What are the differences between the GOPTP and the Dems?

Here is the main difference between the GOPTP and the Dems. Facts. I know, right? A one-word response can define something so many have balked at understanding. I maintain my conviction that it is facts, and/or the lack thereof, which differentiates the two main parties in American politics.

Of course, a one-word response is never adequate so allow me to flesh out my theory.

The GOPTP claims that the deficit the U.S. budget is currently worse under President Obama.

They also claim that the President’s policies are the reason for those thousands upon thousands of children arriving at our Southern border.

Another fun claim is that our economy is being trashed by President Obama’s policies.

More fun is to be had by those who claim that the President somehow botched an illegitimate war, started by his predecessor.

Let’s leave it at four different rants most commonly used to scare their base into submission. Along with that, let us also ask those who keep on perpetuating these fallacies, “Where, oh where, are your facts?”

I am aware that facts are the antithesis of the GOPTP platform. Or, more accurately, what passes as a platform, nevertheless…in a true debate they are required.

Here are a few facts to repudiate the contentions of the Conservatives in the United States.

Let us take the deficit conundrum. How did we come to be in the red? When President Clinton left office, he also left a surplus of money in the government coffers. Then along came Bush II. Does even one of the GOPTP base remember what “W” said at the beginning of the war with Iraq? Something to the effect of NOT putting the costs of the war into the budget because otherwise he the funding may not be there. Hence, he actually said aloud (how am I the only person who heard this?) he was essentially running a second set of books to document the funding of the war.

Let’s add to this equation this fact: Hundreds of thousands of dollars were sent in cardboard boxes on military transport planes, to Iraq, in order to bribe or otherwise facilitate officials in their duties. Most of remains unaccounted. And, just as officials started to look into this, the American economy (and most of the worlds) started to crash. I still remember the day that, as I was commuting home from work, I heard Shawn Hannity claim that the economy was solid. He said that since the average price for a starter home in the U.S. was $250,000, it meant the economy was strong! Huh? Of course, the next day is when everything hit the fan. Every news outlet, other than Fox, was broadcasting the complete disruption of finance, which the greed of Wall Street engineered. Of course, nobody was exactly sure what the reason was. Outside of Bush’s appointees, but we all knew something very bad was coming. Oh, wait. NOT Shawn Hannity as he kept up his rosy analysis of the American Dream, while it was crumbling in front of our eyes.

Moving on, let us go for the immigration “problem”. Several years ago, “W” signed a bill into law in which those who come to our nation because of the threat of bodily harm from their own nation would stay long enough to be processed and allowed the due process of law. This was done because this tidal wave of humanity was just beginning. Given the fact that the countries that these children are braving the journey they have undertaken, are listed as some of the most dangerous to live in by the United Nations and Amnesty International, it made sense. Apparently, the former administration had already seen analysis that this was going to become a real problem. Sooner rather than later, as it were and they were correct.

What amazes most Americans is how this crisis has suddenly been dumped into the lap of President Obama. Anyone who is paying attention to what is really happening must ask themselves some hard questions. Questions like, “I wonder if any of the shenanigans perpetrated by Pres. Reagan has anything to do with the instability in these countries?”  However, how many GOPTP types ever ask themselves searching, morally important questions?

Let us move on. Examining the contention by the GOPTP that President Obama’s policies are tanking our country’s economy. Do those who believe this lie ever read the business page? I remember when President Clinton was in office, and the stock market was approaching 13,000. My GOP friends told me that it was not sustainable and that the U.S. would never, ever reach those numbers legitimately.

Well, here we are in 2014 with the stock market bumping heads with 16,000. Once again, is this a number the U.S. stock market could never, ever accomplish? Given the inordinate amount of wealth being distributed among the 1%, one would have to say…yes. The U.S. stock market can do better than 13,000. The facts show that our economy does so much better under Democratic presidents than GOPTP Presidents. IN fact, most of the GOPTP Presidents have left us with a deficit. Oh, just look it up for yourselves for once. Don’t you know how?

The last of the misinformation tidbits I listed above, “How President Obama has messed up a war he did not start nor agree with” complaint. It is much too ridiculous of a complaint to address. Beyond silly.

Okay, the time has come. If you disagree, write a rebuttal, give up some numbers, anything other than the constant whining, hate mongering and guns. Yes, guns. Which seem to be brought out by the RW whenever they feel threatened.

If anybody from the conservative movement, or the Republican or Tea Party could actually read the above, truly consider the truth, we may be closer to unity than we have been for a generation.

I wonder to myself why it is that so many intelligent people allow themselves to be manipulated. Used by the exact entities they propose to be anti-American. My conclusion is that people like to stick with what they know. Change is not only scary but a true hassle. However, given the choice between change and destruction…I opt for change every time.