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Your neighbors have been

NCD — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 02:16:40 +0000

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Your neighbors have been thoroughly indoctrinated with a warped political ideology along with a synergistic reinforcement of their preexisting racism. The GOP has spent billions over recent decades on this project to exploit these voters. Few will unfortunately ever change. There is no conversion therapy for them.

What Obama did or how well he did it made no difference to them. Republicans ran and were elected with the sole promise being to Stop Obama. Whatever he wanted to do. Facts make no difference to them, they live in an ideological bubble. I posted on this 'facts' topic, giving this quote:

George Orwell 1946: From the totalitarian point of view history is something to be created rather than learned. A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible.... Totalitarianism demands, in fact, the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth.

They don't fear an authoritarian government, they want one, they know their ideology can only achieve dominance by non-democratic means, which is why their hard core rejects compromise.

Well written, as always,

CVille Dem — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 21:59:41 +0000

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Well written, as always, Danny. I just heard Franklin Graham on NPR saying that personalities don't matter; policies don't matter; bad language doesn't matter; the only thing that matters is THE SUPREME COURT!!!!!

why does this shyster get a tax break as a minister when he is nothing more than a shill for his moneyed friends?

Edited to add: I had forgotten about that disgusting episode of the President's "Stay in School Message" became the horrible example of the GOP delegitimization of this great man.

The GOP has lost the majority

rmrd0000 — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 11:53:57 +0000

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The GOP has lost the majority of the American public. As you note, right wing so-called Evangelicals have lost their ability to call people who do adhere to their fire and brimstone version of the Bible sinners. Reverend Barber of North Carolina projects a better reflection of Christianity than the guy at Liberty University. Every time on of the ringht wing Evangelicals speak, we hear the hatred in their hearts.

The GOP has lost the ethnic minority youth that the Party needed to grow. They have made it clear that the GOP is a white people's party. The problem is that a significant number of whites want nothing to do with the white ssupremacy promoted by the current Republican Party. Everyone who votes Trump identifies themselves as an enemy of democracy.

As George Will's column

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:21:10 +0000

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As George Will's column indicates, the contradictions of the conservative Christian movement have finally hit a brick wall - there is no logic & policy remaining in the Republican party - it's all personality and sheer pentup partisanship, even where completely & obviously incongruous with the supposed tenets they profess to hold.

tl;dr - rabid unthinking "my team vs. your team" at all costs has driven the GOP straight into a philosophical, religious and practical ditch.