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If the GOP had its way, the United States would win the international race to the bottom as the country with the lowest wages, smallest benefits, and nonexistent union presence. In their view, Americans ought to be happy to have any job at all, even if it's minimum wage. Why should blue collar workers enjoy financial security or even a middle class standard of living? For that matter, why must America have a middle class?
The GOP's long-term goal is to turn the United States into a banana republic with a tiny upper class, no middle class, and vast impoverished lower class that is too busy trying to survive to interfere with the very important business (of acquiring ever greater wealth and power) of their aristocratic overlords.
What else should we expect from a party whose stronghold is that part of America that fought to the death for the continuation of slavery?
