Thursday, May 19, 2005

What is the true Republican agenda?

I was out with my father today and he asked me what I thought the true Republican agenda is. It's a tough question with a complex answer.

I'm opening the question up for discussion here.

  • Is it the destruction of liberalism?
  • Is it the dismantling of The New Deal?
  • Is it smaller government?
  • Less taxes?
  • Less regulation for corporations?
  • More Wal-Marts?
  • Fewer Arabs and Mexicans?
  • A Christian theocracy?

You can say that they are looking to consolidate power... That by stacking the judiciary with conservatives they can eventually abolish abortion... But to what end? Most of the things that Republicans are fighting for seem like transition goals.

If over the next X years the Republicans keep winning and achieve absolute control, what will they do then?