More and more Republicans are entering the race for the presidency in 2016. The debates are already a controversy before they even begin, as they are being kept down to the top ten candidates, presumably.
Obviously, Republicans feel that this election is there for the taking to whoever comes out of the crowded GOP field.
But why? I am not a Democrat nor a Republican, but it seems in this country that Republicans essentially have ruled since I have been old enough to remember, largely because they habitually promise to reduce taxes, reduce taxes, reduce taxes, among some other things.
What have we gotten out of it? A monstrous military industrial complex that President Eisenhower, and to some extent, President Kennedy, warned us about. It follows quite logically that we have gotten some wars as well, and not particularly popular or justifiable ones. We have also gotten a huge national debt that keeps on getting bigger. And, of course, we have gotten bigger government that assumes more and more control over people's lives, and which is largely controlled by the corporate state.
In short, things have gotten worse.
Yet rather astonishingly, the same old promised persist, and perhaps even more astonishingly, the American voters keep falling for the same tricks, even though by now, they certainly should know better. It appears that we collectively learned nothing from the first crisis that brought the country (and much of the world along with it) to it's knees, and we appear to be heading towards another, far more serious crisis.
Maybe then we will have learned something. Who knows?
In any case, Republicans have long tried to play along with the popular notion that neocon politics is all about financial discipline when, in reality, nothing could be farther from the truth.
Take a look at this article that elaborate quite a bit on this:
The ludicrous myth of Republican fiscal responsibility: A history lesson for the modern GOP by CONOR LYNCH, May 5, 2015:
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