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https://twitter.com/JohnWDean/status/307595790476525568John Dean
@JohnWDean
As the GOP destroys the US economy let's hope it is destroying itself. We need a sequestered GOP for the good of the nation.
2:58 PM - Mar 1, 2013
longship
(40,416 posts)I am a big fan of John Dean. His book, Conservatives Without Conscience was a revelation. Highly recommended, very geeky, read.
SharonAnn
(13,776 posts)"The Aauthoritarians" is free, on-line. It's a GREAT read and really explains alot about the thinking of the right-wing.
Agony
(2,605 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)I posted a link to a video in which he goes over everything from Watergate to the present during a lecture:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022440182#post11
pacalo
(24,721 posts)Patriotism isn't the word for what they purport to stand for; they're treasonous.
The current strong-willed acrimony against Obama reminds me of Seven Days in May, which I'd never seen before last month's TCM showing of it. It was a well-played-out piece of fiction that is alarmingly similar to the cushy relationship between the power-hungry higher military echelon & the Republicans' lust for war profits -- under the guise of "patriotism". As it happens in the movies, though, the treason was subverted & the generals were forced to resign.
In this current up-is-down attitude of the Republicans, & the fact that there are no script writers creating the moral ingredients needed to right the wrongs, I'm glad John Dean is around to help us understand it.
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)MadHound
(34,179 posts)Example, our current choice is between Meatcleaver Austerity, the sequestration, or Austerity Lite, which is the deal that includes cuts to SS, Medicare and/or Medicaid.
There is absolutely no voices in power calling for what we really need, a WPA style stimulus to grow the economy and bring the people out of this deep dark hole many are still in. Instead, it is a foolish focus on lowering the debt at any cost, including the good of people of this country.
pampango
(24,692 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)They aren't destroying themselves really. They're getting more and more radical nutcases into congress and making Democrats take the positions of more "reasonable" Republicans. The baggers are killing what's left of the Democratic Party. More and more we are the party of Reagan and they are the party of batshit insanity. Who is left to fight for the workers? No one. Who is left to fight for the safety net? No one.
The demise of the Republican Party is greatly exaggerated.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)aside, a "sequestered GOP" is worth consideration. (On the other hand, let's let them take it to the extremes (photo ops and munchies to follow...if and when I get the digital world).
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)These Undead Freaks of nature will live on, or should I say "live" on sorta.
glinda
(14,807 posts)bdamomma
(63,871 posts)I agree with John Dean's comment he knows what he's taking about it.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)The republicans our the cancer on our nation now. The not insane ones in congress are afraid of the nutjob tea party and losing in a primary to one of the misguided zealot true believers.
Sooner or later people like David Gregory and "Let's Leave It There" Wold Blitzer have to grasp, or be allowed to express that grasping, that both sides are not to blame equally - the false equivalency mania has to end, like Edward R Murrow calling out crazy drunk Joe McCarthy.
I'm not sure where all this is headed but I'd like to believe that a solid majority of people nationally will force real change and a much needed readjustment of the political baseline back to the left.
John Dean is one of several older republicans who have broken with this new inflexible far right breed, George Danforth, Bruce Bartlett, Craig Paul Roberts and more. As some have pointed out, even Ronald Reagan would be seen as almost a commie by this bunch and that's unbelievable.