The GOP Has No New Ideas Because Elderly Billionaires Own Its Brain

[EndGOPPropaganda]

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/gop-ideas-billionaires-donors-tax-cuts-one-percent-paul-ryan.html?gtm=top&gtm=bottom

When the Republican Party took full control of the federal government in 2017, a drug overdose epidemic had just killed more Americans in a single-year than the Vietnam War had claimed over its entire duration. Wage growth for working-class families was tepid, while the costs of housing, healthcare and higher education were soaring. Every month, more than 10 million Americans were cutting back on basic nutrition to make rent; every year, tens of thousands were being forced into bankruptcy to cover medical costs. A trillion dollars of student debt had formed an anchor around the millennial generation’s neck, pinning ambitious college graduates down in their parents’ basements. The boomers were entering retirement as the birth-rate was plummeting – and the market was giving working families every incentive to keep the latter in free fall. The racial wealth gap was becoming a chasm, while videos of police officers executing black men had too ubiquitous to make headlines. Inequities in the distribution of income had grown so vast and consequential, the nation’s super-rich enjoyed a life expectancy 15 years longer than its poor. And it had been the hottest year in recorded history for three consecutive years.

Congressional Republicans surveyed this landscape — and concluded that the most pressing policy problems facing the United States in 2017 were that corporate profits (while historically high) were not historically high enough; that taxes on the wealthy (while historically low) were not quite historically low enough; and that (in the middle of a historic public health emergency) the federal government was spending far too much on basic medical care and addiction treatment for the poor.

The Republican Party’s largest shareholders don’t want novel answers to public problems – they want to maximize the returns on their political investments. This leaves the GOP incapable of offering voters credible solutions to contemporary challenges, and thus, requires them to lean on “visceral issues” (a.k.a. white racial panic) to retain and mobilize a mass base. And you don’t need policy wonks to make aging white people feel aggrieved and alienated by intimations of demographic change – racist reality stars are more than capable of fulfilling that function.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

1. President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better

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....than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

What is stunning..is that they [elderly white republiklans] "would cut off the nose to spite the face" look the other way as the rich get richer...and they get nothing but the satisfaction that gop is sticking it to democrats and people of color, nonchristians, lgbt immigrants and refugees. Johnson coined that phrase some 50yrs ago and it still holds true to day ..all because they hate the other. Trump could resign tomorrow and we'd still be left with greedy, racist, bigoted misogynistic grand ole party spewing hate propaganda and lies through it's echo chamber (fox news, hate radio, multi media programming, including christian hate programs) about everyone... really--as long as they can keep their base fed and content with hate, daily racist dog whistles, now full blown fog horn...nothing will change except the wealthier become even more wealthy, more greedy and want even more.

[EndGOPPropaganda]

3. Democratic President Lyndon Johnson also once said "We /shall/ overcome"

What a man

[RestoreAmerica2020]

6. Yes. Thanks! We would not have the Civil Rights Act of 1964...if it were not for Johnson and civil

right leaders, movement. President Johnson was in tune to the pulse of the nation, he perhaps knew racist white America better than anyone ...he also knew change was inevitable; he was truly a leader of his time--democratic leaders are usually on the right side of history and consistently promote the well being, safety of all Americans; support democratic values around the globe.

Civil Rights Act 1964. This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

[Trust Buster]

2. They can always run on their old standby - fear.

[hatrack]

5. They're not running on it - they're distracting on it

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[Trust Buster]

7. Potato-potatoe.

[Chickensoup]

4. GOP has no brain ...kabish!

[rickyhall]

8. American progress ended with him

NixonReaganBushTrump, criminals all, have done more to fuckup our country than any before them. All lied & cheated to become presidents.