Ready? Open your eyes, and close your nose -- we're going in.
The A-Hole That Crawled Out of the FOX-Hole
I am reminded of a poignant moment that to me represented the end of the Republican Party as an organization with any integrity whatsoever, that had the likes of Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and even Barry Goldwater flipping in their crypts. It was during the concession speech John McCain delivered in 2008. There were McCain's old school Arizonian supporters looking down their patrician noses at Sarah Palin, ever ready to steal the scene. They knew they were looking at the "future" of the Republican Party, given over to the smallest of minds and the most shrunken of hearts.
That Donald Trump has been the front-runner in the Republican presidential race is a completely "natural" and understandable result of the Republicans becoming the party of "selfish-righteousness" over the past 35 years, somehow weaving a contradictory narrative that incorporates Creationism and Social Darwinism. And to facilitate cultivating both meanness and ignorance, they've had Fox News (and let us remember that in numerology, F-O-X is 6-6-6). They have "succeeded" beyond their wildest nightmare in activating their "base" by activating the basest of values: Fear, ignorance, prejudice, and rigid adherence to obsolete and obsolethal principles.
So the bad news is, at most recent check 65% of those who call themselves Republicans, support Donald Trump's "solution" to ban Muslims from entering America. (Hmmm ... imagine if the Native Americans played their own Trump card 300 or 400 years ago.)
The good news is that 65% of Republicans represent about 35% of the entire electorate. Which means there is only one thing (other than the Republicans' supernatural powers to get voting machines to flip votes) standing in the way of a resounding defeat for Trumpism in 2016 -- the Democrats.
The Democrats -- A Wolfowitz in Sheepowitz's Clothing
Now let's be clear. Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats haven't sold their soul to the devil. They're too equivocal for that. They merely "rented" their soul. The presumed front-runner, Hillary Clinton, carries the baggage of being a neocon fellow (I mean gal) traveler, a Wolfowitz in Sheepowitz's clothing. And while they stand in contrast to the Republicans on cultural and social issues, the Democratic Party "leadership" is still in the pocket of the banksters, big agriculture, the drug companies and the military industrial complex.
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