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Sounds reasonable to me.
An op-ed in the New Zealand Herald:
The greatest threat to America? Republicans
The takeover of American conservatism by evangelical Christianity, Fox News and a handful of shadowy billionaires has transformed the Republicans into the party of wilful ignorance: doctrinal purity is more valued than intelligence; tolerance has been supplanted by persecutory moralising; paranoia has replaced realism.
This process may be reaching its logical conclusion with the emergence of property billionaire Donald Trump as the front-runner for the party's presidential nomination.
Trump personifies everything the rest of the world despises about America: casual racism, crass materialism, relentless self-aggrandisement, vulgarity on an epic scale. He is the Ugly American in excelsis.
You might expect a tycoon/buffoon cross to be a political player in some Latin American failed state or backward former Soviet republic, places with no democratic tradition or public institutions that have stood the test of time and no such thing as "the people" in the sense of an educated, civic-minded citizenry.
The fact that so many Republicans are comfortable with the thought of this monumentally unqualified individual in the Oval Office shows how warped the party has become. To borrow the rhetoric of their candidates, the party is now an existential threat to America's leadership of the global community.
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PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)Anything that has ever been proposed to make the lives of Americans better the Republicans have opposed.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)We should respect other opinions.
Hydra
(14,459 posts)"and a handful of shadowy billionaires"
That seems to sum up everything that's wrong right now. A relatively small group of uber wealthy people have financed the takeover of our gov't. We're supposed to be a democracy, but if it is, it's a democracy of dollars = votes.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)Of any party. Full stop.
DrBulldog
(841 posts)And Obama never heard a word.