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kimbutgar

(21,131 posts) Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:12 PM Mar 2015

My biggest problem I have with today's GOP is they have lost their humanity and empathy ....

But they embrace massive greed and service to self attitudes.

Things are pretty messed up right now because of hate and evil.

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My biggest problem I have with today's GOP is they have lost their humanity and empathy .... (Original Post) kimbutgar Mar 2015 OP

True shenmue Mar 2015 #1

may I ask when exactly when they have ever displayed "humanity and empathy"? Skittles Mar 2015 #2

1865 arcane1 Mar 2015 #4

Lost? That implies they once had such qualities..... socialist_n_TN Mar 2015 #3

There is a line of thinking Sherman A1 Mar 2015 #11

happened a LONG time ago. marym625 Mar 2015 #5

They've always been nasty. Since before Joe McCarthy's day. Manifestor_of_Light Mar 2015 #6

they have no soul. Wellstone ruled Mar 2015 #7

But theyre for saving the "babies". ErikJ Mar 2015 #8

14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm): blkmusclmachine Mar 2015 #9

Greed disease. moondust Mar 2015 #10

They started to lose it with Nixon imo. If only Ford would have NOT pardoned that criminal SOB. Rex Mar 2015 #12

shenmue

(38,506 posts)

1. True

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:13 PM

Mar 2015

Eisenhower wouldn't have put up with this crap.

Skittles

(153,150 posts)

2. may I ask when exactly when they have ever displayed "humanity and empathy"?

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:15 PM

Mar 2015

arcane1

(38,613 posts)

4. 1865

Reply to Skittles (Reply #2)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:16 PM

Mar 2015

socialist_n_TN

(11,481 posts)

3. Lost? That implies they once had such qualities.....

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:16 PM

Mar 2015

Some people are born sociopathic.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)

11. There is a line of thinking

Reply to socialist_n_TN (Reply #3)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 04:11 AM

Mar 2015

with which I find some agreement. Not necessarily all, but it seems the loudest ones fall into the category described.

marym625

(17,997 posts)

5. happened a LONG time ago.

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Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:22 PM

Mar 2015

Manifestor_of_Light

(21,046 posts)

6. They've always been nasty. Since before Joe McCarthy's day.

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:35 PM

Mar 2015

However, now it's out in the open and they are not even trying to cover up their hatred of everyone who is not a rich, right wing, evangelical Christian male.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

7. they have no soul.

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Sun Mar 15, 2015, 10:50 PM

Mar 2015

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)

8. But theyre for saving the "babies".

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:44 AM

Mar 2015

and the Dems are 'baby' murderers. Proves that they are the party of true love and compassion, doesnt it? lol

blkmusclmachine

(16,149 posts)

9. 14 Defining Characteristics of Fascism (http://www.rense.com/general37/char.htm):

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 12:57 AM

Mar 2015

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

4. Supremacy of the Military

5. Rampant Sexism

6. Controlled Mass Media

7. Obsession with National Security

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined

9. Corporate Power is Protected

10. Labor Power is Suppressed

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

14. Fraudulent Elections

moondust

(19,972 posts)

10. Greed disease.

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 01:22 AM

Mar 2015

Terminal, no cure.

Rex

(65,616 posts)

12. They started to lose it with Nixon imo. If only Ford would have NOT pardoned that criminal SOB.

Reply to kimbutgar (Original post)

Mon Mar 16, 2015, 04:18 AM

Mar 2015

Then Reagan came along and his paymasters decided to mix two very dangerous elements - fundamentalism and politics. There can never be any good result from this, just look at Iran or India or sigh America.

Make no mistake, the nation...the entire world is at war with fundamentalists and we seem to be losing.

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