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bl968

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8. Spoiler Alert
Mon Aug 27, 2012, 03:15 AM
Aug 2012

I posted this on facebook....

Will McAvoy, the Newsroom speaking about what happened to the Republican Party listed these bullet points.

* Ideological Purity
* Compromise as Weakness
* A Fundamentalist Belief in Scriptural Literalism
* Denying Science
* Unmoved by Facts
* Undeterred by New Information
* Hostile Fear of Progress
* Demonization of Education
* A Need to Control Women's Bodies
* Severe Xenophobia
* Tribal Mentality
* Intolerance of Dissent
* Pathological Hatred of the U.S. Government

He continued, "They can call themselves the Tea Party, they can call themselves conservatives, and they can even call themselves Republicans; through Republicans certainly shouldn't. But we should all call them what they are, the American Taliban."

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