re: #48 erik_t

The party is driven, at this point, by corporate clowns who excel at maximizing short-term profit over long-term health, and by religious whackos who truly do not believe their God will allow them to actually ruin anything. Mortgaging the future national relevance of the party at the expense of keeping the House is, in fact, right up their alley. And given the way things are gerrymandered, it could easily take a few Census cycles to flush everything clean.

Shit. What, exactly, does a country do about that?

The only way forward I can see is for the reliable R voters that aren’t crazy to start voting against the crazy unless they agree with it.

If nearly 50% of the voters are insane, there is no solution.

If we have 20-30% insane voters who have taken over the GOP to get leverage for their craziness, then the problem is huge, but not hopeless.