Shutdown - The tea party`s last move?

[DeistPaladin]

I found these claims to be very interesting, but would like to have them varyfied by some American members of this forum. To me, the very idea of a political party is willing to sabotage the country simply to make their opponent look weak is something alien which would be impossible here.

Fascism and other radical right wing ideologies are sometimes self-destructive toward their own country when they seek to achieve their political ends. In fact, their fanatical ideologies are sometimes self-destructive just in their very nature. We've seen this before in countries.

I remember when I was in school studying the rise of Nazism how there was nothing uniquely German about it. It's a disease that can infect any country under the right conditions and eternal vigilance is needed to keep it at bay. In America, we've had such hubris that "it could never happen here". Our democracy is simply too perfect. If you had told me during the 90s what was to come, what the right wing would be getting away with, I'd have said you were crazy. A war of aggression under false pretenses with no questions asked and no accountability? And we'd actually re-elect that president? Impossible. I even remember saying in 2003 that if all Bush's claims about Iraq turn out not to be true, he'll be impeached so quickly his butt would leave skid marks through the rose garden.

American style fascism seems a lot more unhinged than the versions I've seen in other countries. The Italian fascists could make the trains run on time but the American version can't seem to govern at all. Our war of aggression in Iraq was so poorly planned that the entire occupation seemed improvised, as if our leaders really expected we'd be greeted with sweets and flowers and all would simply be well because we were there. At home, the administration was so disastrous it all came crashing down in 2008. When out of power, all they can seem to do is sabotage.

The good news is that their power and voting bloc are on the wane. The only way the GOP stayed in power in the House is by severe "gerrymandering" (if you're not familiar, its drawing voting districts in such obtuse ways as to isolate the opposition voters into one block and thereby give control to your side of as many districts as possible). The bad news is that radical right ideologies in any country are not known to go quietly into the night. As their power wanes, fascists become more desperate and more destructive. Hence what we're seeing now.