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The Republicans are unhinged from reality. IRAQ and Afghanistan cost the USA 1 Trillion Dollars. The Republican lack of economic oversight and regulation led to the great recession. As a party, its members have learned nothing either about economics or foreign policy. Instead of improving their ideas of government administration, they are actually doubling down on bad policies.
It really is a bizarre chain of weird things. None of them are good for the country.
The first is the complete breakdown of mental and emotional grip on reality. In some cases conservatives are experiencing a view that they can do no wrong....ever. That all their actions are perfect and its the Democrats and liberals that tarnish their good name. These people have their own delusion that any idea they propose has no problems or errors inherent to it, let alone the idea its untested on a national level (which usually shows a few holes). For others, its obsessive compulsion focus on one fetish or item to the expense of all others. You have those that are so against abortion in America they have justified murder and arson as being 'correct' and 'without doubt'. These people will ignore 99% of reality and focus solely on the 1% as if its the full 100%. So when people challenge them on anything, they fly into a rage spewing forth completely babble that makes no sense to anyone. Finally, the 'paranoid schizophrenics' who feel the government is out to get them for not paying some tax 31 years ago that amounts to $0.31. Many of the 'gun nuts' fall into this category believing others are trying to take their guns when in fact they are doing everything to force people to arrive at that thought whether they like to or not. Still another group is dealing with Depression. They lost elections they were told would be won in landslides, or have a government that was a feudal dictatorship with Sarah Palin as Goddess Emperor of all mankind.
And they wonder why they are not winning elections from their sane Democratic opponents....
Then we have Republicans pushing economic ideas that have no chance of succeeding, EVEN, when times are good. Their 'Trickle Down Theory'/'Supply Side Economics' has NEVER worked as indented. The view that we should as a nation do nothing on everything places a huge faith that big businesses will solve it AND keep costs lower than government. Oh, and that most of them will whine about the evil 'Liberal Nanny State' while completely pushing for the 'Conservative Nanny State'. The funny thing is, there has not been one real example of the 'Liberal Nanny State' in the country, yet scores of 'Conservative Nanny States' in the nation's history. Worst than that you might say? Most conservatives could define the 'Liberal Nanny State' but have no clue what the 'Conservative Nanny State' might be defined. An yes, Republican 'intelligence' states that giving the rich tax breaks has absolutely no effect on then nation's economy or the US Budget; which you have to be either totally insane or completely stupid to believe.
Moving on to the sciences, we find most Republicans are against it. They have little to no knowledge of even 5th grade Science let alone 1st year in college studying a science. Instead believing the 'Holy Bible' is all the science that is needed to be learned. They are quick to make use of the very technology they once bashed. Stem Cell Research has provided many useful understandings that have development treatments on a wide variety of illnesses; Republicans were against it. The idea that viruses tend to build up an immunity to medicine has been noted many times. Why? The Theory of Evolution can explain that. An who is against it without an ounce of knowledge of what they babble? Republicans. And their Tea Party lackeys. We even have the knowledge of large scale events affecting this planet. Scientists are not arguing whether the Theory of Climate Change exists or not. Nor what the causes are or aren't. They are arguing what to do about it. To most Republican/Tea Party idiots, they cling to any person who speaks out against the idea as being against the WHOLE idea. When in fact, the scientist agrees that Climate Change is taking place outside of natural conditions and by man-made effects. That's right, complete hypocrites!
An then there is the issue of JUST BEING FUCKING HUMAN. Republicans hate the idea of having to 'Love Thy Neighbor' because it interfere with them being a total asshole to others. They have no useful ideas on how to improve healthcare, since one has to 'give a damn about someone they don't know' to help them. Which should not surprise anyone that the majority of medical doctors are Democrats. That these people feel its 'ok' to blame everything on the poor, weak, and easily bullied is NOT what the founding fathers had in mind when someone was in a position of power. Or that EVERY warzone, they are happy to send the poorest among us into a meat grinder for a couple of years while their kids enjoy the best things society has to offer.
An then there is the idea that its 'ok' to attack the United States if Americans do not bow down to their threats! The Oklahoma Bombing is one such example. The partial government shutdown is another. The use of misinformation to convince the public of total lies while harshly attacking anyone financially, physically, or in other unpleasant ways of the truth and fact. That these people feel justified in using arms against their fellow citizens if they cant win in elections because the majority of people voted in a black president to the White House (cus only white people should be in white houses, right?).
I think most of us could defend the Republican/Tea Party agenda. And the grand majority of it does not have anything positive to do with America as a whole. These people are not against the seven deadly sins for example; they embrace them as achievements! These people need an enemy in order to operate; without one they wander around in their nature state....as a zombies. That 'Zero Sum' and 'Ends Justify The Means' are correct ways of thinking in a Democratic Republic. Selectively misinterpreting the US Constitution seems to be something they are good at. That's right, ignore the first 1/2 of the 2nd amendment and then take the other have an corrupt it well beyond sane limits. This is a party of fools, idiots, bigots, and the totally insane. And with hope they will keep losing elections for the next fifty years!
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