Dump the G.O.P. for a Grand New Party
If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, todays 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. Todays 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.
BigDemVoter
(4,149 posts)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)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)present day Democratic party, in terms of what he wants from a center-right party. In which case...bring on the center-left...
Nitram
(22,671 posts)brahams49347
(4 posts)The GOP is batshit insane in the eyes of many Americans.