The Republicans laid out their so-called "Pledge to America" today and it's, well, pretty awful. This Huffington Post item lays it out pretty succinctly:
The GOP's Pledge to America:
1. We pledge to serve the rich.
2. We pledge to blame the poor for being poor.
3. We pledge to defend the right of the Religious Right to destroy the separation of church and state.
4. We pledge to expand the world's addiction to oil and help big business destroy the health of our planet.
5. We pledge to destroy health care reform to ensure that big business continues to profit off the sick.
6. We pledge to cut funding for public institutions that do not serve the rich.
7. We pledge to tolerate homophobia, racism, and islamophobia.
8. We pledge to demonize smart people as un-American elitists (unless they are Republican) and to teach pseudoscience.
9. We pledge to define any opposition to our foreign policy ideas as treason.
10. We pledge to pretend to care about America when we really only care about ourselves. And if we fail to win, we pledge to force a sixty-vote supermajority on every bill, making America as ungovernable as possible.
Is it just me, or is America getting more and more conservative all the time? It's very disheartening to see the middle class disappearing. It's disheartening to see the Tea Party, middle class people with anger that is completely earned, by the way- get tricked into campaigning against their own interests by Republicans and Big Business. It's disheartening to still by fighting to have civil rights in the country where I was born. It's disheartening to see Americans turning their backs on science, progress, intellectualism, innovation- all the while chipping away at the separation of church and state. It's disheartening and frightening.
But there are little things that make me think things will be okay sometimes.
Today is the day that health care reform goes into effect. That's no small potato. Democrats have been trying to get health care reform for eleventy-five years. Is it perfect reform? No. But it is something. It will make many, many people's lives measurably better, measurably easier. This is what government should do, and I guess that's the real difference between liberals and conservatives when you come right down to it. Liberals believe in government that does the most good for the most people. Conservatives believe in the idea of "each man for himself."
I don't believe in "each man for himself," because as a gay man who grew up poor, I have experience that tells me the fight is fixed. There's a very good reason that the people always crying out for "smaller government" are mostly white, mostly Christian men. They have all the power and they want to keep it.
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