Well the Republican Party of Texas has released its official
platform and again we cannot be more pleased. It’s official, the Republican
Party of Texas is for repeal of the 20th and 21st
centuries. It’s back to basics for America, it seems, as we sell out our
country and our liberties to the robber barons of the golden age of capitalism
gone wild. Don’t believe me? It’s
all here.
First on their list of things to undo is taxes. George H. W.
Bush said “Read my lips, no new taxes,” and then he raised taxes. The RPT is
willing to go him one better, or rather one less, and trim this to just two
words: “no taxes.” No income taxes, no property taxes, no estate taxes.
Just a sales tax. Just a regressive sales tax where the
lower and middle class, by our sheer numbers, will bear the brunt of the total
contribution.
Then we need to go back on the Gold Standard. No one but
some really delusional people think that America can operate on a gold
standard. To that end, the gold market would be allowed to fluctuate with
market trends. The gold standard was meant to stabilize the economy. This would
have just the opposite effect. But it would be lovely for the rich, wouldn’t
it?
Thirdly we need to do away with the two most successful
Democratic programs in US history, Medicare and Social Security. In their
places we need to replace them with mechanisms that allow the super-rich to
gamble with the health of the middle class through a privately funded voucher
system and allow them to play a game of craps with trillions of retirement
dollars, a game that would have destroyed lives had it been in place in 2008.
Oh, and in education, we need to stop teaching these damned
kids critical thinking skills. You know, those skills that allow people to
analyze and synthesize information so that they may make informed decisions
based on logic and inference. That’s right. No more critical thinking. You see,
it disempowers parents from inculcating their children with their opinions and
values – you know, the ones you hear about on Fox News.
And finally, let’s all allow schools to beat our children
once more. They’re getting too smart for their britches and need to be beaten into
submission once more. What was good for great grandfather, who was taught to
beat great grandmother in school should be good for these bratty kids.
Yes, the GOP has its fingers on the very pulse of current American
thought and expression.
Current as of `1875.