Ideas Are Dangerous

For a while now I've wondered why Republicans have to stoop to the level of calling whoever might have different ideas than them un-American or a socialist or out to destroy our country. Calling someone a socialist is the same thing as calling someone un-American. There's no difference in the implied meaning of making someone an enemy rather than just someone with a different point of view. During the 2008 campaign it wasn't that Obama was the opposition candidate to the incumbent Party, rather he was a socialist, terrorist supporting Muslim with ulterior motives that must be stopped and even killed.

Then today it finally dawned on me it's because Republicans really have no care about policy. Policy to them is something "liberals" do. Republicans are Revolutionaries! that defend America from policy. The only policy they care about is one that wages endless war. If it's not invading other countries, then Republicans have to turn their attention to attacking whoever is proposing something other than endless war.

I don't think I need anymore proof of such careless attention to policy than the GOP's numberless budget they submitted as an actual alternative to President Obama's or the opposition health care plan that is a total of 4 pages long and has not one single cost projection. These are their plans for America. We're supposed to just trust them and not question them.

If I must come up with more proof, take Chairman Keyes Steele for instance. He says he doesn't do policy. But calling the President of the United States a socialist is something he has no qualms about.