The Lone Star Strategy or The House that Conservatives built
Having heard Senator Sander’s discussion on the floor, I thought the outing of the republican vision for this nation in total should be preserved on the net in writing. People hear bits and piece but never put the entire picture together. Maybe reading the list will help people picture the finished house the conservative mind is working overtime to build.
It’s like the HGTV show Property Brothers. I am always amazed at the inability of the people to see the potential results when they are shown a property that has the foundation needed to realize their desire of what a home should have and be. The new home owners have presented a list of wants. They are unable to see how their wants fit with the properties shown. Then the brothers show them the CAD visuals and the people get it. Yet even during the building out of the project, the new owners struggle with accepting the completion will be what they envisioned and saw in the plans.
We’ll, here is the version of what the conservatives (not just republicans, but the libertarians and New Democrats) have in their minds for an ideal America. As you read it, keep in mind what you would like to see in the house, what you would like to have it feel like :
1. An orderly transition to individual private retirement accounts and the elimination of Social Security.
2. Privatization of Veterans health care.
3. Abolish all federal agencies who’s activities are not enumerated in the constitution including the department of education and the department of energy.
4. Oppose mandatory kindergarten
5. Abolish the EPA
6. Abolish the 16th amendment and thus get rid of the IRS to be replaced with a national, state collected sales tax.
7. Abolish the capital gains tax and estate tax.
8. Repeal the minimum wage.
If you are struggling with what this list means regarding the way your house will look, the way your house will flow as you walk in it you best start talking to people who might be able to help you imagine it. You might want to ask these planners/builders exactly what the results will be and do not let them speak in generalities.
If this plan is not what you are envisioning, then you best inform the designers and builders. There will not be a CAD plan presented so that you can have an idea of what this list results in, there will only be the reality of the list as the door is opened to this new home.
To help you imagine the experience of living in a home based on the above list of requirements I present Bill Moyers essay of 9/27/2013: Joblessness is killing us
Bill Moyers Essay: Joblessness is Killing Us | Moyers & Company | BillMoyers.com.
Daniel:
Thank you for expanding on the topic of the disenfrahisement of America.. I would add that this crop of politicians are not conservatives as much as Neocons. These are not the conservatives one would imagine of Barry Goldwater’s ilk. I bekieve Barry would have relieved himself of their pseudo-beliefs.
They are not Goldwater conservatives
They are not Reagan Conservatives
They are not Eisenhower conservatives.
They are John Birch Society radical reactionaries.
Here is a youtube vid of Bernie’s speech. 11 1/2 min.
JzB
Jazz:
I never gave the Birch Society a thought on that one. I am going to suggest you are correct
Barry would have relieved himself on them.
Jerry:
You made me laugh with that one, I suspect Dirksen would have also.
I get the Birch/neocon distinction however, as far as the general public is concerned there are liberals and conservatives. The third category is independent ( can be cruel here and say this is the one used by those who are afraid to be spit on).
Currently, our media system is not and has not made a distinction of degree of conservatives within the Republican party. Instead those who would be of the Eisenhower/Goldwater/Reagan variety are allowed to be considered independents. Plus they are keeping their mouths shut regarding their party. If such is the case, and such republicans do not want to be know as republicans and by label conservative…then conservative is now defined as and by those standing up and saying they are republican.