Who killed the Republican Party?
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journey
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Many in the Republican Party stopped listening to the people who elected them and neglected their duties under the Constitution. They instead listened to special interest groups and donors. However, I don't think their failures are nearly as bad as the Democrats. Both parties need a shake-up and wake-up. We do have a Constitution should be one of the biggest reminders.
Buzzword
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Congressional Republicans who made obstructing anything with President Obama's name on it more important than actually DOING THEIR JOBS.
They taught their own constituents to hate and fear the federal government in its entirety, and now they are reaping what they have sown in a massively divided party and record-low approval ratings.
Which will likely lead to a Democratic majority in Congress regardless of the results of the presidential election.
Though I won't declare the GOP to be truly beyond hope until/unless Drumpf actually gets the nomination.
They taught their own constituents to hate and fear the federal government in its entirety, and now they are reaping what they have sown in a massively divided party and record-low approval ratings.
Which will likely lead to a Democratic majority in Congress regardless of the results of the presidential election.
Though I won't declare the GOP to be truly beyond hope until/unless Drumpf actually gets the nomination.
The Repugnican party is destroying itself with its gross stupidity, incompetence, bigotry, hatred,lies, and utter failure to make this country a better place .
It has allowed governors senators and congressmen to be elected who belong in homes for the severely retarded rather than politics , such as Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry,
Paul Broun, Steve King , and others .Not to mention the imbecile George W. Bush, worst President in US history .
The American public (at least some of it) has seen through GOP idiocy and will not stand for it any more . The Repugnican party is no longer conservative . It is backward, regressive, fascistic and theocratic .
The GOP has do-nothing but increase poverty, unemployment and hoplessness exponentially in America . It has failed utterly to create jobs, protect the environment , provide for those indeed ,
provide enough help for young people wanting to get a college, medical and graduate education ,
protect the rights of gay people , help poor children , help poor pregnant women provide for children , etc.
It has been bought by cynical, ruthless and greedy tycoons such as the monstrously evil Koch brothers and is totally corrupt . It has allowed a tiny handful of people in America to become obscenely wealthy while destroying the middle class and creating more poor people .
It has allowed evangelical Christian fanatics to get too much power in America . The GOP supply side, "trickle down" economic policies for the past 30 years or so have been disastrous for the world .
The GOP under Bush and Cheney nearly ruined the US economy and started the catastrophic Iraq war based on a pack of lies . It wastes billion every year on a bloated military budget while neglecting to allocate funds to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure .
Why would anyone vote for this abomination ?
It has allowed governors senators and congressmen to be elected who belong in homes for the severely retarded rather than politics , such as Louie Gohmert, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry,
Paul Broun, Steve King , and others .Not to mention the imbecile George W. Bush, worst President in US history .
The American public (at least some of it) has seen through GOP idiocy and will not stand for it any more . The Repugnican party is no longer conservative . It is backward, regressive, fascistic and theocratic .
The GOP has do-nothing but increase poverty, unemployment and hoplessness exponentially in America . It has failed utterly to create jobs, protect the environment , provide for those indeed ,
provide enough help for young people wanting to get a college, medical and graduate education ,
protect the rights of gay people , help poor children , help poor pregnant women provide for children , etc.
It has been bought by cynical, ruthless and greedy tycoons such as the monstrously evil Koch brothers and is totally corrupt . It has allowed a tiny handful of people in America to become obscenely wealthy while destroying the middle class and creating more poor people .
It has allowed evangelical Christian fanatics to get too much power in America . The GOP supply side, "trickle down" economic policies for the past 30 years or so have been disastrous for the world .
The GOP under Bush and Cheney nearly ruined the US economy and started the catastrophic Iraq war based on a pack of lies . It wastes billion every year on a bloated military budget while neglecting to allocate funds to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure .
Why would anyone vote for this abomination ?
PureX
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Karl Rove set all this perversity in motion when he put flyers on the windscreens of cars in fundamentalist church parking lots in Texas falsely claiming that George Bush's opponent, Ann Richards, was a lesbian; because he knew it would stir up their hatred and prejudice against her and that they would run to the polls to vote for "W" (even though they didn't actually like him much). And it worked! The tactic got Bush elected governor of Texas.
At that point the republican party learned from Karl's campaign tactic that there were lots of Christian religious zealots out there that were not politically active, but that could be stirred to action by praying on their ignorance and bigotry with the right lies - aimed at the republican's opponents. So they began using this tactic in every election, stirring up all those ignorant, angry, prejudiced zealots who were already in the habit of believing all sorts of things regardless of the historical facts, or the evidence of science.
They were the "perfect patsies" for the party of the rich, who couldn't win an election, otherwise. And so Karl Rove was hailed as the new genus of the republican party, and the tabloid media jumped in the bandwagon because it turned out that stirring up those angry zealots by telling them whatever lies they wanted to hear also kept them tuning into the TV and radio for more! And that was worth a lot of money to the people who operated those media outlets. After all, they get paid by selling advertisers access to all those eyes and ears.
Thus the unholy alliance between the republican party and the tabloid media began, and set themselves to stirring up as much ignorance and anger and prejudice as they could among the American populace. But it turned out there was a LOT of ignorance, anger, and prejudice out there! So much that once they got it all stirred up, it began to take on a life of it's own! Soon the zealots wanted more extremist candidates to vote for than the republican party could muster. And they wanted crazy laws passed that were so absurd that they began to make the republican party look like a pack of lunatics, and mad dogs. But by then the republicans were too scared to put the brakes on it all because they knew they still couldn't win elections without the zealot's votes.
And that's how they got to where they are, now. With the zealots voting in anger for a lunatic candidate because they are, in fact, lunatics, themselves. And the republican party is being trampled under the wheels of this whole lunatic parade that they've started, themselves, but have now lost control of.
So if you want a name; it's Karl Rove. He's the man responsible for installing the worst president in American history by practicing the worst kind of campaign tactics, and for stirring up all the American people's worst inclinations, and using them to exploit us and turn us all against each other, and ultimately against our own government.
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Jose Fly
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I like PureX's post...it touches on part of what I've been seeing in the GOP since the "Rove years".
Since the rise of the "moral majority" in the 70's and 80's, there have been two main camps in the republican party, the evangelical Christian culture warriors and the wealthy corporate interests. As PureX noted, Rove figured out how to rile up the culture warriors by having candidates engage in rhetoric about gays, abortion, prayer, public religious displays, and the like. The problem was, it was just that....rhetoric. When the candidates actually got into office they largely dropped all that culture war stuff and proceeded to cut taxes on the wealthy, cut regulations on businesses, and do lots of other things that benefited the corporate/wealthy arm of the GOP.
Play that out over a few decades and eventually the culture warrior voters start to realize that they've been played, which makes them angry and disillusioned at the party. I've been hearing the likes of Glen Beck, Hannity, Levin, and other right-wing personalities rail against the "republican establishment" for the last several years, with it seeming to reach a peak with Boehner's speakership.
So you have what we see today; a GOP that's splintered in two with one faction massively angry at the other. And now they have a candidate who taps into that anger and frustration and is also someone the GOP establishment can't stand, and...well....here we are.
Since the rise of the "moral majority" in the 70's and 80's, there have been two main camps in the republican party, the evangelical Christian culture warriors and the wealthy corporate interests. As PureX noted, Rove figured out how to rile up the culture warriors by having candidates engage in rhetoric about gays, abortion, prayer, public religious displays, and the like. The problem was, it was just that....rhetoric. When the candidates actually got into office they largely dropped all that culture war stuff and proceeded to cut taxes on the wealthy, cut regulations on businesses, and do lots of other things that benefited the corporate/wealthy arm of the GOP.
Play that out over a few decades and eventually the culture warrior voters start to realize that they've been played, which makes them angry and disillusioned at the party. I've been hearing the likes of Glen Beck, Hannity, Levin, and other right-wing personalities rail against the "republican establishment" for the last several years, with it seeming to reach a peak with Boehner's speakership.
So you have what we see today; a GOP that's splintered in two with one faction massively angry at the other. And now they have a candidate who taps into that anger and frustration and is also someone the GOP establishment can't stand, and...well....here we are.
Came across this article today.
http://time.com/4253747/the-party-of-reagan-is-no-more/?iid=toc_031016
The Party of Reagan Is No More - Peter Wehner
I thought this was a good article, though I don't agree with or think all of it's fair.
I think the points about rhetoric, lack of reason, and hatred of compromise are spot on. Though I think some of that is true for all of politics lately.
http://time.com/4253747/the-party-of-reagan-is-no-more/?iid=toc_031016
The Party of Reagan Is No More - Peter Wehner
I thought this was a good article, though I don't agree with or think all of it's fair.
I think the points about rhetoric, lack of reason, and hatred of compromise are spot on. Though I think some of that is true for all of politics lately.
it will have to get worse before it can get better
-you can't stop idiots from voting
-you can't stop idiots from voting
the republican party is not dead
-it will survive this
-we will lose the white house, the senate, and the supreme court
-but we will hold the house and the states
-this is all about trump who has a deal with the clintons to get hillary elected
-it will work
-trump will not be the republican nominee
-but
-the republicans cannot win the white house because of what he has done
He didn't *do* anything all on his own. Your party gave him a helping hand when you all decided to support him.
Foxfire
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