DonaldFG
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Why would any American citizen vote Republican when their Party leaders want to:
I seriously don't believe the average Republican voter wants to do these things. It's corporate propaganda that convinces them to vote Republican. So swayed, they vote against their own best interests.
I am afraid this is a make it or break it election for America. The battle breaks down to a political war between powerful corporations and the rights of the people. Corporations already have near control of government (the dawn of fascism), and the two political party establishments, secured with corporate mass media and misinformation propaganda. Bernie Sanders is the exception. In simple terms, socialism is concern for the common citizen, and capitalism is concern for corporate power and profits. Elite power distorts government for the people, so the people need to control elite power in socialism as well as capitalism.
Noam Chomsky recently made these comments concerning the Republican Party:
- Privatize Social Security and give the money to Wall Street like they did workers pensions (401k),
- Repeal the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) to remove limits on private insurance profit (they tried 62 times although Obamacare largely uses their own proposed ideas to avoid single-payer Medicare),
- De-fund public education in favor of privatized schools (how has that worked out?),
- De-fund the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) to eliminate reliable factual news in favor of propaganda from corporate owned media (mostly accomplished),
- Break up worker unions so employees can't defend themselves against corporate abuse like bad working conditions, low pay, and factory closings (mostly accomplished - notice the increases in airline near misses and accidents since Reagan smashed the air traffic controllers union?),
- Override the sovereignty of national laws with international trade agreements so nations can be sued for lost corporate profits and factories can move to low wage countries among other outrages (NAFTA was a disaster and TPP is about to be - unfortunately the Clintons and Obama have cooperated on this),
- Eliminate New Deal anti-trust regulations to reduce or eliminate industrial competition and allow large corporations to merge into mega-corps with near monopoly power (these mega-mergers began with Reagan),
- And eliminate the power of USDA and FDA to regulate food and drug companies and let them police themselves (mostly accomplished - notice the increase in food scares lately, and the prescription drug commercials on radio and TV - particularly Viagra, Cialis, etc. all since Reagan).
I seriously don't believe the average Republican voter wants to do these things. It's corporate propaganda that convinces them to vote Republican. So swayed, they vote against their own best interests.
I am afraid this is a make it or break it election for America. The battle breaks down to a political war between powerful corporations and the rights of the people. Corporations already have near control of government (the dawn of fascism), and the two political party establishments, secured with corporate mass media and misinformation propaganda. Bernie Sanders is the exception. In simple terms, socialism is concern for the common citizen, and capitalism is concern for corporate power and profits. Elite power distorts government for the people, so the people need to control elite power in socialism as well as capitalism.
Noam Chomsky recently made these comments concerning the Republican Party: