"A Thanksgiving Letter to the Republican Party" (great rant at Huff Post)

[applegrove]

A Thanksgiving Letter to the Republican Party

by Thrity Umrigar at Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thrity-umrigar/republicans-thanksgiving_b_2173710.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

"SNIP..........................................

On this Thanksgiving Day, a personal request: Please don't change.

Please keep digging in your heels about not raising taxes on the top one percent even if it means sending the country into a second recession, so that the rest of us can see, once and for all, who your masters are, whose interests you really serve.

Please keep talking endlessly about the wealth-makers and the "small business owners," and never breathe a word about the waitress mom who works long hours at the small restaurant, the clerk who labors at the small insurance company, the teachers who work heroically in crumbling school buildings, the workers who toil in factories whose owners constantly threaten to take their business overseas. Keep doing this until people see, as they did in this month's election, that your loyalties are not with the workers who fuel our economy.

While you're at it, please keep pissing off women by talking about them in infantilizing terms, by not trusting them to make mature, adult, informed choices about their own bodies, by expanding your 40-year-old war against abortion into a war against contraception. Keep unleashing people like Akin and Mourdock onto the people, who are already scratching their heads, wondering if they have suddenly woken up in the 1950s -- in Russia.

.........................................SNIP"

[CurtEastPoint]

1. Do read the whole letter. Very well done.

[Coyotl]

2. "scratching their heads, wondering if they have suddenly woken up in the 1950s -- in Russia"

good one

[Arkansas Granny]

3. There are some really good observations in that rant.

[applegrove]

4. Yup. One of the most insightful takes I have seen on the current GOP. I hope

it goes viral.