Reply #227: I find it hard to believe that so many refuse

[TheKentuckian]

to hold the Republican ideology responsible for the damage it has done to our country. This is exactly why they wreck everything, it is fixed at the cost of blood, sweat, and tears and then in the fullness of time they hoodwink the people again with the carrot of greed and the cycle starts anew.

It is important that the Republicans be accountable and responsible for the failings of their philosophies and policies so that we can turn the page on laissez-faire, you are on your own, trickle down economics. They must be accountable for laying debt beyond imagination on future generations. They have to be responsible for razing our jobbase to the ground and polluting our air and water. They must take ownership of whatever drives them to disenfranchise voters and to treat their fellow citizens as second class at best.

Responsibility for the failings of the corrupt and acceptance that a new path must be blazed is a prerequisite.

To sit here and deny that Republicans don't come in three and only three varieties-stupid, evil, and recovering is confused. Yes, we are all very weary of bickering and fingerpointing but those issues won't be resolved by "being mature". At some point you have to find out what is wrong and actually fix it and much of it lies in the Republican core beliefs.

Yes, responsibility goes to the rank and file voter too and many Democrats among them. They are supporting a lot of wrong doing and twisted ideology, many with vigor.

Defend greed, aggression, anti-intellectualism, lies, unearned exceptionalism, racism, the repression of self determination, and an intentional and very focused effort to make this country a fascism all you want but loving friends and relatives doesn't whitewash the very real fact that they actively support some pretty twisted ideas that lead to often horrible results.

Stupid, evil, or recovering seem like the only valid answers. All else seems to turnout to be an exception. There may be a few stray decent conservatives but the Republican party is almost completely toxic and has been long before the shrub took over. in fact the ringleaders are the same filth that have been operating behind the scenes since Nixon at least.

I have little interest in the pathetic beings but this philosophy must be repudiated for this nation to make real progress. There is no conversation to be had about trickle down economics, promoting inequality, theocracy, or cowboy diplomacy because all of that bogus nonsense is only fit for history's wastebin.

Forgive the sinner but hate the sin and recognize the sin for what it is. You can't brush it under the rug in an effort to get along. You have to confront wrongs and fix them if you can. Anything else is not only stupid but actively irresponsible.