The Republican Rant

By definition, a member of the Republican Party is the more socially conservative and economically libertarian of the two major parties, and has closer ties to both Wall Street (large corporations) and Main Street (locally owned businesses) than do the Democrats and less affiliation with labor unions. Republicans have a strong belief in personal responsibility, limited government, and corporate entrepreneurship. Republicans generally oppose gay marriage, oppose abortion, and oppose embryonic stem cell research. In the next few passages I am simply going to rant about the Republican belief and the flaws in there logic.

Generally Republicans’ main concern is making sure that government has little power over business. Ideally this is a good idea, this helps keep our economy strong and helps pay off our outstanding debt and inflation and on top of that it makes us a stronger country to let businesses do what they do best. However, there are many flaws in that logic. Business do anything they can to keep there business strong and above all other, keeping government out helps them set up forms of a monopoly, a situation in which one company controls an industry or is the only provider of a product or service. This alone can break our entire economy down make us slaves to these businesses as they raise prices to things such as bread, flower, copper, steal, tin, water, or any other commonly used item. Although we do have laws to help prevent against a monopoly, there is only so much the government is able to do when a company is at large. A Republican government would also be absent for large companies giving increasingly lower wages for work worth far more than what they are putting out. Take China for example, China makes millions and billions of dollars from there exports each year and pay there workers penny’s on the dollar to do the work, this will cause the gross of money to the business owners and not to the business workers. This is how today’s economy is stretched to where 99% of our total economy in America is owned by only 1% of citizens. This is good for the country and good for the business owners, but in the end it hurts everyone the same.

Republicans are known to believe that the impending doom of the world is far beyond what we can see and nothing we are doing is contributing to things such as global warming and the usages of all the world’s materials. Republicans generally take economy over environment on most issues. Party members care about what’s happening now but take no part in looking at the future issues that we are creating today because it would raise taxes and break businesses. What republicans don’t seem to realize though is that the future is much closer than it appears and that what we are doing now is only making things worse. The general public has been made to believe that global warming is just a played out myth that isn’t really happening because of one word that we use to describe it; The Theory of Global Warming. In science, facts must be explained in reference to other facts, these larger explanatory models are “theories”. Theories make predictions and in principle can be tested. One that thinks that the Theory of Evolution and the Theory of Global Warming cannot be justified in fact is mistaken. Disbelief in those theories is just as illogical as disbelief in the Theory of Gravitation or the Germ Theory of Disease. The fact of the matter is that without tax raises and economic penalization Global Warming will take outstanding effect in our society. In just the past 10 years we have beaten out the global temperature high record that could be recorded up to 100,000 years back, and there is MUCH belief that there is reason to blame green house gasses produced by humans inefficient ways. Sure, taxes may go up and big business may lose a lot of profit, but in return you are sparing our world from losing all usability within the next 100 years.

Republicans set a large moral stand against gay marriages by justifying the fact that in the bibles definition it is a union between a man and a woman. In biblical idealization this would be some justification for illegalizing gay marriages if marriage was an idea conceived by the bible. Marriage was an act that took place long before Jesus’ birth and in no way was created by the bible. It was merely a way to enslave a woman to sex and child-baring 2000 years ago. To think that those definitions should still be used today is like thinking that interracial couples should not be aloud to marry (which is stated in the bible) and black people should be enslaved and forced to do white peoples daily chores with no pay. That fact that we were able to outgrow those ideas and realize that not all idea of life during 30 AD was perfectly logical in its thinking but cannot grow out of the idea of letting two people of the same gender marry is insane. Although many may state that this was not the way that people though back then, it was the way that Jesus though us to believe. Before I even bring up that idea of separation between church and state, I would like to point out that the bible also said it if you found that your wife have had sex before marriage, you are to beat her dead on her fathers doorstep. That fact that we no longer practice that idea but are still willing to ban all gay people from marrying is unjustifiable. Many argue that we have substituted marriage for civil unions for those that are homosexual may still get all the rights of a marriage, just as black people were able to get the same water as the white but were not aloud to use the white peoples fountains. All this does is create what we created 50 years ago: separate but equal powers.

Republicans believe that under most circumstances abortion should be illegal. They believe that every life is sacred and that no one has the right to kill another human, although, republicans are also the ones still in favor of the death sentence. Many simply argue that if someone decides to have unsafe sex, they should be prepared to have a child. Besides the fact that that argument seems to make believe that a child is simply a punishment of a careless sex fiend, the idea that argues that people should no be able to have a decision of weather or not that something will be harvesting off your body and food to live for 9 months along with 18 years more of leaching of all your other worldly possessions is irrational. Do you think its justifiable that you should be forced let a dying man on the street live in your body and feed off you in order to live without your consent simply due to the fact that you were the one to stumble about him? I know I wouldn’t.

Stem cell research has shown to be one of the greatest revolution in genetic science EVER. Stems cells have the ability to be put onto a human body and reconstruct and recreate damaged or missing cells no matter what kind of cell they were. Stem cells have the potential to be any type of cell and can be used that way. Normal stem cells are taken from 6 day old embryo. A 6 day old embryo has been proven to have no developed brain of any sort and would have no way of feeling pain or misery. So to think that a 6 day embryo has the right to live more than a 20 year old man that has been paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury is also insane. To make the argument that embryo is potential life and is sinful to kill would also be illogical. Due to recent discovery we have found that almost every one of our cells can be made into potential life not just sperm and eggs. So thinking this would mean that if you were to scratch you back you are performing genocide of potential life forms.

My main purpose of this argument was to state that Republicans take ideals from the past and build on them for today and build the best “today” that they can without thinking of any future consequences. If we were to spare every life and let businesses have control of economy, we would be an incredibly rich, over populated, malresourced country in the world for the next 50 years before it becomes completely unusable. So please give me input on what you have to say and feel free to add on whatever argument you would like. I would love to hear you input.