Republicans: What's going on with your Party?

[boatsnguitars]

Can Republicans explain what the *^%$ is going on in the GOP?

Let's face it, there are some real wackos in that party making a lot of headlines, and they seem to be fixated on Trans and Gay people. Is this what the Party of Lincoln has become? Trump, Boebert, Greene, Santos, Lake... I mean, I'll be here forever mentioning all the wierdness in the GOP.

Can you help me make sense of it?

[Athetotheist]

I should make one correction to my last post. Democrat leaders don't issue "marching orders"; they issue sitting orders. Anyone on the Left who criticizes their complacency is branded a malcontent to make sure that "nothing will change".

[boatsnguitars]

[Replying to boatsnguitars in post #9

The problem is that we saw what happens when a Third Party gains popularity in the USA: Trumpism.

Trumpism didn't come out of any third party. Trump threatened to start a third party and GOP leaders caved to him because they were afraid of abandonment by their constituents.

The leaders of the D-party don't have to fear the same happening to them because Democrats are eiither good little tin solldiers who follow the marching orders of their party leaders without question or are content to sit at microphones and keyboards and complain uselessly without doing anything to change their party.

I don't see it the same way.

[foolmefoolsyou]

We have two (2) choices~~~~
(1) Vote for Biden
(2) Vote for Trump who wants to do away with our Constitution, do away with term limits & in Trump’s own words, be a Dictator.
Trump was not kidding; Trump means what he says.
Is this who you want to vote for---?

[foolmefoolsyou]

We have two (2) choices~~~~
(1) Vote for Biden
(2) Vote for Trump who wants to do away with our Constitution, do away with term limits & in Trump’s own words, be a Dictator.
Trump was not kidding; Trump means what he says.
Is this who you want to vote for---?

[Athetotheist]

We have two (2) choices~~~~
(1) Vote for Biden
(2) Vote for Trump who wants to do away with our Constitution, do away with term limits & in Trump’s own words, be a Dictator.
Trump was not kidding; Trump means what he says.
Is this who you want to vote for---?

Biden won't even direct the USPS board to remove a postmaster general who's screwing up the mail. You think he's going to stop anything more serious?

You illustrate exactly why there should be more than two choices.

[The Barbarian]

Can Republicans explain what the *^%$ is going on in the GOP?

Let's face it, there are some real wackos in that party making a lot of headlines, and they seem to be fixated on Trans and Gay people. Is this what the Party of Lincoln has become? Trump, Boebert, Greene, Santos, Lake... I mean, I'll be here forever mentioning all the wierdness in the GOP.

Can you help me make sense of it?

The GOP is indeed a bastion of insanity these days, but I would caution against focusing exclusively on it. The Republican party wouldn't be able to do nearly as much as it's been getting away with without the bourgeois neoliberalism of the Democrat party letting it do so.

So you think the Democratic party should handhold the GOP so it can function without falling on its face. I agree it would no doubt help, but don't sit up nights waiting for it to happen. The party has proven how incredibly dysfunctional it is, and will undoubtedly crash under the weight of its incompetence and self-serving interests.



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Besides, I'm rather enjoying watching it self-destruct.

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These things go one of two ways. Either they become such a self-parodying clownshow of themselves that even most of their supporters become too embarrassed to vote for them, or they manage to subvert the courts and the press and move on to a dictatorship where no one dares to point out that the clown is wearing big floppy shoes.

There is, of course, a third path where the party faithful realize that it can't end well, and simply remove the clowns and their enablers. That doesn't seem to happen often, but we can hope.