2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump candidacy shows lack of GOP core moral values – A dying party.
Morality is the differentiation of intentions, decisions, and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper. Morality can be a body of standards or principles derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, or culture, or it can derive from a standard that a person believes should be universal.
The election of 2016 will go down in history of the beginning of the end of the GOP party.
The GOP electorate and leadership have let Trump get away with his demeaning and racist behavior, and defended his candidacy due to personal ambition, partisanship, hatred towards a woman candidate and the Clinton name.
In the ruins we find a party without a set of core moral values.
SeattleVet
(5,477 posts)Not the ones they try to claim to have, but the ones that they obviously hold. The ones that they act on, not the ones they give mouth-time to.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)But they aren't "family values." They are casino values: deception & degeneracy.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)If it doesn't, it is history.
HAB911
(8,892 posts)they're done
Freddie
(9,265 posts)Just posted a link where a priest tells his flock they have to vote for Trump because he will appoint pro-life justices and that's the *only* thing that matters to a good Catholic.
About a third of the comments are quite colorfully disagreeing in light of yesterday's news. They're not all sheep.
Cosmocat
(14,564 posts)Trump has from day one been an absolutely joke of a candidate - unqualified and ill suited temperament wise.
Anyone with even the first lick of common sense and decency could see it.
From that starting point he launched into a farcical campaign that has featured the most absurdly unstatesmenlike behavior on steroids, non-stop for over a year now.
There literally have been so many "campaign ending" moments for this dolt you can't even keep track at this point.
And, as of 10 days ago he was on the verge of over taking an INFINITELY more qualified and suited candidate who has run a very good campaign as the candidate most likely to winning this election.
If anything the last year has moved the needle even further in the direction of the hatred and division that the republican party thrives on, and the up is down, down is up, absurdity they use to rationalize it all is more entrenched than ever now.
We are just hopefully avoiding the catastrophic disaster of a Trump presidency here.
But, make no mistake, what has happend over the last quarter century, in an increasingly mean spirted and hateful way, WILL ABSOLUTELY occur if Hillary Clinton becomes POTUS - the republicans will act like off the chain assholes, the media will gleefully parrot their way of blaming Hillary for them being assholes, and the country will continue to indulge conservative jackassery.