The only way the Republican Reich has managed to stay competitive is by convincing uninformed, gullible fools that their bogus attempt to redefine reality is valid. They get lots of help with this from the media. The most powerful weapon to use against this Republican web of lies is a fact. I found and article with thirteen that Republicans hate:
1. Conservatives opposed the Founding Fathers, the American Revolution and a lot of other righteous stuff as well.
By definition a conservative is one who wishes to preserve and/or restore traditional values and institutions, i.e. to “conserve” the established order. No surprise then that 18th century American conservatives wanted no part of breaking away from the British Empire and the comforting bonds of monarchical government. Those anti-revolutionary conservatives were called Tories, the name still used for the conservative party in England. The Founding Fathers? As radically left-wing as they came in the 1770s. The Boston Tea Party? The "Occupy Wall Street" of its day.
Some of the other "traditional" values supported by conservatives over the course of American history have included slavery (remember that the Republican Party was on the liberal fringe in 1860), religious persecution, the subjugation of women and minorities, obstacles to immigration, voter suppression, prohibition and segregation. Conservatives started off on the wrong side of American history, and that’s where they’ve been ever since.
2. The United States is not a Christian nation, and the Bible is not the cornerstone of our law.
Don’t take my word for it. Let these Founding Fathers speak for themselves:
John Adams: “The government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion.” (Treaty of Tripoli, 1797)
Thomas Jefferson: “Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.” (Letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814)
James Madison: “The civil government … functions with complete success … by the total separation of the Church from the State.” (Writings, 8:432, 1819)
George Washington: “If I could conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.” (Letter to the United Baptist Chamber of Virginia, May 1789)
You can find a multitude of similar quotes from these men and most others who signed the Declaration of Independence and/or formulated the United States Constitution. These are hardly the words of men who believed that America should be a Christian nation governed by the Bible, as a disturbing fundamentalist trend today would have it be… [emphasis original]
Inserted from <Daily Kos>
I shared the first two. Click through for the other eleven.
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Yes, another one to bookmark. It's always great to have a list. Even if you already know all of them, that doesn't mean you can necessarily pull them out of your – um, memory when you need to.
Of course, it would be even better to have this published in large print on the front page of, say, the Washington Post. Or that other DC paper.
Hmmmmmm I didn't know there were any facts they liked…can't think of a one
I shared this on Facebook. It shows how radically the Repubican party has changed. It also changed my opinion of Nixon and Goldwater, guess they were not as awful as I thought. Who knew there would be clowns like Cruz, Paul, Christie, etc, who would emerge as Republican leaders? Does this also show how dumb Americans have become?
Facts? That is an oxymoron when mentioned in the same breath as the Republicanus/Teabaggerum!
Very good list, thanks TC.. Mind you, I too thought that if there was one thing guaranteed to make a Repuglicon foam at the mouth and start ranting hysterically, it was an actual fact – they just can't bear them, which is why they deal in rumour and hysteria and lies all the time.
It was with great pleasure that I shared this article on FB on Independence Day.
Excellent list, TomCat. From an outsider's view the trouble with a two party system appears to be that through the ages the members had to switch allegiances so often to keep up with a changing world that the less educated and most gullible among them are just as confused as I was when I started to follow American politics. Many have lost track so much of what their party stands and stood for over time, that they just pick and choose things they like from history and attribute it to their own Republican party and if that doesn't work, just rewrite history to suit their pseudo-GOP-reality.
I think a lot of Republicans genuinely speak of the Founding Fathers when in reality they are thinking of the zealot Pilgrims, ignorant of the historical time between them, and completely oblivious of the opposite mental worlds these inhabited. The Pilgrims were followers of a very narrow-minded, even extremist, religious cult and the Founding Fathers were children of the Revolution, of a historic period so aptly called Enlightenment for it's dramatic development of rational, empirical, humanitarian and religion-free thought. Others of course know the difference very well, but keep the "mistake" intact to their own advantage.
And the light goes on in my head! I think you have hit it. Thank you!