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http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/20/its-trump-entire-gop-mentally-deranged.htmlIts Not Just Trump: The Entire GOP is Mentally Deranged
By Rmuse on Mon, Jun 20th, 2016 at 9:59 am
Deranged is a term that can loosely be interchanged with or refer to a psychosis. However, it is more commonly a generic psychiatric term for a persons mental state described as involving a loss of contact with reality. For the past seven-and-a-half years, Republicans have suffered what has been dubbed Obama derangement syndrome that has completely separated them from reality on myriad levels; none the least of accepting the fact that Barack Obama is the President of the United States.
Actually, Republicans have made the term deranged their special dysfunction because if they were, or are, not obstructing any and every proposal the President supports, they have actively sought to derail his presidency, regardless the harm to the nation or the people they claim to represent. Over the course of the Presidents tenure in office, Republicans have even called for an armed rebellion against his presidency and at one point called for a national (imprecatory) prayer seeking the Presidents death.
Apparently, that Christian act has not lost favor and in what can only be defined as purely deranged, one United States senator once again called for imprecatory prayers seeking the Presidents untimely demise, and the psychotic senator did it in front of a group of Christians at a Faith and Freedom gathering. For the record, an imprecatory prayer is an appeal to the god of the Christian bible to invoke evil upon or curse ones enemies.
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) told Faith and Freedom attendees to pray for Obama. He said,
Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
The entirety of the loving Christian prayer calls for more grief and misery on the victims family and good name, but the point of relating Perdues abominable action is that a sitting United States senator had no qualms calling for the demise of the President by gods hands; it is the definition of being mentally deranged. Perdue has no right to draw breath, much less sit in a position of power and influence over 300 million American citizens, but that is the state of the Republican Party in particular and American politics in general.
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The entire Republican movement, with all its iterations, is beyond deranged, not unlike their psychotic, racist and religiously-twisted base. It is not just Tom Cotton, David Perdue or Donald Trump; it is the entirety of the movement that has gone completely off the rails. Still, Republicans will make a strong showing in November and the sad fact is that it is a damning indictment of what America has devolved into.
Unless voters sweep Republicans out of power in Washington and regionally, America will continue on a path of increasing dysfunction. At this point it appears a significant portion of the population is just as mentally deranged as Republicans and it is precisely why America will never progress beyond being a nasty hate-mongering group that exists to visit misery on everyone including their fellow citizens and the legally-elected President of the United States.
villager
(26,001 posts)I guess it's the "denial" among the public at large that's slowly sloughing off...
And for the nameless urge to @#^% everything and everyone up --
Geez. It could be argued -- 4 billion years ago.
I think there's some evidence for the hypothesis that conservatism is a genetic malady programmed by resourceful bacteria and inflicted on the human race to provide continual feasts for the microbes of the world.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)Thank you.
MFM008
(19,808 posts)it doesn't bother me saying they(radical rumpers) are lunatics.
unmedicated.
padded room.
I know- practically been there.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)babylonsister
(171,065 posts)disparaging people with legitimate mental health issues. These are elected representatives; that makes it even worse.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)And that's not ok.
herding cats
(19,564 posts)The OP did not editorialize the piece.
This is really the person you may want to work on educating: https://twitter.com/rmuse
It's the author of the editorial, and I guarantee they reach a lot more people with their words than the OP does.
I'm not being snarky here, I agree with your premise for the most part. I just think it's important to direct such criticism to the actual source.
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)Which as I said, I don't disagree with, you might consider directing them to the actual author of the piece.
It makes sense, at least to me. DU is a small venue, the author's reach encompass several different online publications which reach a much bigger audience.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)Is in lock step with these idiots? I find this even more astounding.
Initech
(100,070 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)they are Evil,,,,, the GOP is the Largest Organized Group of Bigots and Hate Mongers in the USA. Use to run just below the surface , but Trump has brought it to TOP!
longship
(40,416 posts)R&
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)who were aware that they were Crazy.......
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)kairos12
(12,860 posts)malaise
(268,993 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Yes, Republicans by and large have been delusional (not a disparagement, just a description about their grip on reality) but what some of us find even more ridiculous is this bunch of politicians in 2016 praying to a Bronze Age Mesopotamian sky god to bring down wrath and death to our elected leader. Now that is priceless!!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)and Congress, your role in the demise of the Republican Party will not be forgotten.