The emergence of two Republican Parties
The old party had fine and respected legislators. The agenda was in the open followed with zeal. As low as taxes could get without hurting necessary services.
The same with regulations.
Keeping government lean, efficient as waste-free as possible, again as small as possible without hurting necessary services. Working with the business world and the successful Capitalistic System creating good and plentiful jobs and profits.
Honorable adversaries to the Democrats, civil, able to compromise respectful. These were good, worthy reasons to be a Republican.
Now the second Republican Party:
Militant leadership. Almost always a hidden agenda, i,.e.; publicly announcing one goal then secretly doing the opposite. Intolerant of moderate voices in the party, using propaganda to an unsurpassed degree. Using code and derogatory words to smear, true or not but repeated over and over like robots. With little more information to go by, the public begins to believe this as the truth. This is a technique used by the advertising industry—repeat something often, true or not, and and the public will believe it!
On hidden agendas.Example: Medicare, Republican party line to the public: “We wish to save Medicare, make it better.” Real agenda: destroy it! Proof? The 20% co-pay for Medicare has become very expensive. A Senior must buy insurance to cover it called the Medicare Supplement. The premium has risen over 400% in the last 12 years. The Republicans have used this fact to give giant government subsidies to their friends, the HMOs who are private insurers and big donors to the party (for favors returned). The HMO in turn uses this subsidy to all but eliminate the insurance premium a Medicare senior must pay if he or she joins the private HMO. They give a drug benefit as well. Many thousands of seniors join, not because they want to but because they cannot afford the 20% co-pay insurance coverage! Thus using taxpayer money to subsidize private insurance companies and eventually destroying Medicare itself—-one of many hidden agendas.
GOP stands for Grand Old Party, not Genius of Propaganda. To all Republicans, restore it to its past ideals and glory. It was good for America and can be again.
Robert Recht
Creve Coeur
Kudos
Republicans need to hold Republicans accountable, because when Democrats try it is labeled partisan politics.
how many people have to resign . . . “to spend more time with their families” before we just say enough is enough. if we do not hold these individuals accountable our Republic will fail, like all those before it.