Question of the Day: Do we really need a Republican Party? And if so, WHY?

Once the party of giants like Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Nelson Rockefeller, it’s now led by political Lilliputians like Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, and John McCain.

Once the party of the anti-slavery and environmental movements, it has become the anti-immigrant, anti-civil rights Party of No, backwards-looking and obstructionist.


In the health-care debate, it sided with the insurance companies.

In the fight for the reform of our financial system, it supports the banks and Wall Street financiers.

On environmental and energy issues, it backs the polluters and the extraction industries.


At every turn of the road for the past 30 years the GOP has favored the rich over the poor, the few over the many. During that time, the party has never seen a war or elite privilege it didn’t like.

And now, it seems to have lost its grasp on reality.

The modern Republican Party--having worked to win the support of white southerners in the aftermath of desegregation--is built on the ruins of an ideology that would deny equal rights to all. It’s rotten at the core.

It’s almost laughable to see angry Republicans warn Democrats about going against the public will.

Regulations Against Jews' Possession of Weapons
11 November 1938
With a basis in §31 of the Weapons Law of 18 March 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p.265), Article III of the Law on the Reunification of Austria with Germany of 13 March 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 237), and §9 of the Führer and Chancellor's decree on the administration of the Sudeten-German districts of 1 October 1938 (Reichsgesetzblatt I, p 1331) are the following ordered:

§1
Jews (§5 of the First Regulations of the German Citizenship Law of 14 November 1935, Reichsgesetzblatt I, p. 1333) are prohibited from acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority.

§2
Firearms and ammunition found in a Jew's possession will be forfeited to the government without compensation.
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