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LookieNoNookie -> RE: Republicans on Wrong Side of Demographics (2/26/2014 5:51:34 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cloudboy
The biggest nut cases in the USA find their home in the Republican Party. The ignorant (Obama is a Muslim), bigoted (anti-gay or racist) and strident "hate the federal government" types. Gun nuts (paranoid) and religious fundamentalists (threatened by secular beliefs) round out the intolerant extremists.
The question is, when will the republicans stop accommodating bigotry and extremism?
****** Now, Nugent is a bit player, a bomb-thrower not worthy of much attention in his own right, but the fact that he and so many like him feel at home within the Republican Party and aligned with conservative causes is.
By no means are all, or even most, Republicans this extreme, nor do they condone this level of extremism. But far too many extremists seem to seek — and find — a home within the Republican ranks. There exists a foul odor of accommodation. ****
**** But there are two important differences here. First, the Democratic Party is not suffering a diversity crisis; the Republican Party is.
Second, the impression beginning to take hold is that the Republican Party is a home for the hateful, not necessarily because the party invites them, but because it doesn’t forcefully enough reject them.
How does this sit with minority members in the party’s ranks and those it hopes to attract? How can they be expected to find a home among such hostility? And why aren’t more party leaders willing to take a stand and stamp out the bigotry? *****
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/opinion/blow-accommodating-divisiveness.html?ref=charlesmblow&_r=0
Wow.
That was funny.
You should do comedy club circuits.
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