Comments on: The Republican's Greatest Hoax? https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/ Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:50:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Brainstorms https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/#comment-484867 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:50:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20711#comment-484867 Just goes to show: When you wield a powerful oratorical weapon that preys upon insecure people’s fears and prejudices, you can manipulate them even to the extent of enticing them to follow courses of action that lead to their own demise…

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/#comment-484866 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:17:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20711#comment-484866 Missing quotation mark:
“The new Congress can offer…”

]]> By: cosmicomics https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/#comment-484865 Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:10:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20711#comment-484865 Certainly the most consequential, but there’s a general cascade of crocodile tears and mastery of Orwellian newspeak. One example: Republicans are now trying to extend “right to work” laws.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/19/us/politics/foes-of-unions-try-their-luck-in-county-laws.html

They make organizing as difficult as they can, and disguise union bashing as the defense of “individual employee rights.” At the same time they ensure that these rights do not include workplace safety or a livable minimum wage. Class warfare is then redefined:

“…this time Republicans shouldn’t forget the workplace, and cleaning up the indefensible rules that have long favored deep-pocketed labor bosses over employees.”

A workplace in which workers have no representation and are at the mercy of their employers becomes a vision of freedom:

The new Congress can offer a workplace that is more fair, and free, too.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/12/16/voters-clearly-want-congress-to-protect-employees-from-unions-heres-where-it-can-start/

]]> By: Robert Hirst https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/#comment-484864 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 16:34:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20711#comment-484864 Forget greatest lie…how about any version of the truth? They only care for themselves and their rich patrons.

]]> By: L.Long https://gregladen.com/blog/2014/12/19/the-republicans-greatest-hoax/#comment-484863 Sat, 20 Dec 2014 12:29:11 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=20711#comment-484863 Their greatest lie?? Easy…That they really give a schite about ordinary people and their lives.

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