US Republican Party

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About
The US Republican Party (the "Grand Old Party" or GOP) generally represents the political right wing in the 🇺🇸, in opposition to the US Democratic Party which supposedly represents the left wing. More recently, as the political leadership has lurched rightward while mainstream thought has slowly moved leftward, the GOP has come to represent the far-to-extreme right while the Democrats now represent the center-to-right.

Conclusions
Since at least the year 2000 (possibly beginning during the Reagan administration), this party has become mainly about:
 * obstructionism -- the "party of No", "the Republican'ts" -- opposed to any measures supported by Democrats, even if Republicans originally supported or proposed those same measures
 * corporatism -- rewriting laws and decimating public-interest government regulation to suit their corporate sponsors; see RepubliCorp
 * ignorance, fear, and untruth -- furthering their agenda at any cost, including promotion of long-debunked falsehoods, embracing radical populism (e.g. the Tea Party), abandoning rational discussion, and failing to have any sense of shame over repeated instances of hypocrisy

Subpages

 * /propaganda: GOP talking-points

Related Pages

 * American republicanism: the mindset of those who tend to be attracted to the Party's ideology
 * Bush-Cheney administration: this may have been the high water mark of GOP influence
 * 2004 US Republican Party Platform
 * 2000 US Republican Party Platform
 * Republican Party Platform of 1956 (save this as a page later)

Actions

 * 1995: Republican-led Congress Closed the Office of Technology Assessment
 * 1994: The Contract with America was a significant Republican platform in the 1994 Congressional election

Qualities

 * Seemingly hostile towards science, while the Democrats are sometimes opposed to large engineering projects for environmental reasons
 * Known for pointlessly "dirty" campaigning

Reference

 * : no contents; page is "under review" as of 2014-03-10
 * Campaigns Wikia: seems not to have been updated since 2012
 * : no contents; page is "under review" as of 2014-03-10
 * Campaigns Wikia: seems not to have been updated since 2012
 * Campaigns Wikia: seems not to have been updated since 2012
 * Campaigns Wikia: seems not to have been updated since 2012

Official

 * Republican National Committee official web site
 * Google+ account

Dirty Campaigning

 * 2006 :
 * Philadelphia, PA
 * Kansas
 * New Hampshire
 * Connecticut
 * New York

Commentary

 * 2006-10-31 This Is No Fun: right-wing blogger John Cole shreds the recent performance of the GOP
 * 2005-11-14 Is the GOP still the conservative party?
 * ShelleyTheRepublican.com: ok, I confess... I can't tell if this is meant to be serious...
 * Republicans for Humility

Findings

 * 2005-12-21 Fear of death may factor into who we vote for: specifically, subtle reminders of mortality caused people to switch votes from Kerry to Bush; this seems likely to be a specific of a more general trend of voting Republican/Conservative being correlated with perceived danger level. The Party seems well aware of this, as they have a created a number of entities whose sole purpose seems to be to generate calculated levels of alarm and fear, at will, in the general population.

News

 * 2007-05-09 Retired Generals Challenge GOP in Ads: "Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign Wednesday, saying the politicians can't expect to win re-election if they support President Bush's policies in Iraq." The generals in question are Maj. Gen. John Batiste (ret.), Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton (ret.), and NATO Supreme Allied Commander Wesley Clark (ret.); the ads were created by VoteVets.org.