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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans have proven themselves unfit to govern
Not only did they stand by and watch the attacks upon our institutions and our Constitution, they gleefully joined in the destruction. They showed the talk but they couldn't do the walk. All hat and no cattle, as they say down in Texas.
They preached of how strongly they supported "law and order". They have proven that they do not believe that. They do not really care about the laws of our Constitution. Otherwise. they would not break so many of them.
Finally, they have been proven to be liars when they said they were for the working people and the common class. That's why they voted to take away what few benefits that people had, such as their healthcare and foodstamps.
They have watched crimes with foreign countries. They have stood by and watched the most divisive, disgusting rhetoric ever uttered, by any leader of this nation, and said nothing. They have watched threats against their own caucus and were either, frozen in fear or in cowardice?
They are not a Party that deserves to govern this country.
Wounded Bear
(63,623 posts)dating from Reagan, at least, and more likely from Nixon.
kentuck
(115,007 posts)When those old Republicans that were in the intelligence circles decided they would help run the government? Even before that, they had the FBI but they did not have the CIA. In 1947, they created the OSS, the former name of the CIA.
So, by the end of Eisenhower's term, much of the Republican caucus in the Senate and House were allied with the Intelligence agencies.
yourout
(8,676 posts)Wiz Imp
(8,415 posts)Response to kentuck (Original post)
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regnaD kciN
(27,390 posts)Big difference. Monarchs and emperors could care less about what the commoners think.
marble falls
(69,954 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,284 posts)Chasstev365
(6,854 posts)Bev54
(13,088 posts)The question is why do they still keep getting elected. That is what the world cannot understand and why the US is going to have a difficult time ever coming back after this, as everyone else is moving on.
hay rick
(9,247 posts)A good spanking is in order.
BurnDoubt
(1,306 posts)chowder66
(11,650 posts)Since it wasn't... it should be the end of the Republican Party for generations upon generations.
Grins
(9,171 posts)A recent great example - the 15 ballots it took to get a Speaker. They couldnt govern themselves
but could govern a nation?
Nine months later that guy was gone.
And they had so many internal squabbles they had to install a Speaker Pro Tempore. Who was so disgusted, 41-days later he announced he would not seek reelection.
markodochartaigh
(4,739 posts)even stealing elections through treasonous negotiations at the Paris Peace Talks and then with the ayatollahs in Iran, even stealing money like Nixon and Agnew, the Republicans had some level of commitment to democracy.
That commitment changed in 2015 when the Republicans chose an authoritarian Strong Leader who was not committed to democracy to be their candidate for president. They knew what they were doing, they were going to have a brokered convention to choose another candidate but they realized that they could not win without Trump, so they put party before country. Several Republican leaders refused to support Trump, something unheard of in decades.
And now we have a country with a two party system in which one of the parties is not committed to democracy.
Either the Republican party breaks or US democracy will break.
kentuck
(115,007 posts)...of a long decline.
Irish_Dem
(78,503 posts)It is all out in the open now.