Republicunt Nirvana

[Minimalist]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/30...tail=email

A friend once told me that the wealthy elite didn't want to just "roll back" the New Deal, they wanted to roll back the entire 20th Century. His point was that all the social gains of the 20th Century were granted to us in order to combat global communism, and that with the collapse of communism the wealthy elite are going it take it all back.
I didn't fully appreciate his sentiments until recently.

[CapnAwesome]

Must be nice to live in a world where you can paint an entire group and people with a single paint brush.

[Minimalist]

You mean like "job creators" and "takers?"

Yeah. Must be nice.

[Airyaman]

Haha, funny as shit when you consider that the Democrats suck the dick of big business all the time. They don't give a rat's ass about the middle class, and they want the lower class to depend on them to keep them in the voting booth.

[Minimalist]

Yeah - they aren't much better.


But they ain't Mitt Fucking Romeny.

[Airyaman]

Well, Mitt is ancient history, why live in the past.

[Faith No More]

Every time I think about American politics, I'm reminded of the "surrounded by assholes" scene from Spaceballs.

[Captain Colostomy]

Well, Mitt is ancient history, why live in the past.

Impressive comeback.

Maybe you'd accept 'at least they're not the Tea Party' instead?

[Crossless2.0]

Well, Mitt is ancient history, why live in the past.

Impressive comeback.

Maybe you'd accept 'at least they're not the Tea Party' instead?

I love how every time the Republicans go down in flames (the Bush II years, McCain's/Romney's ass-kickings), the immediate cry is, "Oh, forget about it; that's the past," even as they ritually intone Saint Reagan every chance they get. (Of course, back then when we were to vote for Bush I or Dukakis we were told how Iran/Contra was somehow ancient, irrelevant history.) And they couldn't expunge Nixon fast enough!

As for the Tea Party, I hope they gain in strength within the party in the short term. I hope they hold sensible conservatives (there are a few) hostage on issue after issue until the whole thing becomes so intolerable for any thinking Republican that a severe backlash ensues, rolling back some of the worst excesses of the post-Reagan purge of the so-called RINOS (or as they were known before being hunted to extinction: pragmatists and fiscal conservatives). Fuck the Republicans. The Tea Party is nothing but chickens coming home to roost. It serves the Republicans right for their cynical pandering to the lowest common denominator among the working class; their veiled race baiting; their consistent anti-intellectualism; their unholy alliance with right-wing Catholics, Southern Baptists, and Evangelicals.

None of the above should be interpreted as a defense of Democrats. That's a whole other thread to me. But like CC said, at least they're not the Tea Party.

[Isun]

At least they aren't the republican party. The republican party that owes their soul to trickle down on the poor theory that has never worked. At least the democrats understand how economics works and don't claim otherwise.