Ted Cruz delivers dystopian vision of America’s future ahead of Iowa caucuses

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Ted Cruz delivers dystopian vision of America’s future ahead of Iowa caucuses

David Taylorin Hubbard, Iowa
Saturday 30 January 2016 20.48 GMT

Ted Cruz began his last weekend before the Iowa caucuses by describing a bloodcurdling, dystopian vision of America’s future – out-of-control judges, monuments stripped bare, “abortion on demand” – that will come to fruition if anyone else is elected president.

At a sometimes awkward early morning gathering in a middle school in snowy Hubbard, 60 miles north of Des Moines, the Texas senator warned that even other Republicans would put at risk religious freedoms if they were in the Oval Office, and would allow a “lawless” supreme court to push a radical leftwing agenda.

“We are one justice away from the supreme court taking away every single restriction on abortion and mandating abortion on demand,” he said, “up to the moment of birth”.

With the next president potentially able to nominate four new supreme court judges, Cruz said the nation was merely “one justice away” from “veterans’ memorials being torn down if any have religious symbols … chisels coming out to chisel off crosses and Stars of David on the tombstones”.

Cruz, a former supreme court clerk, argued before the court as Texas solicitor general and written 70 briefs to justices. He loudly supported John Roberts during confirmation hearings to join the court in 2005, but on Saturday claimed the Republican appointee and one of his colleagues on the court were “disasters”. The senator vowed to elect “principled and proven constitutional conservatives”.

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[Kip Humphrey]

1. so I have this picture of 7th,8th, and 9th graders locked in this school auditorium with this

brimstone and fire-breathing madman spouting this dystopian horror as their future, the snow swirling outside, and with spooky organ music playing in the background.

poor kids.

[madaboutharry]

2. He is a sick man.

What a horrible way to live a life, filled with fear and hate and pessimisim.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. I don't think he believes any of that horseshit

It's just codswallop that he says to scare the children - minors and childish adults alike.

[madaboutharry]

7. You could be right, it might all be a ruse.

That makes him a double a-hole. No wonder everyone who knows him hates him.

[Archae]

4. With Cruz, it's a combination.

He's pandering to the "We iz a kriss-chun cun-tree!" Jesus freaks, and he actually believes the drivel his Dad spouts, about Ted being "anointed."

(I'd like to "anoint" Ted Cruz myself the way Hawkeye Pierce did to a callous colonel with garbage from a helicopter.)

[Initech]

5. Who is feeding them this garbage?

[hifiguy]

6. He is certifiably, unquestionably, completely

batshit, barking at the moon insane. And that may be an understatement.