Corporations function. Unions are generally a hindrance to corporations.

2. Pols govern for BOTH people and corporations to various degrees. You need to distinguish between the top 1% of people who own 90% of everything and the working class. The people with no talent, no skill sets, or no ambition are called "homeless".

3. Successful corporations, Apple, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Exxon, as examples blend politics and taking care of their workers and investors. Its actually an art form.

That not an answer to the question. That's a partial statement of your national situation, and there's some huge glaring fallacies which must be addressed.

1. Corporations are resources for people, not the other way around. Every other nation acknowledges that, but over the past 40 years, the Republican Party has stood this on its head, so that people now serve corporations. And that is the primary situation that needs to be addressed as an overall.

Americans have been brainwashed by Wall Street and big business into believing you'd be nothing without them. Just like you've been brainwashed into thinking that your for profit healthcare system is the best system in the world. The greatest economy in the world.

These are lies. The greatest economies in the world take care of their people first. Their people are the healthiest, the happiest, and the most productive. Our economies work for EVERYONE, our people, our corporations, and our economy.

It's not an either/or proposition. The USA has suffered from bad governance for a long, long, time now. You either work together and start putting people first, and break up the toxic corporations, which don't pay a living wage, and keep their workers in virtual slavery.

The corporations are not taking care of their people. That's not their purpose. Their purpose is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. To that end, reducing worker costs helps that goal, while increasing wages and benefits actually violates the whole point of the corporate governance, which requires the officers to maximize profits to the benefit of the owners.

The American middle class are paying taxes to support their wage and benefits shortfalls over the actual costs of living, while their huge corporations make hundreds of millions of dollars. More than enough to ensure health care, quality free education and infrastructure for all.

It is time to pay working people their due. Homeless people are now white collar workers who are so poorly paid they can't afford rent. They're not uneducated, unemployed or unskilled. Nor are they unmotivated. Their wages haven't kept pace with inflation.

Take care of the people first and the stock holders last. McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon are NOT taking care of their workers, because the government does their bidding and cuts their taxes. Force corporations to pay a living wage.

The Mainstream Media is far less biased, and far more factual than right wing media, all of which is privately owned by right wing billionaires who are reaping billions of dollars of tax cuts keeping Republicans in power, and who know that their gravy train will end and they'll have to start paying real taxes if the Republican house of economic cards crashes one too many time.

The MSM is all owned by publically traded corporations who have to answer to their Boards of Directors and their shareholders. ABC is owned by The Disney Company and is answerable to its Board and shareholders. Such is not the case with FOX, Sinclair, Breitbart, or other right wing outlets.

 

[pknopp]

The Republican Party has become the war party. These conservatives, supposedly committed to the American republic, based on individual liberty and limited government, advocate that the U.S. should make every foreign crisis America’s own, defend every rich friend, engage in nation-building everywhere, turn policy over to politically influential allies, dictate to great powers, and make new enemies at every turn.

At least that is the policy advocated by the Republican Study Committee (RSC), the conservative voice within the House Republican caucus, in its embarrassing new screed “Strengthening America & Countering Global Threats.” With the U.S. beset by crises at home, these self-styled conservatives would divert American attention, waste valuable resources, and sacrifice precious lives to engage in counterproductive social engineering abroad.


The RSC declares its lack of seriousness in the paper’s introduction. It believes the fount of all the world’s ills is the Obama administration. There is much to criticize in the latter, but it followed a true horror show, the big-spending war-mongering Bush administration. And then against Barack Obama in 2008 the GOP nominated John McCain, who never found a war he did not want America to fight and in the midst of a financial crisis admitted his economic ignorance.

Opined the RSC: “For eight years, President Obama’s failed policies allowed our greatest adversaries to grow stronger while weakening America’s position as the world’s preeminent power. During this time, Communist China and Russia went completely unchecked, Iran was gifted a plane full of cash, jihadist groups such as ISIS were casually dismissed as the ‘JV squad,’ key allies were offended, foreign aid and United Nations dues failed to advance U.S. interests, and America behaved sheepishly on the world stage.”


Drivel and nonsense.

‘Conservative’ House GOP Wants America to Wage War Against All

A new Republican caucus blueprint for U.S. foreign policy strategy is as hubristic as it is embarrassing.

www.theamericanconservative.com

I agree with your point of view to a great extent, not surprisingly, being an independent, I laugh at the BS from both sides, and the BS is as deep as it is wide. I also liked your use of the phrase "these self-styled conservatives", as there is really very little conservative about that party anymore and a lot more self-styling. I miss real conservative thought processes in the main stream.

IMHO the battle-lines are no longer just liberal-conservative, but there are many more now, such as:
populist vs globalist (Wall Street & K-Street moving factories to China vs bringing jobs back to the US)
Culture wars (real history or revisionist history? Were the Founding Fathers heroes or all racists? antifa vs ??? Confederate statues are all bad??)
Race wars (why can't blacks get those high paying jobs? Why are so many blacks criminals??)
Men vs women (why can't women break the glass ceilings?)
LGBTQ wars (another fucking protected class??)
Pro-Life vs Pro-Choice (better battles than Sunni vs Shia, just ask Kavanaugh)
Class warfare (the top 1% own 90% of everything and are still getting richer?? Bloomberg stepped in it on stage)
Unions vs right to work non-union (teachers vs charter schools, etc.)
Any more? Politicians need to pick and choose

You missed the most important question of the age for your nation.

Are the people the merely the tool of the corporate establishment, or do the people matter? Are you governing for the people or for the corporations? Everything other question flows from this primary question.

That's actually a trickier question than you think.
Without a massive economy the government can't afford anything, no entitlements, no military, no tax base, not much of anything.
So the Wall Street corporate establishment uses every tool it can muster to make money, especially buying politicians who write laws.
Politicians are generally lawyers who need lots of money to run for office. Hence, CEOs buy pols and pols do what CEOs tell them to do.
The other important arm of the corporate establishment is the MSM, which sways public opinion to their will, except for FXN.

To answer your questions:
1. Yes the people are just a resource for Corporations, with their talent, skill sets, ideas, productivity, and company loyalty are what make Corporations function. Unions are generally a hindrance to corporations.

2. Pols govern for BOTH people and corporations to various degrees. You need to distinguish between the top 1% of people who own 90% of everything and the working class. The people with no talent, no skill sets, or no ambition are called "homeless".

3. Successful corporations, Apple, FB, Netflix, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Exxon, as examples blend politics and taking care of their workers and investors. Its actually an art form.

That not an answer to the question. That's a partial statement of your national situation, and there's some huge glaring fallacies which must be addressed.

1. Corporations are resources for people, not the other way around. Every other nation acknowledges that, but over the past 40 years, the Republican Party has stood this on its head, so that people now serve corporations. And that is the primary situation that needs to be addressed as an overall.

Americans have been brainwashed by Wall Street and big business into believing you'd be nothing without them. Just like you've been brainwashed into thinking that your for profit healthcare system is the best system in the world. The greatest economy in the world.

These are lies. The greatest economies in the world take care of their people first. Their people are the healthiest, the happiest, and the most productive. Our economies work for EVERYONE, our people, our corporations, and our economy.

It's not an either/or proposition. The USA has suffered from bad governance for a long, long, time now. You either work together and start putting people first, and break up the toxic corporations, which don't pay a living wage, and keep their workers in virtual slavery.

The corporations are not taking care of their people. That's not their purpose. Their purpose is to make as much money as possible for their shareholders. To that end, reducing worker costs helps that goal, while increasing wages and benefits actually violates the whole point of the corporate governance, which requires the officers to maximize profits to the benefit of the owners.

The American middle class are paying taxes to support their wage and benefits shortfalls over the actual costs of living, while their huge corporations make hundreds of millions of dollars. More than enough to ensure health care, quality free education and infrastructure for all.

It is time to pay working people their due. Homeless people are now white collar workers who are so poorly paid they can't afford rent. They're not uneducated, unemployed or unskilled. Nor are they unmotivated. Their wages haven't kept pace with inflation.

Take care of the people first and the stock holders last. McDonald's, Walmart, and Amazon are NOT taking care of their workers, because the government does their bidding and cuts their taxes. Force corporations to pay a living wage.

The Mainstream Media is far less biased, and far more factual than right wing media, all of which is privately owned by right wing billionaires who are reaping billions of dollars of tax cuts keeping Republicans in power, and who know that their gravy train will end and they'll have to start paying real taxes if the Republican house of economic cards crashes one too many time.

The MSM is all owned by publically traded corporations who have to answer to their Boards of Directors and their shareholders. ABC is owned by The Disney Company and is answerable to its Board and shareholders. Such is not the case with FOX, Sinclair, Breitbart, or other right wing outlets.

Obama took a ton of money from Goldman Sachs. He saw to it that not a single banker was held accountable for their crimes.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Obama was a war president for his entire 8 years. He expanded the wars. Democrats said very little. While the GOP is most certainly also the (D)'s have no soap box to stand on.

Indeed bush and Obama are two birds of a feather.Bush illegally got us into the Middle East war and Obama expanded his corruption bush started.both are war criminals and mass murderers that need to be hung up by their balls

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Republican party is the cuck party that is too afraid of being called racists to preserve America.

In general, you can assume them to be absolutely useless, except for the God-Emperor of course. We need to replace them with real Americans.

You are useless.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

Obama was a war president for his entire 8 years. He expanded the wars. Democrats said very little. While the GOP is most certainly also the (D)'s have no soap box to stand on.

Wrong as, usual. Obama brought the troops home from Iraq, in accordance with the Agreement W signed after before he left office. Clever move. Republicans could claim W ended the war in Iraq and was bringing the troops home in 2010, and then pillory Obama for following through with that Treaty, which allowed the surging ISIS to take over most of Iraq after the Americans left.

And then Obama put them back. And he left them in Afghanistan while putting them in Libya, Syria, Yemen and who knows where else.

Could not have said it better myself,well done best damn post on the thread
As always,like clockwork,dragonlady gets her ass handed to her on a platter and checkmated as she does here everyday that her hero’s the demopublicans,are every bit as corrupt and pure evil as the republicrats are.