If this is your first course in GOP 101, then pay attention there will be a test. These are the core GOP principles:
- Seek the lowest costs for labor through lowering of wages, less or no benefits, and unsafe working conditions.
- Seek ever cheaper labor by taking jobs in America and sending them overseas.
- Seek the most limited or non existent regulatory environment and pass laws to limit liability from violations when they do occur (which has the practical effect to enable the pollution of our air and water, poisoning of our foods and medicine, and the injury through defective products).
- Place the tax burden to pay for government services on individual wages and seek lower and lower taxes for the super rich (who make income through dividends and capital gains) and corporations.
- To enable you to implement #1, #2, #3 and #4 above, divide the American people on cultural issues (religion, sexual orientation, gun rights, etc.) to distract them from establishing their own economic interests in a political context.
- Instill fear in the American public through manufactured crises and created "boogeymen". Then diminish your political opponents by claiming to be more "patriotic" and the better keeper of "American Values" than they, and therefore are more fit to manage the created crises.
Now for an open book quiz. Only one question: Why would anyone vote for the GOP that was not rich?
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