One of the popular memes that was circulating on Facebook in the last few years asked a pertinent question, “What are the conservatives trying to conserve?”

For anyone paying attention to the political climate during President Obama’s administration, there is no denying that the Republicans fought the President at every opportunity. From any action to help to protect the environment, to increasing minimum wage and trying to get more medical assistance for our Vets, Republicans made it a single goal to reject anything that might have benefited both, the people and the planet.

But now that this group has achieved control over Congress and the White House, they are having no problem exposing their real intentions, and with this much power, their devious plans may be unstoppable.

There are some who are asking if this power grab has been a long term game plan. They are pointing out the number of states that have had voter gerrymandering by the Republicans; designed to recraft voting areas to make it difficult for the low income public and for minorities to vote, as well as establishing restrictions which are considered to be illegal. According to a USAToday article, “A U.S. district court found recently that 28 House and Senate special elections must be held next year because the North Carolina legislative districts are the result of an unconstitutional “racial gerrymander.” The article continues to quote Stephen Wolf, a writer for Daily KosElections, “Democrats in no state have tried to neuter the governor’s authority after a Republican took office, not even in Illinois.”

The final bombshell statement in this same article says it all: “The glue that holds our republic together is in acceptance of norms of democratic behavior,” congressional scholar Norman Ornstein tweeted. “Trump, McConnell, N.C. Republicans shattering them.” This single comment reminds us that if we move away from the standards, rules and guidelines that have become the very foundation of our Democratic process, the building will fall.

If you examine many of the actions that have been taken (or not taken) by the Republican Party, it is easy to conclude that their decisions are based on greed. It is also agreeable to state that ‘greed’ is not a partisan issue but a human issue, and therefore members of all parties have fallen prey to that sin. However, there is a need to drill down just a bit deeper, past the idea of adding money to their coffers and that of their supporters. When you finally hit the bottom of this barrel, you see that it isn’t just greed, but ‘control’.

This concept of control embraces all aspects of life and existence. Under the guise of attempting to remove the government’s power over individuals and companies, they delete all of the checks and balances that also thwart illegal activities. As the Republicans move totally inept people into the positions of power, many of whom not only have no experience for the position, but hold a great dislike for the very department that they are in charge of, various pieces of the foundation are being removed so that if left in this state, the entire Democracy could crumble. For the average American, it appears as if their plan is to reduce education, personal income and health, and instead replace it with a constant state of concern for survival or even fear of attack from unknown entities.

People all over the world as well as many Americans recognize the total idiocy in actions and words of Trump, and yet the GOP continues to allow him to be their front-man, supporting everything that he says and does. Meanwhile, in the background, there stands a polished and devilish Vice President Pence, with a long history and desire of destroying the freedoms of those who are different from his standard of being ‘normal’ and elevating Christianity to a point where the division of church and the state no longer exists.

If the Republicans continue on this path of disaster for the country and its people, they know that their numbers will also dwindle. They are aware that they lost the popular vote in the last seven elections, and with a growing population of minorities in the United States, they have a limited time slot to keep exploiting the attitude of ‘white supremacy’.

As the movement towards rejecting both Trump and the Republicans gets stronger, the GOP is increasing their efforts to undermine all of the successes achieved during President Obama’s administration. If their endgame is ‘control’, they are currently on the brink of losing it, because the midterms will be arriving in 2018 and it will be a moment to push the pendulum back. “All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 33 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested. 39 states and territorial governorships, and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.”

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