Are the Republicans the Anti-Christ of American Politics?

Are the Republicans the Anti - Christ of American politics?

For the past 27 years since Ronald Reagan, Republicans have proclaimed the government to be the problem, promising less taxes, less government, and less regulations. What they have delivered is a massive deficit, out of control spending, and a Washington culture of massive corruption, not to mention an unnecessary war of choice from which we are having great difficulty disengaging. CEOs, bankers, brokers, lobbyists and politicians have filled their own pockets, gotten richer than rich, with little regard for the ordinary working man and woman.


As the result this week in September of 2008, we faced a massive meltdown of the world markets and the U.S. economy. Deregulation was the mantra of the G.O.P. , fed by big money gifts to politicians who voted to suspend regulations long in place since FDR, in place precisely to prevent the repetition of the collapse that produced the market collapse of 1929 and the Great Depression of the 1930s.


Now, with plans under way this weekend, to force us taxpayers to bail out the for profit organizations and their greedy CEOs. Not 700 million from our pockets, but a low estimate (never believe #43!) of 700 BILLION DOLLARS. Wake up, America! That is almost a million times a million, almost a trillion dollars we ordinary folks must pay for Republican lack of oversight, and an out of control speculative market. Republicans are demanding &7,000.00 from every wage earner in this country to pay for there blindness, stupidly and greed.


The Republican party was in total control of this government under Bush from 2000 to 2006, and McCain was the cheerleader of deregulation, priding himself to be such. If you have a short memory as most Americans, you may have forgotten that McCain was one of the principals I the Savings and Loan scandal, one of the Keating Five Senators accused of corruption and disciplined by the ethics committee of the Senate. Does anyone see the hypocrisy that McCain is now running against the corruption in Washington in which he was a major player?


If a true conservative (and there are some) is not OUTRAGED at this betrayal of Republican principles, he or she is still part of the problem We shall not speak further here of McCain’s dishonesty in running a dishonest and lying political campaign. The vast number of lies is elsewhere listed.


I will suggest here that the Republican party has not merely lost its brand of conservatism, or taken over by the NeoCons. That is an internal dispute only Republicans can address. I do suggest here for the average citizen the Republican party has became the Anti-Christ of American politics. They have utterly betrayed the trust given them. No wonder so few even go to the polls to vote anymore. An anti-Christ figure promises redemption, wholeness, salvation but secretly works against the common good.


Republicans have clearly revealed themselves in this year of 2008 to be the Anti-Christ of American politics. If you do not believe this, simply examine the actual dishonormg by John McCain, not only of his first marriage, his lying in his autobiography, and his repeated lying today, supposedly running against his own record of 26 years in Congress, all detailed elsewhere.


Anyone who is not outraged at this systematic betrayal of the American people is simply not paying attention, of such is their political blindness they find some way to excuse it or blame others.


Paschal Baute
Lexington, Ky