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Subject: Fwd: The Party of Brownshirts
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*The Party of Brownshirts*
By Paul Craig Roberts
04/16/07
"ICH" -- Neoconservatives have turned the Republican Party into a
Brownshirt Party.
Look at the evidence. While real patriots flee the party, the
remaining supporters cling to power by asserting dictatorial
dominance for President Bush. The Republican Attorney General
denies that the U.S. Constitution provides habeas corpus protection
to American citizens. Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney, Republican
candidates for the 2008 presidential campaign, believe the
president has the power to imprison U.S. citizens indefinitely
without warrants or trials. The "conservative" Federalist Society
favors concentrating more power in the executive. Neoconservative
ideologues claim the right to impose American hegemony over all
others -- especially over Muslims.
All of these Republican tyrants and budding tyrants claim to be
protecting liberty and democracy.
Polls show that the percentage of Americans who tilt Republican has
declined to 35 percent. Republican recruits are refusing to run for
Congress. Ken Mehlman, until recently the party's chairman, says
many voters have lost confidence in Republicans. To win back
people's confidence, Mehlman says the party will have to become
less reliant on white males and expand its support among Hispanics
and blacks.
Decency and intelligence have departed Republican ranks. The
party's shrunken base consists of ignorant and fearful people who
believe Muslim jihadists are going to murder them in their beds,
rapture evangelicals who believe that war in the Middle East is the
prelude to their being wafted up to heaven, the military-security
complex reveling in power and fortune, and resentful and frustrated
people who can freely vent their anger and hate on "terrorists."
This collection of fear, delusion, greed, and resentment comprises
the 30 percent of Americans who constitute Bush’s base. The
Republican Party has made itself so unattractive that Democrats
believe that it is now possible for a woman or a black to win the
presidency.
The Republican Party lost its majority for the following reasons:
Greedy transnational corporations offshored U.S. manufacturing jobs
and destroyed the hopes and livelihoods of blue-collar Reagan
Democrats. The gains from offshoring are diffused, but the costs
are concentrated.
The same greedy and short-sighted corporations have spent the first
years of the 21st century destroying the prospects of American
middle class university graduates by offshoring jobs in
professional services and by importing foreigners on work visas who
work for less.
Neoconservatives captured conservative philanthropies, cut off
funding to true conservatives, and used the captured conservative
foundations to entrench themselves as advisors to the Republican
party. The same conservatives that Reagan fired as a result of the
Iran-Contra scandal occupy important policy positions in the Bush
administration and dominate the National Security Council.
Republican "law and order" apathy to civil liberties easily
transferred to the "war on terror." Republicans regard civil
liberties as protective devices for criminals and terrorists.
Republicans mistakenly believe that the law can be cut down
selectively so that only certain despised groups are deprived of
its protection.
The Bush administration lied to the American people and invaded two
countries on false pretenses for indefensible reasons that the
administration has never acknowledged. The war has had catastrophic
consequences that are now apparent to a majority of Americans, but
the Republican Party still supports the continuation of the war.
The Bush administration has destroyed American prestige and moral
aura with torture scandals and disregard for Iraqi, Afghani,
Palestinian, and Lebanese civilian lives.
The Bush administration’s budget and trade deficits have undermined
the dollar. The Bush administration is calling for currency
realignments that will lower the real incomes of import-dependent
Americans.
The Bush administration’s determination to exercise American
hegemony through warfare, and its assaults on civil liberties, the
separation of powers. American prestige and on good American jobs
and the value of the dollar have destroyed the party’s support.
America's virtue is its Constitution. An administration that
attacks the Constitution attacks America's virtue. The true dangers
that Americans face come from George W. Bush and Richard Cheney and
their neoconservative Brownshirt Party.
~~~
[Paul Craig Roberts wrote the Kemp-Roth bill and was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was
Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and
Contributing Editor of "National Review." He is author or co-author
of eight books, including "The Supply-Side Revolution" (Harvard
University Press). He has held numerous academic appointments,
including the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy, Center
for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University and
Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He
has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and testified before
Congress on 30 occasions. He has been awarded the U.S. Treasury's
Meritorious Service Award and the French Legion of Honor. He was a
reviewer for the "Journal of Political Economy" under editor Robert
Mundell.]
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