The republicans are hypocrites

You know, as someone who has been against the GOP for a good 5 years now, this should be blatantly obvious, but since I don't talk about them a lot and have been focusing more on the democrats, I figured it was time to throw some fire the GOP's way.

The GOP are hypocrites. They are completely unprincipled political opportunists who say one thing and do another. They have no principles, except looking out for their rich cronies and screwing over everyone else. Whatever grievances I may have with the democrats, the republicans are far, far worse. And it's time we discuss some of the crap they're doing.

For the last year, they've been stonewalling Obama's supreme court nominees. They wouldn't even have hearings on Merrick Garland, even though his nomination was more or less selling the progressives out in pushing a center right supreme court nominee, and they've been saying that congress has every right to not hold hearings and any attempt by Obama to force it through would be some sort of tyrannical executive action against the constitution.

Now that the republicans are coming to power, they're about facing on that. All of the sudden, Mitch McConnell, the turd who more or less masterminded this extreme obstruction of Obama, is all of the sudden saying the public won't tolerate obstructing the republicans in nominating their own justice. Hey, Mitch, I got two words for you:

SCREW YOU

After the 6 years of hell this guy has put the democrats through, no, I hope the democrats obstruct this to the very end. Unless the GOP is willing to nominate Garland themselves, or someone to the left of him, the democrats should do everything in their power to stop their plans. Maybe with future justices we can make a legitimate case that yeah, those are legitimately there for president Trump to nominate, but as far as Scalia's replacement goes, this nomination was essentially STOLEN from Obama, and the democrats should shut down the entire procedure with filabusters until they're willing to push for a justice that would be in line with Obama's tastes.

I don't necessarily support the democrats opposing something SIMPLY because the republicans are for it, but insofar as the GOP is trying to push an agenda not in line with the best interests of the American public, the democrats should use a scorched earth strategy against them. And on the topic of supreme court nominees, it's only fair and just for them to pretty much stonewall any nomination not in line with the left's interests as hard as humanly possible under the constraints of the institution.

Now, with that out of the way, time to cover the other story in which the GOP is hypocritical. Apparently it turns out that repealing Obamacare, something the GOP is insistent on doing right away without really replacing it with anything better like, you know, single payer will actually COST us money and add to the federal debt.This shouldn't come as any surprise. The GOP uses debt reduction rhetoric to further their ideological goals and nothing more. They don't really care about the debt, they just use it as a weapon against the democrats in order to tell them we can't afford anything. But honestly? Reagan tripled the debt. Bush Jr. doubled it with tax cuts and going into Iraq. In 2011, when the tea party took charge did they care about the debt? NO! They didn't. They waved it around to force spending cuts, but then they tried to give tax breaks to millionaires, which would...surprise, surprise, raise the debt! And this is what the republicans will do here. Those tea party republicans are about to expose their true colors and raise the debt significantly during their term. They will do it by cutting taxes, getting involved in unnecessary military conflicts, and do stupid things like repeal republican lite healthcare programs (because let's face it, Obamacare is rebranded Romneycare) that save money. All in order to push for this grand ideal of theirs of "smaller government." They're ideologues. They don't care about the people. They care about their ideas. This is a well known political strategy known as "starving the beast" intended to restrict what democrats can do in office by claiming we can't afford stuff, while lowering taxes and sabotaging social programs. The end goal is to go to some form of minarchist libertarian government because we can't afford to do any more because our debt balloons to levels where funding programs is impractical. The GOP is sabotaging our government intentionally, they're sabotaging the American people, in order to push abstract ideas out of touch with the people, and even more pertinent, give the rich a better deal. We all know what will happen in libertarian type societies, I've railed against this enough on this blog. About how wealth will concentrate to the top, the poor become de facto slaves, and people will struggle just to survive in perpetuity.

These ideas MUST BE STOPPED. I wish the democrats were more trustworthy in taking up the fight against the GOP here, and I hope they grow some cajones in the next 4 years, because we need a strong, unapologetic democratic party that stands up for liberal and progressive values to stop this. Unfortunately, the democrats seem to be part of the problem and seem to play along with the GOP. They run to the center to appease them, they try to compromise with them, and they sell out their values in the process. They're like Neville Chamberlain in trying to appease Hitler, when we need a Churchill to actually TAKE THEM ON. It's not enough to be the lesser evil, because that only feeds them in the long term, they need to be the greater good. I hope in the next 4 years people turn away from the republican party for good and embrace much more left wing values. Because these republicans are hypocritical ideologues who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals, and we need to be just as firm in the other direction if we want to stop them. We  need them to say, "NO, we won't let you nominate far right supreme court justices who died on the democrats' watch, NO, we won't let you repeal Obamacare these ideas are counter to the interests of the American people and the greater good, and we will not only oppose you, we will present even better ideas for you to implement." We need to not only oppose the GOP, we need to stand for something better than them, and be willing to fight for it, which is where the democrats have lost their way. It's not good enough to be a sell out opposition party, you need to stand for something and be willing to achieve it. And you need to take the fight to the GOP. I wish Obama would have done this, especially in his second term, and I hope the democrats learn from their defeat and do this now. The GOP is like the terminator. It can't be bargained with, it can't be reasoned with, and it won't stop until it achieves its goals. The democrats have to be willing to stand up to them if we have any hope of ever defeating them.