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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. And what is strange is observing the current crop of GOP politicians
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:21 PM
Jun 2016

and how very weak and unappealing they are. The primaries were composed of failed Governors, television personalities, and no real people with actual viable solutions.

And GOP voters seem to be satisfied with these cartoonish clowns.

brush

(53,768 posts)
6. That party has nothing to offer but a disproven economic theory — trickle-down, . . .
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:33 PM
Jun 2016

tax cuts for the rich, climate change denial and deregulation of capitalism (translation: dog-eat-dog capitalism) that allows for spewing carbon and oil spills et al into our environment.

And they repeat it over and over and over, candidate after candidate.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
7. And the corporatized media treats this nonsense as a viable and credible solution.
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:36 PM
Jun 2016

There is nearly zero critical media treatment of the supply side fairy story.

brush

(53,768 posts)
10. Exactly. If he was a Dem governor in Kansas who destroyed that state's economy . . .
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:43 PM
Jun 2016

with his supply side experiment, Brownback would be smeared 24/7, 365 by the corporate media.

malaise

(268,949 posts)
9. They promote ignorance, superstition, anti-scientific views
Tue Jun 28, 2016, 02:40 PM
Jun 2016

anti workers' rights, racism, misogyny - and yes they are clowns

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