The Republican party is materially fond of calling themselves the party of Lincoln. They pull on that thread, presumably to stitch together the appearance of their civil rights bona fides, without ever stating it. Saying we support black rights in this GOP would be a death knell. Outlets like Fox, Newsmax, Charlie Kirk, and all the verbally unhooded racists would send out the primary calls to throw the RINO bums out. Also, as part of that false narrative is the quote from the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., taken out of context. Ask any Republican what the legacy of Dr. King was, and invariably, you will get the quote that ends,“…they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” What they conveniently remove from that quote was King's admonition to America, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where…”
In a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln in 1887, he said, “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.” The once respected party has again and again truncated a famous man's quote and lived it in reality, “You can fool some of the people all of the time….” Over the weekend, Donald Trump promised his rich friends he would protect their money and blow up the deficit as he did in his one term to the detriment of the economy and the working man. A big part of the eight trillion-dollar explosion of the deficit under Trump resulted from a two trillion-dollar tax cut and its fallout. That cut did not have offsets that GOP Congresspeople like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ted Cruz say are what’s wrong with Democratic spending.
Trump told the donors who attended his Bread and Circus fundraiser Saturday that he would keep their taxes low, although they are due to sunset in 2025. This is not the first time a recent Republican President promised a short-term tax cut for the rich. George W. Bush’s tax cuts were enacted in the years 2001- 2003, where, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, High-income taxpayers benefitted most from these tax cuts, with the top 1 percent of households receiving an average tax cut of over $570,000 between 2004-2012 (increasing their after-tax income by more than 5 percent each year).
Coincidentally, both Republican presidents' tax cuts ended in disaster because neither could withstand the stress of an economic emergency. The bank failures during the Bush Administration nearly pushed the country into a depression. Under Donald Trump, the coronavirus exposed that no built-in economic safeguards existed for the working man to withstand a sudden economic downturn. In both cases, the election of a Democrat—Barack Obama and Joe Biden pulled our chestnuts out of the fire. The Republican Party seems wed to self-destruction following their leadership, this time chasing autocracy and white-Christo-fascism. The reasons are simple, and one of the quotes that a GOPer will never repeat are from Dr. King.,
“If it may be said of the slavery era that the white man took the world and gave the Negro Jesus, then it may be said of the Reconstruction era that the southern aristocracy took the world and gave the poor white man Jim Crow. He gave him Jim Crow. And when his wrinkled stomach cried out for the food that his empty pockets could not provide, he ate Jim Crow, a psychological bird that told him that no matter how bad off he was, at least he was a white man, better than the black man. And he ate Jim Crow. And when his undernourished children cried out for the necessities that his low wages could not provide, he showed them the Jim Crow signs on the buses and in the stores, on the streets and in the public buildings. And his children, too, learned to feed upon Jim Crow, their last outpost of psychological oblivion.”
Yes, Mr. Lincoln, you can fool some of the people all of the time.
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