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What’s At Stake in This Election « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

What’s At Stake in This Election « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:


What’s At Stake in This Election

by Larry Miller

If my uncle Al were alive today, even he would be taken aback by the brazen actions of the Republican Party. Al was a small business owner in Sauk City, Wisconsin, who believed in the common good while supporting Republican business policies.
Today’s Republican Party initiatives are not just an exercise in conservatism, but instead a move to the extreme right, an attack on democratic institutions and blatant disregard of the personal rights of citizens. The views and policies put forward by a solid core of Republican senators, representatives and candidates shed light on what is in store if Romney wins the White House and Republicans win the Senate.
The war on women would just be a start. The open and blatant attacks on the rights of rape victims should startle any sensible person about the dark cloud of perverse thinking that pervades the Republican Party.
Mitt Romney may have been a moderate conservative in the past. But today he is an opportunist channeling the