My Tolerance Is At An End (RANT)

[WiffenPoof]

I'm sorry...I cannot tolerate Republicans anymore. I've tried. God knows I've tried. I've tried to understand them...and that while I disagree with their policies, they are after all no less American than I am with the same rights to express their beliefs as I do. But what is currently going on in this campaign is beyond the pale. It is disgusting and is as far from being American as anyone can get.

Let's be honest...it is overt RACISM. They don't even try to hide it anymore. They have NO SHAME.

No other President has had to deal with such hatred and racism as has our current President. We are all well aware of the dog whistles that have been blaring in our ears for months now.

He is not an American...He doesn't understand our country (our economics)...he is "monkeying around"...shucking and jiving...his birth certificate and school transcripts...he's a Socialist/Communist/Muslim...traitor...un-American...Let's put the white back in the White House...etc, etc.

What is wrong with these people?!

And don't give me this "low information" crap. There is no excuse.

And where is Romney expressing regret and shame for those who would express such overt racism? Nowhere to be found on the issue. No interviews...nothing. His silence speaks louder than anything he could say.

I've had it with the Repiblican Party and for ANYONE who would support their platform. There is absolutely NO EXCUSE for supporting or tolerating the hate and racism that is now so obvious.

From now on, anyone who expresses their support for the Republican Party will be seen for what they are...as the racist disgusting pigs that they are.

-Paige

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Well said - Rec'd.

[Buddaman]

2. And don't give me this "low information" crap. There is no excuse........

Right on!!

[Riley18]

3. Exactly. The only reason Floriduh is not for O is too many racist bigots.

[Pakid]

4. Thanks for saying so well how I feel

[Freddie]

5. It's female Repugs that enrage me the most

How can they vote for a party that wants to force us to give birth to the spawn of rape!?? Makes me want to vomit!

[CrispyQ]

39. I don't get it either.

One friend this summer was ranting, "They're not taking away my birth control! Or my daughters!"

A few weeks ago she liked Romney. I want to call her & say, "I thought you were an intelligent, caring woman. What happened?"

[Tennessee Gal]

6. Great rant .....

However, I don't think they are all racists. Some have always voted Republican and always will.

Those that are not racists should have the courage to disavow other Republicans who spew racism. I do hold them accountable for not doing that.

Mitt Romney, as we all know, only cares about winning. He knows that were he to take a stand against some of the hatred exhibited against Obama it would likely cost him some votes. He lacks the courage to take that chance even though it would be the right thing to do. When has he ever done the right thing? Never.

[WiffenPoof]

8. A Couple Of Comments On Your Response

My generalization that ALL Repubicans are as I have described not withstanding...

If you vote Republican, I would hope that you would educate yourself on your party's position and method. As I stated, this so-called "low information" crap is just that...CRAP. It is no longer acceptable as an excuse for supporting racism.

If I were to learn that my party engaged in such disgusting methods, I would immediately stop at nothing to expose the unacceptability of its existence.

For those in the Republican Party who conveniently ignore the racism are not only irresponsible party members, but they are doing a disservice to all that is treasured by our society.

So, no...not all in the Republican Party are racist. However, associating with those who are and then tolerate it from those assigned to speak for their party, is unacceptable.

If you are not educated on the policies and methods of your own party...THAN FUCKING EDUCATE YOURSELF!

-Paige

[Tennessee Gal]

15. Agreed .... especially with this:

For those in the Republican Party who conveniently ignore the racism are not only irresponsible party members, but they are doing a disservice to all that is treasured by our society.

[mrsadm]

7. I had hoped by now...

I'm 58 years old and remember overt racism as a kid ... I had hoped by now people in this country would have gotten over it ...

[Ivywoods55]

9. They are doing it more openly because..

They have gotten away with being racist for sooo long without any backlash that now they are not afraid to come out of the wood work. And even though many more people, like you, are calling them out for their racism, the MSM has not and won't because they are predominately owned and operated by white men. As an African American woman what has made me more angry than anything else is the decades long meme that, "there is no more racism", which has been perpetrated by white folks on the right, and upheld as truth by some self-hating Blacks. How can these folks tell me what I experience each day, how I feel about being followed in a store, or how I am treated by white strangers who do not know me from a ant. Some things are better, but the hate and discord that the Republican Party has shown and demonstrated these last four years, especially toward this President, will go down in history as being unprecedented, even by 1800 and 1900's standards...because we were supposed to be a "civilized" generation...yeah, right.

[WiffenPoof]

13. Well Stated

As a white male, I cannot even begin to understand the hurdles and challenges faced by an African-American female (or any person of color for that matter).

Admittedly, I was sucked into the whole "post racism" crap. I mean, I knew it was not true...I just didn't realize how untrue is was and remains today. Thanks to the Republican Party, I am convinced that racism and institutionalized racism is alive and well.

-Paige

[Nay]

22. I'm a cynical white bitch, and I never fell for the "there is no more racism" line either. I moved

to VA 20 years ago for a job opportunity, and my God, the minute I hit the state line it was like the 1930's all over again. I was automatically assumed to be sympathetic to the attitudes of the white racists around me, even though I was obviously not from the South (no southern accent). After I gave a few of these people a gimlet-eyed stare and said, "WHAT did you say??" they figured out I wasn't a sympathizer and crossed me off their list (I wasn't in the club!), but it was a REAL eye-opener.

At work, I even had an old white woman stare with disgust and point at my Amnesty International calendar -- not because it was AI, but because that month it featured 2 African women, mother and daughter, who had been tortured for their activism. She wouldn't articulate why she was so offended by them, but I'm assuming it was because they were very black, or because she couldn't imagine why a calendar would feature 2 "n-word"s. This happened only 5 years ago, so. . .well, I'm still a cynical white bitch for a reason.

[BumRushDaShow]

27. Perfect response

The daily indignities are tiresome. Next year will mark 100 years when W.E.B. Dubois wrote in "The Souls of Black Folks" -

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He does not wish to Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He wouldn't bleach his Negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his face.

And ironically, the M$M is shocked to see how President Obama "talks" to a black crowd (and drops a little Al Green on the attendees) versus how he "talks" to a white crowd, also using his lifetime of having a white mother and grandparents who raised him.

Alternately Frantz Fanon so succinctly described the self-hating in his book "Black Skin, White Masks", where you essentially have a description of the Alan Wests and Herman Cains and J.C. Watts of today.

Alot of the overt racism was suppressed after the last big "physical" civil rights battles in the '70s which lead to an "intellectual" civil rights movement in the '90s with major attempts at correctly the completely false history of this country and of the continent of Africa, yet you had disgusting creatures like Diane Ravitch, who is deified here as some fucking goddess, leading the fight against "multiculturalism", because that arrogant ass wanted to define ME and MY culture and not have US do the defining.

And so here we are with the scum - many holding elective office, running around with their hoods on and a name tag proudly affixed to the sheet.

[justiceischeap]

10. It's not just the overt racism that bothers me with Republicans

but their willingness to uninformed and believe lies. They create their own reality where conjecture becomes fact and in essence, in their worlds, history is different. There is forever going to be section of the Republican party that believe Pres. Obama was born in Kenya. There is always going to be a section that believes he's a Muslim. I know this comes back to racism with President Obama but it still chaps my ass that they allow themselves to be "educated" by Fox noise while voting to damage actual education in schools.

[Ivywoods55]

28. Your post is so true, Justiceischeap!

Many of these people honestly believe the nonsense they see and hear from Rush and Fox about Black folks, and they do not believe that what they espouse and think toward Blacks and other minorities is racism, because so many of the people they live and work around feel and act the same way. When you, or any other white person, tries to tell the truth or disavow their beliefs, they see you as the racist, race-baiter, or "N" lover. These type of people are also growing in strength, and are becoming far more prevalent than we are aware, in much higher places, like the Koch Bros. Their hate and desperation is becoming ever more apparent because they feel a double threat now: 1). The election of the first Black president, something they never thought would happen in America and 2). The growth in population of Hispanics and other people of color in America demographics....they think they are losing their grip on power and it is scaring the heck out of them...sorry for the long post everyone!

[justiceischeap]

29. I think, though, that part of the problem

is they are a dying breed so they have to up the rhetoric to try to expand their numbers. Sadly, it's a form of survival of the fittest.

[Ivywoods55]

40. Justiceischeap, I also agree with you on that point...

People will do strange, and even sometimes horrible things when they feel their backs are against the wall. The Republican Party has isolated itself from so many different people groups, especially minorities. What their aim is, or what they thought, or think they will accomplish by doing that puzzles me. It seems as if they think by dismissing or ignoring different groups they believe they will go away or cease to exist. Their mindset is very limited, and seems to be very narrow and only going in one direction. They are simply a sad, and truly diminishing group of folks. Pathetic, racist, bigoted, and getting even more scarier.

[justiceischeap]

42. I can't believe I'm about to say this but Ann Coulter was right

she said her party needed to be MORE inclusive (she was speaking specifically of LGBTQers) than exclusive. At the rate the (R) party is going it's going to left with nothing but KKK leaning followers.

[savebigbird]

11. To be honest,

I'm finding it difficult to tolerate anyone who is still undecided about their vote at this point. Oh, and people who are voting republican. I can't stand them either.

[Ivywoods55]

30. Savebigbird, it does not bother me one bit...

that they are voting Republican, because that is their right as US citizens, what bothers me is WHO they are willing to vote for. Mitt is a man that represents nothing, an absent of morals, integrity, honesty, compassion and decency. I never thought I would ever be introduced to another human being (Ha!) that is absent of any and all human characteristics. I have come to the conclusion that those who vote for Mitt will be the hardest hit by his hapless and non-specific economic misadventures...I least I hope so, because more than anything they will deserve it.

[lunatica]

12. If there was this kind of racism in the Democratic Party

I would be ashamed and disgusted and I would leave the party. The Republican Party is destroying itself and I can't say I'm sorry about it.

[skydive forever]

14. Whats the old saying

not all Republicans are racists, but all racists are republican. Sad but true.

[Livluvgrow]

16. Dont forget

It is racism, but also a seething hatred for all things liberal.

[Carolina]

17. K&R! Rant on...

I couldn't agree more. My attitude toward those I have learned are Republican has changed dramatically... People I thought I knew and even considered to be friends, I now avoid and think much less of, i.e. stupid, racist or both!

Also, since it's breast cancer awareness month, I love telling merchants that I don't support rightwing hacks when they ask for that extra $ for Susan G Komen. I always add that I give to Planned Parenthood instead because it really helps women.

[Carpathian]

18. Carpathian

Very well said! I just heard a very disturbing "racial" remark made at a public gathering. A female raised her arm and shouted "Whose with me for Romney for President?" A roar of approval went up from the crowd. The couple was sitting right next to our table and she asked why I was voting for Obama...to which I stated he was the best man for the job. I asked her why she was voting for Romney and her response was because he was "white!" I was not sure I heard her correctly, it could have been "because he was right," so I asked her again?? Her response was "because he's not black!" I can't believe that such stupidity is alive and well in our country.

[mgardener]

19. Women too1

Their bias and hate towards women is also loud and clear.
Who would let a woman die instead of 'allowing' her to have an abortion?
Who would make a women, pregnant from rape, carry a pregnancy to term because it is a gift from God?
Also remember, 31 states allow visitation/parental rights to a rapist/father.

Who is hijacking the US with their 'religious views'?

Republicans. They are a curious blend of religious extremism and republican values. People like Karl Rove have engineered this combination, not because he and they are religious, but because they wanted to add to the GOP base.

We need a full time cable tv to get the Democratic views out and to combat republican lies. they are winning this war 24/7.
We have to be content with Hoping that the MSM will be objective enough to report.
I hope that POTUS Obama wins this election. A romney presidency would be worse then anything bush did, and he did enough.

[Carni]

21. Very Good Point!

Women are just as hated!

[santamargarita]

20. Republicans are the true enemy of this country.

They are the biggest terrorist threat and greatest threat to our democracy.

[treestar]

23. Their hateful attitudes towards the poor

and the social safety net is part of it - you just know they assume it's all black people and undocumented aliens, when mostly it is white people using it. All of their jibes at people who suffer enough to end up on welfare or food stamps - as if they themselves will never need them and as if those on them are on them permanently - like blackness is permanent.

[The Wizard]

24. The underlying message

since Nixon's Southern Strategy has been, "you're a bigot, so are we. Vote Republican."
Nixon's code message was "law and order. " Translated it means the Republicans will keep minorities in their places.
Reagan/Bush pushed traditional values, and as we're slowly learning, the American value they push for is slavery. W. Bush sold compassionate conservatism like snake oil from the back of a stolen pick up truck.
Their bigotry is coming out of the closet. How long will it be when their campaign slogan will be "We don't want our children going to school with them niggers."

[oxymoron]

25. Very well put.

I am sick of this country and it's crooked voting system and disinformation from the media. If I was younger, I would honestly consider moving elsewhere.

[Shuhered]

26. It IS Racism

I'm tired of this as well. I was extremely tired of this when Obama had his golf/ beer summit with Boehner, a white collar photo opportunity at best. If you're man or woman enough to believe in a principal as malignant as the N-word, calling out people of color as being inferior to white people, then please come out and say what you mean clearly. As a bunch of slime balls, you never do that, do you? You cloak yourselves not-invisibly in rhetoric that is mildly cryptic. ( " there must be aNOTHER reason black Powell supports black Obama&quot . Sununu is about as morally honest about his personal racism as anyone in the GOP dares get.

[teewrex]

31. It may be stereotyping but here in Arizona whenever I see a Romney sticker

my first thought is "red neck racist"

[Raster]

32. How do you spell racism? G-O-P

[hue]

33. I hear Ya' but we must never give up!!

[ThomThom]

34. don't forget trying to take away peoples right to vote

we should be making it easier not more difficult
we should be trying to see if we can get everyone to the polls and vote
without the vote there is no democracy

[Harriety]

35. It's hard dealing with people who are backing the Repubs, especially if they are related.

I'm sure some of my Repub relatives feel the same way about me. (They kaunt staund me) I know people who have been face to face at family events like weddings on opposite sides who wind our screaming their political views at each other. I know our President has done a pretty darned good job. Considering the circumstances he's done an excellent job. They see him though as intimidating and scary looking and as someone who is pushing too much government on them and I have a hard time saying what I want to say to them without losing my bloody mind!

[DonCoquixote]

36. For all the "moderate" GOP

Someone who votes GOP in light of the clear way the GOP is acting is someone who is at best, a coward, at worst, a criminal. Allow me to offer a JFK quote, which is based on Dante.

http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Ready-Reference/JFK-Miscellaneous-Information/Dante.aspx

"President Kennedy's favorite quote was really from Dante, 'The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.'"

Let us make no mistake, your friend who votes for Romney, even though R has offered to do everything from start war with Iran to starving seniors, as indeed, tryign to "preserve their neutrality", which is just a ten dollar way of saying they only care about their own asses.

[BanTheGOP]

37. Thank you everyone for AGREEING with me

Thanks to everyone who agrees with what I've been saying for DECADES, since Reagan: That the GOP is, has been, and always will be, America's Ultimate Hate Crime against Humanity. I have yelled at SO many rethugs my voice is going hoarse, but it must never stop. We MUST bring the GOP to court and criminalize it's activity to RICO statutes, and most of you in this thread are in complete, absolute agreement. This is HEARTENING, and we MUST DESTROY the GOP any way possible!

[Great Caesars Ghost]

38. They ARE the enemy

I am not just talking about the politicians, but the people who vote for them. The foot soldiers if you will. They are wastes of sperm. Something MUST be done about this threat!!!!!!

[Skittles]

41. I've said it before

with Obama's election it was like a light going on and the cockroaches scattering - conservatives are seriously demented - they openly flaunt their racism (come on - those DOG WHISTLES are not fooling ANYONE)

[BigBearJohn]

43. I couldn't agree more.