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TexasTowelie

(111,319 posts)
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 06:45 AM Dec 2015

I’m Ashamed Republicans Represent My Country



By Allen Clifton


I’ve never been proud of the antics of the Republican party, but I’ve never really felt true shame that these people represent my country until the last few months. I’ve reached a point where I can’t even engage in dialogue with most conservatives because the plane of idiocy and irrationality on which they operate makes any sort of sane discourse essentially impossible.

I get numerous messages every single week from conservatives proclaiming their belief that President Obama is working with ISIS. It’s one thing to disagree with a president, but it’s an entirely different level of insanity to suggest that one is aligned with the worst terrorist organization that’s ever existed to destroy the United States. Then again, these are the same folks who thought Jade Helm was a plot by the Obama administration to seize guns. Sadly, these sorts of ridiculous conspiracy theories have become the norm among many Republicans.

This is also the party that has Donald Trump and Ben Carson as its two leading presidential candidates: a 69-year-old infant who throws hissy fits on Twitter almost daily and a former brain surgeon who thinks the pyramids in Egypt were grain storages and clearly doesn’t know anything about the Middle East.

Nowadays the Republican party is nothing more than our country’s largest hate group. Not only is hate-filled rhetoric allowed, but it’s encouraged.

Read more: http://www.forwardprogressives.com/im-ashamed-republicans-represent-country/
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RKP5637

(67,032 posts)
2. One of these R clowns in the WH would not only destroy the US, but likely take down a good
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 07:21 AM
Dec 2015

part of others too.

But mostly I’m ashamed that when many people around the world think of Americans, it’s these small-minded, ignorant Republicans who are the ones who come to mind first. From the party of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Eisenhower to the party of Trump, Carson and Cruz – the GOP has become a caricature of a political party and an embarrassment to the United States.

 

Still In Wisconsin

(4,450 posts)
3. I agree. It is embarrassing.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 07:51 AM
Dec 2015

Also, as a Wisconsinite, I feel some extra kinship with folks from places like Texas. You all, I am sure, are sick of explaining Cruz, Perry, etc... and we have the lovely and talented Scott K. Walker hanging around our necks!

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
4. K&R And yet there are those who argue pushing back against that hate is wrong.
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:21 AM
Dec 2015

That fighting the racism and hate that trickles down from the top is somehow not worth the effort.

Well screw that. There are those who desire democracy, for all people, and there are those who donate to conservative corporations and thereby help bankroll right wing politicians who take joy in radicalizing new generations into the ways of hate, racism and white supremacy.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
7. There is that ...
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:53 AM
Dec 2015

and it has grown so much during my life - from the 80s when there actually was some level of actual journalism to today, where the media has absolutely no desire to call the republicans on anything, at best simply ignores is and most often in fact cheerleads for it.

But, the bigger issue is that we as a country indulge the republicans.

They scream like lunatics about all these perceived or made up grievances from the democratic party, but today can act in the most ludicrously outlandish manner, and the people of this country simply refuse to hold them to any level of accountability for it.

The problem is that while fundamentally they don't reflect were we are in a lot of ways, but their tactics, their dialogue very much is in line with where this country is today.

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
6. Wingers are irresponsible buffoons, pure and simple…
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:47 AM
Dec 2015

They feel entitled to live in a world of their own delusions, denying the real world around themselves and not taking any responsibility whatsoever.

If they had the chance to run the world, as they dictate from their delusions, they'd all starve to death.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
8. This is why I have mostly given up
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 08:57 AM
Dec 2015

trying to battle it ...

They feel entitled to live in a world of their own delusions, denying the real world around themselves and not taking any responsibility whatsoever.

I banged my head for so long trying to talk to republicans, but the sad fact is is that what you posted is 100 percent accurate, and there simply is no way to break through it. Facts, reality, reason don't even factor in.

It just is a waste of time, and ends up having people have ill feelings ...

MrScorpio

(73,626 posts)
11. If I had the power, I'd send them to live in a world without all of the people they hate and fear…
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:22 AM
Dec 2015

They'd never have to worry about liberals, feminists, non-Christians, minorities, immigrants and people who think that being armed to the teeth is both unnecessary and insane.

They can have all the guns they'd want, churchify themselves until they're blue in the face, outlaw all abortions while reaping the consequences of doing so and practice as much predatory Capitalism without a safety net as they could possibly withstand.

They can let the polluters pollute to their heart's content, because there wouldn't be an EPA. They can let the bankers rip them off until their last penny and let them figure out who's going to harvest the cops going fallow in the fields and performing every single thankless job under the sun for a pittance, all without any Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Consumer Protection and whatever else they don't want.

They can forget about things like food stamps and a living wage, their entire world is one big Right To Work Zone, and they can build a mile-high fence around themselves that keeps everything that's in, in, and everything that's out, out.

And they never have to worry about any Democrats or Liberal parties, because there won't be any… Not to mention, intellectuals, scientists, educators, labor and civil rights activists, pacifists, artists and a wide variety of free thinking, unafraid people who feel that individual rights and collective responsibilities are NOT mutually exclusive either.

It would be a right wing paradise, with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News telling them all how great they'd have it.

And I'd do that as favor to them… Only because I'm such a nice guy.

Cosmocat

(14,543 posts)
13. lol
Wed Dec 23, 2015, 10:20 AM
Dec 2015

For conservatives, creating a world without anyone that they hate would be like creating a world without oxygen ...

rladdi

(581 posts)
9. Suggesting that Obama is working with ISIS is so wrong. But I question whether the
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:01 AM
Dec 2015

Republicans aren't. They still have ot debated ISIS war in the Senate or the House. What are they hiding from the American people? And of course they support the huge gun race in America too. And then Trump is in love with Putin, OMG, what else will we see in their campaign.

Jarqui

(10,110 posts)
10. I thought the George W Bush years were very embarrassing for the party
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 09:11 AM
Dec 2015

Cowboy foreign policy, advocating torture (as a post WWII baby, I never thought I'd see an American administration defend torture)

 

maindawg

(1,151 posts)
12. It is merely the death rattle
Tue Dec 22, 2015, 12:15 PM
Dec 2015

Of the Republican party. A desperate cry from the dwindling power of the old guard. When you corner a rat the rat becomes much more dangerous. But at some point you either must draw a clear line, a limit if you will on what is legally acceptable. You cannot endanger other people cause harm and expect zero consequences. Anti abortion terrorism has to be dealt with. Accusing the president of terrorism motivates terrorists its crying fire in a theater its not OK. I would never suggest we limit the first amendment but you should be responsible for harm you help create. When a Republican congressman breaks the law by going around congress and addressing the Iranian govt, he should have been arrested and prosecuted. The Republicans don't seem to have any problem arresting and prosecuting a Dem. But the Dems ,in their pursuit of justice seem reluctant to make waves in the greater interest of course of keeping the wheels turning so as to keep the cash machine going I suppose.

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