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It’s Not Just Trump: The Entire GOP is Mentally Deranged
http://www.politicususa.com/2016/06/20/its-trump-entire-gop-mentally-deranged.htmlIt’s Not Just Trump: The Entire GOP is Mentally Deranged
By Rmuse on Mon, Jun 20th, 2016 at 9:59 am
Deranged is a term that can loosely be interchanged with or refer to a psychosis. However, it is more commonly a generic psychiatric term for a person’s mental state described as involving a “loss of contact with reality.” For the past seven-and-a-half years, Republicans have suffered what has been dubbed “Obama derangement syndrome” that has completely separated them from reality on myriad levels; none the least of accepting the fact that Barack Obama is the President of the United States.
Actually, Republicans have made the term “deranged” their special dysfunction because if they were, or are, not obstructing any and every proposal the President supports, they have actively sought to derail his presidency, regardless the harm to the nation or the people they claim to represent. Over the course of the President’s tenure in office, Republicans have even called for an armed rebellion against his presidency and at one point called for a national (imprecatory) prayer seeking the President’s death.
Apparently, that “Christian” act has not lost favor and in what can only be defined as purely deranged, one United States senator once again called for “imprecatory prayers” seeking the President’s untimely demise, and the psychotic senator did it in front of a group of Christians at a Faith and Freedom gathering. For the record, an imprecatory prayer is an appeal to the god of the Christian bible “to invoke evil upon or curse one’s enemies.”
Senator David Perdue (R-GA) told Faith and Freedom attendees to pray for Obama. He said,
“We should pray like Psalm 109:8 says:
“Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
“Let his days be few, and let another take his office.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.”
The entirety of the “loving” Christian prayer calls for more grief and misery on the victim’s family and good name, but the point of relating Perdue’s abominable action is that a sitting United States senator had no qualms calling for the demise of the President by god’s hands; it is the definition of being mentally deranged. Perdue has no right to draw breath, much less sit in a position of power and influence over 300 million American citizens, but that is the state of the Republican Party in particular and American politics in general.
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The entire Republican movement, with all its iterations, is beyond deranged, not unlike their psychotic, racist and religiously-twisted base. It is not just Tom Cotton, David Perdue or Donald Trump; it is the entirety of the movement that has gone completely off the rails. Still, Republicans will make a strong showing in November and the sad fact is that it is a damning indictment of what America has devolved into.
Unless voters sweep Republicans out of power in Washington and regionally, America will continue on a path of increasing dysfunction. At this point it appears a significant portion of the population is just as mentally deranged as Republicans and it is precisely why America will never progress beyond being a nasty hate-mongering group that exists to visit misery on everyone including their fellow citizens and the legally-elected President of the United States.
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