The Republican Partys Sickness Of The Soul

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The Republican Party’s Sickness Of The Soul
By Richard RJ Eskow

6/01/17 5:00am
The Republican Party’s Sickness Of The Soul


There’s a sickness on the land. You know the facts: millions of Americans lives in poverty. The number of Americans in the workforce remains low. Wages are stagnating and inequality is growing. “Deaths of despair” from alcoholism, opioid overdose, and suicide are on the rise.

But it’s not just the inequality, or the poverty, or the despair, that wounds us. It’s the fact that so many Republican leaders and voters find ways to justify living with these injustices, and are now making them worse.

There’s no polite way to say it: they suffer from a sickness of the soul.

That kind of talk upsets the delicate feelings of conservatives like Tucker Carlson, who recently complained about

the unreasonableness… (the) assumption — and it’s held by a lot of people I live around — that you’re on God’s side … and by calling them names you’re doing the Lord’s work. I just don’t think that’s admirable, and I’m not impressed by that.

With apologies to Tucker and other conservative snowflakes: when your party is calling for the starvation and mistreatment of large groups of people, it’s reasonable to describe you in less than flattering terms.

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[Thomas Hurt]

1. not surprising when the foundation of conservatism is social darwinism and its adherents

think we should be living in "Lord of the Flies"......with suits and flag pins of course.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Their soul has been sick for many decades.

What we're seeing now is the terminal stage. I just hope they don't take out the whole country with them when the eventually self-destruct.

[vlyons]

3. We do not have to apologize for speaking the truth

We don't even have to resort to speaking vulgar slang, like calling them "fuckers." We just have to speak the truth, which is that Republicans are morally bankrupt, pustules of ego, driven by greed for money and lust for power at any cost in any way. Liars, ungenerous, mean-spirited, hypocritical, sociopaths, racist bigots, stupid, and dangerous and evil. There! That's the truth as I see it.