GOP appeals to self-interest and forgets greater good

The Daily InterLake ^ | December 27, 2014 | Todd Cardin

[Crapgame]

Genius ignores that particular part of history. After all, what his column is really asking for, but he just can’t bring himself to write the word, is communism....

[NormsRevenge]

Self absorbed sanctimonious sacks of uhhh poop.

Lying scumbags. Baiting and switching is just one of their acts.

[Jacquerie]

Correct. Our Framers designed the constitution with man’s proclivity to act in his self interest in mind.

[SunkenCiv]

Failure to adequately protect the natural environment that sustains us equates to a failure of civilization on a scale not seen since before recorded history. Here again we are feeling the effects of a hypocritical self-contradiction created by combining the strange bedfellows of fiscal and social conservatism. The facts make it impossible to reconcile the demand for a dramatic reduction (if not outright elimination) of environmental regulations while at the same time aggressively seeking to expand governmental authority to shut down abortion clinics. Environmental pollutants have been positively linked to an increased incidence of birth defects. To declare a policy agenda as the salvation of unborn children while allowing industries to increase the release of toxins known to mutate children in the womb is a cultural and moralistic contradiction of staggering proportion...

[Doug Loss]

I stopped reading at “At its core the contemporary Democratic agenda is a call for a greater shared good. The GOP appeals to individual self-interest.” When you argue from incorrect premises you have absolutely no possibility of getting it right.

[VerySadAmerican]

I agree with the headline. The GOP politicians are only concerned about their own self interests.

[ApplegateRanch]

Unbridled pursuit of self-interest is exactly what eroded the Roman Empire into antiquity, and the same fate may befall the United States regardless of how much we want or hope for that not to be the case. Policies that pander to exclusionary self-interest at the expense of protecting and expanding an inclusive shared common good cannot be sustained within or across civilized societies.

That's where I stopped reading.

If he can't get the past right, he has no hope of getting the middle and end correct.

[Intolerant in NJ]

GOP appeals to self-interest and forgets greater good...ah yes, what's that line for the old movie "The Mortal Storm" about the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Austria in 1940: "We will require the sacrifice of the individual for the greater good of the Party".....

[Kickass Conservative]

A Liberal’s compassion starts and ends at a Conservative’s Wallet.

I have something in common with Liberals, I too lock my Doors to protect my Family and Property from Liberals.