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Yavin4

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Mon Oct 2, 2017, 09:35 AM Oct 2017

All of our problems in a nutshell: The Republican party [View all]

The Republican party's economic philosophy only truly benefits a small sliver of the entire US voting population. So, in order to win elections, they have to make Faustian bargains with: the Religious Right, anti-choice, bigots, homophobes, sexists, gun nuts, Islamophobes, White supremacists, anti-LGBTQs, polluters, and any other asshole group that I have forgot to mention.

They're not conservative. They're just assholes.

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I just wish the MSM would treat them as such, jrthin Oct 2017 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author demigoddess Oct 2017 #19
Agreed. I spend my time shaking jrthin Oct 2017 #23
I've often wonder how the world would be if there were no republican thinking people patricia92243 Oct 2017 #2
I think the problem is the right wing mentality all over the world. Trust Buster Oct 2017 #3
Our right wing is very different from the world's right wing Yavin4 Oct 2017 #6
Iran and Isarael's right wings are damn near identical. I disagree. Trust Buster Oct 2017 #8
As bad as both are, they will still vote for a single payer health insurance system. Yavin4 Oct 2017 #11
Boy, you totally missed the point. Trust Buster Oct 2017 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author demigoddess Oct 2017 #20
Good choice of words, "in a NUTshell". That says it all. BigmanPigman Oct 2017 #4
You forgot RoBear Oct 2017 #5
no, they are radical. reactionary. barbtries Oct 2017 #7
K&R Scurrilous Oct 2017 #9
The nutshell's a little bigger than that. It's the money. Orsino Oct 2017 #10
K & R SunSeeker Oct 2017 #13
You nailed it. Duppers Oct 2017 #14
They are not assholes. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #15
I've been trying to tell you that for years MrScorpio Oct 2017 #16
"Citizens United" opened the floodgates for them. cutroot Oct 2017 #17
And now they're coming for the Johnson Amendment. Initech Oct 2017 #21
This is what I have been saying for years... mreilly Oct 2017 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author demigoddess Oct 2017 #22
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