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The Most Extreme Republican Platform in Memory
For all the disruption and damage that Donald Trump has meant for Republicans, the party’s statement of its views in its newly written convention platform rivals him for shock value. Platforms are traditionally written by and for the party faithful and largely ignored by everyone else. But this year, the Republicans are putting out an agenda that demands notice.
It is as though, rather than trying to reconcile Mr. Trump’s heretical views with conservative orthodoxy, the writers of the platform simply opted to go with the most extreme version of every position. Tailored to Mr. Trump’s impulsive bluster, this document lays bare just how much the G.O.P. is driven by a regressive, extremist inner core.
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
To date I've seen little notice of the two parties platforms - those statements of political platitudes and dreams for the future. Then I read the editorial in the NYTimes and started looking around the internets for commentary
Though most who comment here on Debate Politics will deny the inherent racism and xenophobia that others see in the present day GOP, the 2016 GOP platform quite openly supports the idea that many Americans believe this nation should be a white-majority, Christian nation with little if any support for the neediest citizens, whether medical, housing or education. That taxes on the "job creators" need to cut even more and that the federal government should be stopped from regulating business in any fashion. To me, the advocates of these right wing and libertarian fantasies seem to be unable or unwilling to learn anything about the world as it is and not as they wish it were.
A few examples from the platform:
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
To date I've seen little notice of the two parties platforms - those statements of political platitudes and dreams for the future. Then I read the editorial in the NYTimes and started looking around the internets for commentary
Though most who comment here on Debate Politics will deny the inherent racism and xenophobia that others see in the present day GOP, the 2016 GOP platform quite openly supports the idea that many Americans believe this nation should be a white-majority, Christian nation with little if any support for the neediest citizens, whether medical, housing or education. That taxes on the "job creators" need to cut even more and that the federal government should be stopped from regulating business in any fashion. To me, the advocates of these right wing and libertarian fantasies seem to be unable or unwilling to learn anything about the world as it is and not as they wish it were.
A few examples from the platform:
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
To date I've seen little notice of the two parties platforms - those statements of political platitudes and dreams for the future. Then I read the editorial in the NYTimes and started looking around the internets for commentary
Though most who comment here on Debate Politics will deny the inherent racism and xenophobia that others see in the present day GOP, the 2016 GOP platform quite openly supports the idea that many Americans believe this nation should be a white-majority, Christian nation with little if any support for the neediest citizens, whether medical, housing or education. That taxes on the "job creators" need to cut even more and that the federal government should be stopped from regulating business in any fashion. To me, the advocates of these right wing and libertarian fantasies seem to be unable or unwilling to learn anything about the world as it is and not as they wish it were.
A few examples from the platform:
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
Does it take a lot of work to be so racist?
Sorry... I must have missed White Indoctrination Day where I was supposed to be informed I have to support all that, because I'm white, and conversely my black family members must have missed their Black Indoctrination Day where they would have been informed that they couldn't ever want things like - oh - to ever dare want to increase the Pentagon's Budget (such a white thing to do!)
:roll:
Why don't you get to writing a book, for me. In it you can espouse the values that only you feel WHITES should support (include punishments for those who do not abide by your code), in the front of the book, of course. And in the BACK of the book you can then list the things that only BLACK people should ever support and of course we know that black people who break those rules get hung.
:roll:
That way we can follow your racist bible code to the T, please you mightily, and never EVER dare cross the line into FREE THINKING.
What in the **** are you really thinking? I think looking at that and finding racism in it takes a racist mentality. Wipe your brow, all that sweat. Must be hard work to shape everything in life that way.
Perhaps you can quote particular parts of the Republican Platform that support these claims you've listed. I mean, it's easy to say the platform calls for all of these, but knowing the way the left likes to spin, hyperbolize and take stuff out of context I'd like to see the exact wording used by the Republicans.
Can you do that? Or do you prefer that I research the whole document...in effect, do your homework for you?
If you look at the Republican platform....the list seems to describe it fairly accurately. So what on the list are you against?
To date I've seen little notice of the two parties platforms - those statements of political platitudes and dreams for the future. Then I read the editorial in the NYTimes and started looking around the internets for commentary
Though most who comment here on Debate Politics will deny the inherent racism and xenophobia that others see in the present day GOP, the 2016 GOP platform quite openly supports the idea that many Americans believe this nation should be a white-majority, Christian nation with little if any support for the neediest citizens, whether medical, housing or education. That taxes on the "job creators" need to cut even more and that the federal government should be stopped from regulating business in any fashion. To me, the advocates of these right wing and libertarian fantasies seem to be unable or unwilling to learn anything about the world as it is and not as they wish it were.
A few examples from the platform:
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
Perhaps you can quote particular parts of the Republican Platform that support these claims you've listed. I mean, it's easy to say the platform calls for all of these, but knowing the way the left likes to spin, hyperbolize and take stuff out of context I'd like to see the exact wording used by the Republicans.
Can you do that? Or do you prefer that I research the whole document...in effect, do your homework for you?
How about what you think the republican platform is.
Nice deflection.No...
I'll wait and see if Somerville is going to support his post or not. If he does, I'll see what he's got. If he doesn't, I won't waste my time in this thread.
You see, I don't really care about either Party Platform.
do you have something more current?Absolutely. I just read that the Democrat platform demands all white males who haven't been neutered be castrated at their own expense. Oh, the horror. Of course, that's not true. I'm making fun of those who choose to lie outrageously and the suckers who fall for it.
I'm especially intrigued in the section of the Republican Plantform that says:
"1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections"
But, here's the Republican Party Platform. Sadly, someone didn't bother to read it or they read it and chose to lie.
https://www.gop.com/platform/
Please, let me know when you can quote the section that says all environmental protections will be erased and the one that says there will be absolutely no regulation of banks or Wall Street.
The Republican Platform isn't bad but I don't think for a minute the Republican Party or the clown they're running will actually support any of it.
Choose a Section below or download and read the full 2012 Republican Platform
To date I've seen little notice of the two parties platforms - those statements of political platitudes and dreams for the future. Then I read the editorial in the NYTimes and started looking around the internets for commentary
Though most who comment here on Debate Politics will deny the inherent racism and xenophobia that others see in the present day GOP, the 2016 GOP platform quite openly supports the idea that many Americans believe this nation should be a white-majority, Christian nation with little if any support for the neediest citizens, whether medical, housing or education. That taxes on the "job creators" need to cut even more and that the federal government should be stopped from regulating business in any fashion. To me, the advocates of these right wing and libertarian fantasies seem to be unable or unwilling to learn anything about the world as it is and not as they wish it were.
A few examples from the platform:
1: Remove all federal regulations from the banking industry and Wall Street
2: Erase all environmental protections
3: Appoint judges who will eliminate abortion, stop same-sex marriage and eliminate Obamacare
4: Allow LGBT discrimination on religious grounds
5: Allow Christian displays and Biblical statements on public property and government buildings including public schools
6: End public funding of Planned Parenthood
7: Eliminate any requirements for GMO labeling on food products
8: Allow drilling and mining on all federal lands, including parks and along the nation's shores
9: Privatize Medicare
10: Eliminate "net neutrality"
11: Make English the official language of the United States, eliminating most programs which assist those who don't speak English
12: Build the wall along the Mexican border
13: No government assistance for 'non-traditional' marriages and families
14: Require Bible study in public schools
15: Work toward eliminating public schools
16: Abstinence-only sex ed classes for teens
17: Increase the Pentagon's budget
18: Ignore the Iran nuclear treaty and increase America's nuclear armaments
do you have something more current?
here is the problem with your cite that causes me to ask that question:
Perhaps you can quote particular parts of the Republican Platform that support these claims you've listed. I mean, it's easy to say the platform calls for all of these, but knowing the way the left likes to spin, hyperbolize and take stuff out of context I'd like to see the exact wording used by the Republicans.
Can you do that? Or do you prefer that I research the whole document...in effect, do your homework for you?
Since you're going to vote for the platform, perhaps you should read it so you know what you support.
???
What on earth gives you the idea I am going to vote for the Republican Platform?
Heck, I'm not even a Republican.
When you vote, will you be voting for the Republican ticket? If so, you are voting in favor of their platform.
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