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From today's Portland (Maine) Press Herald. Yeah, we've all had a crazy uncle, and now one is in the White House.
Crazy uncles used to be a family problem. Most families have had at least one, who was guaranteed to produce embarrassment and hard feelings at Thanksgiving gatherings. They never seem able to get along with people, and are always quick to push what they think are their absolutely correct and outsized ideas on everyone else. Many are little more than annoying misfits, though some end up closer to the raging sociopath end of the scale.
Now, unfortunately, theyve escaped the protection of their families, formed a movement of similarly angry folks, taken over the Republican Party and emerged as a major disruptive force in politics in places like Augusta, the United States Congress and the White House.
Donald Trump is, of course, the face of the movement, along with the likes of Ted Cruz, Paul LePage, Deep South and remote Western Republican governors, Rush Limbaugh and whats left of Chris Christie.
The ideas of this movement were, not so long ago, considered at best amusingly kooky, and at worst obviously unstable. Now, their ideas have been repeated so often that theyre becoming mainstream, if not normal. And that has created a larger circle of imitators and supporters who we used to think of as sensible conservatives.
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/07/09/alan-caron-america-has-a-crazy-uncle-problem-and-its-leaving-republicans-unable-to-govern/
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)The GOP leaders, members of Congress and far too many states, are driven to take over America - in cahoots with a foreign enemy nation if need be - and turn us into a combination conservative Christian theocracy and unregulated Capitalist paradise.
Solly Mack
(90,778 posts)I've seen families where people warned others never to be alone with their "crazy uncle" when they should have called the police and had the uncle arrested.
And this is what I hear whenever anyone talks about the "crazy uncle" they warn people about but otherwise tolerate.
They either need help (they aren't getting) for mental instabilities or they need arresting for harming others.
Either way, simply warning people is never enough.
There are some exceptions, but not many.