Does the GOP Have an Agenda?

I was watching NBC Nightly News last night with ol’ Lester Holt who was talking about the upcoming election for Speaker of the House. And ol’ Lester was saying that the GOP needed to settle the issue of Speaker in order to start working on their ‘agenda.’

Which made me start thinking about whether the GOP actually has an agenda, insofar as the word ‘agenda’ usually means a plan to get something done. And as far as I can tell, the GOP has had the same agenda now for the past 90 years which is to get rid of the New Deal.

It was back in 1933 that FDR responded to the near wipeout of the American economy by proposing a series of bills which pushed the Federal Government into managing the national economy for the first time. This didn’t mean Socialism, despite what Trump says and other Republicans have said over the past 90 years, because Socialism is a system in which private property is eliminated and everything is owned by the national state.

Now it turns out that the United States government does own a lot of property, most of which is where weapons systems are tested, nuclear bombs are made, poor people live in those disgusting ‘projects’ as they are called, and otherwise the real estate is used for national forests and national parks.

The government doesn’t own the factories which produce cars, or the kitchens which…