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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow will history judge the Republican Party of the last seven years ?
Will their behavior be deemed as the racism it is or will it be whitewashed as merely political ? American history has a way of being sanitized or ignored, but I wonder if this period in our history will be a guide post or just another ugly stain to be added and forgotten.
Your thoughts....
newfie11
(8,159 posts)I would hope their out and out racism would not be ignored or forgotten.
These people are disgusting and an embarrassment to this country!
I cannot imagine what other countries must think of how screwed up our politics has become!
no_hypocrisy
(46,151 posts)Oath of Office January 21, 1980. The republican party was coopted and replaced by the Conservative Party which has made policies which have systematically destroyed democracy and the Constitution.
jaysunb
(11,856 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,151 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And their role as obstructionists is right there for all the world to see.
The next thought would have to be ... how could American voters be so mindless?
liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)edhopper
(33,604 posts)Followed with one of the worst Congresses.
seanjoycek476
(54 posts)Who did everything to screw over countless Americans.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)These are the ugly last gasps of a hateful republican party with regressive, destructive policies.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)in the digital age, it's much harder to cement the distortions as fact. The problem now isn't that people have poor memories or are dis/unengaged, it's that they are distracted with information overload. The facts will live on longer than ever before, though.
My answer: it's hard to say but it will probably be a guide post, possibly not a very good one. It will depend on us and how vigilent and committed we are to keep people from rewriting history.
Warpy
(111,318 posts)so maybe a little truth will sneak into textbooks used outside Dixie and into a lot of university level books.
The way labor in general has been treated won't even merit a footnote. We'll be written out in favor of wars and the personal habits of Presidents like we have always been.