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In reply to the discussion: Serious question : Are the current Republican/Conservatives mentally ill? [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)brainwashed by MSM. Last thanksgiving, a guest at my family's home, actually a nice young man, engaged me in a political argument, an admitted Republican. First, I made a prediction that Mitt Romney would be the Republican nominee. He didn't like Romney. I told him that the Republican establishment needed someone who could beat President Obama so he was the most likely choice. He jumped on that and said that is why there should be only one party. I asked which one would that be, the Democrats? He blanched and said no, the Republicans.
I explained why we needed two parties to checkmate the other when they got extreme. He said that was why there was no progress in taking care of problems. So I went down a list of one party states, starting with Germany under the Nazis, the Soviet Union in Russia, Cuba, China, North Korea, etc. I asked him if those nations had acceptable governments under the one party system to him and he said no, but that they had gone rogue. So I asked him to name a one party nation that hadn't gone rogue. He couldn't. I believe I left him with something to think about and that he was basically not well informed by his sources.