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Cyrano

(15,020 posts)
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:40 AM May 2013

Why 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 media’s impotence, and we end up with democracy gasping for air.

So here are my questions. Why aren’t 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 wouldn’t make us as insane as them?

I can’t answer these questions. Any ideas?

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Why aren't we fighting wingnut insanity? (Original Post) Cyrano May 2013 OP
Because voters don't like people whose hair is on fire Recursion May 2013 #1
I like pie Seeking Serenity May 2013 #2
We do treestar May 2013 #3
They went over the cliff a long time ago, Cyrano May 2013 #6
Too busy criticizing each other instead of going after the real enemy. n/t OKNancy May 2013 #4
This ^^^^^^^ treestar May 2013 #9
a-men. The dems need our support. Failing to give support to a dem is tacit support for okaawhatever May 2013 #17
The media portray wingnutism as a legit political philosophy LittleBlue May 2013 #5
pssst! Cyrano! Buzz Clik May 2013 #7
Pssst. woo me with science May 2013 #8
we are suppposed to be bipartisan and give in without a fight? nt msongs May 2013 #10
I guess the tombstone of democracy will read, Cyrano May 2013 #11
Because The Media Allows Fifth Column "Democrats" to frame the debate bobduca May 2013 #12
Huh??? Cyrano May 2013 #13
Moderate Centrist Democrats are all that is allowed to rise through the Party Machinery. bobduca May 2013 #14
From what I can tell, Cyrano May 2013 #15
Public Financing of Campaigns bobduca May 2013 #16

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. Because voters don't like people whose hair is on fire
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:41 AM
May 2013

If I had to answer it in one sentence, it would be that.

Cyrano

(15,020 posts)
6. They went over the cliff a long time ago,
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:12 PM
May 2013

but it didn't stop them. With the exception of MSNBC, I don't see much of a fight going on.

okaawhatever

(9,453 posts)
17. a-men. The dems need our support. Failing to give support to a dem is tacit support for
Sat May 11, 2013, 02:39 PM
May 2013

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)
5. The media portray wingnutism as a legit political philosophy
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:10 PM
May 2013

and not as the nonsense which we know it to be.

 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
7. pssst! Cyrano!
Sat May 11, 2013, 12:14 PM
May 2013

(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.&quot

bobduca

(1,763 posts)
14. Moderate Centrist Democrats are all that is allowed to rise through the Party Machinery.
Sat May 11, 2013, 01:19 PM
May 2013

A Fifth Column Democrat is when a moderate Republican switches parties and makes a concerted effort to undermine Liberal Democratic Policy.

Any other questions?

bobduca

(1,763 posts)
16. Public Financing of Campaigns
Sat May 11, 2013, 01:41 PM
May 2013

Seems to be the only answer... not sure how we get there from here.

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