Kepler
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Re: The PPACA Thread Part V: Doctor! Doctor! Give me the news!
I think you do understand it. All but one Republican policy is driven purely by optics. The content and consequences literally do not matter. All that matters is how the policy plays in public, whether it garners more votes and more donations and more airtime for the party.
The one exception is amplifying the wealth of the richest people in the world (not in the US -- the GOP is not an American political party, it is the US franchise in the global 1% swindle of everyone else). Policies that directly transfer wealth from others to the 1% are the vital center of the GOP. Those are intentional and essential.
Everything else is just to sell the theft. In a democratic nation that means propaganda and votes, so you get talk radio and Fox News. In an African dictatorship it's giving away natural resources to the 1%. At the World Bank and the IMF it's funneling the tax money of the middle class in the developed world to the coffers of the 1% in the undeveloped world, while forcing austerity on small countries to destroy their middle classes and the socialist threat to their feudal elites. In fascist countries it's just the ruling party kicking in your front door and taking your stuff. But all those shops are in the same mall. The business model varies with the political rights of the victims, but the result is always the same.
I think you do understand it. All but one Republican policy is driven purely by optics. The content and consequences literally do not matter. All that matters is how the policy plays in public, whether it garners more votes and more donations and more airtime for the party.
The one exception is amplifying the wealth of the richest people in the world (not in the US -- the GOP is not an American political party, it is the US franchise in the global 1% swindle of everyone else). Policies that directly transfer wealth from others to the 1% are the vital center of the GOP. Those are intentional and essential.
Everything else is just to sell the theft. In a democratic nation that means propaganda and votes, so you get talk radio and Fox News. In an African dictatorship it's giving away natural resources to the 1%. At the World Bank and the IMF it's funneling the tax money of the middle class in the developed world to the coffers of the 1% in the undeveloped world, while forcing austerity on small countries to destroy their middle classes and the socialist threat to their feudal elites. In fascist countries it's just the ruling party kicking in your front door and taking your stuff. But all those shops are in the same mall. The business model varies with the political rights of the victims, but the result is always the same.
