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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm so sick of Republicans and their revenge elections.
In the '70's the Democrats elected Jimmy Carter, a kind, intelligent man of unimpeachable moral character.
The Republicans, evidently horrified by all this, elected, with the help of the ludicrously-named Moral Majority, a divorced Hollywood actor who cloaked his vicious racism behind a facade of twinkling warmth and an apple-cheeked smile.
In the '90's, the Democrats elected Bill Clinton, who had all of Carter's intelligence, but less of his moral character. He appealed to younger voters, and steered the nation through a period of unprecedented economic growth.
The Republicans, evidently horrifed by a President who appeals to younger voters and speaks with Oxford-honed erudition, elected the bumbling ne'er-do-well eldest son of President George H. W. Bush. The younger Bush, born in Connecticut, fancied himself an urban cowboy, and spoke with the halting words and tangled sentences of the functionally illiterate. Viewing war as a grand adventure and a sure-fire election winner, he took the nation into two disastrous wars that we still haven't recovered from.
In the 20-oughts, The Democrats elected an intelligent, hard-working, gracious, visionary, appealing man who happened to be African-American. He repaired much of the damage to America's reputation caused by the feckless younger Bush, and became renowned worldwide for his gentle, but powerful statesmanship.
The Republicans, driven absolutely berserk by the idea of a Black President, scoured the sewers, septic tanks, and sump-pumps of America until it found the most revolting, disgusting, characterless, vulgar, backward, racist, misogynist narcissistic monster imaginable, and collaborated with a Russian dictator to elevate this feculent squdge of human offal into the White House.
If we elect our usual Democrat, capable, intelligent, hard-working, personable (and possibly gay, a POC, or a woman), how will the Republicans seek their revenge?
wryter2000
(46,037 posts)Have to look that one up.
trev
(1,480 posts)with their Anthrax letters, pipe bombs, assassination attempts, and mass shootings.
They say they want a civil war. I think this is one case in which they are not lying.
Ohiogal
(31,979 posts)But I absolutely love feculant squidge of human offal! May I borrow it?
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)They only get worse. Never better.
FakeNoose
(32,633 posts)We can't ever turn our backs on any Repuke. They all will cheat, the first chance they get.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)What preceded the republican being elected was a very ill considered revolt by the far left that sapped party energy and left a lot of anger behind that republicans took advantage of. Now Russians have jumped into the mix.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)and stop all that Democracy nonsense for good.