The Republican Party thinks that America is so great a country...

[MrScorpio]

- That they can afford to create turning our government into some lumbering and complete fucking asshole a made up virtue.

- That we can afford to hand our future over to the meanest, greediest jerks walking on the face of the Earth.

- That they can afford to use gridlock as viable policy in an ever changing world and just let everything here crumble into dust.

- That going backwards should always be preferable than going forward.

Keep this shit up, Republicans, and eventually there won't be an America anymore. We'll just be another failed empire for some future schoolchild to read about in his or her history book.

[nikto]

1. The real problem is the fools who support that crap

Lots of people are dumb.

[Cosmocat]

2. And the people who who don't care enough to pay attention

They have 40% of the vote in their pocket.

I don't get it, but 4 out of 10 people just buy their bullshit wholesale and pull the lever regardless.

That is bad enough.

But, it could be overcome if the "middle" people paid attention and didn't buy this "they are all the same" tripe.

The core problem is, mostly based on debt spending, we are too affluent and have it too well.

The republicans sell a never ending stream of amorphous boogymen to blame things on, and human beings are human beings and lap that shit up.

It is only when people lives are REALLY, REALLY negatively impacted that they 1) really tune in 2) they get motivated to hold the government truly accountable.

It is going to have to get bad, probably REALLY bad before republican's are dealt with.