We all know the Republicans don't care about human lives or the sorts of freedoms one would expect in, oh, say, a republic, and are more concerned with profit, consolidation and abuse of federal powers (a.k.a. turning the republic into an empire), and dog-wagging imperialism... so let's look at where they have failed in these terms:

Here I sit in the tower at work using binoculars kept on hand for West End human watching, watching someone at a bus stop taking cell phone pictures of a tourist taking pictures of a photographer taking pictures of a tourist's shoes while a beggar works the small crowd of locals politely waiting to walk by rather disrupt the photography.