Why Do Republicans believe America belongs to them alone?
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The belief that things can only be one way: Our way is hardly unique to Republicans, it's a staple of modern American Political discourse in all parties.  Generally the more a party claims to be tolerant of other ideas, the less tolerant it actually is.  The concept of Compromise is completely alien to Congress these days.
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The Republicans are keeping their distance from him, \nwith good reason.
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We need to keep republicans from dividing the country.
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republicans are only worried about making money. to make money, they like to use up all the earth's resources and etc. they will do anything to get money
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Because they do not read history.\nAnother reason is that if they believe there is no God, then they feel they do not have to pay the wages of their sins, which is death. (Death of the SOUL!)\n\nOH, and the seperation of church and state does NOT exist.  The Government can not tell you what church to belong to was the meaning fo that clause.  Church of England forced everyone to follow thier preachings.\n\nIN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776. \nTHE UNANIMOUS \nDECLARATION \nOF THE \nTHIRTEEN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. \nWHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation. \n\nWe hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their CREATOR, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that Governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future Security. Such has been the patient Sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the Necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The History of the present King of Great-Britain is a History of repeated Injuries and Usurpations, all having in direct Object the Establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid World. \n\nHE has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good. \n\nHE has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing Importance, unless suspended in their Operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. \n\nHE has refused to pass other Laws for the Accommodations of large Districts of People, unless those People would relinquish the Right of Representation in the Legislature, a Right inestimable to them, and formidable to Tyranny only. \n\nHE has called together Legislative Bodies at Places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the Depository of their public Records, for the sole Purpose of fatiguing them into Compliance with his Measures. \n\nHE has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly Firmness his Invasions on the Rights of the People. \n\nHE has refused for a long Time, after such Dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the mean Time, exposed to all the Dangers of Invasion from without, and Convulsions within. \n\nHE has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States; for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their Migrations hither, and raising t
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Conversely, why are Republicans so socially inadequate?
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they invaded another persons country and are trying to impose american and republican values, what americans find as a good sytem isn the same for other people
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I guess knowing that all the Neo Nazis are part of your party. The Republicans have exposed themselves and their true agenda and views to America. Racism is alive and well in the Far right of your NEO_CON Nation. Bush letting the illegals get out of control in America is back-firing on him, so I look for your approval rate to go even lower. He's going to have to do something about Republican policy that doesn't work. So if there is an Apocalypse, friendly fire will most likely go towards the Republicans. To rid America of this plague.
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We know it's the Republicans.  As if the terrorists give two damns who's in the White House.  They hate us ALL, they don't give a hang whether it's a Democrat or Republican or an American Man in the Moon, they want us all dead.  What idiot can really believe that terrorists, whose egos are way out of control, think that it makes any difference to their Jihad who sits in the White House or controls Congress?  They believe they are going to destroy America, they don't think anyone can stop them, whether it's a Dem or a Repub.
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Because Republicans are out to destroy our country.
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I'm sure they already have, and are currently. The government has little respect for rights or the constitution. This is a sad country we live in now. america the un-free. Thanks republicans.
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Opportunity still exists.  But, the United States has suffered a kind of "coup" over the past 50 years by right-wingers and religious fanatics.  It's really taken a toll on our democracy and principles of pluralism and separation of church and state and our world reputation. It's an old paradigm issue. Democrats tend to believe in the social contract, that we are stronger as a nation when we empower each other and conduct our government for broad social benefit rather than for individual benefit. Republicans, on the other hand, operate from a lower level of human development where individual empowerment means "survival of the fittest", "a sucka's born every minute", "dominion over the planet means plunder rather than guardianship", "them first so that their "superior" genes survive", genecide, rigging elections, lying and torture are ok if it means their survival" sort of reasoning and so-called "values". They have never believed in the American Dream. Since the beginning of this democracy, the dream to be free and have a fair chance has been under attack by the Conservative's belief system. Republicans and Conservatives do not believe in the U.S. Constitution, unless it serves their self-interests. They have never been real Americans. Real Americans believe in free speech. Conservatives/Republicans do not. They deleted this entry as quickly as it was posted yesterday. Real Americans look out for each other's rights in our pluralistic society. Conservatives do not. Conservatives do not care for anyone but themselves and their own viewpoints, their own religions, their own bank accounts. That is their platform. They would have the rest of us put down like animals or enslaved if they could get away with it. They are not believers in the common good. They plunder, even from the weak. They do not care about their own neighbors or their own communities or people who are different than they are. They prefer to live in gated communities and build massive fences and walls. They relentlessly strive to disenfranchise as many people from the American Dream as possible. They fought against Americans who wanted slavery abolished. They fought against black Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against female Americans who wanted to vote. They fought against Americans who wanted to keep church and state separate. They fought against older and disabled Americans who wanted American public restrooms and sidewalks to accomodate wheelchairs. They fought against American workers who wanted a decent minimum wage and a forty-hour work week. They fight to this day against poor people by refusing to raise the minimum wage yet voting themselves raises in legislative bodies. They fought against American children and forced them to work like slaves in factories and mines. They fought against American children and spent our money making arms dealers rich while taking money away from the public school system. They fought against working American mothers who needed equal pay and decent childcare. They fought against hungry American babies and slashed preschool nutrional programs for the poor. They fought against pregnant poor Americans and slashed prenatal care programs. They fought against American healthcare professionals who were struggling to stop the spread of AIDS and they blocked the distribution of condoms that would have saved millions of American lives. They fought against American homosexuals who wanted to be able to rent a house or an apartment and live together in peace. They fought against American police organizations that pleaded for a ban on the guns that slaughter police officers and over 40,000 Americans every year. They fought against Americans who tried to protect the environment and people from pollution and poisons that are being put in the air and water, by conservatives, mostly. They fought against every American in court who has stru
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Because the people currently in office aren't true Republicans. They have personal agendas and many are puppets for someone else with lots of power and/or $. Republicans believe in self government; how do you explain the no child left behind law? That's nationwide. There are so many other things I don't even know about. Also, Bush is hypocrite. He claims to be a man of God and prays and that is part of what helps him do his job. I believe Church and State should be seperate, his religious beliefs should be interfere with his decision making for the US.
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Republicans can only handle one belief about every topic, and usually they don't even use their own brain.  Someone tells Republicans what to believe and they all say "YES SIR".  This is retarded, and it is not freedom.
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Because they want all the goodies the US has to offer, but they want to be loyal to their own country that gives them nothing.\n\nit's just like Puerto Rico not wanting to become a state because they like being able to suck on our resources (example - welfare) but they don't want to have to give anything (example - pay taxes) back.
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Republicans don't have a clue what it means to be free, they are just uptight religious people who should really find new agenda instead of attacking people's right to be happy with whom ever they want to be
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They don't want to run America into the ground... well... they kind of do... \n\nThe Republican leadership makes up a major potion of the top 5 percent of income earners in America... almost every CEO is a Republican, not every, but a vast majority (look who they give tax cuts to... if you think Democrats make up the elite, Bush would never in a million years gear tax cuts to them... )\n\nSo the leadership just wants to liquidate and obtain the finances of the middle class, making them richer and send the middle class into poverty... then they will continue to cut funding to public education until no one is intelligent enough to get in their way and lead the poor that turn to religion, because it's all they have left, under the guise of "morals"... \n\nanyone that dares say anything against them is a liberal "idiot," regardless of the facts... and the public will buy it because the leaders are "moral" and could never lie... you can see the beginnings of it already...\n\nak062003... apparently you haven't been paying attention... the debt has nearly doubled under Bush and was barely growing under Clinton... in other words, whatever you owed under Clinton, that has basically doubled under Bush...