Like the Patriot Act or the Help America Vote Act, you offer capitulation and degradation wrapped up in words dripping with honey... "Do you want to feel good? Or, do you want to win?" Wow... of course I want to win... off with those civil liberties... gone are black peoples rights to a free and fair election... oh gee don't winning feel good... see, I got the best of both worlds...

Republicanism is not a class... it is an ideology that spans classes. You are viewing it wrong... Republicanism is a way of viewing governments role in our daily lives... the powers government should have, the rights and abuses governments can grant or inflict... the very nature of how they see this country is wrapped up in that ideology. Republicanism believes in a strong central government that is instituted among Men (mostly men... white men) to rule the nation as a whole. It's very essence relies on the ability to create a strong "class" of ruling elite though that elite need not be wealthy. However like ancient Rome, wealth becomes a way in which these rulers become ensnared and bound to the Republic. I quaintly refer to these snares as golden handcuffs and this also accounts why many Democrats aid and abet these ideologues. Some are undoubtedly caught up in wealth and other snares like sex and nepotism and this aids the Republican method of rule because it guarantees loyalty where dedication and conscience fail. While a Republican manner of government is instituted by the electorate, that need not be representative of the entire country as a whole. Rome was a Republic and you'd be hard pressed to find a historian who felt that Democracy and Democratic ideals is what guided that Republic. Indeed, the stronger Republicanism grew, the quicker the demise of any reference to Democratic ideals in the strangling hands of Caesar.

Now, let's look at today... how are our Republicans viewed? Well off? Indeed. Elite? Most certainly. Corrupt? Undoubtedly. Why? Because the nature of the Republican view is to offer this view... it must if it is to get members of those that are ruled to want to find a way to gain access to the benefits the corruption, sex and money offer. At it's most basic level, it appeals to the more baser instincts of man to rule... primitive might vs. right ideology is what drives Republicanism... Now couple that with a corporate control structure, one that supports and sustains government in a symbiotic relationship as we are in today and soon we have what is called Fascism... Is Fascism inherently evil? I guess not... but it is prone to evil since it allows for abuses and oppression because its intent is to serve the corporations that sustain it... If the old axiom is true... that the "Love of money is the root of all evil" then indeed Fascism (or American Republicanism) is evil since government is sustained by those who seek to enrich themselves through government and that government seeks to empower itself through that wealth.

To adopt this view is to adopt a view that is at its core anti-Democratic. Republicanism believes at its core that the State is right by its very nature... it believes the State defines what is righteous and the State controls punishment for breaking the moral law. Democratic ideals are just the opposite... Democrats, like myself, believe in the axiom, "Vox populi, vox dei" which means that the voice of the people is the moral law that should guide government. We believe in empowering people through education and fair market practices that open up government and free the people from a despotic system that every Republic has fallen prey to... The goal of Republicanism is to destroy that very foundation and thus it is evil and those who ignorantly support and follow those... though they may not be evil themselves... are indeed serving Lucifer himself when they plant their banner in the Republican camp. Republicanism is the enemy of all free people everywhere and the last 8 years have shown this argument as truth.

Are Republicans bad? Yes. Can they be saved? In America, there is hope... there is opportunity for change wrapped up in our Constitution... the very same Constitution written by men who fully understood this nature of humanity and bound that eternal struggle within the document itself... the path to destroying Republicanism lies in anchoring ourselves to the very ideals on which our most unique Republic is founded upon. A Democratic Republic is an oxymoron... an impossible paradox because it is like two strong willed horses pulling a chariot into battle... each pulling in a different direction... each horse striving toward a perpetual unreachable goal because they are both bound to the will of the driver... the American people themselves. Republicans despise this sort of system and have been working to undermine our system to their profit since before our Republic was even founded... indeed, an argument could be made that it was that same Republican spirit that nailed an insignificant Jewish rabbi to a cross because he believed in that same Democratic ideal in which I speak... That the people are all equal under the law... that the people are all of equal value and no system should ever be allowed to subjugate that uniquely divine law. For by espousing those ideals, he had to die lest the people believe and Rome be threatened... it was better that he die than the system be upset.

Those good Republicans of yours may pretend to be appalled that goodness is crucified... but it is their support that crucifies goodness everyday... it is their mindless hate-driven support that gave us Bush and everything that entails... every ill we suffer is because Republicans are selfish, hateful, despicable vermin who flock with other selfish, hateful and despicable vermin... and you want me to be happy that this one time... possibly... maybe they might do the right thing and vote for a Democrat? HA HA HA There is no guarantee they will attempt to change... there is no guarantee they even want to change other than the fact the the branding of Republicanism has taken such a sour turn.... because in no small part, they have gotten exactly what they wanted; a decapitated union bowed under the yoke of fascists. Embrace them as brothers if you will, I will not... they have an opportunity to change... as we all do... as I did... but I will forgive them when they are truly circumcised from their hateful ideology and when they have truly adopted the democratic ideals that offer the only hope to human kind.