Republicans would be happy if you die.

[Homer12]

Seriously I think most if not all people who consider themselves Republicans would be happy to see liberals and progressives die or get killed.

They seem more than happy to take voting rights away and use government power to push their extremism

They are bloodthirsty greedy human beings.

[virgogal]

1. Stop it. I have very good friends that are Republicans. You are

talking about the hardcore right,not most Repubs.

[SoutherDem]

5. Really?

I guess I know only hardcore Republicans.

[virgogal]

6. That want people dead,even killed? Sorry to hear that.

[SoutherDem]

17. Not with guns, but...

not caring if they have health insurance, a safe place to live, or money to buy food, people will an do die just the same just slower, may be a gun would be quicker. And, when it comes to extreme Democrats/progressives they may op for the gun solution.

[NNN0LHI]

8. I have some acquaintances and family members who are Republicans

But not one Republican friend that I am aware of.

Don

[TheKentuckian]

13. What is it they believe differently than "the hardcore" and why don't they at least mitigate

the excesses if they are the majority?

Hell, the "centrists" and conservatives in our party would love to see us exiled or at least silenced and Republican policies strongly indicate they not only want liberals dead but a significant proportion of everyone on the globe either suffering or gone from this world.

Their entire ideology is committed to death, poverty, fear, corporate rule, and authoritarianism.

Your friends support such at every opportunity.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I don't know.

I found out Tom Coburn has Prostate Cancer today and had some really hopeful thoughts. I'm not much better.

[Lionessa]

3. Honestly, if they give me a pain-free way to go, I'd rather that than be in a world

where they rule. Actually if they get much more of a leg up (either into the Dem party with their Blue-dog plants, or directly), I think I'd even be willing to do it painfully myself. Better the short pain of dying than the long, slow withering pain of living in the dire poverty, illness, and despair that they are instigating.

[Capitalocracy]

9. I hope you're not serious about that.

Don't let them get to you like that. That's what they want, for people like us to give up hope completely. You can achieve a major victory against them and their goals just by not letting them get into your head, change how you think, or make you give up.

[Lionessa]

10. Yeah, but all avenues of reasonable reform are being ignored, and all attempts to

not be ignored are being waylayed in many ways from all sides of the 1%.

Seriously, I started a thread about a potential one hour global sitdown, no huge deal, just one hour, and it's been unrec'd into oblivion by our local corporatists here on the site. If we can't get leverage protesting, or occupying which soon to be brought to a either a halt or violence it seems, and besides mine, over the past six months I've seen dozens of great ideas that could really take hold, and they sink as well.

Yes, I am serious. Too old and too tired to be of much use it seems unless willing to follow the route of violent protest. I won't do that. So my catch 22 is sort of exhausting. I want to see change, but I can no longer see the avenue by which it comes, by which I can assist it safely, and so on.

[Capitalocracy]

12. Well, violent protest wouldn't get you anywhere anyway.

The sitdown is a good idea, if you could get enough people to do it, it would make a powerful statement. Thing is, things don't just magically "go viral"... they pretty much have to be picked up by someone who has a certain level of popularity online for that sort of thing to flare up and have a chance to go viral.

But listen, things look bad right now, but don't get discouraged. MLK said the arc of history is long but bends toward justice. I agree, but it's not a smooth arc, it's more of a two steps forward, one step back sort of thing. The fact that the government is even supposed to be democratic now is a huge improvement over the situation just a few hundred years ago, when the king was right and you were supposed to like it. Our democracy has a lot of problems, and isn't very far from what I'd call fascism at the moment, but we're still headed in the right direction, and we'll still win in the end. We're at a low point, but that will change. We may not even see it change, but it will.

[C_U_L8R]

4. The Great Culling™

republicans are 'thin the herd' types
poor dopes just don't realize they are part of the same herd as the rest of us.

[unblock]

7. no, they'll never be happy.

these are bitter bastards with nothing but darkness where a heart should be.

they would certainly see the death of liberals and progressives as a worthy cause (some have already advocated this, including limbaugh and coulter) but nothing would satisfy them. no matter how much you give them, they always want more.

[valerief]

11. Yup. 99.9% of the 1%ers sure would like to see us dead and gone. nt

[Kievan Rus]

14. Unless you're a white male Protestant in the top 1%

That's really all they care about; anybody who isn't all of the above means nothing to them. The reaction to the "let him die" part of the Republican debate on healthcare spoke volumes.

[undeterred]

15. The feeling is mutual.

At least for the ones currently in office.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

Uh...Joe Biden, our VP, said that Julian Assange should be killed.

And he's allegedly a Democrat.

:shrug: :wtf:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

16. Uh...Joe Biden, our VP, said that Julian Assange should be killed.

And he's allegedly a Democrat.

:shrug: :wtf: