The culture of corruption Republican Party has proven over and over again that they cannot be trusted, that they are a threat to our national and economic security.

So, no, no, no more Republicans, please.

(And no, no, no more DINO Blue Dog Democrats either).

YOU are a brainwashed moron. They play in a rigged game that even after you have been taken at least twice in the last thirty years you are too stupid to understand. RISKS are socialized you idiot. Then the profits are PRIVATIZED. This is what happened in the Savings and Loan Scandal and again in this meltdown. They take risks that are NO RISK that no one playing with their OWN money would take because there are huge shortterm profits and WHEN it all falls apart the taxpayers take the liability. They are able to keep getting away with it because of brainwashed idiots like YOU that put them on a pedestal for exploiting YOU and the rest of the taxpaying public. No other system is as dependent upon keeping people as stupid as YOU as brainwashed as you are. It is so pathetic to watch people so brainwashed kiss the asses of those taking them to the cleaners… AGAIN

Ahhh the irrelevance of the GOP…

Where are the capitalist now if they are so great? They’re a bunch of evil pirates with suits and ties with no allegiance to any country. Capitalism unchecked equals financial disaster. That’s what the government is supposed to do. Unfortunately, our political system is corrupt and did nothing. Agreed, that this may or may not change with a new president. But there will be a point where the 95% of the world won’t be able to take anymore abuse. When that’ll be – no one knows. However, when the world pops, I’m sure they have an escape plan. Do you?

Oh, those terrible speculators, hedge funds, vulture funds invested in these bonds. Tell, the messiah, Obama, that speculators are the lubrication to our financial system. Without those willing to make sizable investments in risky credit securities our whole system will not function correctly. These people use investors money, not taxpayer funded welfare, to make a risk adjusted return. They are a much needed part of a capitalist system that has created enormous wealth and innovation in the last 200 years. No other economic system does this. None.

Flagged. Please stop posting multiple links to your own blog while pretending they’re something else. And please stop doing it on every thread. Thank you.

You are welcome to come back when you have something else to say, preferably something related to the thread or another person’s comment.

Do we have to wait for all these people to die off before we can progress, or will the repugs continue to court them and validate them for the votes they bring?

Marie,

An informed, thinking voter does not vote Republican. As long as there are ignorant people out there, the Republicans will try to get their votes, and they will say anything to do it. But one thing they will almost never articulate is a good idea. Good ideas only appeal to thinking people, and the Republicans are not trying to get the votes of thinking people.

And stupid people vastly outnumber intelligent people. Since 1980, the Republican Party has stopped trying to come up with intelligent, rational ideas to try to attract people to their party. They made a conscious choice and said, “Hey, no one’s really trying to get the votes of stupid people. Lets go after them.”

More importantly, they have decided to campaign on fear rather than reason because when people are scared, they don’t stop to think rationally. If someone comes up to you and yells, “Get out, the building is on fire,” you’re probably not going to argue or ask questions. Your fear instincts have been tapped, and your need for survival tells you to run. It’s only when you feel you are no longer in danger that you stop to ask questions like, “What happened? What’s actually burning? Was it really necessary for me to evacuate?” The Republicans try to do whatever they can to keep you from taking that moment to stop and ask questions. Because they know that if you did, you would realize that much of what they say doesn’t make logical sense.

So, between deliberately targeting the less intelligent among us and putting out a message of fear and ignorance, the Republican party is trying to get people to vote who would otherwise stay home.

The evangelical conservatives (a/k/a Christian Conservatives) would probably never go out and vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican does not seem religious enough to them, they’ll just stay home on Election Day.

The xenophobic bigots would probably never vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican doesn’t seem anti-immigrant (legal or otherwise) to them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.

The libertarian Second Amendment Absolutists would probably never vote for a Democrat (especially if the Democrat ever uttered a syllable in favor of gun control), but if the Republican doesn’t seem pro-gun rights enough to them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.

The anti-homosexual bigots would probably never vote for a Democrat, but if the Republican does not seem anti-gay rights enough for them, they’ll probably just stay home on Election Day.

The Republicans keep campaigning on these issues not because a majority of the country agrees with them (we don’t), but because if they don’t campaign on these themes, not very many people would come out on Election Day and vote for Republicans. And they do this every two years. They have no new ideas, and the ideas they have will never work. (At least, not if you believe in having a nation that cares about its citizens.) But if they don’t trot out God, Gays and Guns every two years, they would win very few elections.

While not all republicans are wingnuts, it seems that all wingnuts end up being republicans.
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