Holy Crap! Rachel just read part of an Opinion column in the NYT by Fusion GPS

[VOX]

44. I never knew I could loathe Republicans so profoundly.

I always considered myself level-headed, fair and willing to compromise equitably to avoid conflict. Starting the Reagan years, I began to see where the Republican Party was going.

In John Dean's 2006 book, "Conservatives Without Conscience," Dean quotes Republican Senator Barry Goldwater from November, 1994: "Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them."

Today's Republicans (and their fellow far-right-wing travelers) are not only hyper-religious, they're absolutely crazed from existing within an impenetrable bubble that they're beyond reason. They are a cancer on our country, trying to kill it from within. They wave the flag and praise their god but they are rotten inside, devoid of any empathy, thinking only of themselves and little else. I don't like to hate them, but they are destroying everything-- the rule of law, and worse, our sense of reality.

It's one hell of a mess they've put us all in.