You know, I typed out a fairly long (well not for me) response to this, but you know what, I just don't want to continue with this. It's obvious we don't agree and we never will. Keep believing that the Repubs are the right, correct, and noble party that wants to help regular folks when the only things he you ever hear from them are let's cut SNAP (while rolling that money back into more subsidies for "corporate ag"), cutting funding for the arts and PBS, that Social Security is a non-sustainable "entitlement", even though those people have been paying in (along with their employers) for years or even decades and it's Congress who can't stop spending the money. Keep cutting those PELL grants because $5000 or so YEAR is just too damn much money to give to college students, while their kids are getting full paid scholarships to big named schools whether they're straight A students or straight D-minus students. After all we don't want to muddy the waters of college graduates with a bunch of "takers" do we? Keep talking about Benghazi and ignoring all the embassy attacks and those American casualties while W was president, keep pretending that 85 people worldwide owning as much wealth as 3 1/2 BILLION people is a good and admirable thing and that just gives those 3 1/2 BILLION people some real role models to emulate. Keep thinking Obamacare is the devil when major US corporations make BILLIONS in profits and don't want to cut into their CEO's A-Rod type contracts by giving some back to their workers (I actually about small businesses having an exemption) but how long have major corporations hidden behind helping small businesses, that is when they're not using laws they helped create to put them out of business or take them over legally. Let's keep giving BILLIONS in subsidies to oil companies but at the same time pretending the oil and gas business is simply a supply and demand industry with no collusion going on.
Republicans didn't create all those problems but they sure seem to support them all don't they? Even the Pope gets called names for suggesting that maybe just having almost all the wealth in the world might be enough, and that maybe they should actually listen sometimes when they're sitting in the front row of their churches to all that nonsense about the poor not being just put here on this Earth for their amusement and starvation. After all it's the suggestion that maybe they shouldn't exploit all those rules and laws they and their bought and paid for legislators created to not be happy until they have 100% of the world's wealth. But is that really going to make them happy either???
Picture it this way, you're on a mountaintop with two other people, one is actively trying to push you off, stepping on your fingers as you hold on for dear life, while the other guys sits there telling you how much he cares about you, while reading a Gold Digest and a copy of Ebony, bemoaning your fate but not actually doing anything about it, except to occasionally tossing you a biscuit that you can eat as long as you can do so while dodging the other guys' attempt to finish you off. Want to guess which political party (and their agenda) goes with which guy?
So go ahead and believe whatever you want, defend Reagan perpetually, defend Bush 41 and 43, blast anyone who favors a system where everyone might have a chance to make it, though to be fair are only passive supporters of that philosophy. I'll bet that after having your fingers stomped on for a few years by one of those guys, especially when you spend most of your life supporting him, sounds even worse than the other guy, even though he isn't really anything to write home about either.
Oh and be careful of those straw men, sometimes those finger stomping guys come dressed as one of those and you only find out the truth after you're hanging from the ledge.
