All of these are ridiculous propaganda.
This is, of course, clear propaganda. It's like saying that we should pay teachers a million dollars a year because that's celebrating teachers, not penalizing them.
This is how the disastrous ugliness of plutocracy is hidden to people who fall for the propaganda - any limits on concentration of wealth are not 'celebrating success'.
Of course, Democrats are actually celebrating success - but not defining it as anything that makes money (sell bad medicine and disappear with the profits! Compete in industry by spending below what's needed for worker safety! Design a Wall Street scam!) And Democrats want more people to have opportunity - not just a few to own everything.
But let's just take one example of the argument's specifics:
...and the usurpation of the student loan business by the federal government...
Now, the old system was a taxpayer giveaway to banks - exactly the sort of thing Republicans are hired by the big businesses to do.
So they try to demonize the Democrats' policy - which is to stop paying a fortune in administrative costs to banks to issue loans *that are guaranteed by the federal government*, and to instead save a large amount of money on those bank payments and more efficiently do it themselves. What's wrong with that? Nothing, to citizens.
A lot, to banks, hence it making the Republicans' talking points propaganda.
So, you want to take 30 million people back off insurance, let insurers deny coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and many other abuses.
The American people do not. (So much for you later point you 'listen to the American people'). You listen to big corporate industries, like the insurers, not the people.
Suffice it to say that their argument argues against the *Republican* healthcare plan created to counter the Clintons the last time Republicans fought Democrats siding with the insurance industry - and that the reason for the bad compromises was the Republicans blocking a better plan, like the House passed for the public option - not to mention single-payer. It also has false information about the fiscal impact, painting hundreds of billions lower government spending as 'costing $2.5 trillion'.
You had 8 years to do that. You didn't. Now, the Democrats are cleaning up your mess (not enough, progressives are a minority, but you're like a man who was convicted for serial wife-beating showing up with roses at the house of your ex-wife and her new husband to criticize him for not buying her nice enough jewelry, she should take you back.)
No, what you want to do is to continue the starve the beast plan, where you first bankrupt the country, and then make the required cuts from things that benefit the public - leaving in place the ones that enrich the rich, your real bosses. It's another stage of your plan for turning the nation into a plutocracy.
Your plans, your choice of cuts, will weaken the nation and reduce the US's ability to be a world leader for more egalitarian policies - as wealth around the world would like.
You are an enemy of 'people power', and the agents of economic tyranny, ever shifting more wealth to the top and leaving the rest with less.
Democrats want to return to fiscal responsibility and understand first, spending is key to getting out of the mess you made, then we can cut.
Propaganda. You don't want any such thing, you want the opposite - to fight the progressives who actually represent the people's interests, for the rich.
It's 'the big lie' - you are the enemy of the American public, but if you say you are for their interests, some will fall for the lie.
Your policies constantly take from the people to give to the rich, using lies and propaganda to sell the policies that have resulted in a historic period of the people getting a small share of economic growth than any time in American history - and yet you want more for the rich.
Your propaganda technique is to tell a lie implying something not true about the Democrats. Imagine a reason to vote for Democrats list that had things like "we respect the constitution" or "we're against going to war with China and Europe" or "We are against the military policing the streets of America". These imply Republicans are FOR the other side on those things, just as these points lie about Democrats.
You mean the ones where you put out messages through your propaganda machine such as the Fox News channel to get some people to go and disrupt meetings - more relevant are the polls now showing not only a large majority of the American people, but even a majority of REPUBLICANS, oppose repealing the Democrats' healthcare bill as a whole - which is exactly what YOU voted to do as your first policy vote in power.
Ignoring the people and their interest to support your bosses, the insurance industry.
So, Republicans cannot be rewarded with electoral success.
Let's remind people of your huge giveaway policy of 'drug benefits' under Bush that gave hundreds of billions to your number one donor industry, big pharma, by not letting the government negotiate drug prices, as other agencies like the VA do - and how you even had some more fiscally responsible Republicans voting against it, so you just ignore the vote you lost when the time expired, and did something unprecedented, just extending the vote all night for hours as your leadership walked the floor offering threats and bribes to switch votes until you had just enough votes to pass it.
You don't want to elect such people, you say. Lies.
Oh, did the Marxist who likes to pal around with terrorists criticize your policies?
Another propaganda technique, playing the victim - trying to get people not to listen to the facts by misrepresenting the Democrats as 'slandering' Republicans.
As Harry Truman said, people told him to give Republicans hell - but he just told the truth about them, and the Republicans thought that was giving them hell.
They then go on to say Obama has no concern about Iran having nuclear weapons, funny for a party saying they don't want slander of opponents - and funny for a party that refused for over a year to ratify the renewal of the START treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons for no reason other than to deny Democrats a 'victory', ignoring every former REPUBLICAN secretary of state who said it was a critical need, until finally doing so after the elections.
They cite their non-issue where they created a phony problem and stirred up hate over the creation of a needed Muslim community center blocks from ground zero, for the American Muslims who were the real targets of 9/11 as Obama tried to provoke the US to invade Muslims and create division - the agenda Republicans are serving here - calling it wrongly 'a mosque at ground zero' and implying American Muslims or Islam in general are to blame.
And then having the gall to say that's an argument AGAINST slandering your opponents.
6. I want to be free.
No, you don't. You want the American people and the people of the world to have less freedom, politically and economically.
You are disgusting, corrupt creatures who dirty the word freedom by trying to distort it into serving your anti-freedom agenda.
The sort of 'freedom' you support is the freedom for the oligarchy to be 'free to pollute', 'free to monopolize', and other 'freedoms' for them that take away from Americans.
You try to get the people to fall for your propaganda by distorting 'freedom' as if their interests are with the corporate agenda, not opposed to the wrongs and excesses.
Remember your championing the 'freedom to compete internationally in finance' by deregulating the financial industry - something progressives opposed, while even many Democrats 'gave in to Republican pressure' and supported - how did that freedom go for the country? It went great for the billionares who profited from the schemes and abuses, the 'too big to fail' companies, your bosses, not so much the American people.
When the Democrats in turn successfully protected the US auto industry and employment with their actions to help GM deal with the financial crisis you created, you screamed how terribly they did it, protecting workers too much and planning a government takeover of the auto industry. Well, that Democratic policy worked out a hell of a lot better than your plan to 'let global competition end the US auto industry' or your protection of Wall Street that was far more costly.
You have offered six pieces of propaganda that are reasons NOT to vote Republican.
This is, of course, clear propaganda. It's like saying that we should pay teachers a million dollars a year because that's celebrating teachers, not penalizing them.
This is how the disastrous ugliness of plutocracy is hidden to people who fall for the propaganda - any limits on concentration of wealth are not 'celebrating success'.
Of course, Democrats are actually celebrating success - but not defining it as anything that makes money (sell bad medicine and disappear with the profits! Compete in industry by spending below what's needed for worker safety! Design a Wall Street scam!) And Democrats want more people to have opportunity - not just a few to own everything.
But let's just take one example of the argument's specifics:
...and the usurpation of the student loan business by the federal government...
Now, the old system was a taxpayer giveaway to banks - exactly the sort of thing Republicans are hired by the big businesses to do.
So they try to demonize the Democrats' policy - which is to stop paying a fortune in administrative costs to banks to issue loans *that are guaranteed by the federal government*, and to instead save a large amount of money on those bank payments and more efficiently do it themselves. What's wrong with that? Nothing, to citizens.
A lot, to banks, hence it making the Republicans' talking points propaganda.
So, you want to take 30 million people back off insurance, let insurers deny coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and many other abuses.
The American people do not. (So much for you later point you 'listen to the American people'). You listen to big corporate industries, like the insurers, not the people.
Suffice it to say that their argument argues against the *Republican* healthcare plan created to counter the Clintons the last time Republicans fought Democrats siding with the insurance industry - and that the reason for the bad compromises was the Republicans blocking a better plan, like the House passed for the public option - not to mention single-payer. It also has false information about the fiscal impact, painting hundreds of billions lower government spending as 'costing $2.5 trillion'.
You had 8 years to do that. You didn't. Now, the Democrats are cleaning up your mess (not enough, progressives are a minority, but you're like a man who was convicted for serial wife-beating showing up with roses at the house of your ex-wife and her new husband to criticize him for not buying her nice enough jewelry, she should take you back.)
No, what you want to do is to continue the starve the beast plan, where you first bankrupt the country, and then make the required cuts from things that benefit the public - leaving in place the ones that enrich the rich, your real bosses. It's another stage of your plan for turning the nation into a plutocracy.
Your plans, your choice of cuts, will weaken the nation and reduce the US's ability to be a world leader for more egalitarian policies - as wealth around the world would like.
You are an enemy of 'people power', and the agents of economic tyranny, ever shifting more wealth to the top and leaving the rest with less.
Democrats want to return to fiscal responsibility and understand first, spending is key to getting out of the mess you made, then we can cut.
Propaganda. You don't want any such thing, you want the opposite - to fight the progressives who actually represent the people's interests, for the rich.
It's 'the big lie' - you are the enemy of the American public, but if you say you are for their interests, some will fall for the lie.
Your policies constantly take from the people to give to the rich, using lies and propaganda to sell the policies that have resulted in a historic period of the people getting a small share of economic growth than any time in American history - and yet you want more for the rich.
Your propaganda technique is to tell a lie implying something not true about the Democrats. Imagine a reason to vote for Democrats list that had things like "we respect the constitution" or "we're against going to war with China and Europe" or "We are against the military policing the streets of America". These imply Republicans are FOR the other side on those things, just as these points lie about Democrats.
You mean the ones where you put out messages through your propaganda machine such as the Fox News channel to get some people to go and disrupt meetings - more relevant are the polls now showing not only a large majority of the American people, but even a majority of REPUBLICANS, oppose repealing the Democrats' healthcare bill as a whole - which is exactly what YOU voted to do as your first policy vote in power.
Ignoring the people and their interest to support your bosses, the insurance industry.
So, Republicans cannot be rewarded with electoral success.
Let's remind people of your huge giveaway policy of 'drug benefits' under Bush that gave hundreds of billions to your number one donor industry, big pharma, by not letting the government negotiate drug prices, as other agencies like the VA do - and how you even had some more fiscally responsible Republicans voting against it, so you just ignore the vote you lost when the time expired, and did something unprecedented, just extending the vote all night for hours as your leadership walked the floor offering threats and bribes to switch votes until you had just enough votes to pass it.
You don't want to elect such people, you say. Lies.
Oh, did the Marxist who likes to pal around with terrorists criticize your policies?
Another propaganda technique, playing the victim - trying to get people not to listen to the facts by misrepresenting the Democrats as 'slandering' Republicans.
As Harry Truman said, people told him to give Republicans hell - but he just told the truth about them, and the Republicans thought that was giving them hell.
They then go on to say Obama has no concern about Iran having nuclear weapons, funny for a party saying they don't want slander of opponents - and funny for a party that refused for over a year to ratify the renewal of the START treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons for no reason other than to deny Democrats a 'victory', ignoring every former REPUBLICAN secretary of state who said it was a critical need, until finally doing so after the elections.
They cite their non-issue where they created a phony problem and stirred up hate over the creation of a needed Muslim community center blocks from ground zero, for the American Muslims who were the real targets of 9/11 as Obama tried to provoke the US to invade Muslims and create division - the agenda Republicans are serving here - calling it wrongly 'a mosque at ground zero' and implying American Muslims or Islam in general are to blame.
And then having the gall to say that's an argument AGAINST slandering your opponents.
6. I want to be free.
No, you don't. You want the American people and the people of the world to have less freedom, politically and economically.
You are disgusting, corrupt creatures who dirty the word freedom by trying to distort it into serving your anti-freedom agenda.
The sort of 'freedom' you support is the freedom for the oligarchy to be 'free to pollute', 'free to monopolize', and other 'freedoms' for them that take away from Americans.
You try to get the people to fall for your propaganda by distorting 'freedom' as if their interests are with the corporate agenda, not opposed to the wrongs and excesses.
Remember your championing the 'freedom to compete internationally in finance' by deregulating the financial industry - something progressives opposed, while even many Democrats 'gave in to Republican pressure' and supported - how did that freedom go for the country? It went great for the billionares who profited from the schemes and abuses, the 'too big to fail' companies, your bosses, not so much the American people.
When the Democrats in turn successfully protected the US auto industry and employment with their actions to help GM deal with the financial crisis you created, you screamed how terribly they did it, protecting workers too much and planning a government takeover of the auto industry. Well, that Democratic policy worked out a hell of a lot better than your plan to 'let global competition end the US auto industry' or your protection of Wall Street that was far more costly.
You have offered six pieces of propaganda that are reasons NOT to vote Republican.
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