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Since you are at work, all of the advice here from people to stay calm and avoid argumnents is good and wise counsel. As you are feeling frustrated and outgunned, though, I will offer my suggestions for dealing with Republican yappers.
The whole point of politics is to give the little people a voice and a fighting chance to not starve. The wealthy people don't NEED a voice in a democracy. They would do just swell with no voting, no politics, no government and no democracy at all. Think about it. Do away with government and the wealthy will rule - it is called feudalism and we will all be the starving peasants.
So the idea of two parties is silly, since one (or both) are just bought off by the wealthy people, who then set about to abolish government.
This idea that the Republican party has a "philosophy" that deserves "equal time" is just plain wacky. Their philosophy about government is that it should be destroyed.
An analogy - some people may want to sail across the lake, others may want to row. Those are two different opinions as to how to get folks across the lake. Sinking the boat so no one gets across the lake is not a legitimate opinion that deserves consideration, especially when it is being offered up by people who own yatchs and can cross in style any time they choose.
See what I mean? There is no such thing as politics that are "class warfare" or "targeting the rich" or that are "too radical" or "too far to the left." Politics is the one and only antidote and check against the targeting of the poor by the rich - that is the true "class warfare" - and politics is the one and only check against radical right wing rule - feudalism and tyranny. If we are going to throw away progressive politics, then there is no need to have politics at all.
A true political spectrum would put Trotsky on the left, Malcom X in the center and Dennis on the right. Anything to the right of that is NO politics and NO government - just out-and-out iron rule by the upper class.
Liberal and progressive politics fail because we imagine that Republicanism is a legitimate alternate political philosophy, and give it credibility, and try to understand it and seek compromise with it. You can't compromise with people whose goal is to sink the boat! You can't understand a philosophy that says one thing and does another! And, since their goal is to sink the boat, they are free to make up just any old nonsense that sounds good to get people to vote for them and call that nonsense a philosophy.
Remember that as a liberal you are in the right. I know it is brutal, but stand firm. You aren't right because your philosophy is "better" than the other person's philosophy, you are right because your views are based on reality and truth and their's are not. Big difference. We will prevail, and the key is not so much to persuade people to agree with us as it is to re-phrase the debates in such a way that they are able to cast off their illusions and see reality, or give up and surrender power.
Common sense tells us that what the leaders of the two parties want, they would get instantly and automatically if we just eliminated government, individual rights and democracy altogether, starting with the Constitution - and by God, just take a look! That is precisely what they are doing.
The government exists to protect us and to help us - the little people - no other reason to have it, and it belongs to us and not to a privileged wealthy class of people. It is the one thing that they should not be able to buy. And can there be any doubt that they have bought it?
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