Wyatt earp
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No, BOTH Parties have moved LEFT.I'm not talking about America.
I'm talking about the current state of conservative red faced unglued hysteria that is accepted as normal behavior. The willingness to accept any proclamation from someone like Trump no matter how crazy it is. To accept any conspiracy theory as having merit.
The wail and cry from this off-the-map segment of the conservative right is now and will be here today 'well both sides do it'. No they don't. There is not a 'two sided coin' to every thought or statement or movement. What we have today is a coin with a person on one side and on the other side the image of a possessed and demonic Regan from The Exorcist. The false equivalency is in fact one of the fake arguing positions of this fanatical movement. They use all the tools available to blur the picture and portray themselves as just the 'opposition party'.
There was an opposition party 25 years ago. Anyone old enough knows the political parties used to argue loudly about things but they then got the business of the country done by compromise. Today the, call it whatever you like, alt-right, far right, tea baggers, whatever, they demand no compromise and instead demand their political leaders force everyone else to do their bidding and if you don't like it tough shit.
Sorry that isn't how democracy works. It never has and never will. The political death of this fanatical segment of the nation is what is needed.
Leonard Pitts: For the Republicans, defeat is not enough
Very well stated. I'm terrified at the prospect of Trump actually winning and giving legitimacy to all of his imbecile followers.
The fact that the U.S. Senate has had more filibusters during Obama's Presidency than in the previous 200 years combined shows that the Republicans are an obstructionist party, not an opposition party. They have absolutely no interest in governing this country, they only care about power.
Most Republicans are evil people and very dangerous to democracy. Choosing a completely unqualified racist like Donald Trump as their nominee says it all.
I would say there are many sane conservatives out there that see what is happening to the Republican party and are as horrified as anyone. I know they are out there. As Leonard Pitts says in his article, the best solution here would be for the current Republican party to burn to the ground and these people, the sane conservatives that are left, to build a new party of civility and values again. I've said many times if Kasich were the nominee for the Republican party this year I would be voting for him. A great ticket for the country I think would be Sanders-Kasich, which will never happen but this is what is needed. Normal civil adults.
The current vein of hateful vitriol coming from the far right has to go.
I hate to say it, but the "far right" is now the normal Republican Party. That's why Trump is the nominee and all of these modern day racist Confederates are loving it.
It's just that the Democrats have embraced full fledged COMMUNISM.
Now, to the Left, NORMAL is "far right."
You would have HATED George Washington & Thomas Jefferson.
The Repugs have moved left, yet a total racist like Trump is your nominee.
You're a fucking idiot. Seriously.
Well this is the most ignorant post of the week, trump was always a lefty you fuckin moron. For some reason he got posses at the DNC and wanted to fuck them over.
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