Our government is not representing us.

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14. I think what we are calling republicans has changed. Some might say that the Dem party has moved...

to the right so much that the lines are being blurred ...dinos ...DLC. In that case what we are calling republican could really be the far right of what the republicans used to be. Of course the more stupid and nuts some are the more they get noticed and put on tv ....it's the spectacle of it all. In the same way here on DU we look for the spectacle of the stupid and demonize the republicans as if they are all that way. Mean while some Dems are or have moved center right or away from what once was core principles of the Dem party. I am sure that the tea baggers wanted representation and they got it ...to the detriment of the republican party. So now we have the crazy in the house but that doesn't mean that they are representing the majority of republicans ...IMO it just looks that way because the media thrives on the controversy they bring out. IMO the "represented" (minority) republicans have moved to the far right and the Dems have moved to the center. I don't believe the tea party is really as large of an entity as the media would have us believe. I do agree with you about having a harder time thinking of a policy on which we disagreed and on which republicans were right and Democrats were wrong. I just don't think we or they are being represented as we should be. The tea baggers who are being represented are just useful fools for the Koch's and others of same ilk. I'd hardly call them core republicans.