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applegrove

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Thu Jan 28, 2016, 09:45 PM Jan 2016

The Sickness Within The GOP: "13 Hours", "Fox News" and the Republican Paradox

The Sickness Within The GOP: "13 Hours", "Fox News" and the Republican Paradox

by Sophia A. Mcclennan at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/29/the_sickness_within_the_gop_13_hours_fox_news_and_the_republican_paradox/

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That’s not all, though. Not only are the CIA agents overeducated jerks who can’t appreciate the real dangers of Libya, the government they work for also doesn’t care enough to save them. Once they are under attack, the government doesn’t deploy readily available resources to help them. We are shown maps and planes and soldiers at the ready. The only problem is a government that doesn’t care enough to do something and prefers to sit by, watching them die. In essence, these amazingly talented specialists are alone in a sea of hostile—yet “friendly”– forces.

This is how the film takes GOP delusion and aggression to a new level. The conflict is now turned within, toward the U.S. citizens they are there to protect and toward the government they are there to serve.

When you stop and think about it, that is exactly what is wrong with GOP politics today. And I’m not just referring to the fact that a drunk man accidentally shot a woman—and almost killed her– during a screening of the film in Renton, Washington. The shooting is horrible but it is just the outward symptom of a sickness within the GOP.

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The GOP suffers from a deep schizophrenia: It imagines itself as the only party that can bring safety and security to the nation at the same time that it projects deep hatred for the majority of people in that very same nation. And in a weird twist of logic, it wants to be the government, even though it hates the government. (In case you didn’t know, the GOP that has recently spent more on government than Democrats. So forget the idea that the GOP is the small government party.)


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