Ever since Reagan Democrats, many people in our party seem to think the way to win is to become the Republicans. Reagan used the Social Security payroll tax increase of 1983 to pay for tax cuts for the rich, which amounted to a massive transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich.
And Reagan democrats helped reelect him to boot.
Not so long ago, I thought it was common understanding that the goal of the republican party is to transfer as many public resources as possible into private hands, (crippling the government in the process, making it harder for government to impose/enforce regulations on the private sector).
That's not common understanding anymore. Now 'our' party engages in the same tactics of large public-to-private resource transfers, with stuff like continued Wall Street bailouts, MIC, through trumped-up wars against countries that in no way pose a real threat to our national security etc.
And if that's not becoming the republicans enough, we should think about how 'we've' continued the republican agenda of shredding the Constitution with the Patriot Act, Indefinite detention without charge or trial, Torture
Do we have to keep giving republicans their dream-agenda?
Can we please stop being the fu€King the republicans?