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If there is one thing that no one can take away from the right-wing, it is that they are organized and led from the shadows by a group of very intelligent people. The GOP is good at politics, even if their policies are not good for the country. With that said, I present to you the unofficial “Ten Step Plan to Power: Ruining the Country AND Getting Re-Elected”:
Step 1: Support Among the Rich and Powerful
Step 2: A Propaganda War
It must be asked, what the purpose of the right-wing making friends with the rich is if they don’t expect something in return? Obviously, the right-wing needs money to finance their politics; and they need more of it than the Democrats because, simply, their message is less popular. Therefore, the right-wing uses war tactics to win such as, propaganda.
Over the past few decades, the GOP has slowly been transforming from the party of somewhat noble values to a party controlled by far-right activists, the “Tea Party.” The important aspect of this is that the party’s voting base hasn’t changed; it’s the same as before. So how are they kept voting on party lines for a party they should, by all measures, no longer support? The answer, and always will be for situations like this, is propaganda. The Right bounces from enemy to enemy but the pattern is clear, to maintain your electorate you must: demonize the enemy to the point where even your ideas are more acceptable than “the other side’s.”
Take the Tea party’s relentless attacks on President Barack Obama. Posters of him bearing “Hitler’s Mustache” and the swastika on an arm band, or where he’s given the likeness of Stalin, are everywhere. Very few men can claim the title of “More Evil Than Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin”. You can’t simply out-murder them; their policies led to the deaths of millions, even when they were not intentionally killed. The message clearly is that Obama is evil, and he must be stopped! The demonizing of Health Care Reform as “socialism” is another example of these unfair attacks.
Another strategy in the right-wing propaganda war is, word association. To many people, the term “liberal” is now something of a curse; the unfair, absurd use of the word is an effective tactic. Socialism too, is a good thing that has been destroyed by association with “death panels” and Stalin. Tax reform, according to them, is class warfare: destroying our country because it is putting an unfair burden on our “job-creators.” Enough people actually believe these things that it is difficult to use the terms, while the exact tactic the Left is accused of is used by the Right. Class warfare is alive and well in the tactics of the Right, but it is associated with the Left.
This is where the rich have always been essential to the GOP. It is difficult to organize a rally no one should support or to put campaign ads on TV, without a significant chunk of money. Take the Koches, for example, it has been estimated that they have donated upwards of $85 million to right-wing think tanks and Political Action Committees, all to advance their allies’ radical, pro-business agenda.
Step 3: Elected for Jobs
The Republican Party has a carefully crafted image. In many ways, it resembles the kid in High School that knows he’s different but just wants to fit in and be accepted. The difference is that the GOP is willing to do what it must to get into power and then its true colors will show. George Bush did this, Govs. Rick Snyder (Michigan) and Scott Walker (Wisconsin) both did this, and the freshmen Tea Party officials elected to Congress have done this.
Everyone remembers the pledge of the GOP in 2010: Jobs, with a capital J. The Republicans campaigned, saying that their focus would be creating jobs for the struggling economy. Hell, I don’t remember an election cycle with so unified a message. Of course, this fits right in with the general tactics of radical conservatives, everywhere. Confirming Godwin’s law a second time in only 800 words, this tactic is the same that was used by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party. This is, undoubtedly, a good tactic; so its success here is hardly a surprise.
Step 4: Shock Doctrine and Social Policy
There is no longer a doubt about where the GOP stands on politics. Social issues take precedent over actually helping the economy, end of story. “We have a deficit? Good! We can use this to end Planned Parenthood, PBS, and NPR!” This tactic is called Shock Doctrine, and has been used for centuries by dictators to seize more power. The theory is simple: when a catastrophe or something of the sort occurs, then the people are willing to be subjected to a more powerful government to help them. We’re seeing this all over the country: Michigan has the, now-infamous, Emergency Financial Manager law, Wisconsin was bullying public unions, and the Bush Administration’s Patriot Act and massive grab for power over the Executive Branch.
We have seen the use of the crisis to grab national attention. Michelle Bachmann is using both a social platform (God called me to run….and to stop gays from getting married) and an economic platform (no new taxes! Cut! Cut! Cut) to run for President, an office she is much, much too dangerous to hold. However, a combination of good propaganda and an energized base has given Bachmann, as well as new front-runner Gov. Rick Perry of Texas, large amounts of support.
Very few people in this country support any type of government other than a Republic, or, as it is so often called by the Right, our “democracy.” According to an A.P. U.S. Government book sitting on my bed, 93% of Americans consider democracy to be the best type of government. With such a high number of people honestly believing in democratic principles it must be asked; how are the people letting their rights be infringed? Some laws have thin veils of being “for the greater good” (Michigan and Wisconsin). While some snubbing of our system is done without any reason at all: confiscating cameras at town hall meetings, congressmen refusing to meet with constituents with whom their views differed.
Step 5: The Domino Effect
Step 5 is as far as the GOP has gotten and as far as I expect them to make it. From this point on, steps 6-10 will be pure speculation, albeit speculation with significant historical precedent. Stay tuned for Part II soon.
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If the republicans could get themselves elected dictator they would. The problem is they are all way to busy stabbing each other in the back to unite behind one person long enough to take power and even if they did their rule would last about a week. These people are sad fools that believe that all tax money not spent on them is wasted and that the rich deserve the wealth they got by exploiting other people but the people they exploited don’t deserve the price of a crust of bread and a decent place to live. I expect at some point that one or two things will happen. One the American electorate will wake up and realize that we are all in this together and that everyone deserves to have a decent life because that makes it better for all of us or we will continue to let greedy self serving assholes lead us own the path to our own destruction which by coincidence will lead them to the very same place.
This article is FULL OF BULLSHIT! Sarah Palin will completely DEBUNK and DISCREDIT this article. The DEMS are the ones that are DESTROYING this country. WE NEED PRESIDENT PALIN TO DESTROY THE DEMS AND DRIVE THEM TO EXTINCTION! WE WILL HAVE A 1 PARTY GOP ALL WHITE CONSERVATIVE WOMEN GOVT!
This is quite possibly the most ignorant and offensive comment I have heard recently. What does effective government have to do in any way shape or form with being white or a woman?????
Go back to your psychiatrist, troll, and tell him you need an increase in your meds. Only a mad psychopath would want a genuinely scary Bible-beating nutjob like Sarah Palin running things. She’s just a smarmy, wicked mental hospital escapee and mental defective who needs a good spanking.
Palin Power, is that supposed to be a joke, or are you?
If a candidate runs for office he/she should sign an oath that forbids them from other oaths taken that are of a
political nature, e.g., Grover Norquist. If they are elected and it is found that they have signed another oath,
they will be immediately removed from office without benefits for life.
You people are completely delusional. Can’t you see that our political system is totally broken and that all of the things you accuse the Republicans of can also be said of the Democrats? Example:
1. Support Among the Rich and Powerful
a. Ever heard of a certain billionaires named George Soros, Bill Gates & Ted Turner?
b. Who was the single largest donor to Barack Obama in the 2008 election campaign? Look it up, it was Goldman Sachs, one of the worst Wall Street criminal organizations that you claim only support the Republicans.
c. Don’t you find it interesting that Obama made the CEO of one if the biggest and most powerful corporations in America to be his Jobs Czar? (hint…GE).
2. A Propaganda War
a. Ever heard of Media Matters? Funded by your socialist demigod George Soros?
b. Who controls the rest of the mainstream media in this country, such as CNN, MSNBC, CBS, NBC& ABC?
c. How quickly you seem to have forgotten that liberals were calling George W. Bush all of the same names that conservatives now call Obama. I seem to remember that someone actually made a mock documentary of the assassination of George W. Bush, but of course that is art and not propaganda.
3. Elected for Jobs
a. Have you ever heard of the term…”Shovel Ready Jobs”? I seem to remember that Obama claimed that he was going to generate millions of shovel ready jobs if elected. Instead we spent billions of dollars bailing out foreign banks.
4. Shock Doctrine and Social Policy
a. You mention the Patriot Act, but somehow failed to remember that Obama pushed for it to be reinstated just last year. Bush created the monster and Obama ratified it.
b. Under Obama the TSA has expanded into a huge liberty sucking nightmare with naked body scanners and full pat down molestations of little children and the elderly.
c. You incoherently intermingle the terms “Republic” and “Democracy”. Please go back to High School Civics to learn the differences and understand that our country was founded as a Republic, not a Democracy.
5. The Domino Effect
a. You claim that it is a Republican agenda to have foreign wars, but why are you so silent on the fact that not only has Obama failed to bring the troops home as he promised, but has actually increased troop sizes in Afghanistan and EXPANDED our foreign wars with strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and our insane involvement in Libya.
b. Do you realize that we are fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and supporting them in Libya.
It is obvious from this post and other things on this site that you have no concept of what is happening in our country. The international bankers have monopolized our system and fund both sides of our political parties. They have hijacked our election process and destroyed our currency through fiat money that is based on nothing more than debt. You can keep playing your little “Left vs. Right” or “Republican vs. Democrat” games, but nothing is going to change until you recognize that the true enemy is the one controlling the money.
YES!
As a left-leaning person, and one who enjoys you article, I still must say that most “liberals” are still caught up in the delusion that the Democratic Party is free from corruption, the military-industrial complex, imperialism, etc.
Once Obama went into Libya, I began to solidify my view that he is also just a front for the military-industrial complex. I had my suspicions after learning that he placed into his administration key Wall Street people that were part of the very corruption we abhor and also the 2008 recession.
Wake up people, whether you lean left or right, your national government has been mostly taken over.
Can’t share this if you have a button at the bottom from a hate group asking us to join to stop Obama from gaining a 2nd term. If you can’t stop google from doing this (Are they owned by the Koch brothers or too?) then sharing is a problem; which is a shame because it’s a good article.
The ads are randomly generated by Google, so they change, and we are constantly working to block the offensive ones. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Seriously dude. The people being elected aren’t that smart, that’s why they put them in there. You missed the whole point. Think tanks have been paid for decades to write these steps which they utilize in order for the people once again to be owned by their masters, the corporation. The GOP isn’t interested in having or maintaining a rational society or an ecosystem capable of sustaining life, because they don’t care about even themselves! You’re totally correct: they’ll eat themselves until the water kills them: water never forgets.
Maybe the politicians aren’t that smart, but those controlling them are. Politicians only need know how to follow directions, stand in front of a camera or podium, and get paid back in wealth and/or power – even the most bumbling of them can handle that.
Thank you, so many people haven’t gotten that, which is, quite frankly, concerning. I’m not, and I never will say the likes of Bachmann and Perry are smart. The problem is that they don’t matter, they’re just pawns. We spend all our time saying Boehner this, Ryan that when there are honestly bigger fish to fry.
The masters aren’t smart — they are cunning. If they were smart they would see that they are ultimately destroying themselves too. Of course, some of them think they are so wealthy, they will take off to other planets, or create habitable, gated islands. In other words, delusional.
Actually, with the wealth some of them have -Koch Brothers, anyone?- it might be realistic for them to build an island.
I would have to say that they are getting what they want. Certainly, they are cunning, but they are also intelligent. Just because your world view does not line up with theirs does not mean they are unintelligent.
This plan does not belong solely to the Republican Party, who are mere dupes. It came through the Kochs and originated with the organization that their father founded, the racist John Birch Society whose stated aim is the same as the Society’s right hand the “Teaparty”: to end every social program that was created to keep ordinary Americans from dying destitute in the streets. If you are a card carrying Bircher, you cannot attain a security clearance in the military, because the John Birch Society is considered to be an un-American organization.
The Kochs brother’s father made his money in Fascist Nazi Germany and after the war tried to expand the empire into Russia where the government seized his assets. This created in him a lifelong hatred of communism and anything he considered a “socialist” program. When he returned to America bringing with him Fascist ideals, he and 11 other likeminded friends started the John Birch Society. Their organization ALEC, hand picks candidates for office and pays for their campaigns. Then these bought and paid candidates are hooked up with corporate lobbyists who then write legislation they want the representatives to present at the next session, like defunding the EPA. The Kochs are among the biggest polluters in all of America.
When Mussolini dissolved the Italian Government he replaced it with one formed by allowing the largest corporation in each district to choose a representative. Mussolini called this “corporatism”, but you can call it by its true name: FASCISM and this is what they want here. Not Government Of, By, and For the People; but government by the corporations and the wealthy. If this happens our next stop will be a slave labor camp like in Nazi Germany.
… Your picture is concept art for the game Fallout 3. Just an FYI
I was just thinking that. The Daily Telegraph made the same mistake.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/39012/Al-Qaeda-Swipes-Fallout-3-Art
you should read Just an observation @ whatourcountryisbecoming.blgspot.com about us turning into a 3rd world country by design
Why are you accepting money from Michele Bachmann’s campaign to run ads against Obama? Have you NO principles?
The ads are randomly generated by Google, and we try to block as many of them as we can. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Really, their leaders aren’t nearly as smart as they think they are. For them it’s all short-term gain. None of them are considering what the future might bring, and this isn’t the act of a particularly intelligent bunch of people. They’re like idiot savants–really good at politics, but brutally stupid when it comes maintaining a rational society and an ecosystem capable of sustaining life. They’re like a bunch of bright 5 year olds dropped into a room filled with cake. They’ll eat themselves sick, puke all over the place, and then blame everyone else for the mess.
If they only knew what the people really thought. Truly I believe that they are not so concerned with the ecosystem also. They’re out for instant gratification. Thanks for your words.
The point is that they aren’t trying to maintain a rational society. They’re not idiots, they’re just immoral.
How about firing all of the elected officials Democrats and Republicans by voting them out of office. Quit pointing fingers at one another when you are both equally guilty driving the country to runes.
I totally agree with you, Fred Flintstone. “Ditto”!!!
We need a good sustainable economy. For that, we need a good government. Blaming and acting out anger, won’t get us good government. The Tea Party and other fascist fronts take advantage of ignorant angry voters. Vote for well educated, intelligent, candidates who care about the people who elect them and who are competent to carry out their constitutional duties. Support them and rally against the tea party incompetent clowns.