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THE LOGICAL END OF THINGS
By Charles P. Pierce on June 18, 2014
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The conservative movement in this country has spent the last two decades empowering the polite corridors of Bedlam while winking suggestively at all the denizens of the Chronic ward. This flirtation becomes more vigorous every time a Democratic president gets elected and it's been positively lascivious since the inauguration of this particular Democratic president in 2009. (Ooh, I know why! Call on me!) Just yesterday, we had a report about a conference co-sponsored by the Heritage Foundation at which all manner of conspiratorial lunacy was let fly, and all of it was no more or less nutty than what Mr. Cole there spouted onto social media. It is time (again) for the Republican party, and for anyone who pretends to be a respectable conservative, to run these people and their ideas out of American conservatism. It took only a couple of wingnut senators shouting "Boo!" to get Democratic politicians to sell out ACORN or Move On. It is time for the political elite in the country to force the choice, once and for all. It is time for the people who care about this country to shun these people, and the politicians who empower them, and the media superstars who pander to their worst instincts, and to the political ideas that have proven themselves to be, over and over again, the most dangerous in the country's history. It's time for Boehner, and Priebus, and entire Republican political apparatus publicly to renounce secessionism, and nullification, and the idea that we are now -- or are dangerously on the brink oftyranny, if the word has any meaning at all. That means reading the people who promote this stuff out of your party, whether they are members of Congress or state legislators, or members of the state and national committees. That means depriving of your presence any media member who trafficks in this perilous foolishness, and punishing those Republicans who decline to do the same.
Or you can be the party of sedition and cop-killing.
Your choice.
Clock's ticking.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Inevitable_Turns_Out_To_Be_Inevitable
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Johonny
(20,818 posts)Andrew Cuomo is what a respectable conservative was in New York 30 years ago. They all hate him with a burning passion. PResident Obama? Don't make me laugh-they think he hates America etc... One can conclude that either these Republicans don't know who they are anymore, don't care who they are anymore or these people aren't really any different than the crap representing them. The serious conservatives left the Republican party nearly a decade ago. The only ones left are the delusional that think grifting is the same as governance. There is no one left in the Republican party apparatus to do the shunning.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)I like it!