The GOP On The Eve Of Destruction by Bill Moyers

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The GOP On The Eve Of Destruction

by Bill Moyers and Michael Winship

http://billmoyers.com/2015/12/03/the-gop-on-the-eve-of-destruction/

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For reasons hard to fathom, the Republicans seem to have made up their minds: they will divide, degrade and secede from the Union.

Turn on your TV or computer, pick up a paper or magazine and you can see and hear them baying at the moon.They will do so with bullying, lies and manipulation, a willingness to say anything, no matter how daft or wrong. They will do so by spending unheard of sums to buy elections with the happy assistance of big business and wealthy patrons for whom the joys of gross income inequality are a comfortable fact of life. By gerrymandering and denying the vote to as many of the poor, the elderly, struggling low-paid workers, and people of color as they can. And by appealing to the basest impulses of human nature: anger, fear and bigotry.

Turn on your TV or computer, pick up a paper or magazine and you can see and hear them baying at the moon. Donald Trump is just the most outrageous and bigmouthed of the frothing wolf pack of deniers and truth benders. As our friend and colleague Tom Engelhardt of TomDispatch writes, “There’s nothing, no matter how jingoistic or xenophobic, extreme or warlike that can’t be expressed in public and with pride by a Republican presidential candidate.”

Like the pronouncement of the Ministry of Truth in Orwell’s 1984, ignorance is strength, whether it’s casting paranoid fantasies about thousands of Muslims in New Jersey cheering 9/11, or warning about terrorists in refugees’ ragged clothing and Mexican rapists slithering across the border.



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[swilton]

1. They've put/tried to put the nails in the GOP coffin before

This was especially the case after the 2008 election.

Somehow the Democratic Party allows the GOP to rebrand and then it rises like a phoenix.

[pansypoo53219]

2. hate radio & fux gnewz created a monster. frankenstupid.

[Arugula Latte]

3. And yet they gain more and more control.

If this is the GOP self-destructing, I'd hate to see them building.

[tabasco]

4. The real problem is the stupidity and corruption of tens of millions of American citizens

that causes them to support clearly undemocratic and hateful organizations like the republican party.