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Cyrano

(15,041 posts)
Thu Dec 12, 2013, 10:11 AM Dec 2013

No end to Republican dickishness (a rant) [View all]

Any reasonable person has to wonder why Republicans/Teabaggers are such mean-spirited dicks, completely void of empathy.

What most people would consider to be decent, they are against. Health care, education, jobs, caring for veterans, extended unemployment insurance, a livable minimum wage, immigration, voting rights, fixing our crumbling infrastructure, reasonable gun control, aiding the poor and disabled, school lunches for needy children, meals on wheels for the elderly. But being against all of this is not sufficient. They want to do away with Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Not to mention giving less than full rights to women, minorities and anyone they consider to be among the “Thems.”

They have seized partial power of our government through voter suppression and gerrymandering. They can enact their agenda of cruelness in the states they control, and they can block progress on a national basis. And they are aided and abetted in their dickishness by the MSM (which is nothing more than big business).

Their arrogance and non-stop lies make them intolerable. Their leaders and propagandists create a parallel universe in which most of them are content to live in ignorance. Why are they filled with so much anger and hatred? Beats me. But what I know for sure is that there will always be people like them. They’ll never go away and it’s up to us to do everything possible to keep them from ever seizing the levers of power in this country. They are a bigger danger to our freedoms than any outside enemy could ever be.

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K&r... spanone Dec 2013 #1
Forgot to mention they'll never accept lgbt rights Cyrano Dec 2013 #2
I know it's been said before, but G_j Dec 2013 #3
k&r Little Star Dec 2013 #4
All I can say about this is "BRAVO!!!!" calimary Dec 2013 #5
It's an ideology that must be shunned and loudly shamed at every turn. byronius Dec 2013 #6
Rupublis should hold their heads in shame ffr Dec 2013 #12
Yahoo headline yesterday: Z_California Dec 2013 #7
Part of the parallel universe Cyrano Dec 2013 #8
I block Yahoo/AT&T headlines. They're a right-wing outlet. ffr Dec 2013 #14
Everything you said... SoapBox Dec 2013 #9
The Republicans take the low road on every issue AgingAmerican Dec 2013 #10
"Republican dickishness" Isn't that redundant? yellowcanine Dec 2013 #11
KnR sarchasm Dec 2013 #13
Stossel is a good example of such a dick vinny9698 Dec 2013 #15
And yet I have more Facebook friends than not who are still posting how wonderful the GOP is onlyadream Dec 2013 #16
It's cognative dissonance, Cyrano Dec 2013 #17
fundamental principles of the republican party rustbeltvoice Dec 2013 #18
+100000000. You are so right BlancheSplanchnik Dec 2013 #19
Bet they'd embrace it, too. n/t freshwest Feb 2014 #23
ebola. Ooooo, big werd. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2014 #24
They give hypocrisy a bad name Cyrano Dec 2013 #20
They set up torture camps and got away with it, who's really to blame? Corruption Inc Dec 2013 #21
Honestly I think their brains are wired differently... jimlup Dec 2013 #22
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