by Pietro Sirianni

Created on: March 22, 2009

Yes the republican party is broken. Not only is it broken, it is fundamentally flawed.The principles the republican party claims to uphold are shed and re-donned like seasonal attire, depending on the political climate. This has always been the case in politics to some varying degree or other, but the violent swings of the party have become like the flailing arms of an angry, blind giant. The republican party's ship is sinking and the rats are going overboard.

Talk show radicals were the first to jump ship. We hear them occasionally on AM radio which is a sign in itself. Our society affords us the luxury of hundreds of cable stations to choose from, none of them would dare give these radicals a forum. In an odd twist, the members that factionalized first are considered the De-facto leaders of the party. When looked at in a purely objective light, one would have to consider the GOP very unstable.

To further this party's lack of respectability comes the issue of taxation of the wealthy. The republican party feels the middle man should bare the brunt of taxation. They claim that the wealthy infuse our economy with liquidity and therefore should not be taxed as heavily. What they fail to mention is that any tax monies collected from the wealthy are re-infused into the economy. The money does not mysteriously disappear, it goes into public works type projects. The Hoover Dam was a public works project and that landmark's success speaks for itself. This now is being called socialism by the republican party in a desperate attempt to keep their affluent patrons as wealthy as possible. The simple needs and dreams of the 95% of Americans who are not wealthy are coldly overlooked by the republican party.

The final nail in the republican party's coffin is one being driven by an irrepressible force; the American people. There has been an awakening of sorts. More, and more people are walking away from the republican party. The polls show it, the last election reflected it. The American people are tired of the republican rhetoric, they are tired of the wealthy not paying their fair share of the taxes, they are tired of wars started on false pretenses, they are tired of the politics of fear, they are tired of not having affordable health insurance, they are tired of corporate greed let loose by republican politicians, they are just plain tired of the lies and they are doing something about it.

The republican ship has sunk.

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