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In reply to the discussion: Why Republicans Are Opposed to Supporting the Poor - An Open Secret [View all]MineralMan
(146,288 posts)maintaining the working and poor classes in this country. Virtually everything that supports those people is the product of Democrats when they have control of the government.
Right now, that is not the case, and the current Republican Congress and White House are working as quickly as possibly to undo every beneficial measure created by Democrats. And they are succeeding to a large degree. More is coming down the legislative pipeline, too, that will further remove protections and benefits from working and poor Americans.
The goal of the oligarchic Republican Party is to remove them all. That was the clear danger of putting Republicans in control of all three branches of government. The warnings were clear in 2016, but were deflected by some who should have known better. The result is that we did allow the Republicans to gain control of all three branches.
There is still an empty seat on the SCOTUS. Once that is filled by a conservative, the process will be complete. The results of that will be terrible, as predicted by many of us in the run-up to the 2016 election. Now, we have lost that election, and the dismantling of a wide range of support for workers and the poor has begun apace.
We're going to learn more about our mistake in short order, and over the next two years, which is a long enough period for the oligarchs and the Republicans to wipe out decades of progress. They are working very efficiently to do exactly that, and the bills that are coming out of Congress are shockingly destructive.
We'll understand more fully soon how big our mistake was. The question will be whether we can muster enough support to begin reversing that destruction. I'm not sure we can, to be frank. It will require all of us to cooperate and unite to elect a Congress in 2018 that has at least one house with a Democratic majority. If we fail to do that, as we failed in 2016, the Republicans will have the time needed to make it almost impossible.
If you are not very afraid of that happening, you are not paying attention, Democrats.