http://www.forwardprogressives.com/republican-party-driven-two-destructive-forces-human-history/
"When it comes down to my issues with the Republican party, the root of most of my opposition lies in my belief that their ideology just doesn't make sense. They talk endlessly about freedom and liberty, while simultaneously pushing for religious rule over our government...How can someone be 'free' if they're forced to follow religious rules that control people...especially if someone doesn't believe in that particular religion?...
...The same goes for their economic ideology. The Republican party's economic beliefs are entirely predicated on the belief that 98 percent of Americans will be better off by making the top 2 percent richer. Even now one of the biggest right-wing attacks used against President Obama is wage stagnation. But...when they complain about stagnant wages...they're actually admitting that trickle-down economics doesn't work.
When you get right down to it, the two biggest driving forces behind the Republican party are greed and religion. And those just happen to be two of the most destructive things human beings have endured throughout our history...
...But I don't just mean greed for money, but power as well. Empires that weren't satisfied with what they had--they wanted more. They had to conquer and grow. It was no longer enough to simply be powerful and wealthy, they wanted to be the most powerful and wealthy...
...Then when you mix religion into all of that, it's a very dangerous and often deadly mixture.
That's what Islamic radicalism is really all about. It's corrupt individuals using religion to justify their greedy desires for power. It's all about control. And let's face it, religion is the ultimate mechanism to use if you want to control large amounts of people.
Here in the U.S. Republicans use religion all the time to manipulate people into voting against their own interests. The GOP has successfully managed to get conservatives to actually mix their politics and faith together...It's a whole lot of people who honestly believe that the only way to be a true Christian is to be a Republican. And they'll never question the Republican party, because that's tantamount to questioning their faith...
...When you remove all the right-wing propaganda and rhetoric and get to the core of the Republican party, their social philosophies are built on religion and their economic ideologies are based on greed. They want to create a society run by theocratic government where the rich and the powerful have unregulated control over practically everything.
And when you look through all of human history, those are the two things that have been the catalysts behind some of the most horrific acts every committed."
I have often said the Republican party believes no one should be in charge of anything--whether it's the White House, wages, the environment, religion, or a woman's body--unless it's them. This Our-Way-or-No-Way philosophy is at the root of their focus on tearing down rather than building up. They are seemingly incapable of formulating any original ideas until they are satisfied they have destroyed all vestiges of Democratic achievements.
I see their lust for absolute power as a sign of a hollow core, a core so fundamentally weak that their fear of "the outside" has frozen any hope for progressive thought, leaving them clinging to an unsubstantiated belief in their own greatness and mired in a nostalgic yearning for a time that never really existed.
In short, they are a party befouled by their own fecklessness.
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