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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe greatest threat to America? Republicans
Sounds reasonable to me.
An op-ed in the New Zealand Herald:
The greatest threat to America? Republicans
The takeover of American conservatism by evangelical Christianity, Fox News and a handful of shadowy billionaires has transformed the Republicans into the party of wilful ignorance: doctrinal purity is more valued than intelligence; tolerance has been supplanted by persecutory moralising; paranoia has replaced realism.
This process may be reaching its logical conclusion with the emergence of property billionaire Donald Trump as the front-runner for the party's presidential nomination.
Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandisement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in excelsis.
You might expect a tycoon/buffoon cross to be a political player in some Latin American failed state or backward former Soviet republic, places with no democratic tradition or public institutions that have stood the test of time and no such thing as "the people" in the sense of an educated, civic-minded citizenry.
The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally unqualified individual in the Oval Office shows how warped the party has become. To borrow the rhetoric of their candidates, the party is now an existential threat to America's leadership of the global community.
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The greatest threat to America? Republicans (Original Post)
RussBLib
Jul 2015
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It is always interesting to hear what other people around the world think of us?
kentuck
Jul 2015
#2
I have been saying exactly that - no, YELLING THAT - since the summer of 2009.
DrBulldog
Jul 2015
#6
"The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally...
Surya Gayatri
Jul 2015
#7
PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)1. Well I certainly agree with this. Absolutely.
Anything that has ever been proposed to make the lives of Americans better the Republicans have opposed.
kentuck
(111,095 posts)2. It is always interesting to hear what other people around the world think of us?
We should respect other opinions.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)3. I think this entirely sums it up:
"and a handful of shadowy billionaires"
That seems to sum up everything that's wrong right now. A relatively small group of uber wealthy people have financed the takeover of our gov't. We're supposed to be a democracy, but if it is, it's a democracy of dollars = votes.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)4. Wrong. It's bears.
Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)5. Corporatists
Of any party. Full stop.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)6. I have been saying exactly that - no, YELLING THAT - since the summer of 2009.
And Obama never heard a word.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)7. "The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally...
unqualified individual in the Oval Office shows how warped the party has become...the party is now an existential threat to America's leadership of the global community."
mnhtnbb
(31,388 posts)8. Looks like the Kiwis have gotten it right.