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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI googled...Is the Republican party losin it's grip on reality?
I came up with this letter to the editor of the New Richmond News
Apparently, the only required reading to qualify for the TEA Party is the Constitution and an Ayn Rand novel. For some reason, the pro-abortion atheist Ayn Rand has become the patron saint of the God-fearing, pro-life Republican TEA Party. Paul has said he is a big fan of Ayn Rand. Ive read all her novels.
SNIP:
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865. This of course was after the bloodiest war in our nations history was fought. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified making African Americans citizens and guaranteeing all citizens the equal protection of the laws. Of course, most Native Americans were excluded from this Amendment, as the government was busy trying to steal their lands and eliminating them through genocide.
In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified stating that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied of abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Of course, this didnt mean women could vote. It also didnt mean Southern states couldnt keep blacks from voting or the local law would look the other way as hundreds of blacks were being lynched. Even though a Constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote was introduced in 1878, women didnt get the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Rand Pauls statement that everybody was free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness when this country was founded is pure fiction. Paul and his TEA Party patriots should spend less time reading Ayn Rands fiction and more time reading American history. They might gain a broader understanding of reality and lose their latent teenage fantasies of being a fictional character in a poorly written novel by Ayn Rand.
SNIP:
The Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was ratified in 1865. This of course was after the bloodiest war in our nations history was fought. In 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified making African Americans citizens and guaranteeing all citizens the equal protection of the laws. Of course, most Native Americans were excluded from this Amendment, as the government was busy trying to steal their lands and eliminating them through genocide.
In 1870, the Fifteenth Amendment was ratified stating that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied of abridged on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Of course, this didnt mean women could vote. It also didnt mean Southern states couldnt keep blacks from voting or the local law would look the other way as hundreds of blacks were being lynched. Even though a Constitutional amendment to grant women the right to vote was introduced in 1878, women didnt get the right to vote until the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920.
Rand Pauls statement that everybody was free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness when this country was founded is pure fiction. Paul and his TEA Party patriots should spend less time reading Ayn Rands fiction and more time reading American history. They might gain a broader understanding of reality and lose their latent teenage fantasies of being a fictional character in a poorly written novel by Ayn Rand.
This was prnted in March 2013 however~
Full letter here.
http://www.newrichmond-news.com/event/article/id/38641/
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I googled...Is the Republican party losin it's grip on reality? (Original Post)
sheshe2
May 2013
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The Magistrate
(95,241 posts)1. Choice Rant, Ma'am
"That's the stuff to give the Hun!"
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)2. The Constitution?
Only the second amendment, the rest of it they use for wiping their asses.
demwing
(16,916 posts)3. Cool post, but tense
as in past tense...
as in "Has the Republican party lost it's grip on reality?"
Response to demwing (Reply #3)
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Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)5. What grip on reality?
bravenak
(34,648 posts)6. They make their own reality.
I noticed this some time ago.