What can they be thinking, if that is the right word
Auburn Journal, 2/25/09
The limitations of our friends in the California Republican Party are highlighted by their passing a Resolution of Censure for their members who voted for the budget proposal.
Once again the California Republicans, like their national brethren, have put party loyalty above the public good and cannibalized their members who think outside the narrow party box and vote their consciences.
Republicans value group-think and censure individual initiative even for egalitarian purposes. Fear always creates the herd instinct and Republicans have a high degree of fear, almost phobophobia.
Republicans chant in unison, “No new taxes.” Their lack of vision seems to be paralyzingly out of touch as evidenced by the party becoming a regional party of Southerners and anti-tax advocates. A negative is a negative; a negative is never a positive.
Taxes are the price civilization pays for civilization. Taxes pay for all the services and privileges of a state devoted to the well-being of its citizens.
California GOP, like its national brethren, is impotent because it has so marginalized itself by its complete lack of vision for life in a civilized state/nation. Republican philosophy is wholly barbaric and anti-civilization, a philosophy that asks each person to stand alone without the trappings of a civilized state or nation; it is not even tribal.
What in the world can the California Republicans be thinking … which is obviously the wrong?
Jack L. Sanchez
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