We need to make a better effort to link republicans to big business

[TheFarseer]

and especially oil companies making record profits. I don't think alot of people naturally make the connection. I was talking to my sister and - this is going to blow your mind - she read an article where Ah-nold was going to cut the education budget and being a teacher she was a bit upset eventhough it wasn't her state. So I said, "that's what you get when you vote republican, cutting education and stuff like that so we can have tax cuts for big business." so she says, "I thought republicans liked small business." "Well, I guess they do like that but they like big business even better because that's where they get all their campaign contributions. Then she says, "Arnold Schwarzenegger's a republican?!?!?" and I'm thinking "UNBELIEVABLE!". So I said, yeah he's republican and she asks "So what's so great about democrats?" I tried to tell her that democrats are for average working people etc, but I think she's more interesting in banning abortion.

but my point - I don't think enough people make the connection between republicans and big business and they certainly don't make the connection between big business and world events.

[applegrove]

1. True. Deregulation results in a few "very big" business and a whole

lot of small businesses. The mid sized businesses get wiped away..and with them all of those jobs.

Why Bush claimed that small businesses would be growing. That is what underemployed people do if they have any talent.

[PatrioticLeftie]

2. I agree

We need to counter their slander with the facts

[TomInTib]

3. This is political Darwinism at its worst...

Dangle the abortion and gay marriage carrot (shiny things) to distract the fearful and non-inquisitive folks, while you go quietly about screwing them out of their livelihoods and enrich your people who have more money than they could ever think of spending.

Then you hold out the carrot of "righteousness = success, and everyone can have that", and they spend the rest of their lives spinning their wheels into poverty, and they still never see who got them where they are today, because all is possible, isn't it?

How will we ever win against the politics of fear? These guys are just so diabolical, I don't even begin to know how we can counter it.

Thank you Cindy for your endless courage in speaking out...else we'll slink back into the ooze until we are amoeba again.

[TheFarseer]

5. yes, it's terribly frustrating

It's not like my sister is a bad person, of course. It's very strange that "vote republican = no more abortion" registers with her, but no other political equations like, "vote democrat = education won't get cut" don't stick.

[PeachyDem88]

4. Big Business

Corporate America owns a majority of seats in both houses of Congress.
They have bought and paid for the presidency.


Why isn't it put in those terms?