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PCIntern

(25,518 posts)
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 03:25 PM Jan 2012

My friends, what you are watching is the Decompensation of the Republican Party:

For decades, these folk attempted to rationalize and promulgate-as-truth their two most important axioms. The first of course, is that although it is difficult to make a LOT of money in these United States, the fact of the matter is that it is even more difficult to hold onto it, and thus any expenditures which resulted in the 'redistribution' of funds from the wealthy to the poor was, is, and will always be, anathema. The second is that individuals who do not possess white skin are some subdivision of a subpecies of Homo sapiens.

It has been difficult for these folk since the New Deal, the integration of the Armed Services and professional athletics, Brown vs. Board of Education, the signing of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, WIC, ADC, and the like. They have meticulously composed code-words and useful language the use of which allowed people of similar ilk to understand that they were listening to a 'fellow-traveler' as it were - the George Wallaces, the Strom Thurmonds, the Nixons, the Goldwaters, the Cheneys, even the David Dukes and George Lincoln Rockwells were studious at times in their usage.

But during this 'campaign', all stops have been pulled out and I am of the opinion that it will only get worse as we asymptotically approach Election Day 2012. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry, the anti-(fill-in-the-blank) is just beginning and this is not all directed at the President, but the Society which created the opportunity for those of us born into an America which possessed segregated bathrooms, water fountains, lunch counters, hotels, and much much more, to see the rise of the non-White, the working class and the poor. They do not utilize the academic term Caucasian, because that is not the level upon which they operate. They literally regard things and people as black and white.

And so after all these years, about eighty, the wrapping is coming off the box of hate and disgust. We have to fight this with every shred of strength and power which we possess or we shall enter a Dark Age from which this Nation may never recover. It is imperative that everyone understand how important it is to defeat this demonic force as it attempts to rise like the Phoenix from the ashes of the 2008 Election. This is a very very Thin Blue Line, and we are the vanguard force .

There is an insanity spreading throughout the Party, the fires stoked by the likes of Limbaugh and the whole of FOX News: that for them, this is the political Apocalypse and it is their Time. There is no limit to the evil, lies, and outrageousness which shall be spread like Napalm through the dense jungle of the media and Internet.

It is now time for us to Go To Work and pre-empt their scripted destructiveness of America.

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My friends, what you are watching is the Decompensation of the Republican Party: (Original Post) PCIntern Jan 2012 OP
Nice rant. bemildred Jan 2012 #1
Even when we roundly defeat them in this election, it aint over. WingDinger Jan 2012 #2
The Republicans in my little red town safeinOhio Jan 2012 #3
Been thinking the same thing.. cilla4progress Jan 2012 #4
 

WingDinger

(3,690 posts)
2. Even when we roundly defeat them in this election, it aint over.
Sat Jan 21, 2012, 03:53 PM
Jan 2012

I hope and pray that unlike last election, we dont wash our hands of it, and say, Obama, go to it. We did our part.

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/WingDinger/40

cilla4progress

(24,724 posts)
4. Been thinking the same thing..
Sun Jan 22, 2012, 01:39 PM
Jan 2012

this IS who they are. Sadly, the candidates only represent an even larger reservoir of an electorate - those who would vote for them - who harbor the qualities you describe. I've been examining why - why America, and 50% of its electorate, more or less, is so regressive. Is it because we have a large rural population? Countryfolk tend to be more conservative, experience less diversity, "clings to guns and religion."

Why is so much of America so backward, compared to other western countries? We had mass immigration in the early part of the last century, which did bring a diversity of peoples. Throughout the 20th century we had more upward mobility than most of the rest of the world. We are a very "religious" country, can it be found there? In our specific brand of capitalism? We have so many resources, so...I don't know...but would be interested in the thoughts of others.

I agree with our President: this election will be very STARK choice between, as you describe them, the path toward our future, or towards a very dark age.

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