Why Republicans Lose

[Tom Joad]

I just had to post this opinion piece by right winger David Horowitz.

It is so full of shit, but it gives you insight into how these assholes rationalize their positions.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/01/why-republicans-lose/

Over the last fifty years the Democrats have trapped tens of millions of poor black and Hispanic children in schools that don’t teach them, because they are run for the benefit teachers unions and to fill the Democrats’ slush funds. Democrats have condemned these children to lives of poverty and hopelessness. But Republicans are too polite to mention it.

And women? Over the last fifty years, Democrat-designed welfare programs have seduced single mothers into accepting a support system that destroys their incentives to better themselves and condemns them to lives of permanent poverty as members of the underclass. A free apartment, free food, and a monthly stipend would kill almost anybody’s incentive to seek out the vast opportunities that America affords its free citizens.

Republicans need to understand that the political battle is a moral battle. The Democratic Party is a racist party whose bootheel is on the necks of poor black and Hispanic children and their parents across this nation.

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[finnbow]

There's definitely an element of truth to his first paragraph. The rest is mostly warmed-over conservative claptrap.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

There's definitely an element of truth to his first paragraph.

I don't buy that.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I don't buy that.

The symbiotic relationship between the Democratic Party and the teachers unions is abundantly clear and let nobody convince you that teachers unions exist for the sake of students.

[Tom Joad]

More good stuff.

The Democratic Party is also anti-freedom. It has spent the last six years ramming through a government program that takes away the individual’s ability to choose his or her health care. The government says you can only choose from our plans, and if you have played by the rules and worked hard and earned a reasonable income we are going to stick our hands in your pocket and subsidize somebody who hasn’t. Obamacare is the most anti-American idea imposed on this nation since the end of slavery, and yet every Democrat is behind it.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I don't buy that.

Neither do I. The whole screed is fulla crap.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The symbiotic relationship between the Democratic Party and the teachers unions is abundantly clear and let nobody convince you that teachers unions exist for the sake of students.

You're really down on public sector unions.

I'm not a big fan of them myself but my experience with them is that they are really too weak to have much of a negative, or positive impact.

We had one where I worked for the State of Florida and it was a joke. We used to call it "collective begging".

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Neither do I. The whole screed is fulla crap.

But they believe this shit with all their hearts and souls.

I guess they have to in order to be able to sleep at night.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by finnbow

The symbiotic relationship between the Democratic Party and the teachers unions is abundantly clear and let nobody convince you that teachers unions exist for the sake of students.

and management does?

Unions exist to protect the workers from unfair treatment from management and their customers. In the case of schools, the customers happen to be parents who often will chuck fairness aside when their snot nosed kids complain about all the injustices heaped upon them by ol' teach.

[finnbow]

Here's an article illustrative of the problems that teachers unions (and their symbiotic relationship with (mostly Democratic) politicians) cause.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/...-for-students/