"Five Things Republicans Have Repealed" (LOL!)

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Five Things Republicans Have Repealed

by Tina Dupuy at the Contributor

http://thecontributor.com/editors-contribution/five-things-republicans-have-repealed

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4. Empathy On the Paleolithic outback with our ancestors, empathy kept us from pushing our own clan members in front of bear-size hyenas. In this way we increased our numbers to the current population of seven billion or so.

The one thing all major religions share in common—what is universal among those of faith—is the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you’d have done unto you. All of humankind agrees and owes its very existence to this premise.

But when Obama said judges should have empathy and nominated the first Latina to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor, the right had to reflexively come out against empathy. The Wall Street Journal claimed empathy was the opposite of reason (pretty sure that’s irrationality on both counts). The then-chairman of the Republican Party, Michael Steele, waxed poetic: "Crazy nonsense empathetic! I'll give you empathy. Empathize right on your behind!"

Nix empathy and we no longer care about the less fortunate, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised or our neighbors. It’s like if Ayn Rand were Jesus’ virgin mother. Creepy. Republicans repealed empathy the same way they repealed compromise, by making it akin to treason—or possibly Hitler!

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1. Call me when they Repeal

Ignorance

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2. #5 was part of the GOP plan to kill government

5. Congress

If you have three pillars holding something up and you take away one pillar, the whole thing falls. It's simple physics. We have three branches of government and one makes dysfunction look bad. Republicans’ self-fulfilling prophecy about government being inefficient is hurting the country the party claims it loves.