This video is just more of the "if you aren't with us, you are against us" mentality touted by Bush and Cheney. It is the continuation of the aggressive nationalism of Hobbes and Strauss, the espousing of Machiavelli's maxim that "if no external threat exists then one has to be manufactured" (meaning while progress may be being made in Iraq, we need to keep the populace afraid to stay in or come to power), the desire to use foreign policy to fulfill a "nation destiny" (per Irving Kristol, one of the leading neo-conservatives), the appropriation of the references to God by the Founding Fathers to exclusively Christian interpratation, and the praising and encouraging of faith in their political base, while they themselves feel no obligation to follow or practice the same (Leo Strauss Strauss viewed religion as absolutely essential in government in order to impose moral law on the masses who otherwise would be out of control. He also felt that that religion was for the masses alone; the rulers need not be bound by it.)

I can not find anything in the GOP platform that is not tied to divisiveness, "them vs. us", the abrogation of individual rights and intolerance veiled in the guise of faith and religion, and the attempts to elevate that "faith" to a place of superiority over all others, violating the separation of church and state exhorted both by the constitution and by Christ himself (...Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. - Mark 12:16-18)

As much as I can research, my family has been Republican probably since the party was founded in the 1850's. The disillusionment for many started with Nixon and has not stopped. While GOP claims to be "of the common man", their policies ("trickle-down economics", etc.) have benefitted the wealthy at the expense of the working and middle class; while they claim to hate "elitists", they cling to the exclusivity that wealth provides with a grasping claw and will say or do anything to maintain this hold - even at the cost of American lives, treasure, prestige, and reputation.

I am not concerned with whom someone may have associated; I am concerned with those whom they would place in positions of authority. I am concerned with how they treat all segments of American society and if they seek to include everyone in this great undertaking we call the United States. If they seek to divide, to claim on class/belief/faith/creed is superior to another and those who do follow their choice are "un-American", if they claim to support the American worker but do everything in their power to line the pockets of the already wealthy, if they seek to obtain the support of veterans with one hand, while failing to support them on the other..they I will not and cannot support them. I also see it as an duty to speak out against them, an obligation; an obligation to my forebears of over 350 years on American soil.

"With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

There is nothing in the above quote in anything that has come out of the GOP in the last 2 decades, if not longer....despite the quote being from Lincoln.

Both parties have strayed violently from the ideals of Jefferson, Adams, Paine, Franklin, and Lincoln. We - the People of the United States - can never redirect the nation unless we are united.

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."
- Alexis de Tocqueville