To the GOP, freedom is defined by their mega donors and includes such things as the freedom of the extremely wealthy to be exempted from any type of progressive income tax system or to pay zero income tax. The other "entitlement" of this group is the right to control our government, through unlimited dark money, and hence control wage, …
To the GOP, freedom is defined by their mega donors and includes such things as the freedom of the extremely wealthy to be exempted from any type of progressive income tax system or to pay zero income tax. The other "entitlement" of this group is the right to control our government, through unlimited dark money, and hence control wage, workplace safety, and environmental regulations for the country, or the cost, quality, and access to American healthcare. This plutocratic group also oversees and continually reviews any rights claimed by most Americans through democratic means via their purchase of Congressional majorities, and if necessary, through the purchase of a Supreme Court Majority, which also may legislate from the bench, by overruling democratically achieved laws.
With our last GOP POTUS, freedom was defined as what was best for the fossil fuel industry, which is very sacred to and supportive of the GOP. The industry defines "freedom" for our whole society. Scientific based concerns and Climate Change are considered considered as "hoaxes" and democratic tinkering. The ex-GOP POTUS even decided that a foreign cartel consisting mainly of Russia and Saudi Arabia, and with the complicity of the American Oil Industry should decide how much Americans and our Allies have to pay for gas and oil. To justify this decision, they threatened the entire American Oil Industry will go bankrupt. A fanciful fiction that had no basis in truth. To "freedom" and all of the terrible consequences, including war and autocratic governments, that it creates:
To the GOP, freedom is defined by their mega donors and includes such things as the freedom of the extremely wealthy to be exempted from any type of progressive income tax system or to pay zero income tax. The other "entitlement" of this group is the right to control our government, through unlimited dark money, and hence control wage, workplace safety, and environmental regulations for the country, or the cost, quality, and access to American healthcare. This plutocratic group also oversees and continually reviews any rights claimed by most Americans through democratic means via their purchase of Congressional majorities, and if necessary, through the purchase of a Supreme Court Majority, which also may legislate from the bench, by overruling democratically achieved laws.
With our last GOP POTUS, freedom was defined as what was best for the fossil fuel industry, which is very sacred to and supportive of the GOP. The industry defines "freedom" for our whole society. Scientific based concerns and Climate Change are considered considered as "hoaxes" and democratic tinkering. The ex-GOP POTUS even decided that a foreign cartel consisting mainly of Russia and Saudi Arabia, and with the complicity of the American Oil Industry should decide how much Americans and our Allies have to pay for gas and oil. To justify this decision, they threatened the entire American Oil Industry will go bankrupt. A fanciful fiction that had no basis in truth. To "freedom" and all of the terrible consequences, including war and autocratic governments, that it creates:
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