The repugican cabal is Driven by Two of the Most Destructive Forces in Human History

by Allen Clifton

When it comes down to my issues with the repugican cabal, the root of most of my opposition lies in my belief that their ideology just doesn’t make any sense. They talk endlessly about freedom and liberty, while simultaneously pushing for religious rule over our government. Which doesn’t make any sense considering religion is nearly the complete opposite of freedom. How can someone be “free” if they’re forced to follow religious rules that control people by telling them what they should or shouldn’t do? Especially if someone doesn’t believe in that particular religion. It just doesn’t make any sense.
The same goes for their economic ideology. The repugican cabal’s economic beliefs are entirely predicated on the belief that 98 percent of Americans will be better off by making the top 2 percent richer. Even now one of the biggest wingnut attacks used against President Obama is wage stagnation. But they’re apparently too ignorant to understand that when they complain about stagnant wages, while taxes are low and the rich are doing better than ever, they’re actually admitting that trickle-down economics doesn’t work.
When you get right down to it, the two biggest driving forces behind the repugican cabal are greed and religion. And those just happen to be two of the most destructive things human beings have endured throughout our history.
How many millions of people have died over the centuries due to greed and religion? How many people have suffered because of these two things? How many people have wallowed in poverty or been confined to slavery in the name of greed and/or religion? What history shows us is that they’re powerful forces on their own, but when they’re actually combined the results are often catastrophic.
But I don’t just mean greed for money, but power as well. Empires that weren’t satisfied with what they had – they wanted more. They had to conquer and grow. It was no longer enough to simply be powerful and wealthy, they wanted to be the most powerful and wealthy. They wanted almost everyone on Earth to bow to their rule. The number of nations they conquered didn’t matter, nor did the amount of money they gained from their conquests, it was simply about greed and power. After all, how much land or money does anyone really need? It’s like the saying goes, what can someone buy with $5 billion that they couldn’t buy with $3 billion?
Then when you mix religion into all of that, it’s a very dangerous and often deadly mixture.
That’s what islamic radicalism is really all about. It’s corrupt individuals using religion to justify their greedy desires for power. It’s all about control. And let’s face it, religion is the ultimate mechanism to use if you want to control large amounts of people.
Here in the U.S. repugicans use religion all the time to manipulate people into voting against their own interests. The repugican cabal has successfully managed to get wingnuts to actually mix their politics and faith together. I call it “repugicanity,” and I consider it more of a cult than an actual political cabal. It’s a whole lot of people who honestly believe that the only way to be a true 'christian' is to be a repugican. And they’ll never question the repugican cabal, because that’s tantamount to questioning their faith – which we all know many wingnuts sure as heck won’t do.
But when you remove all the wingnut propaganda and rhetoric and get to the core of the repugican cabal, their social philosophies are built on religion and their economic ideologies are based on greed. They want to create a society run by theocratic government where the rich and the powerful have unregulated control over practically everything.
And when you look through all of human history, those are the two things that have been the catalysts behind some of the most horrific acts ever committed.