Certain Republicans Beliefs Are Akin To A Cult

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Via Staying Alive

It's a destructive cult. Via Joe Romm I come across this National Journal piece pointing out what we already know if we have been paying attention -- "Republicans in this country are coalescing around a uniquely dismissive position on climate change. The GOP is stampeding toward an absolutist rejection of climate science that appears unmatched among major political parties around the globe, even conservative ones."

Of the 20 Republican challengers for Senate seats surveyed by NJ, only one believes that anthropogenic global warming is happening. (At least that's what they say. Who knows what they really believe, but all the Koch money talks.)

You already know that Republicans in general do not believe in evolution, do believe that if very wealthy people have to pay 35% in top marginal tax rates instead of 32% they will stop doing whatever it is they do that supposedly makes the economy hum, believe that unemployment is caused by unemployment insurance, believe that Barack Obama is a Muslim socialist who was born in Kenya, and think that providing health insurance to people in their 50s means the government will murder people in their 70s. I could go on.

I can't imagine why anybody would vote for these lunatics. If enough people do, we're totally, irredeemably screwed. This country faces huge problems that require aggressive, rational action by government. We cannot afford to hand it over to a cult of malignant clowns.

I would concur partially on this point based on the looney things that I see on . There are many conservatives that are intelligent and rational, but it seems that a lot of there members cannot properly give an articulate defense of the conservative worldview. They are robots that spew the latest garbage from Limbaugh, Beck, and Mark Levin (Mark Levin is the one conservative that I do not).

No wonder why Mike Malloy temper blows off like volcano.

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1. Their Rules Are Flexible

What they believe is the absolute truth today may be changed tomorrow(to their benefit of course). They twist the truth,add here,subtract there. They put certain people or classes of people in a good light and would like to keep the rest in the dark. They truly do not have any sympathy for the sick,aged,poor,unemployed,under employed,anyone with less then an extreme conservative lifestyle(except their pals who do such things on the sly and protest slander if they get caught). They aren't for wage raises(except for their own). They dislike the minimum wage,dislike undocumented workers unless they work on their property(again on the sly)where they can cheat them out of a fair wage without the workers complaining out of fear of deportation. In their world everything is up(unless they say so). Everything is down(if they want it to be). They are political magicians where the truth disappears more often the those rabbits that pop out of hats . They want power--all of it and will go to any means possible to secure that end.