When you have an electorate that's lost its respect for the role of civics in its society
Has contempt for the proper application of government, actively detaches itself from the responsibility of voting and even avoids informed decision making, then you get the sort of clowns that are elected as Tea Party Republicans these days.
The dependence on conspiratorial thinking, the selfishness, inability to understand context and just plain mean-spiritness as a guiding principle, well… They won't elect stable, thoughtful, intelligent and responsible legislators that way. Never mind picking Democrat politicians over Republicans, they can't even pick SANE Republican politicians over the insane and moronic ones.
It doesn't matter if every conspiracy that they have about President Obama has never come to pass. It doesn't matter if every aspect that they think of his personality and policies has no basis in reality. It doesn't even matter if they seem utterly allergic to rational thought. None of it matters… Because they'll just imagine that their worst fears are about to happen, or they already have and they'll only see what they want to see.
The Republicans could take control of government and then proceed to run it into the ground… Again. They won't ever hold the GOP responsible for their malfeasance, corruption and incompetence. The Democrats will come back again to save the day, but they will never give us credit, because we want to save everyone, including everyone that they want to exclude; minorities, women, the poor, immigrants, what have you.
They're all about the politics of division, even as if creates more harm than good.
I'm sick of them, I really am.
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