Why The GOP's Stance on Russian Interference In The Election Should Come As A Surprise To Nobody.

[TrollBuster9090]

Back in January 2009, the country was experiencing the worst economic disaster since the Great Depression. And what did the GOP do? They met secretly, and decided they were going to block, obstruct, and delay ANYTHING that Obama and the Democrats might try to do to make things better. They didn't WANT things to get better, because that would make them look bad. They wanted things to get WORSE for Americans, so that they could get back into power again.

So, they actually voted AGAINST a stimulus plan that was 2/3 tax cuts. Tax cuts that were put there specifically to appease the GOP, and yet NOT ONE Republican voted for it in the House, and they did everything they could to FILIBUSTER it in the Senate.

So, if they were willing to try to make the economy WORSE, and willing to see Americans suffer, and lose their jobs, and their homes, and their pensions just to get back into power....it comes as absolutely no surprise that they'd be willing to accept espionage from the Kremlin as a means of getting back into power. The results justify the means.

[Ford_Prefect]

1. It appears that they already have. Just as they have manipulated the Senate to stop SCOTUS

and other judicial nominees despite their own claims of being the party of the Constitution. It's not just about political power for them it is actually a culture war. They do not see individual citizens as deserving ANY rights and privileges that you do not pay them or their masters for.

[SamKnause]

2. They are the most destructive people on the face of the earth.

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Their policies and actions prove that they hate the U.S. and it's citizens.

They will be very pleased with the Dictator they have elected, that is if

they are in his good graces.

Those who are not will face his wrath along with the rest of us.

I try not to hate.

Republicans make it almost impossible.

[eShirl]

3. all while wrapping themselves in the flag and claiming to be patriots

[madaboutharry]

4. They hate America.

They want a different country. Republicans do not believe that this country should be the home of the free or the brave; they want a country run by oligarchs who hold complete control over the government. They actually want a country like Russia.

[Cosmocat]

5. And two years later had the biggest mid term congressional gains in our lives

Which was a seminal moment in my understanding of just how fucking stupid this country is.

There was the brief reprieve in 06 and 08, backlash from Iraq and Bush II driving the country over the cliff.

But, the last 30 years has been non-stop rightward creep at all levels of government in this country.

AND, to your point, it does not matter what fucked up shit they do, outside of 06 and 08 (and BHO winning re-election), they are NEVER held accountable.

[yardwork]

6. Exactly. And the election of Trump is more evidence of blatant stupidity.

At this point, the Republicans realize that they can do anything and at least half the country will still think it's Obama's fault. The country is that brainwashed.

[Cosmocat]

8. It is seriously like the Invasion of the Body Snatchers

in this country right now.

1/3 of us see what is going on and are completely beyond ourselves why this country is not up in arms over it.
1/3 of us are republicans who would dutifully and virulently defend all things republican even if the party was going to have everyone in the country throw their children in volcanoes.
1/3 are the "independents" and people who don't vote who will moo and follow republicans of whatever cliff they are going over.

There literally nothing we can say that will impact this.

[Vogon_Glory]

7. I have come to believe that today's Republican Party has turned into an oligarchical party

I believe that today's Republican Party has turned into an oligarchical party. I know this isn't news here at DU, but I don't think most of us realize what sort of oligarchical party the Republican Party has transformed itself into. I strongly believe that the GOP has turned itself into an oligarchical party with behaviors and norms of a typical 20th century Latin American oligarchical party found in Central America, South America, and the Spanish Caribbean.

We've got most of the behaviors of an oligarchy: the use of the state for self-enrichment, corruption of the electoral process, the refusal to use the power of the state to better the lot of the common man and woman.

But we also have: the use of race-baiting and the disdain for darker-skinned folks, attacks on political dissident, and a tolerance for foreign meddling in its internal affairs.

One of the entertaining ironies of this elections is that alt-right and more garden-variety immigrant-bashers have unwittingly collaborated in creating the same sorts of political and economic structures that so many of those darker-skinned people fled when they crossed into the USA.

But I'm not going to say "Congratulations" Señor Tromp.