Yet Another Reason

Republicans and their neoliberal ilk need to be tossed into the trash can of history:

As unionism peaked from the 1930s through the 1960s, from the old IWW through the salad days of the AFL-CIO and the UAW, we saw American prosperity grow in leaps and bounds to the point at which we became the greatest economic engine that the world has ever seen. This success was a result of sharing the fruits of our industry widely, and this sharing was only accomplished by the balancing power of union power against the power of property ownership. It is no coincidence that our prosperity has waned as the power of organized labor has been eliminated -- the concentration of wealth into fewer and fewer hands at the top is a direct result of this imbalance of power, and it inevitably causes the situation to arise where consumer markets fueled by worker incomes are no longer prosperous enough to purchase domestically manufactured goods in quantities necessary to sustain growth. We saw it in the 1870s, and again in the 1920s, and again today.

This is the situation that Republicans in their slavish devotion to greed strive to achieve, through tax cuts, through cuts in the budget that mainly affect the underprivileged classes, through internationalization that makes our workers compete in their salaries with rag sellers in third-world nations, and by systematically stripping workers of rights, most prominently the freedom of association.

Fer cryin' out loud, it was less than two years ago that Republicans in Congress tried to end -- completely Chapter 7 bankrupt -- the ENTIRE American automobile industry because of the temporary inability of prospective car buyers to obtain credit, a situation brought about by the very same robber barons they represent. They did this to break the back of the UAW. Now, how can any American not hate that?

So if you or any of your loved ones work for a paycheck, then you have very good and valid reasons to hate Republicans. A vote for any Republican at any level of jurisdiction is a vote against your own economic and social interests, and of course also against democracy itself.