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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDoes Not Matter How Crackpot GOP & RW Christians Are They Are Winning In a Way.
Does not matter how mad the GOP is these days. They are, in a way winning. Because the MSM will not push back in any way and in fact is supporting them and with the proliferation of hate talk radio THEIR message is still getting out to masses of voters. Even with the internet, social media and sparse progressive media it may not be enough to win big enough in 2016 to change directions.
With the nation so divided and polarized the GOP actually could win in the next cycle. The elections should not be too close to call or competitive they are so bad. The fact that the elections are viewed as very close makes 2016 a dangerous years.
With so many Americans so frustrated and even hysterical over what is happening anything is possible. Desperate people tend to make bad decisions. Fear and loathing is a better motivator than hope.
I would like to be optimistic but I am not. The fact that a phony email scandal and Benghazi scandal has eroded Hillary Clinton's support is disappointing. When lies, innuendo, character assassination, racist, bigotry, hate, et al capture support from a significant part of the population you have to question if the country is sane anymore.
Democrats_win
(6,539 posts)They've been angry for decades.
Are they really winning? They get to stay angry and embarrassed by their elected officials while we're happy and proud of the ones we elect. Yes, 2016 will be a big problem if our side can't got apathetic Americans to care that the GOP is too crazy to govern. They have a gerrymandered stranglehold on the House of Representatives which is no longer a legitimate institution because of it.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Virtually all the politicians saying crazy stuff do not seem to lose. We keep electing or re electing them. I look at the nut cases we elect in Colorado and we can't seem to get rid of them. Only an act of God can seeming do that. We have some really crazy hateful gun nut locals and they win handily when they should lose.
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)They are--actually--winning. At the polls. They have the House, they have the Senate, there are 31 states with R governors, they have total control (governorship and both chambers) in 24 states, compared to D's having complete control in only 6.
There is something truly frightening going on in this country, and it doesn't bode well for next November.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)I feel like many people around here in my neighborhood are really deluded. I shudder when we start putting out yard signs. I see far too many GOP signs in my neighborhood and in the area. Besides that I have probably more than 10 fundy churches within 5 miles of my house here.
Jefferson County Colorado is a bell weather county. Whatever our county votes is reflected nationally. For some reason we have reflected the country in previous elections and politicians know that. We see a lot of outside money coming here as a result. and out county seems to be on the edge of going either way every cycle.
Ms. Yertle
(466 posts)We have had a Democratic president for nearly seven years. The economy has improved (although, not enough to make up for the Bush debacle,) we have made great strides in civil rights, and President Obama has done the best anyone could have in the Middle East.
So, why all the GOP yard signs?
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Andy823
(11,495 posts)The crazies get out and vote every election to prevent the "evil" liberals from taking control. Democrats on the other hand tend to only come out in large numbers during presidential elections, and that's pretty much, along with gerrymandering, why republicans control the House, and now the Senate.
It also doesn't help us when right wing trolls come to discussion board like DU, and start in with their right wing crap about how democrats and republicans are the same, so there is no real reason to vote, or when they come in large numbers to trash on political candidate using right wing BS. It also does no help when people on these discussion boards are gullible enough to buy into all the crap.