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Showing Original Post only (View all)The words "Democrat" and "Republican" are pretty much meaningless [View all]
outside the beltway and the media. The Democratic Party is generally made up of a sprinkling of genuine liberals, a majority block of the Center-Right (ultra pro-business), a shrinking number of "conservative Democrats" (i.e. what we used to call "conservative Republicans" and a sprinkling of delusional folk who think that the GOP can be reasoned with and will keep their word (The Democratic "leadership" .
On the GOP side you have 1/3 third paid stooges for the oligarchs (which includes the actual GOP leadership), 1/3 religiously insane Dominionists, and 1/3 barking mad, anti-government, racist teabaggers (who call the shots by preventing pretty much anything they don't agree with from getting done).
I am sure there is more than a little overlap amongst the groups on the Right.
From the Ted Cruz balcony, this translates as:
Genuine Liberals - Goddamn commie-hippie-Nazi liberals
Center Right Democrats - Goddamn commie liberals
Conservative Democrats - Goddamn socialist liberals
"Pragmatic/Bi-Partisan" Democrats - Goddamn liberals
Teabagger conservatives - Patriots
Dominionist conservatives - God's Chosen People
Oligarch conservative - Goddamn commie traitors working for the goddamn commie-hippie-Nazi liberals
The Overton Window is now so far to the right that if space/time is actually curved it is about to hit us in the back of the head.