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Aristus

(66,316 posts)
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 04:27 PM Jun 2019

I'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?

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I'm so sick of Republicans and their revenge elections. (Original Post) Aristus Jun 2019 OP
Feculent squdge wryter2000 Jun 2019 #1
They've already shown us trev Jun 2019 #2
I can't answer your question Aristus Ohiogal Jun 2019 #3
Please... Aristus Jun 2019 #4
You already known the answer. The next Republican will be worse than Trump fescuerescue Jun 2019 #5
I'm sick of their cheating - in EVERY election FakeNoose Jun 2019 #6
If you go back and study each period when a republican was elected after a democrat. Blue_true Jun 2019 #7
They'll "select" a President for life lunatica Jun 2019 #8

trev

(1,480 posts)
2. They've already shown us
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 04:37 PM
Jun 2019

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)
3. I can't answer your question Aristus
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 04:39 PM
Jun 2019

But I absolutely love “feculant squidge of human offal”! May I borrow it?

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
5. You already known the answer. The next Republican will be worse than Trump
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 05:54 PM
Jun 2019

They only get worse. Never better.

FakeNoose

(32,633 posts)
6. I'm sick of their cheating - in EVERY election
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 06:04 PM
Jun 2019

We can't ever turn our backs on any Repuke. They all will cheat, the first chance they get.





Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
7. If you go back and study each period when a republican was elected after a democrat.
Fri Jun 28, 2019, 06:42 PM
Jun 2019

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.

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