What the Republicans will do if they regain power.

Season 1, Episode 13 June 20, 2022

This podcast episode was recorded a couple of days later than usual because we needed more time to collect some research and mostly to collect our thoughts.

Being apathetic about the midterms and/or considering not voting at all because Biden and the Dems “aren’t perfect” is NOT an option.

The Republicans are chomping at the bit to retake the House of Representatives and the Senate after the 2022 Midterms.

If that happens, it will be a disaster for Democrats and for the majority of Americans in general. The Republicans don’t care about anyone or anything but themselves and increasing their grip on political power.

They are not interested in actually governing, nor are they interested in any program or policy that actually helps people.

All the Republicans care about is restricting people’s rights, eliminating most social safety nets, sucking up to their corporate supporters like the NRA and the oil companies, and “owning the libs.”

Here are four things the Republicans say they will and will not do if and win they gain power again:

1. Current House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is literally measuring the drapes in anticipation of becoming Speaker of the House next term. However, he said that what he will mostly be doing is impeaching Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, knocking all Democrats off committees, and holding hearing after hearing that will accuse Democrats of anything he can think of. What does he plan to do to help people? Nothing.

2. Current Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is looking to become Senate Majority Leader again, will do what he always does when a Democrat is the president: everything he can to obstruct, delay, and destroy everything Joe Biden does, including any nominations for judges, SCOTUS Justices, or even agency heads. He won’t let Senate Republicans vote for any bills sponsored by Democrats.

3. Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott, who was found more than to have committed the largest health care fraud in American history among other fraudulent practices, revealed his “11 Point Plan to REscue America.” To him that means that everything liberals want is “socialism: and all Democrats are the enemy within. Although Mitch McConnell said this plan was not a Republican plan for 2023 and beyond, Scott has said that this is exactly what Republicans want to do: put Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid “up for a vote” every five years, dismantle the Federal government, force ALL Americans to pay taxes (while continuing the Republican tax CUTS for themselves), end all public discussions of race and gender, and force all children to say the Pledge of Allegiance in school, even though the SCOTUS ruled that it was unconstitutional. And that is only part of his “plan to save America” from the “secular, socialist, radical leftists.” If case you haven’t noticed, the right-wing is always touting violence against their fellow Americans who just happen to be Democrats or left-wing.

4. We are still waiting to see if Roe v Wade is eliminated, but as bad as that would be, it is even worse when you realize why Roe V Wade was passed: it was based on the part of the 14th Amendment that guarantees “privacy.” That’s the part that says that any reproduction decisions should be only between the woman and her doctor. But same-sex marriage, interracial marriage, and many other hard-won rights are also based on the privacy portion of the 14th Amendment. The Republicans want to eliminate them all.

This is the 2022 midterms “platform” for the Texas GOP. Many other state GOP platforms are now or soon will be similar. Is THIS what we want for America?

Delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”;

requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization;

treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9;

getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve;

rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment;

returning Christianity to schools and government;

ending all gun safety measures;

abolishing the Department of Education;

arming teachers;

requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment;

dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered;

protecting Confederate monuments;

ending gay marriage;

withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization;

and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”