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"Harry Hope" |
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Stepford Republicans: All Caught on Tape!... |
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/02/stepford-republicans-all-caught-on-tape/
Stepford Republicans: All Caught on Tape!
by Jeff Cohen / February 2nd, 2008
The Stepford Wives tells the chilling story of once smart, independent
women who get abducted and turned into tamed, mindless robots.
I have a theory about a similarly subversive process that turns grown
men once capable of independent and reasoned thought into robotic
extremists.
Call them Stepford Republicans.
The nefarious transformation always occurs before the individual gets
close to becoming a Republican president or vice president.
Stepford Wives become robotically subservient only to their husbands;
they pose no threat to the rest of us.
But Stepford Republicans become subservient to right-wing forces of
corporatism, war and prejudice.
Once converted into mindless ideologues, Stepford Republicans are a
threat to us all.
The prototype of a Stepford Republican is PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN.
After his apparent abduction and alteration, he became an instrument
of corporate power in the White House: union-busting, downsizing,
cutting school lunch funding.
This is the Reagan many remember: champion of the overdog.
But when Reagan was still a sentient being, he was actually a
bleeding-heart advocate for working people.
He denounced budget cuts (“millions of children have been deprived of
milk once provided through the federal school lunch program”) and tax
cuts that “benefit the higher income brackets alone.”
He assailed corporate profiteering, and labeled a top Republican “the
banner carrier for Wall Street.”
He hailed unions and complained that “labor has been handcuffed by the
vicious Taft-Hartley law.”
In other words, before he was robotized, Ronald Reagan could be a
warm, compassionate human being — and I offer a remarkable tape to
prove my theory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJDhS4oUm0M
Many Americans have long suspected that VICE PRESIDENT ***** CHENEY is
an android.
What they may not know is that — before being Stepfordized into a
neoconservative drone — he was capable of non-ideological thought that
would allow him to choose a peace option over war, able to use human
reason to figure out why invading Iraq would inevitably lead to
“quagmire.”
This short video clip offers compelling evidence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YENbElb5-xY
Today, MITT ROMNEY is such a robotically rabid spouter of
social-conservative dogma that he’s won the praise of radio rightists
like Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham.
Offered as evidence of his Stepfordization is this video revealing a
once human and tolerant Romney who seemed to care deeply about women’s
rights and abortion rights, and resisted any connection to the
policies of Reagan-Bush. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI
It was this pre-abduction Romney who boasted that he would do more for
gay equality than Ted Kennedy.
JOHN MCCAIN was also horrifically rewired toward servile courtship of
the Religious Right.
Dramatic evidence of McCain’s Stepfordization is caught on video:
“Before” footage shows you a strong human speaking bravely against
right-wing “agents of intolerance” like Jerry Falwell; “after” footage
reveals a lifeless, docile tool of those same forces.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XbrejLsixwk
Perhaps you can’t accept my theory — despite the powerful taped
evidence I offer — that these Republican icons are victims of
Stepford-like abduction and transplant.
If so, I’d like to hear an alternative theory as to why these
individuals betray their own principles or intellect — why they turn
themselves into fawning servants of economic forces or ideologies or
social movements they once abhorred.
The blind pursuit of power, you say?
I’m simply unwilling to believe that human beings — even top
Republicans — are so inherently opportunistic and corrupt.
I’ll stick with my abduction theory.
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Jeff Cohen is founder of the media watch group FAIR, former TV
pundit/producer, and author of Cable News Confidential: My
Misadventures in Corporate Media.
Harry
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