So it’s not a matter of saying anything that makes sense, it just has to be what the typical conservative wants to hear. Playing on their prejudices and bias, facts really don’t matter a whole lot.
1) Republicans are purposely sabotaging our government: Just think about this for a moment. Republican politicians run on the premise that “government is bad.” So, why would they ever try to help make government more efficient and effective? They wouldn’t. In fact, they go out of their way to ensure that the government operates as poorly as possible so they can campaign on the notion that government is bad – so that they’ll get elected to that very same government. They’re literally causing the very problems in our government that they use to stir up anti-government sentiment among conservatives to get elected. Sadly, most conservatives choose to ignore this.
2) Republicans want our President to fail: Conservatives irrationally hate President Obama. And they know that the only way they stand any chance in 2016 to reclaim the White House is to do everything they can to stall any possible progress and sabotage any kind of economic recovery. Their true hope is that by doing so our nation will spiral into such chaos that we’ll elect a Republican as a response. They will gladly stand by while millions of Americans suffered as long as it won their party the presidency in 2 years.
3) Conservatives are consistently on the wrong side of history: It has been pointed out repeatedly, if you go back to the Civil War and see which states fought to keep slavery, they’re the same states that: opposed women’s suffrage, interracial marriage, civil rights, desegregation and currently oppose gay marriage and abortion rights. And I doubt that is a coincidence.
4) Nine of our last ten economic recessions occurred while a Republican was in the White House: In fact over the past 50 years, Republican administrations have increased the Deficit, while Democratic administrations have lowered it. Pretty much speaks for itself.
5) The Republican party is owned by big oil: Just think about it, what benefits big oil the most?
Deregulating the EPA
More domestic drilling
Opening up national parks for drilling
The belief that climate change is fake
Ensuring that we have poor public transportation systems
Opposition to green energy alternatives
And guess which side of every one of those issues the Republican party supports…
6) The truth about Ronald Reagan is very different from the lies Republicans tell about him: During Reagan’s eight years in the White House, unemployment shot over 10%; our national debt nearly tripled; he passed amnesty for illegal immigrants; the number of illegal immigrants coming into the United States was higher than we've seen during the Obama administration; he negotiated with terrorists, illegally shipped weapons to an embargoed nation, hired "Contractors" to prosecute a war Congress did not approve, and raised taxes several times.
7) Tax rates have almost nothing to do with job creation or wages: I won' go into a “trickle-down economics is a scam” rant. Though I will say that job creation isn’t a problem, but wage stagnation is.
That being said, our tax rates are almost at the very same levels George W. Bush (and his fellow Republicans) promised us in the early-2000′s would eliminate our debt and usher in economic prosperity for all. How did that work out in reality?
If those rates were magically low enough to create prosperity and eliminate the debt back then, why now are many of these same Republicans saying that taxes are too high?
Incomes being stagnant isn't just a “last eight years” issue. It’s been going on for over decades. No matter what Right Wing Media reports.
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