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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 10:11 PM Jun 2016

Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party

If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today’s Republican Party would be in Chapter 11.

This party needs to just shut itself down and start over — now. Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party!

America needs a healthy two-party system. America needs a healthy center-right party to ensure that the Democrats remain a healthy center-left party. America needs a center-right party ready to offer market-based solutions to issues like climate change. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense gun laws. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense fiscal policy. America needs a center-right party to support both free trade and aid to workers impacted by it. America needs a center-right party that appreciates how much more complicated foreign policy is today, when you have to manage weak and collapsing nations, not just muscle strong ones.

But this Republican Party is none of those things. Today’s G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education — an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/opinion/dump-the-gop-for-a-grand-new-party.html

Thomas Friedman sounds pretty fed up with the Republicans.

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Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2016 OP
Even re-tooled, I would run like hell. BigDemVoter Jun 2016 #1
Not to mention their crime... harrose Jun 2016 #2
sounds like Friedman is actually describing the... dhill926 Jun 2016 #3
An odd post for a Democrat to make in DU... Nitram Jun 2016 #4
Too late at this point brahams49347 Jun 2016 #5

BigDemVoter

(4,149 posts)
1. Even re-tooled, I would run like hell.
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 11:39 PM
Jun 2016

They could ditch their racist crap; their faux pious religiosity; their hypocritical denials of climate change, etc., but they will NEVER give up on supply side economics. Just that one point alone is enough to sink the country. They didn't believe it the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time it failed, and they want to do it again.

Hell, they'd like to produce the same miracle for the entire nation that Governor Sam Brownback has done for the great state of Kansas. What a GREAT place to raise kids and send them to school!!

harrose

(380 posts)
2. Not to mention their crime...
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 12:21 AM
Jun 2016

ReThugs will never give up their criminal ways. The best way to reform the party is to have them all prosecuted for their crimes and thrown in jail -- hopefully life without parole.

dhill926

(16,234 posts)
3. sounds like Friedman is actually describing the...
Wed Jun 8, 2016, 10:54 AM
Jun 2016

present day Democratic party, in terms of what he wants from a center-right party. In which case...bring on the center-left...

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