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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Thats not all, though. Not only are the CIA agents overeducated jerks who cant appreciate the real dangers of Libya, the government they work for also doesnt care enough to save them. Once they are under attack, the government doesnt 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 doesnt 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 hostileyet 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 Im not just referring to the fact that a drunk man accidentally shot a womanand 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 didnt 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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