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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy aren't we fighting wingnut insanity?
For the last four decades, the GOP has been getting crazier by the day and the sane have done virtually nothing to stop them.
Teabaggers are now embedded in the House of Representatives and, due to gerrymandering, will probably be running it until the next census in 2020. There is virtually no (legal) way to push them aside. Add to that Fox news, hate radio and the rest of the right-wing echo chamber, the mainstream medias impotence, and we end up with democracy gasping for air.
So here are my questions. Why arent we treating this as a fight for the survival of sanity? And if we decided to do so, exactly what would/could we do that wouldnt make us as insane as them?
I cant answer these questions. Any ideas?
Recursion
(56,582 posts)If I had to answer it in one sentence, it would be that.
Seeking Serenity
(2,838 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)So they get more and more outrageous. Hopefully they will go over a cliff one day.
Cyrano
(15,020 posts)but it didn't stop them. With the exception of MSNBC, I don't see much of a fight going on.
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Exactly
okaawhatever
(9,453 posts)a republican. More than ever, independent voters are swaying elections. We aren't doing a good job of putting our side out there. Clearly right now there are paid for bloggers at huffpo blowing up the anti-Obama, anti-Clinton rhetoric, but there are also alot of gopers doing it to change the tone of the conversation. Faith without works is dead. If we got the message out do you think people would be voting against their own self-interest?
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)and not as the nonsense which we know it to be.
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)(take a close look around this place. it would be dangerous to start a campaign to clean out all the crazies. "Will the last one out please turn off the lights."
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Corporate Democrats like $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$, too.
msongs
(67,193 posts)Cyrano
(15,020 posts)"The Bullies Won"
bobduca
(1,763 posts)bobduca
(1,763 posts)A Fifth Column Democrat is when a moderate Republican switches parties and makes a concerted effort to undermine Liberal Democratic Policy.
Any other questions?
Cyrano
(15,020 posts)the "Party Machinery" has been broken since LBJ left the White House.
bobduca
(1,763 posts)Seems to be the only answer... not sure how we get there from here.