2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDemocrats Beware! Todd Akin Need Not Resign. Obama Hate Would Have Republicans Vote for the Devil
I have come to the conclusion that Democrats are deluding themselves on the Todd Akin Legitimate Rape issue. I see Senator Claire McCaskill's on TV attempting to help Todd Akin stay in the race. She believes he will be easy pickings.
The fact is that the Republican leadership have created an alternate state of reality on Liberals and Democrats that have made their Republican base have a visceral hate for President Obama, Liberals, and Democrats for all that they represent. As such they would vote for the devil if it meant the defeat of the above.
Groups like Coffee Party USA are attempting to have real dialogue without the loss of anyones values, morals, or core beliefs in order that we can at least find common ground. Hate is an irrational human deficiency. Until we can break that irrational hate by the Right via some sort of discourse we will not be able to effect good middle class policies.
Join my active CNN iReport discussion on the topic. We need Liberal and progressive voices. The Right Wing is great at getting their folks, paid and unpaid in forums throughout the Internet. We must do the same. There are a lot of eyeballs watching.
Liberals please join the debate HERE.
scheming daemons
(25,487 posts)They will vote Mitt no matter what.
The akin story is about he GOP losing independents... especially female ones.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)an all time high just ask Lindsay, Mitch, Boner and the rest of the 1%'s lackeys.
patrice
(47,992 posts)That's because, I think, some of us are thinking that the Tea Party is disappearing. Wrong. The Tea Party's roots are as deep as racism in the U.S.
Regarding the sources of the crazy which is spreading, as you observe, throughout the internet and also just out there amongst the grassroots in the real world: The Tea Party is making sure that racism is the answer to all of "our" problems.
Here is some longitudinal research on the racist groups that birthed the Tea Party, that is, it's research that was underway for some decades, watching race issues and hate groups and this research group observed the emergence of the Tea Party out of racist grassroots groups. The guy who heads up this research group has spent most of his life studying racism. I think there's a count of the aggregate size of the various groups, including the Tea Party, on his website here:
http://www.irehr.org/
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You remind me of how much I like the Coffee Party for the civility that they promote.
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I will visit the website that you suggest.