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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat thing was just plain sad.
Tonights debate, I thought, would be just more of the same, and it was that and then some. There would be the usual shaking-my-head, the occasional eye roll, a small burst of cussing here and there, and yes, that all happened. What caught me by surprise, though, what I hadnt expected when it was over there was a very real sense of sadness.
It took a few minutes, just sitting back and thinking about it, then I realized that it felt like I had just watched, of all things, an obituary. In a way, I think thats what it was. The Republican Party, a longtime American institution, has effectively given its own death notice. No viable party that truly believed in itself would put forth such a vapid field of candidates; no party that held any real allegiance to our founding documents or affection for the people served by those principles could seriously display such hideous disregard for the intelligence of the population. It can be stated of every one of those candidates that there is no devotion to anything but personal gain, period.
I wont miss the malfeasance, the manipulations, the incessant and insistent prevarications and historical revisions, not to mention the racism and misogyny and faux-faithism. The sorrow isnt for the almost departed; rather, its for those who hold their noses against the stench of decay and continue to prop up the rotting corpse. May their moment of acceptance come sooner rather than later, for the sake of all of us.
LongTomH
(8,636 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Fox will continue to spew lies to their faithful viewers for some time to come. And there's still gerrymandered districts holding safe congressional seats for these clowns. But it is a sad state of affairs that 47% of the country is either ignorant or batshit crazy.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)It sometimes feels like I have run into all 2-3 million of them
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)people will be voting for one of those assclowns in 2016. There is no depth to which they can dive that will cause them to truly die, because, as much as we wish it weren't true, they actually represent the multitudes of ignorant, racist, intellectually-damaged citizens of this wretched country.
dhill926
(16,337 posts)exceptionally well written.
PatrickforO
(14,572 posts)There are people who genuinely believe this bunch and take them seriously. They may be holding up a rotten corpse, which is a very apt analogy on your part, but the fact remains that they can STILL do a whole lot of damage.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)The traffic channel...was just glowing reporting about that shit feast.
draa
(975 posts)As I've gotten older I've finally learned to just enjoy it for the spectacle that it is. I don't take anything they say seriously and most often I sit and laugh. I'm not even disgusted anymore because I know they'll soon top themselves with something worse. And yes, we are witnessing the last dying gasp of the GoP. They won't ever completely die but they will become irrelevant in Presidential politics soon enough.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)The GOP has thrown feces at the under-and middle-class for years. Now they're throwing it at one another.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)how's the computer ?