The GOP is Our Self-Made Punishment for Tolerating the Intolerable
PoliticusUSA
By: Hrafnkell Haraldsson
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So much for their claim to stand against moral relativism. There is nothing more morally relativistic than a Republican who wants to scare people into doing what they want.
Back to Bachmann: She is wrong. We are not suffering Gods punishment, but our own. This sort of bizarre utterance should never have become so familiar to us that we barely bat an eye anymore. And it neednt have.
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... irrational actions in Congress, is obviously a problem for not only the world but for the rest of us, who find ourselves hostage to volatile and unstable right-wing ideologues who rival the Islamic State for extremism. ...
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We often say that the GOPs current problems with extremism (in the form of Donald Trump most spectacularly) are self-created, and they are. But we cannot ignore our own guilt in tolerating the intolerable.
For far too long Americans have tolerated this nonsense. ...
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