GOP Approves ‘Most Conservative Platform In Modern History’

goddamnitreddas:

justinspoliticalcorner:

A week from the 2012 Republican National Convention, Republican committee members spent Tuesday articulating and affirming the principles they stand for in a draft of the official party platform. 

Here are some highlights:

• NO ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST. The proposal for a “human life amendment” passed without a hitch — and without any exceptions for rape or incest. The committee didn’t stop there; they also adopted language that would ban drugs that end pregnancy after conception, which could potentially include Plan B, the “morning after pill.”
• SALUTE TO MANDATORY ULTRASOUNDS. The GOP officially praises states’ “informed consent” laws that force women to undergo unnecessary procedures, require waiting periods and endure other measures meant to discourage them from getting an abortion. One such law receiving a “salute” was crafted by committee head McDonnell, who passed a notorious mandatory ultrasound requirement after he signed an unsuccessful bill to require an even more invasive transvaginal probe ultrasound during an abortion consultation.
• NO LEGAL RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX COUPLES. The committee embraced extreme anti-gay language, even rejecting a proposal to endorse civil unions for gay couples after vehement objections from Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Romney adviser Jim Bopp, who called it a “counterfeit marriage.” The rejection of civil unions, along with the refusal to include a line affirming the legal equality of same-sex couplesprompted the organization GOProud to declare, “Those who have engaged in this public platform fight have provided distraction from important issues and damaged Mitt Romney’s campaign.”
• REPLICATE ARIZONA-STYLE IMMIGRATION LAWS. Kris Kobach, who wrote the now mostly invalidated immigration laws in Arizona and Alabama, pushed for language calling for a border fence, a national E-Verify system to make it harder for undocumented workers to find employment, the end of in-state tuition for illegal immigrants and an end to sanctuary cities. The committee overwhelmingly approved the proposals, as well as a line chastising the Department of Justice to halt the lawsuits against draconian immigration laws in Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Utah: “State efforts to reduce illegal immigration must be encouraged, not attacked.”
• AUDIT THE FED. The pet project of Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) to audit the Federal Reserve has now been embraced as an official Republican goal. For the first time, the platform calls for an annual audit of the Federal Reserve.
• NO WOMEN IN COMBAT. The platform condemns “social experimentation” in the military, which covers everything from the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” to allowing officers to wear their uniforms in gay pride events to letting women serve on the front lines.
• NO STATEHOOD, MORE GUNS FOR WASHINGTON DC. FRC’s Perkins, who recently blamed President Obama and the Southern Poverty Law Center for the shooting at FRC’s Washington headquarters, requested and received a section specifically urging the DC Council to expand gun rights. The same section also opposes DC statehood, which would allow the District to govern itself and put an end to Congressional attempts to impose abortion bans on DC.
• NO NEW TAXES, EXCEPT FOR WAR. The platform calls for a Constitutional amendment requiring a super-majority to approve any tax increase, “with exceptions for only war and national emergencies.” It would also deliberately hobble future Congresses through a cap limiting all government spending to historical average percentage of GDP — “so that future Congresses cannot balance the budget by raising taxes.”

h/t: Aviva Shen at Think Progress Election

jesus fucking christ what the hell

And they call Obama a “socialist Muslim Shari’ah Law-loving dictator”.

Well guys, Godwin is a bitch, but IMHO, this platform is almost fascist. The concerns of the so-called “conspiracy theorists” on the left about the right grow more valid by the week. Give it ten more years without organized, massive opposition and it seems likely that we’ll be seeing the feds turn a blind-eye to the mass public lynchings of abortion providers and users, the mass deportation of whole communities of Latin@s from the south, and maybe even the south completely revoking the voting rights of PoC thru ID laws.

And before you say I’m overestimating the damage this could do or that I’m “painting them all with the same brush”, consider - the mindset of these people (Christian right, Tea Party, mass GOP base) has become so ideologically zealous, so firmly ingrained in their often-easily refutable beliefs that they will appropriate the reality of their own privilege to claim they are “oppressed”, and seemingly so utterly unempathic of the needs of others to the point of considering poor people as “lazyass welfare money-suckers who won’t go get a job in this great land of total equal opportunity”. They have become so blind to their own contradictions that the paramount rule that gives the group so much power is essentially doublethink - cognitive dissonance on a frighteningly massive scale. These aren’t a few fundies and wingnuts, this is MILLIONS of them.

To those reading: if you’re American then for the love of Mary sweet mother of Jesus H. Christ DON’T FUCKING VOTE ROMNEY , and if you care about the rights of women and all human beings, then stand and, in whatever way you can, fight. Protest. Spread the scientific truth about all these subjects. Distribute the red pill. Force them to take it, if you can do so subtly. Speak powerfully. And most of all - DON’T LET THEM GIVE YOU ANY SHIT WHATSOEVER: WHEN THEY START TO, GIVE ‘EM HELL IF YOU HAVE TO. THESE ARE YOUR RIGHTS AND IDENTITIES AS HUMAN BEINGS, AND NO ONE SHOULD EVER DOUBT IT.

And spread this everywhere. For great justice.

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