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The Republican Party base is white evangelicals. So it's no wonder that GOP lies about the country, the economy and the president worked. The folks who base their lives on religious mythology have spent lifetimes being trained to believe lies. On Tuesday they won. Lies won.
As the New York Times noted:
"Republican candidates campaigned on only one thing: what they called
the failure of President Obama. In speech after speech, ad after ad,
they relentlessly linked their Democratic opponent to the president and
vowed that they would put an end to everything they say the public hates
about his administration. On Tuesday morning, the Republican National
Committee released a series of get-out-the-vote images showing Mr. Obama and Democratic Senate candidates
next to this message: 'If you’re not a voter, you can’t stop Obama.'
The most important promises that winning Republicans made were negative
in nature. They will repeal health care reform. They will roll back new
regulations on banks and Wall Street. They will stop the Obama
administration’s plans to curb coal emissions and reform immigration and
invest in education."
Since the economy has rebounded and healthcare reform has worked, all that remained for the GOP was to lie.
What
we'll now see is a reinvigorated religious right. And since lies worked
so well we'll have more of them. Creationism, anti-gay initiatives,
anti-choice initiatives, and of course pro-Koch-brother-financed lies
upon lies to bury climate change debate are on the way.
The
Republican-dominated Supreme Court stands ready to back corporate- and
religious right-financed attacks of the environment, pro-Wall Street
laws and all the rest.
Racism won. Evangelical myth won. Wall Street won. The banks won. America lost.
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