David Rothkopf: The GOP Is the Party of 'Fuck You'

[Nevilledog]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-gop-is-the-party-of-fk-you

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There is an apocryphal belief that among the Indigenous people of the north there are more than 30 words for snow. Well, I’m from New Jersey and I can tell you that in America’s great Garden State we don’t need so many words. In fact, along our stretch of the I-95 corridor there are probably 30 different ways we deploy just a single two-word phrase: “Fuck you.”

It can be a greeting, an expression of disbelief, a paroxysm of surprise or awe, an expression of affection, a reaction to a particularly delicious meal, and an expression of anger in its many different forms. You get the idea.

All of which is to say, I am an expert in the use of the term. And, because I also am a denizen of Washington, D.C., I have come to understand how it has become central to the politics of our moment.

The Republican Party has become the party of “Fuck you.” “Fuck you” is the motivation of its alienated voters. It is its legislative strategy. It is its views toward the laws and Constitution of the United States. It is its reaction to morality and values. It is its foreign policy mantra with our allies. “Fuck you” is even its message to the historians of the future.

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[Biophilic]

1. Sounds about right to me. They don't seem to care for much of anything, except "fuck you".

[orthoclad]

2. Not "debaters".

Not "hypocrites". They love it when we say that - they succeeded in triggering us.

Their version of "justice" is "I am your retribution".

We keep making the mistakes of calling them dumb, or stupid, and we have fun making up funny names for them, but the reality is that they are simply "scoundrels".

Scoundrels with power. And "Manson Family" values.

(Thank you ancianita)

[DENVERPOPS]

3. Driving down the street the other day

I was behind a really expensive Porsche. He had a bumper sticker on his Porsche and I thought what the hell, who would put a bumper sticker on a Porsche. When we got to a light, I was able to pull up right behind him.

The bumper sticker read: GOT MINE, FUCK YOU.

I thought, wow, is that the epitome of todays society's thinking...........

[OMGWTF]

4. I always imagine that historians 100 years from now who are studying the Trump years

will be constantly saying, "WTF?" to themselves.

[BigmanPigman]

9. Same here.

[marble falls]

5. The 'I got mine, fuck you' party.

[Cha]

6. Yes, and in many many cases Now

the party of FOFA!

[ShazzieB]

7. I remember when the GOP became known as the "Party of NO."

And now the "Party of NO" has devolved into the "Fuck You Party." That sobriquet fits the current Republican Party to a T.

"Fuck You Unless You're a Rich, White, Straight, Cis, 'Christian' Male" would be more accurate, but it would be hard to fit that on a bumper sticker (or even a t-shirt)!

[maxsolomon]

8. Righteous analysis.

The crux:

Amazingly, of course, the reason so many Republicans wanted to tell the rest of the country to get fucked was because, of course, they had been fucked over by the system promoted, manned, defended, and advanced by the leaders of their own party and the donors that backed them. The fuckees elected the fuckers because they were tired of getting fucked by them.

[uponit7771]

10. +1,