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Subject: Put the Dogs Down
November 16, 2006
Conservatism v. Democracy
by Jon Faulkner
http://www.opednews.com/articles/
opedne_jon_faul_061116_conservatism_v__demo.htm
For those who believe there's not a dime's worth of difference
between the two parties, consider this: Social Security, the G.I.
Bill, Labor Laws, Environmental Laws, Civil Rights, Bank Deposit
Insurance, The Rural Electrification Program, Product Labeling,
Truth in Advertising, Woman's Right to Vote, and the Earned Income
Tax Credit were all the work of LIBERALS, passed as conservative
Republicans howled their OPPOSITION.
In contrast, Republicans initiated cuts in veteran's benefits, they
eviscerated education and health care, passed endless tax cuts for
the rich, slashed Head Start, and eliminated the Fairness Doctrine.
Given more time, elderly Americans would have watched their Social
Security checks get turned over to Wall Street investors -- for a
fee, of course.
All these conservative "contributions" have the same thread of
commonality -- they were passed in the early A.M., on Saturdays,
secretively, after news deadlines. Like cockroaches, conservatives
prefer to operate in darkness. Turn on the lights and they scatter
for the cracks.
Republicans, given time, will always reveal their true natures.
When they inevitably do, the majority of Americans send them
packing. Finding themselves outside the gate, Republicans scratch
at the door and beg to be let back in. This happened from 1954 to
1994. Republicans were sent outside because it's impossible to
housebreak them. It's taken American voters 40 years to forget that
fact and let them back in.
Swept back into power by the Gingrich Revolution, they immediately
got the biggest shovels they could find and proceeded to sack the
nation's treasury. They began dismantling the economic
infrastructure. They shredded the social safety net for the young,
the old, and the sick and accelerated the nation's withdrawal from
its social responsibilities. Republicans long for the day when the
wholesale embracing of corporate power will eclipse the human spirit.
In 2000, democracy failed, for all the world to see. In Miami the
cameras rolled as a Republican goon squad beat on the precinct
doors, forcing officials to stop counting votes. The police, in
plain view, stood by and did nothing. The U.S. Supreme Court, to
its everlasting shame, installed Bush as president.
Gore gave an eloquent but cowardly speech conceding the election.
His Democratic colleagues offered him no support, so, in order to
avoid a "Constitutional Crisis," he graciously gave up, thus
dooming the nation to six long nightmarish years of Bush & Company.
During those long dark years, democracy was down and the jackals
were busy stripping the flesh from its bones. Blissfully ignorant,
Americans were unaware of how close they were to losing their
freedom and way of life. Bush is not an intelligent man. If he
were, Americans even now might not realize that their democracy had
been taken from them. But with two years left, Bush can still be
expected to do whatever he wants, and if the Democrats can't summon
the political courage to stop him, the 2006 election was utterly
pointless.
Of course he's clapped his "Uniter" hat on his pointy head and is
pledging bipartisan cooperation. The Republicans fetched Newt out
from under his rock. He spoke grandly of bipartisanship and of how
Americans disliked gridlock. The Democrats nodded their heads to
break their necks agreeing with these wise men and making pledges
of their own for a more conciliatory approach to governing. Well,
isn't that nice. The Democrats can all sing Koombayah around the
campfire while the Republicans slip the knife in between their
silly ribs.
The Democrats, for once, need to come out with guns blazing. Put
the dogs down. No mercy. Americans want their democracy back --
on November 7th they demanded it be returned.
Democracy will never work unless conservatives are brought under
control. They will lie, cheat, and slander to advance their anti-
democratic agenda. Television stations like Fox News will spread
disinformation without the slightest respect for the American
people. They know that if they repeat a lie often enough, there are
those who will come to believe it.
The government exists to promote the general welfare -- the common
good of its citizens. That is its aim -- its express purpose. The
only debate is about how this can best be accomplished.
All anyone need do is look at the historical record to understand
Republicans haven't the slightest interest in the common good.
Their interests are narrow and defined around themselves. The rich
are their base, and their masters.
Democrats are like the chicken that crossed the road. It couldn't
decide to run all the way across or back to the side it started
from. Finally, unable to make up its mind, it gets run over -
reduced to road kill. Democrats need to lead or else get out of
the way so another party can take their place.
The days seem long gone when the Democrats spoke with conviction
about equality for all Americans. Their beliefs held strength
because they knew that defending the poorest, weakest and sickest
among us was a noble, unselfish cause. They knew that the
disadvantaged reflected the image of all Americans, and to allow
even one person to suffer diminished us all. That is what made
America great -- not the stock market breaking 12,000.
Because Democrats believed this, they were held up for ridicule.
"Bleeding hearts" has today progressed to "traitors giving aid and
comfort to the enemy." Conservatives are truly immoral, and
ignorance doesn't excuse them. Slandering liberal Democrats, who
recognize that Americans, rich or poor, strong or weak, in good
health or bad, are all equal, is an abominable, unholy act.
Republicans suffer from a form of mental illness and their ideology
has no place in the modern world. Historians in the not so distant
future will look back at today and wonder how it was that the
Republicans were tolerated, and, even more incredibly, actually
elected to representative offices.
--Jon Faulkner lives in northern Maine. He hopes that someday
medical science will identify and eradicate the gene that causes
Republicanism.
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