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In reply to the discussion: Please stop posting the following idiotic bullshit: [View all]Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)If we lost to just the Old Republican guard, meaning folks like Gerald Ford, Bob Dole, even Nixon for Pete sakes I would agree with the "hey I know you're disappointed but let's not exaggerate crowd."
That's not who we are dealing with. People with similar beliefs to those type of Republicans aren't in office any more.
They are gone, victims of their own delusions that no one would be willing to take the train to crazy town with the likes of Bachmann, Palin, and Cruz, but guess what they were. These are people who don't believe even in the basic fundamentals of science, who view the superiority of the white race as unquestionable, who view education as the enemy.
If this country's elecorate were truly as smart as you give them credit for, it shouldn't matter how much people like the Koch's spend on selling the Republican brand. They don't fill out all those ballots, the rest of the people do.
We weren't cheated by voting machines, we were defeated by the ignorance of over half of the electorate, IMHO. Call that elitist, defeatist, whatever. I call it refusing to keep hoping that things will just magically be better if we just work harder and sell our message better. Over half the country voted for this, you can defend that and them as sane, intellectuals, whatever you so choose. The T Party also has the right to vote, think and call themselves smart, mock us etc. Totally agree that's your right and theirs to believe and say, just don't tell me that I don't have the right to believe and say what I want to as well.