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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 02:50 PM Jan 2018

Today's Republican Party must be dismantled

It's not enough to have a "blue wave" this coming November.

The Republican Party has become a danger to America. They are Nixon's "Southern Strategy" turned into a full scale, grotesque nightmare. Neo Nazis, Klansmen, religious bigots, and haters of every stripe have come out into the open and are spewing their poison. Some of the blame for this goes to Trump. But the underlying disease is the Republican Party itself. They have been headed in this direction for many years. And they've finally made it.

Democracy cannot survive with a one-party system. If and when the Democrats come back into power, they/we must create an environment in which "sane" Republicans can rebuild a "sane" party.

How? I really don't have the answer to that. And I don't know how many "sane" Republicans still exist, or where they've gone to. But I do know that a rebuilt opposition party is what's needed. The Republican Party, in its present form, cannot be allowed to ever again come to power. And the haters must be denounced, shunned, and pushed back into their caves.



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Today's Republican Party must be dismantled (Original Post) Cyrano Jan 2018 OP
...by Republicans. Iggo Jan 2018 #1
Trump may well accomplish this goal with his stupidity and ignorance Gothmog Jan 2018 #2
I've been saying this for years! Initech Jan 2018 #3

Initech

(100,081 posts)
3. I've been saying this for years!
Thu Jan 18, 2018, 05:33 PM
Jan 2018

The biggest threat and danger to America is the GOP itself. They have become way too much of a liability for any sustainable sort of leadership. They don't do anything, all they do is just constantly blame the other side for everything they do.

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