(6/14/2005) Personally, I believe in a conservative political ideology on many issues, like balanced budgets, tougher criminal penalties, stronger immigration laws, protectionist trade deals, low taxes, transparent accountable government, free enterprise, free markets, more adoptions and less abortions, constitutional law, and state's rights. However, the Republican Party has completely abandon conservatism on every issue that is important to the health of our democracy and our economy. Therefore, conservative voters should abandon them.

The GOP only pays lip service to a conservative ideology in order to trick the American people. This is evident by looking at their policies and the results of these policies. For example, look at their history of rhetoric about fiscal conservatism, and compare that to their policies and the terrible results their policies have produced.

Reagan campaigned on the pledge that he was a fiscal conservative. He pointing out the huge federal debt, that he claimed the Democrats were responsible for creating, and then his administration tripled that debt during the following eight years.

President Bush said that he could cut taxes, balance the budget, pay down the debt, and protect the Social Security lockbox. Al Gore warned us that Bush's numbers did not add up, and he was right. We now have the largest deficits on our country's history that appear to be growing out of control. Yet Bush continues to push for more tax cuts and more spending increases.

The Republican Party's ideology has moved so far to the right of conservatism it call only be called one thing, fascism. Fascism is an ideology where government interest and corporate interest are joined together into a style of leadership that is best described as belligerent nationalism. Since American based corporations operate all over the globe "nationalism" is really globalism, and "belligerent" really means self-serving, exploitive, ruthless, and unaccountable.

To prove this ideological transformation from conservatism to fascism just look at what the Republican Party has already done, is currently doing, and is planning on doing. The following list exposes that the Republican Party can no longer be considered conservative, and certainly not compassionate:

• President Bush inherited the largest budget surpluses in our country's history, and in three years he turned that around to the largest budget deficits in our country's history with reckless tax cuts and huge spending increases.

• President Bush keeps saying that the federal budgets will be back in balance in 5 years, but his own budgets show that they won't even come close to being in balance for as far out as can reasonably be projected.

• President Bush's plan for Social Security reform with private accounts will require the federal government to borrow an additional $2 trillion dollars over the next ten years, it will increase overhead cost, it will add significant risk, and it will result in the need for large cuts in benefits. Bush's plan is just a scam to rob the trust fund and bleed the system dry.

• President Bush campaigned in 2000 on the platform that he did not support nation building in the Middle East, and yet we now find ourselves virtually alone in Iraq trying to re-build that country at a cost of over $350 billion and the loss of over 1,650 American soldiers. Bush lied about the need to go into Iraq, he sent our troops ill-equipped, and now he refuses to get us out.

• President Bush is pushing for a new federal department, Faith Based Initiatives, who's stated purpose is a clear violation of constitutional law that separates church and state. All the new jobs created in America during the past five years have been government jobs.

• President Bush has never vetoed, or even threatened vetoes against any of the pork that has been stuffed into legislation that the Republican controlled Congress passed and that he has signed. The cost of his Medicare drug bill was deliberately understated by over $200 billion dollars so that it would have enough votes to pass.

• President Bush has been encouraging companies to outsource some of there employees to other countries. These jobs leaving America are not just low wage jobs, but are jobs that cover the spectrum of all skill levels.

• President Bush awarded a large government contract, $10 billion dollars, to a foreign based corporation, Accenture, for Homeland Security computers and services. Several American based corporation were passed over for this contract.

• President Bush supports the idea of giving amnesty to the 5 million people who are in America illegally. President Reagan gave around 5 million illegal immigrants amnesty.

• President Bush is pushing for a new round of free trade deals with dozens of poor countries with CAFTA. The last big free trade deal, NAFTA, has caused our trade deficit to skyrocket.

• President Bush responded to the loss of over 2 million manufacturing jobs by trying to get fast-food workers re-classified as manufacturing workers. These manufacturing jobs were high wage jobs that had benefits, but now the two largest employers in the U.S. are Wal-Mart and McDonalds.

• President Bush has harmed state's rights with budget cuts, un-funded mandates, and class actions lawsuit reforms. State's are being forced to cut their budgets for police, fireman, and social services in response to Bush's cuts.

• President Bush's energy bill gives huge tax breaks to oil companies at a time with they are experiencing record revenues and profits, and when consumers are paying record high prices. Last year ExxonMobil had revenues of $256 billion and profits of $25 billion. That's what happens when you elect two oil man from Texas to run your country.

If it smells like, looks like, and acts like, then you call it what it is; fascism. The rest of the world recognizes it in our government and in the Republican Party, but for some reason most of the American people cannot.

The Democrats are only hurting themselves by continuing to refer to the Republican Party, and Republican members of Congress, as conservatives. The "conservative" label is a misnomer that the Republican Party flaunts as reality and that the Democrat Party unwittingly promotes at their own expense.

Washington Post writer David Broder called the current Bush ideology "radical conservatism", and backed it up with examples of Bush's poor record and backwards proposals. Former President Bill Clinton has made similar statements.

If the Democrats in Congress are smart they will get together and agree to stop using the word "conservative" when referring to the Republican Party and Republican members of Congress. Instead, they should come up with a more honest, accurate label, like the "deficit-bankrupt party", or "liars and thieves party", or "corporate whores party", or "fascist pig party", or "con-artist party".

The "conservative" label is confusing and misleading for voters. The worse things get in the economy, the world, and in general the more voters want conservative leadership in Washington. They then mistakenly vote for Republicans hoping that conservative leadership will produce results that fit their simple minded definition of conservatism. The reality is that these voters are voting for the political party that is primarily responsible for creating the problems in the first place.

In my opinion, the GOP is a money corrupted political party that should not be anywhere in, or near, our government. They lie about almost everything, their legislation is written by wealthy special interest, and they only listen to the few mega wealthy families who fund their campaigns. Their service to our country is at all our expense, and could cost us our democracy.

These corrupt Republican politicians, and the corrupt wealthy families they represent, appear to be reacting to an Orwellian vision of future world-wide ecological disaster. They are using this vision as a way to obscure their actual greedy objectives. In this possible, but perverse, vision of the future everybody dies but them, and their chosen people, because they have all the money and power that will help them survive. They think that once we are all gone, and they have inherited the earth, they will get to live happily every after in their "new world order". In their wet dream the world's population will be a fraction of the current population and they will have smart robots do all the work while they just sit around enjoying the care-free good life.

What their voters, supports, and coat-tail riding minions fail to realize is that their is no honor among thieves. Massive ecological disaster predictions based on flawed computer models is just the convenient excuse for motivating their co-conspirators in Congress to help them steal wealth, monopolize their businesses, bankrupt and manipulate our government, trick the American voters, avoid paying taxes, and acquire more power in order to avoid being held accountable for their criminal actions.

The GOP's fascist ideology is un-American, un-democratic, illegal, immoral, and intolerable. The Democrats in Congress, our military leaders, and our fellow citizens should stand up and fight back while we still can.

The remedy for the GOP's treasonous actions and intent are clearly spelled out in our Constitution. It is our duty as Americans to hold these individuals accountable.

Massive ecological disasters will probably occur in the future unless world leaders get together and make some very tough choices. The Republican's Hitler style solutions to these threatening ecological events is just one of many possible answers to helping humanity survive mother nature's natural, or man made, inhumane processes. The other realistic options are all based on wealthy governments acting quickly and with massive investments in the following areas:

• Clean energy technologies

• Space technologies

• Public education

• Tougher regulations and strong enforcement over all aspects of personal and corporate life

• Incentives that encourage people to make good choices about their re-productive rights

• Incentives that encourage people to make good choices about their personal behavior

• Conservation programs

• World wide anti-poverty programs

• Family planning programs

All these solutions require the same thing; a large powerful government, like America is now, that has the money, knowledge, power, public support, political support, international support, and morals to lead.

The Clinton administration had our government headed in the right direction fiscally, environmentally, militarily, socially, and internationally, but they were constantly hindered, and under personal attack by the Republicans in Congress, their supporters, and their political operatives.

Our two political parties must work together toward the same goals in order for America to lead the world out of these looming environmental threats. No one is going to follow a divided, war mongering, bankrupt, immoral, murderous, and money corrupted government except fools and money whoring coat-tail riders.

The Democrats in Congress should intermix some of their leadership civility with some harsh reality and start fighting fire with fire. Don't just sit by as more of our honorable elected officials, or our promising future leaders like Gore, Reno, Daschle, Frost, Cleland, Wellstone, JFK, RFK, JFK Jr, and others get attacked, fraudulently defeated, murdered, intimidated, and in other ways get yanked off the public's radar screen by sinister forces that act in secret and have plausible deniability from their criminal actions.

The more the GOP gets away with, and the richer their backers get, the more ruthless, vicious, and brazen they will become.

Keeping the American public ignorant and confused has become the GOP's key strategies to winning elections and pushing their fascist policies. They achieve these goals by lying, propaganda, spinning the facts, blaming other people and other causes, infiltrating the other party, weakening the financial support bases of the other party, and false character attacks against their opponents. In other words, they are playing the American people and the Democratic Party like we are all a bunch of ignorant punk ass bitches.

Following are some song lyrics from a popular band, "The Who", that I think clearly express where we are going as a country with the current Republican leadership:

"We'll be fighting in the street
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
And I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again"
(The Who - "Won't Get Fooled Again" - Pete Townshend - 1971)

"Meet the new Bush, worse than the old Bush".

The American people, the Democrats in Congress, and the media companies should not be fooled by the Republican's phony conservative ideology. We should all work to expose the Republican's real Darwinian ideology, "survival of the richest", so that the conservative minded American voters are not fooled again by a bunch of money whoring political puppets and their trust fund rich spoiled brat puppeteers.