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45. Agreed...what's happening now

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 11:53 AM

Nov 2015

has its strongest roots in the Reagan era. Things have followed a perfectly logical path since then, and anyone who claims this is not the Republican party they used to support is a lying sack of shit. Ever since Reagan, the GOP has been hard-core anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-union, anti-woman, anti-black, anti-poor, anti-welfare, anti-immigrant, anti-public employee, anti-tax, anti-minimum wage, anti-science, anti-intellectual, plutocratic, theocratic, warmongering, gun-humping, corporate whores. Anyone who has voted for or supported the Republican party in any way over the last 35 years is complicit in all of that.

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�They�re bonkers. Bizarre. They�re like a Star Wars bar room� [View all] babylonsister Nov 2015 OP

Happy to DURec this. longship Nov 2015 #1

K & R...for the Sat morning crowd....nt Wounded Bear Nov 2015 #2

I rec'd too. "Roger Ailes, David and Charles Koch, Rupert Murdoch, Rush Limbaugh. Hortensis Nov 2015 #3

It's been obvious for years underpants Nov 2015 #26

Now I want to know who the former Republican congressman is! nt MADem Nov 2015 #4

I believe in having an honest opposition in politics. We used to have a back/forth KittyWampus Nov 2015 #13

Blame Newt Gingrich. He was the one who inked that Contract ON America (and I say ON because MADem Nov 2015 #14

I concur, hifiguy Nov 2015 #22

Point taken-Gingrich was simply the pimple about to burst-the problem had been building for awhile. MADem Nov 2015 #30

Frank Luntz underpants Nov 2015 #27

Looks like the GOP's Citizens United Frankensteins are destroying the GOP. SunSeeker Nov 2015 #5

But according to the MSM, both sides are just as bad... Fast Walker 52 Nov 2015 #6

No their paychecks depend on their continued lying and false narratives. Rex Nov 2015 #8

This is the terrible truth. yardwork Nov 2015 #10

+ one googolplex hifiguy Nov 2015 #23

And yet the M$M gets paid billions to make the sheeple believe 'both sides are the same'. Rex Nov 2015 #7

And they get a lot of help from us Capn Sunshine Nov 2015 #16

They take advantage of our learning style. Monkey see, monkey do. Monkeys repeat. n/t freshwest Nov 2015 #20

Exactly. Scarsdale Nov 2015 #38

This man is exactly wrong maindawg Nov 2015 #9

Reagan was the actor they hired to take office. yardwork Nov 2015 #11

He was a weasel anyway, his ideas or not. nt Enthusiast Nov 2015 #17

True. yardwork Nov 2015 #25

He sicced the National Guard on students at Berkeley back in 1969 Art_from_Ark Nov 2015 #41

I remember that now that you reminded me. Enthusiast Nov 2015 #42

Reagan was only a natural extension of the will of shareholders. raouldukelives Nov 2015 #40

Reagan served as a model for future right wing Democrats. Enthusiast Nov 2015 #43

Agreed...what's happening now skepticscott Nov 2015 #45

Batshit crazy Lunabell Nov 2015 #12

Who wants to bet the source is John Boehner? WinkyDink Nov 2015 #15

Nice! bvf Nov 2015 #33

Right Scarsdale Nov 2015 #39

Great point! LOL! n/t bvf Nov 2015 #46

That is a beautiful line. Great article from Reich. Hekate Nov 2015 #18

A Republican friend told me today ... GeorgeGist Nov 2015 #19

Why? Did she not vote for Romney? skepticscott Nov 2015 #44

Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. n/t freshwest Nov 2015 #21

It's great that the party could not be revived permanently Hydra Nov 2015 #24

"My personal theory is that Joseph built the pyramids to store grain" Warren DeMontague Nov 2015 #28

"He's so hot right now." nt Guy Whitey Corngood Nov 2015 #47

They have made it impossible to chose who the craziest one is. Kalidurga Nov 2015 #29

The utter collapse of the R party is a potential disaster for US politics struggle4progress Nov 2015 #31

"There�s no party any more. It�s chaos." ... I believe it. lpbk2713 Nov 2015 #32

They're bonkers, and they'll win - unless we vote derby378 Nov 2015 #34

+1000 smirkymonkey Nov 2015 #48

But hey, the music's sweet! backscatter712 Nov 2015 #35

Han shot first! n/t Beartracks Nov 2015 #37

Nothing has really changed with the GOP Major Nikon Nov 2015 #36