On the offhand chance that you belong to the drastic minority of Moby fans who don't happen to share his same furor over Republican politics, politicians and policies, he's decided to do you a major favor by moving his thoughts and feelings regarding the upcoming presidential election off of Twitter and onto moby.com, where he has just published a "relatively brief essay" addressing why he himself is an active Democrat and how, in his view, the Republican Party will screw the proverbial pooch should Romney be elected president.
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If you're a fan and really, really love reading lower-case diatribes against the conservative right, you can read the entire essay right here. Here are a few of the main points.
"paul ryan and mitt romney and the republican party in 2012 want to slash spending on: roads, public transportation, education, health care, environmental protection, police forces, fire departments, museums, clean energy research, women's health, and almost every social program that benefits the majority of the people who live in the united states.
"paul ryan and mitt romney and the republican party in 2012 want to increase spending on the military and subsidies to oil companies. they also want to cut taxes on the wealthiest 1% of americans. they also want to raise taxes on the other 99% of americans. all of these things both worry and frighten me."
"a romney/ryan/republican united states would contain: less educated people. sicker people. people who live shorter lives. water that is unsafe to drink. higher crime rates. air that is unsafe to breathe. closed national parks. closed museums. closed public schools. more people dying of treatable illness… 8 years of ronald reagan and 4 years of george bush senior and 8 years of gw bush have already left the united states behind almost every other country in the western world as regards: education, health care, environmental health, public transportation, etc etc. the republicans want to take money from the government and give it to the very wealthy, defense contractors, oil companies, and industries who donate to republican politicians. these are simple facts, borne out by republican policy, republican legislative initiatives, and the legacy of the bush/reagan years."
"the sad irony is that the vast majority of people in the red states who vote republican are also the people who are most hurt by republican policies. people in red states don't have health care, their jobs are sent overseas, their kids are sent to pointless foreign wars, they can't trust the safety of their drinking water, they can't pay for college, but yet they keep voting republican... the republicans have done a good job deceitfully convincing people that the republicans are concerned for average americans. but the truth, as evidenced by decades of republican rule and policy initiatives, is that republicans are only concerned with: subsidizing oil companies and defense companies, increasing the wealth of the top 1% of republican donors, and letting pernicious corporations get away with anything."
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