Republican platforms and stated missions seem to be aimed at an apartheid form of society and government. Everything they espouse comes down to eliminating the middle class and creating two castes of people in our country: the rich and everybody else.
1. Eliminate Unions, which created the middle class and mitigated abusive working conditions and exploitative pay.
2. Eliminate Social Security, which people pay into their entire working lives, and that allows people to retire with enough to keep them from falling into abject poverty.
3. Eliminate Medicare, which allows people to get health care after PAYING INTO the system all their working lives.
4. Eliminate Affirmative Action, which offers people a road out of slums and inner cities, allows people a chance they otherwise would be denied as history clearly showed and helps to stop some of the most flagrant discriminatory acts by white business owners.
5. Eliminate child labor laws and lower the minimum wage, acts which would roll back 100 years of progress
6. Eliminate women's reproductive rights, which will deny women the ability to decide when they will have children, thus making it difficult for single mothers to work to support themselves.
Everything they stand for eliminates all humanitarian advancements and sends our country back toward the "Gilded age" of robber barons and company script, while all other Western industrialized nations move forward.
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