Will the Real Grand Old Party Please Stand Up
Today's GOP stands in the starkest of contrasts to the way the party used to be. As recently as Bob Dole's 1996 presidential bid, the party stood for real improvements in America. As unbelievable as it may now seem, Dole ran as the "food stamp candidate." No, really. He also advocated for clean water and clean air, actually calling for strengthening the very same EPA that today's Republicans want to gut, if not eliminate altogether. He even supported the same "government assistance" that today's GOP vilifies as needless and counter-productive handouts. "No, really. If you don't believe me, check out the Dole/Kemp website that is incredibly still functioning 20 years later (http://dolekemp96.org/).
That was only 20 years ago. Seems like longer, doesn't it? What in the world caused such a radical shift in thinking for the Grand Old Party? Well, think about it. Think when Fox "News" began to filter reporting through the party-line rhetoric of propagandized commentary. That, too, was 20 years ago, in 1996. Hannity and O'Reilly started spewing their nonsense in '96. Fox and Friends debuted in '98. After that, the Al Gore campaign was eviscerated on Fox "News," and so-called reporting has all gone further downhill from there.
This is why the rift between Trump and Fox was so hilarious. Fox quite literally created the idiocy that is the Trump campaign. But it would be a whole lot funnier if it were not for the fact that one or another of these extremists is now theoretically in position to hold the highest office in the land. And if you think that politics is utterly ridiculous now, just imagine how bitter a pill to swallow the phrase, "President Trump," would be. But the party of economic constipation seems to be just fine with that idea.
An idiot in the White House would make it that much easier to continue buying Congress and controlling even more of America's wealth. What better than a big-mouthed idiot to keep the people's minds on BS as opposed to the real issues? Who better than an idiot to push us headlong into a few more highly profitable wars? As frightening as Trump might be to sane conservatives yearning for the Grand Old Party days, the Big Money types are starting to see this as a golden opportunity to continue that good old economic constipation.
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