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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI've come to think that there are no "Good Republicans"
...OK. I'm exhausted, have the flu, and have been influenced--to say the least--by today's developments...in just about every sphere of national life. But fuck it. The GOP--all of it--have sold their souls to the devil. There's no moral difference between them and the German conservatives of the 1930s, who hitched their wagon to the star of you-know-who in order to crush the Weimar Republic and the Left. At this point, it literally wouldn't bother me if Trump, Pence, Sessions, Bannon, Ryan, Turtleman, Walker, Brownback, Cruz, and anyone else you'd care to name, were sent to fucking Gitmo and broken. At least we'd find out about the goddam Russian treason, and that real quick. *Deep breath*. OK. I'm back to "normal". But I do believe that we as a nation are about where we were in the 1850s. We aren't on the verge of 1861--yet. But we are on the verge of a John Brown moment, something that will break open the "consensus" for everyone to see. "Normal" politics aren't going to be continuing for much longer, one way or another.
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)They don't have any core, thus no soul.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)That opinion was set in cement in the years following boy george's stolen elections.
applegrove
(118,759 posts)the creepy nasty stuff the Conservatives would do if they ever win the Ontario Legislature. He got kicked out of the conservative caucus they so don't want it known. Point is you are not alone in the world with your republicans. Trump is just more blatant about it than people like Ryan who keep trying to put a smilieface on everything. But they are all the same. And they are everywhere.
retrowire
(10,345 posts)They just...
Don't get TV exposure
And
Are overshadowed by their dipshit party.
Jacquette
(152 posts)leaders both R and D. With the complicity of the media. They are insisting on treating this as business as usual. Investigate. Supoena. Indict.
As though after a 2 yr process there will be much of a country left.
Rollo
(2,559 posts)And some Republicans have done good things:
Teddy Roosevelt busting up the monopolies...
Lincoln freeing the slaves (eventually)
Nixon creating the EPA
Eisenhower creating the national highway system
And some Democrats have done some bad things:
Wilson and race
FDR trying to pack the Supreme Court
LBJ vastly escalating the Vietnam War and lying about the Gulf of Tonkin
Bill Clinton and Monica
So... nobody's perfect. But if we want progressives to win the government, we need to reach out to, not condemn, various voting blocks...
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)They destroy.
They stand for nothing but the worship of money above all else.
They believe that lower taxes and less regulation is a panacea for everything.
And they are liars....all I am hearing today is how great America's been at reducing it's carbon footprint. Well, you dumb fucks, the very regulatory wall you are tearing down is directly responsible for reducing our carbon footprint!
I find myself working hard at NOT simply despising Trump voters despite whether or not they are a good person otherwise.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Angry people do not behave rationally. When they eventually snap out of their funk, they will probably wonder what the f*** is going on.
Iggo
(47,564 posts)If they cover for the bad ones, then what are they really?
vlyons
(10,252 posts)"Good" in the same way that "good" Germans stood by silently in the 1930s. "Good" Germans, who said and did nothing during Hitler's rise to power. "Good" Germans, who thought it was perfectly ok to label people as subhuman, round them up, and deport them "somewhere else." Never ever forget that in law, silence means consent. So all those "good" Republicans, who stand by silently, while criminals and traitors destroy out country are just as morally bankrupt and guilty as Trump.
Hayduke Bomgarte
(1,965 posts)taught_me_patience
(5,477 posts)as a couple of good Republicans.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)Haven't been any for a long while.
The bad ones pushed the good ones out (to the extent that there were ever good ones in our lifetimes).