Think About How Far The Republican Party Has Fallen

[gab13by13]

There are so many examples, but I chose this one;

Barry Goldwater went to Richard Nixon and told Nixon to resign over Watergate, told Nixon he would not support him.

Fast forward; we have pretty much every member of the Magat party supporting Traitor Trump, supporting someone who is a threat to our national security, supporting someone who stole our nation's top secrets, supporting someone who has yet to return all of the documents he has stolen, supporting someone who sure looks like got our foreign agents killed. Those foreign agents who risked their lives to keep America safe were most likely betrayed by the fucking president of the United States and every fucking Magat member of Congress supports this traitor who is the leading Magat presidential candidate, unfuckingbelievable they are going to nominate a treasonous traitor.

Not to mention the MSM makes light of what Trump has done, even anchors from MSNBC.

Call the SOB a traitor every damn day. Look up the definition of traitor in the dictionary, it fits Trump to a T.

Can you believe that Barry Goldwater had more decency than every current Magat member of Congress?

Rant off.

[Lovie777]

1. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s........................

is another example.

The GQPs are compromised and they are against Democracy.

[617Blue]

2. When's the last time a GOP pol tried to inspire people to do good?

It's all negative, gaslighting, trolling and hate.

[Shipwack]

7. Eisenhower? nt

[Lonestarblue]

3. When I think of the unelected Republicans who have done great damage to any honesty and

principles, I immediately think of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. Atwater was absolutely vicious in his politics of personal destruction, and Republicans since then have followed his playbook. Karl Rove was the mastermind behind the idea that just be gerrymandering key states, Republicans could eventually ensure that Democrats would never again have the presidency or the majority in Congress. This idea took root, and today’s Republicans have decided that only they deserve to win and by any means necessary.

Republicans have many other equally nasty political operatives (Steve Bannon and Roger Stone come to mind) whose sole purpose is to lie, conduct character assassinations against Republican opponents, and use culture wars and social issues to keep their electorate angry and ready to do violence because they’ve been told over and over that liberals cheat when in fact we do not.

I know that both parties have wealthy donors and groups supporting them, but somehow I think that Republicans have far more. For example, do Democrats have any similar group to ALEC that writes legislation for Republicans? Do we have any groups like those funded by Leonard Leo and the anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ+ Alliance Defending Freedom spending huge amounts of money to turn the US into a theocracy with their backward beliefs becoming the law of the land?

Most of the mainstream media at least leans Republican, though the NYT and WaPo both claim to be nonpartisan. Both are selectively nonpartisan, but both also are currently taking every opportunity to raise Biden’s age (but never Trump’s) and claim that most Democrats do not support Biden. Both also regularly promote DeSantis, with the Post just doing an article glorifying Casey DeSantis. Reader comments were almost all critical of the Post’s decision to do a puff piece on her.

I guess the gist of what I feel is that the Republican Party long ago stopped being a party interested at all in governing and became a party willing to do and say anything to gain and hold onto power—not power to do good things for the country or average Americans but power to support US oligarchs and continue the destructive of the country’s wealth to the 1%. And at least some of those 1% are the billionaires who want the US to be a theocracy granting privileges only to white heterosexual men. Their goal is a democracy on paper but a dictatorship in the law.

[mountain grammy]

4. Barry Goldwater wouldn't be a Republican today.

He was one of the first to recognize the danger of the Christian right because of their refusal to compromise. He was strongly pro choice and he had no issue with gay people serving in our military.

[Duppers]

9. Indeed! 👍

[mountain grammy]

11. and just to be clear

I never voted for the man, but I met him and heard him speak several times when I was in college. While I respected many of his opinions, he opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a huge fail for me. He had his reasons but all failed to address reality. He said it went too far, I always believed it didn't go far enough.

[SCantiGOP]

10. His quote about gays in the military:

I don’t care if they’re straight as long as they can shoot straight.
That is the essence of decent American libertarianism: argue about politics, but stay out of others personal lives.

[relayerbob]

5. Nixon himself had more decency

And that's a VERY low bar, indeed.

[Roc2020]

6. Traitor is obvious. Reason being

Trump will be prevented from getting back in the WH. Bank that.

[Duppers]

8. The Federalist Society helping Moscow?

Unimaginable some yrs ago.

[MissMillie]

12. I read what Karl Rove had to say about the TFG indictment

and found it sadly ironic that Karl Rove is a voice of sanity in Conservative politics.


Seriously... if that doesn't tell people how ridiculous and extreme the GOP has become, nothing will.