The GOP: Less Than Zero

My Friday nights include watching HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher. Tonight he compiled a list of "issues" in his New Rules segment that I have touched on here and laughed about elsewhere.

Amidst the multiple and crucial problems facing the United States, the GOP has focused on the following list with gusto. Look it up, for those who think this is just my perception of the events or that I am listening with a liberal ear.

Useless distractions that make up GOP policy:
Public Unions
Sharia Law
Anchor Babies
Mosque at Ground Zero
ACORN
Voter Fraud (Ignoring the fact that, "This is America. Nobody wants to vote.")
National Public Radio
The War on Christmas
The New Black Panthers
Planned Parenthood
Michelle Obama's War on Desserts
Conducting public functions in English

Real Problems:
Climate Change
Loose Nukes
Debt
Infrastructure
The Wealth Gap
Our addiction to oil, from weird distant places run by monsters who want us dead.


But, NPR? Not a problem. National Public Radio is not harming anyone, and here's why: the simple-minded sheep who take orders from the radio are already taken. ~ Bill Maher

Maher made the list and started the thought processes. Why do the GOP cater to both the top two percent of those with wealth and the lowest common denominator? I'm not suggesting everyone who supports the GOP fall into either one of these categories. Yet, one is their financial supporters and one is their base.

Money. Power. Money. Fear. How does one explain how they have managed to get the working class to turn on each other and support the corporations who exploit them and keep them poor? How else could anyone allow their representatives to talk about such non-issues without losing their lunches while ignoring the real problems that face the U.S.? How else could they lead someone to purchase and display a bumper sticker that reads "Democrats Equals Communism", which I actually saw this week and which could probably be added to the GOP's list of non-issues.

I say this with equal confusion as to what happened to the Democratic Party. I am attempting to support and more often defend a President who is closer to Ronald Reagan than I care to admit.

Why should I care? Should I just sit back and let it happen?