re: #188 Dark_Falcon

And removing the influence of such talk show hosts just isn’t possible, They’ve got better access to the public than any politician.

They are not the problem, merely a symptom of the poisoning of your party that has been going on since the shift in racial politics beginning in 1964. Combine this with the shift of white Republicans out of the cities leaving them to the Democrats and you see the rest of the policy flips of the past 50 years. The current crop of teahadi are simply the latest edition of knownothings that are attracted by faux conservatism like flies to manure. The Teahadi are the bumper crop of hate planted all across the south in the GOP’s explicit Southern Strategy.

It is impossible to have public policy debates with people who understand so little about how things work that they genuinely think Obama is a socialist.

Anybody who thinks I’m dangerous to them because I think everybody deserves food, shelter, health care and education through college is not somebody who has any other opinions I care about.

Even the rather rare decent and principled conservatives, Goldwater for one example, have badly stumbled over race, equality & freedom (for those like them? Yeah! for those not like them? Not so much…) when you look at their statements about “states rights” and other dog whistles over the past 50 years.