re: #32 A Mom Anon

Republicans can’t work with Democrats now, if they do they get primaried and demonized. The ad money starts flowing into their districts and that’s it for their political career. Whoever wrote that is full of shit or lying or both. And that doesn’t even take into account the hateful/threatening phone calls, emails and hostile confrontations with constituents. The whole thing is frustrating and ridiculous.

If I were in CO, I’d try to see if I could get this in as a letter to the editor (copied from a comment I made in a page here):

In my opinion, the present day GOP is the worst concentration of partisan evil in the US since the fatal embrace of slavery by Democrats in the 1800s. The root cause of this is the decision by the GOP to affirmatively go after the votes of disgruntled racists after passage of the civil rights bills of the 1960s. Since then, the GOP has had a significant base of voters that will vote GOP despite the lack of any GOP policies or positions that would actually benefit them. Lip service and ginning up hate against various “others” was all that was needed.

Thus the GOP as a political party is presently the single largest institutional amplifier of many negative aspects of US society, including racism, misogyny, homophobia, and anti-Muslim bigotry, and has been engaged in this evil enterprise for decades. Occasional acts by individual GOPers (e.g., GWB trying to defuse anti-Muslim bigotry just after 9/11) do not alter the general pattern and practice of the GOP.

The GOP pushes for numerous things that tend to make Americans more stupid and evil. Examples include creationism, mindless wars, hating on the poor, the war on women, embrace of ‘Family values’ hate groups, voter suppression, and gun nut extremism.

The GOP reaction to the election and re-election of Barack Obama as POTUS has made all of the above impossible to deny.