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mreilly

(2,120 posts)
18. This is what I have been saying for years...
Mon Oct 2, 2017, 12:28 PM
Oct 2017

.... all the problems of modern society can be laid to rest at the door of the GOP. If they didn't cause the problem, they at least contributed to it or benefited from it in some way.

Poverty: Easy, screeching about how raising the minimum wage is communism or something.
Crime: See above. Reducing opportunities, education and assistance leads to this. Plus shoving guns in every direction.
Racism: Demonizing people of other colors/races/cultures and promoting the rights and needs of white conservative males.
Ignorance: Self-explanatory. The GOP thrives on ignorance.
Illiteracy: Same as above. The GOP has shown again and again they don't care about education, unless it's pushing private religious schools to teach that evolution is the product of Satanists.
Pollution: Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood businesses, many of whom contribute to the GOP to get rid of those pesky regulations.
Bankruptcy due to medical mishaps: These are the assholes trying to strip insurance from everyone they can or at least make them pay through the nose for it.
Teenage pregnancy: Made possible by idiots screaming how birth control AND sex education are evil.

Pick a problem, any problem, and short of an asteroid plummetting towards the Earth I bet I can show you how the GOP is related to it.

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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