Someone mentioned that today's Republicans are nothing more than "Democrat Light." And like a lot of things these days, that pissed me off.

Well, I call bullshit on that crap. Perhaps - no, OBVIOUSLY, that someone hasn't been paying attention to the Democratic Party the last dozen years. All that "tax and spend" crap is bogus, more of the same tired, inane and idiotic Republican talking points that have been used as pejoritives against Democrats since Newtie took out his "Contract ON America."

But, sometime in the future, the pendulum will swing back and many Americans will see the virtue in less government and lower taxes. When that time comes, Republicans should be there, to offer less regulation, less government, lower taxes, and business friendly policies.

That's the paragraph that pissed me off, supposedly describing the white knights of the Republican Party, who will ride up to rescue America from the clutches of the evil "tax and spend" Socialists---er, I mean Democrats.

Bullshit.

There hasn't ever been a Republican Party that fits the above description.  Ever. Not since Barry Goldwater have they even come close. That Republican Party is a myth. It doesn't exist.

On the contrary, since that crook Richard Nixon, the Republican Party has been unapologetically the party of the elites, the wealthy, the powerful, the "haves and the have-mores" who are trying their damndest to take America back to the so-called "Gilded Age" of the late 1800's and the early 1900's.

The Republicans are pining for the age of the Robber Barons, where the rich were kings and the poor were slaves. No income tax, no Social Security, no help for the poor - if the poor were poor and hungry, that was just tough ol' titty, wasn't it? If they died, well, too damn bad. The poor were too lazy to make their fortunes, were they not? The rich owned everything and God was in His Heaven, exactly where He belonged.

Spare me your myth of the modern-day Republican Party. It doesn't exist. It has never existed. All that pious crap about "small government," "fiscal responsibility" etc. etc. etc. and ad nauseum is just doublespeak from a bunch of wealthy, corrupt, power-hungry and evil men who want it all. Literally. They want to own and rule the world - screw the poor. Screw the huddled masses. They're sheep for the shearing and fodder for the cannons.

I believe in a better world. And Republicans have no part in it.

I'll give you that today's mostly spineless Democrats aren't much better. But they ARE better in that at least they make some effort to care for the poor, the young and elderly, to feed the hungry, to make sure that the working people of this world have some rights and protections against those who would exploit them.

So spare me your pious Republican BS. It's a fairy tale. And I don't believe in fairies.