What do republicans want?

[abelenkpe]

Republicans are willing to lay off tens of thousands of workers because of the sequester in a struggling economy if democrats don't agree to what? Cut spending aka lay off workers? Or cut Medicare, social security and defund Obamacare? 

I'm confused. Republicans get to screw the majority of the nation over one way or another? And democrats are supposed to bargain with them? For what? Which method of being fucked over we prefer?

[madokie]

1. Nothing short of Obama resigning will satisfy them

[abelenkpe]

2. Sure seems that way

I love how they get to inflict pain one way or another. It's a win win for republicans.

[madokie]

3. The pukies have taken us back to pre 60s

Its racism plain and simple, nothing more or nothing less

[no_hypocrisy]

4. It may have started with racism, but it's evolved to anything not neocon, non-conservative,

non-Tea Party.

I contend that if you have another democrat in the WH who's 100% European, Caucasian, s/he'd have the same push-back from the republicans. This is how they roll. Our way or the highway.

[TheKentuckian]

10. That won't do either. There is no final victory they will push and push.

Like a black hole they appear to take little breaks but they resume sucking everything in after a time.

[Freddie]

5. They want us to be a third world country

With the wealthy living in luxury behind gated walls and the rest of us living in shacks working for pennies, with no government guaranteed anything (education, health care, etc.). And women as second-class citizen brood mares. The only things us peons will be good for is to do the work that makes them rich and as cannon fodder for their endless wars.

[abelenkpe]

6. Why do people accept this?

Still can't get over the article yesterday from the AP where a reporter in all seriousness claimed that Chavez squandered his countries wealth on healthcare and education for the poor successfully lifting a large legion of impoverished people out of poverty instead of building skyscrapers for the wealthy.

Everything you seems spot on. Why are so many OK with this? What kind of country are we creating by starving our public school system, actively defunding healthcare and programs designed to keep future seniors from poverty?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. In a feat of propaganda

There is no sense of class in the United States. Why we all are middle class, whether you make 20K and are single, or 250K and have a family of four. We all are middle class.

In reality our 20K earning single person is a member of the working class and our 250k earning family of four is a member of the upper middle class, in cheaper markets a member of the wealthy classes. (Taking into account NYC and Los Angeles). But by a feat of propaganda both call themselves middle class..it can't be, it is not...but this is how peope self identify. And of course our 20K earning fictional worker is the next Bill Gates.

Ain't propaganda great?

[Populist_Prole]

7. That's pretty much it. It's their long term goal

If they can make a few bucks along the way while they do it, to them it's all gravy.

[olddots]

9. I think they want a hug

they want attention which is normal but they seem to lack empathy and vision outside of a tiny circle of family and friends.
Their mantra of " I got mine fuck you" will be their demise but I wish we didn't have to wait for them to implode .Repukes think we are passive candy assed T.V. hippies they saw in a documentary .

[talkingmime]

11. As the unfortunately common bumper sticker says, "Put the WHITE back in the White House".

It's bad enough to them to have a Democrat for a president, but his race is beyond what they can handle. The GOP is openly racist now and they're willing to harm the country in any way they can to prove it. I'm disgusted with them. We've got one of, if not the, best presidents in history right now and a first lady who can't be matched. They need to get over it and work FOR us, not against us, but that would require a sense of ethics the GOP just doesn't grasp - and that includes FOX and the right-wing AM radio hate mongers.

[MyshkinCommaPrince]

12. A new power structure.

I'm increasingly convinced that the real battle of our time, aside from climate change, is global corporations versus self-determining populations. The RW wants to replace democracies with corporate oligarchies, seeing nation states as irrelevant while global corporations walk the earth. Mixed up in all of this is the fact that many of them would welcome wide-scale population reduction. Fewer of us means more for them and their descendants.

But I do tend toward paranoia at times. Possibly I need to check myself.