re: #22 imp_62

I think Michael Moore is a pig. That said, he was on MSNBC last night and said something I agree with, and would expand. He said that the GOP has already lost the 2012 election, and is now working on losing 2016, as well. What is really going on is that the centre has lost control of the party to the right-wing extremists. The wingnuts were never about winning the next election; they are more interested in implementing as much of their social and religious agenda as possible before they get sent back to the astroturf whence they sprang. The damage is done; it will take multiple legislative sessions on a state and federal level to undo what they have passed into law in just two years.

i think there is something to that. They went whole hog in the last 6 months to do as much damage as possible, and will then let the public get frustrated when the dems try to clean it up as the GOP blocks every legislative move.

This is a kind of nihilistic radicalism we have not seen since the 1850’s, imo.