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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:25 AM
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If the repub assholes really had their way, what would they do to America?
Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 06:39 AM by Philosoraptor
Would they seal off all our borders? Would they make English the official language? Would they wall off Wyoming and put all the black people there? Would they enslave the Mexicans? Would they reduce the min. wage to 50 cents? Would they declare America white only?

Would they force liberals to wear a large red "L"? Would they round up all the atheiests, intellectuals and homosexuals and put them in camps to be tortured?

Naaaahhhh.....they wouldn't do THAT would they?
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:33 AM
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1. destroy it and
then sit in the ashes & lament "why?"
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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:39 AM
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2. You've seen a preview in the last eight years.
Edited on Fri Aug-15-08 06:40 AM by mwb970
Conservative policies and rhetoric, combined with legions of mindless, sheeplike followers, are killing America. mccain wants to finish the job bush has done so well at.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:39 AM
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3. They would plunder everything and everyone until there is no
longer anything of value left and then live out their lives in enclaves for the wealthy wherever they might be. They are too short sighted to realize that in the end, those "enclaves" will also
become unlivable.

After all, we and they are citizens of a planet with rapidly diminishing resources and increasing toxic conditions. The human race is functioning like a massive "death machine" with no apparent concern that we are killing everything that we contact, including ourselves.

We could do better than that if we could figure out how to select sane leaders rather than socio-paths.
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lligrd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:40 AM
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4. They Would Kill Us (Preferably Through A Public Torture Ritual)
and when they ran out of us and the were taken they would wonder what happened to America.
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:41 AM
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5. Yours is a very good post, one that all Americans should at least
read and try to answer the question.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:45 AM
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6. Poor farms would come back because social programs
of any type would be gone. Grandma would get excited when Fancy Feast was on sale.
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Bobcat Donating Member (87 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:47 AM
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7. Had Their Way?
They HAVE had their way! Even with Dems controlling Congress. The plan is to turn the U.S. into a 3rd world country. The plan appears to be on schedule.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:48 AM
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8. If they were truly above the law, like dick and dubya, Mad Max
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donco6 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 06:52 AM
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9. Everything would be "fee for service".
No more public education.

No public health.

No public transportation.

More public support of oil and other corps.

No taxes on the biggest corps, but no change on small business.

No civic planning.

More public support of "circuses" - sports teams, etc.

Less support for national health services, like CDC, FDA, NIH, food inspections, product inspections.

Bread lines. Increased infant mortality.
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 07:06 AM
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10. They'd rack up massive debt; invade countries for oil assets; privatize everything; kill Soc. Sec.
...stack the courts with lifetime-appointed, right-wing judges; glom onto Social Security funds; appoint their family and friends to high-level government posts; reward the richest 1% further with massive buy-outs and bail-outs; promise tax cuts while they're raising payroll taxation; and nurture their unparalleled contempt for the people they're sworn to serve -- they'll just laugh about their malfeasance and manifold transgressions; all the while getting pass after pass by the spineless, lap-dog media

In short, the repub assholes have already had their way for the past 7 1/2 years. They've pulled some truly insane and highly illegal shit, and have barely broken a sweat while doing so. :grr:

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elizfeelinggreat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-15-08 07:21 AM
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11. They had a Contract On America
and they were opportunists: 9/11, Iraq, Katrina.

"I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub."

They're getting there faster than even they dreamed!

"Cutting the government in half in one generation is both an ambitious and reasonable goal," Norquist stated in May 2000. "If we work hard we will accomplish this and more by 2025.
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Philosoraptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 07:26 PM
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12. .............
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 08:58 PM
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13. A cross between...
...Nazi Germany and modern day China.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 09:09 PM
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14. we'd just be another dictatorship
I mean, isn't that their ultimate goal? Look how stupid their fans are.
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FKA MNChimpH8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 09:12 PM
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15. Steal everything that they haven't already stolen
and reinstate a modernized form of feudalism. The atheists and gays would probably be exterminated by Blackwater.

We'd be damned lucky to get off as well as the Chinese are. China is at least building the one thing the Repukes hate more than they hate anything else: a real middle class. To a Repuke, every dollar in the pocket of a teacher, a nurse, a firefighter or anyone else in the middle class, is a dollar that they feel entitled to by divine right.
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chemenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-16-08 10:42 PM
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16. Watch ... "V for Vendetta" ... if you haven't already watched it.
And if you have, then watch it again ... and again ... and again. This movie makes it perfectly clear what their vision is for our future.
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