(12-24-2021, 11:59 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:ve David Horn pid=' dateline=\'1639594665' Wrote:(12-15-2021, 12:13 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: The Capitol Putsch looked horrible. What preceded looks even more criminal.
Everyone involved in this effort to nullify a free, fair, and honest election deserves the harshest measures that the legal system has available. The takeover of the Capitol may have had some semblance of spontaneity... that can no longer be accepted as truth. This was planned from the Trump White House. I wonder how much "Kochaine" was floating around.
The current GOP deserves to disintegrate after this. Most seem to have followed the script, and those deserve unending disgrace.
True, but unlikely. Today's GOP isn't even interested in being a winning version of its older self. As a party, it's more than happy to rule by fiat, and it's working hard to make that happen.
Well, lucky for you, the Republican base still has some house cleaning to do before it turns its focus to destroying the Democratic party altogether. You're right, the Republican side isn't/hasn't been interested in saving/keeping the entire country together these days. It's going to be interesting to see which blue tribe or tribes come out on top during the 4T. I have to admit, it's kind of fun watching the (profanity excised) Democrats (profanity excised) themselves. Where did the Left find all these dumb (profanity excised) that we've been seeing acting/ talking like dumb (profanity excised)? Oh, BTW, you may be a little shocked to learn that you're whiteness doesn't really matter to us. Oh, your wife may be a little shocked to learn that gender doesn't matter to us either.
I don't know whether your Trump cult or the people that you call RINOs will be leaving the GOP. You can trust that we Democrats aren't going to soil ourselves in purging the "RINOs". At the least they seem to concur with us that liberty is more precious than getting one's way in a certain political cycle. We may need them to protect civil liberties even at the expense of social progress because if we lose our freedom,. then social progress will be either moot or moribund. One way or the other, whether by driving the totalitarian-roaders into a fringe party that loses relevance every year (example: by 1968 one of the few members of the National States' Rights Party that had formed to support segregation in 1948 was none other than James Earl Ray, assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), becoming the core of a conservative but anti-fascist GOP, becoming a Third Party that becomes the second main party while it rebuilds its political 'farm system' or generally goes Democratic for now... we will have a consensus among most Americans that violence, bigotry, demagoguery, and Bolshevik-style ruthlessness have no rule in American life... as was so before Trump and must be so again.
If your idea of a Republican 'house-cleaning' is something like a Night of the Long Knives or a Stalinist purge, then you have some weird idea of what it means to be an American. I have far more in common with an Iranian liberal than I have with an American fascist or Stalinist. I believe in law and order as a necessity for freedom, civil liberties, and domestic tranquility. Lynch mobs are not law and order.
By the way -- clean up your filthy language! Write as if your children could be reading your material; somebody else's children could be reading it.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.