staceysthings:malisteen:sandandglass:Some Republicans dislike Trump and Cruz as much as everybody el
staceysthings:malisteen:sandandglass:Some Republicans dislike Trump and Cruz as much as everybody else doesThe republican establishment made a deliberate, conscious decision to court the ‘racist white asshole’ vote that the democratic party establishment lost after a democratic president signed off on the Civil Rights ActThe republican establishment embraced and promoted ‘prosperity theology’ to let the super-rich claim divine right to excuse the even increasing inequality that resulted from their policies, to put a ‘Christian’ stamp on their most un-christ-like behavior and economic philsophy, and to encourage their base to seal their right-leaning political affiliations behind an unthinking unreasoning shell of faith that would allow neither self criticism nor compromise.The republican party establishment specifically rejected, and encouraged its voters to reject, rationality and science when those things proved to be at odds to the profit interests of their corporate sponsors or the fundamentalist dogma of their prosperity theology spokesmen.And now, the Republican establishment is shocked to find their voting base utterly overrun with unthinking racist assholes who cannot be reasoned with, desperate to hand the reigns of power over to a super-rich megalomaniac.Yeah, I wonder how that happened, too.Yes, the Republicans are a damn mess of their own making but Democrats (and others not voting Republican) cannot be complacent. Democrats MUST vote, even if you don’t like the whoever ends up being Democratic nominee. There is too much at stake.Make no mistake, all you have to do is look at Flint (and the state of Michigan in general) to see what will happen if a bunch of Republican/Tea Party assholes get in the White House. -- source link
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