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It should have been evident to clear-eyed observers that the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe. This trend has several implications, none of them pleasant.
"Over the last four decades, the Republican Party has transformed from a loyal opposition into an insurrectionary party that flouts the law when it is in the majority and threatens disorder when it is the minority. It is the party of Watergate and Iran-Contra, but also of the government shutdown in 1995 and the impeachment trial of 1999. If there is an earlier American precedent for today's Republican Party, it is the antebellum Southern Democrats of John Calhoun who threatened to nullify, or disregard, federal legislation they objected to and who later led the fight to secede from the union over slavery."
To those millions of Americans who have finally begun paying attention to politics and watched with exasperation the tragicomedy of the debt ceiling extension, it may have come as a shock that the Republican Party is so full of lunatics. To be sure, the party, like any political party on earth, has always had its share of crackpots, like Robert K. Dornan or William E. Dannemeyer. But the crackpot outliers of two decades ago have become the vital center today: Steve King, Michele Bachman (now a leading presidential candidate as well), Paul Broun, Patrick McHenry, Virginia Foxx, Louie Gohmert, Allen West. The Congressional directory now reads like a casebook of lunacy.
an alliance of bizarro religeous groups, scoundrels working for the criminals fleecing america, racist whites, and you might have a majority
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by citizen6511
an alliance of bizarro religeous groups, scoundrels working for the criminals fleecing america, racist whites, and you might have a majority
Sans "religeous" and "might", substitute "racist whites" with "racists", and that comment would fit the "majority" that elected Mr. Obama perfectly!
Well done!
See ya,
Miltedit on 10-9-2011 by BenReclused because: Add a few words
obama won the election because the country was in such bad shape the voters wanted a change.
without the economy and the wars he would not have been electable.
now voters would get rid of obama
everyone is scared the republicans will come up with a worst candidate
Originally posted by citizen6511
Originally posted by BenReclused
reply to post by citizen6511
an alliance of bizarro religeous groups, scoundrels working for the criminals fleecing america, racist whites, and you might have a majority
Sans "religeous" and "might", substitute "racist whites" with "racists", and that comment would fit the "majority" that elected Mr. Obama perfectly!
Well done!
See ya,
Miltedit on 10-9-2011 by BenReclused because: Add a few words
obama won the election because the country was in such bad shape the voters wanted a change.
without the economy and the wars he would not have been electable.
now voters would get rid of obama, but everyone is scared the republicans will come up with a worst candidate.
meaning no choice at all.
i'd like to see both obama and the republican congress gone.
Obama is at worse a middle of the road technocrat.
The insane hatred and fear he creates in republicans has much less to do with his policies than the paranoia of those with a rightwing mentality.
those same people will vote for him again simply because hes black.
id wager that there are more 'african american' racists in this country than white, hispanic or asian combined.
All you have to do is read some of the hard right posts on this site to know that "conservative" lunacy runs deep.
It's funny how so many on ATS forget the most common conspiracies, which aren't governmental, but conspiracies run by businesses...
Yeeessssss... adn the most common group is a group of business men, not governement agents.