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When did this happen? It all depends on the issue and what the demands are. Nobody can "compromise" if a proposal is aimed at denying the rights of Americans. Unfortunately, some people seek to advance policies that are aimed at targeting a specific group of Americans, many times couched seemingly neutral language.You mean the days when "compromise" meant agreeing with you, and not fighting back or holding you accountable?I'm old enough to remember when the GOP was a respectable political party. I even campaigned once for a GOP candidate. My parents supported the elder Bush. Now it is nothing but a cult full of freaks, biker scum and religious nutjobs.
One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.washingtonmonthly.com
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
So says johnny conspiracies nutThis is the RW post that proves the OPs point.Here are true conspiraciesOne of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
Russia Russia Russia
Trump Russia Collusion
The Steele Dossier
The Phone call
And here the king of all conspiracies
The Schiff Sham
OK FICTION QUEENExactly. The right has made conspiracy theories so much a basis of their ideology they are unable to tell the truth from fiction.And once again we see in this very thread those on the dishonest right doing what they always do: responding with idiotic red herring fallacies about a Russian ‘conspiracy theory’ along with ridiculous attempts to deflect from the topic because they know they have no valid argument to respond with, because they know the thread premise is correct.
You never compromise with people that you never have anything in common withWhen did this happen? It all depends on the issue and what the demands are. Nobody can "compromise" if a proposal is aimed at denying the rights of Americans. Unfortunately, some people seek to advance policies that are aimed at targeting a specific group of Americans, many times couched seemingly neutral language.You mean the days when "compromise" meant agreeing with you, and not fighting back or holding you accountable?I'm old enough to remember when the GOP was a respectable political party. I even campaigned once for a GOP candidate. My parents supported the elder Bush. Now it is nothing but a cult full of freaks, biker scum and religious nutjobs.
Are you able to hold people like trump accountable?
You and the rest of you criminal vermin aren't capable of speaking honestly about anything.One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
And guns,you forgot to mention the guns.I'm old enough to remember when the GOP was a respectable political party. I even campaigned once for a GOP candidate. My parents supported the elder Bush. Now it is nothing but a cult full of freaks, biker scum and religious nutjobs.
www.cnn.com
"We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
www.brookings.edu
is this a red herring fallacy?.....And once again we see in this very thread those on the dishonest right doing what they always do: responding with idiotic red herring fallacies about a Russian ‘conspiracy theory’ along with ridiculous attempts to deflect from the topic because they know they have no valid argument to respond with, because they know the thread premise is correct.
your party has moved pretty far from that mainstream too...."We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges."
Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans are the Problem | Brookings
Thomas Mann and Norman J. Ornstein examine the current political climate and state that the political polarization is even worse than the public thinks. Further, they argue that most of the blame can be assigned to the Republican Party.
Nope. They just don’t trust anything they don’t want to believe.Translation, they don't trust liars like the poster I quote.And that’s why the GOP has become a conspiracy cult. They don’t trust outside information.Your lib mouthpiece appears to be pissed that trump voters do not see him and his fellow libs in the news media as credible sources of informationOne of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
and in that is correct
I dont respect journalists anymore or believe what they tell us
All of you nut-bars saying "Russian conspiracy theory" are an excellent demonstration of the issue being discussed in the OP.ROFLOL! The Democratic Party dragged the country through the mud for 2 years while trying to peddle their bogus Trump-Russian-collusion conspiracy theory. You can't get a much bigger, wilder conspiracy theory than to claim that the GOP nominee conspired with the Russians and that that nominee has been doing the Russians' bidding after getting elected!
I'm a world where conservatives bothered to educate themselves rather than just swallow the trips their "media" force feeds them tRump would be in prison pending trial.
The Russian connection is not a conspiracy theory, it's a well documented fact that you just chose not to believe.
And this from someone who probably believes the trump-russia collusion hoaxAnd that’s why the GOP has become a conspiracy cult. They don’t trust outside information.
Ha! Not really. I’m glad it was investigated. The investigation showed a lot of shady behavior. Ultimately proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia was helping Trump get elected but y’all still can’t bring yourselves to admit it.
Talk about seeing only what you want to seeAnd this from someone who probably believes the trump-russia collusion hoaxAnd that’s why the GOP has become a conspiracy cult. They don’t trust outside information.
Ha! Not really. I’m glad it was investigated. The investigation showed a lot of shady behavior. Ultimately proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Russia was helping Trump get elected but y’all still can’t bring yourselves to admit it.
thats totally delusional
I see the official results of an extensive and fair investigation into the meddling in the election backed up by the official results similar investigations from our intelligence communities and Congressional panels.
That’s being delusional?
Some for sure. But Trump is the leader of your party and spent years as a birther so y’all win this contest. It isn’t even close.Sounds more like your side of the political fence.Nope. They just don’t trust anything they don’t want to believe.Translation, they don't trust liars like the poster I quote.And that’s why the GOP has become a conspiracy cult. They don’t trust outside information.Your lib mouthpiece appears to be pissed that trump voters do not see him and his fellow libs in the news media as credible sources of informationOne of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
and in that is correct
I dont respect journalists anymore or believe what they tell us
More than 40% of Republicans in a new poll say they think Bill Gates wants to use COVID-19 vaccines to implant location-tracking microchips in recipients
Bill Gates has become the target of online conspiracy theorists and conservative pundits over his coronavirus vaccination efforts.www.businessinsider.com
All of you nut-bars saying "Russian conspiracy theory" are an excellent demonstration of the issue being discussed in the OP.ROFLOL! The Democratic Party dragged the country through the mud for 2 years while trying to peddle their bogus Trump-Russian-collusion conspiracy theory. You can't get a much bigger, wilder conspiracy theory than to claim that the GOP nominee conspired with the Russians and that that nominee has been doing the Russians' bidding after getting elected!
I'm a world where conservatives bothered to educate themselves rather than just swallow the trips their "media" force feeds them tRump would be in prison pending trial.
The Russian connection is not a conspiracy theory, it's a well documented fact that you just chose not to believe.
One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP's Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly
It's not biased or unprofessional to accurately describe what is happening.
A conversation that is owed to those that fought to preserve the norm.
It was certainly an issue during the later Reagan years. But it didn't really ramp up until Newt and his Republican Revolution rolled into town. For the Republican Party, it's been a slow, steady descent ever since. The moderates and real conservatives have been driven out of the party. They've given a home to every right wing kook in the country and tried to make enemies out of the media and anyone who questions their motives. The whole conspiracy theory immersion has been happening since Obama was elected. Throw any lie against the wall and see if it sticks. I'm hoping we can get back to something approaching a normal news cycle next January.
