Ronald Reagan is rolling over in his grave...
...over the Pro-Putin element in the Republican Party among its extremist House members.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2022/03/did-she-really-say-that_19.html
The shift in public support among registered American voters toward support for Ukraine is causing quite a scramble as the duplicitous chattering magpie Marjorie Taylor Green, tries and fails to shake the Pro-Putin label. During the past few weeks she has been a speaker at an anti-American, white supremacist, racist gathering and now, as the pro-Putin label gets attached, tries, and fails, to deflect it by a sociopathic statement to try and defend her Pro-Putin, anti-American,
inhumane and barbaric vote against aid to Ukraine.
"We cannot and we must not allow our compassion to blind us to reason and common sense."
To make such a statement is not only unpatriotic and unAmerican, but separating reason and common sense from compassion makes one a sociopath, and is blatantly selfish, completely inhuman, cruel and barbaric. It is even more immoral and inhumane in that she is weighing the realities of the indiscriminate and deliberate targeting of civilians in Ukraine to defend her politically indefensible support of the Russian dictator who is committing those war crimes. Compassion doesn't blind us to reason and common sense, it puts it in perspective and shows that we have a conscience.
Taylor-Green, like her political inamorata, Trump, clearly does not have a conscience.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,410 posts)Reagan began the GOP's march toward visible and unrelenting fascism, of which people like Trump and MTG are a product. Reagan and Gingrich focused on deception and propaganda against the Democratic Party that has intensified and continues to this day. Reagan was perhaps at his worst by denying the power and resilience of maintaining the concept of the Commonwealth. Reagan dismissed the notion that Americans are one variously united population guided by the Preamble. Reagan turned the nation's conservative citizens into a multi-million person strong gaggle of "What about ME?" whiners who ignored and mocked the part of the Preamble that pledges to "promote the general welfare."
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qazplm135
(7,447 posts)Reagan and O'Neill compromised quite a bit with each other and Reagan at accepted that Democrats were on the same team. The biggest enemy was the Soviets.
What we have now is a party that openly believes the biggest enemy is Democrats.
That doesn't make Reagan not evil or horrible, but there's a qualitative difference present now.
Sneederbunk
(14,208 posts)SamKnause
(13,043 posts)Brainstormy
(2,380 posts)Amen.
overleft
(353 posts)lees1975
(3,719 posts)just a comparison of how far out of bounds MTG, Cawthorn, Boobert and this whole group of Fascists has gone.
Reagan was awful on his own. Trump's chain was being jerked by Putin. This isn't meant to puff Reagan or give him credit for anything, it's to point out how absolutely disjointed, inconsistent and frankly stupid the GOP has become. It's subversive.