Sawickipedia Tumblr, The “GOP Establishment”

The “GOP Establishment”—the people who flatter themselves by claiming to be the intellectual wing of a party that depends on the exploitation of an intractable streak of anti-intellectualism among its key demographic, the people sophisticated enough to not personally be offended by gays and people of color and feminists, but unethical enough to exploit such bigotries nonetheless—have lost control of their base. After decades of fear-mongering, scapegoating, and wedge issue politicking, they’re left with a seething conglomeration of intolerant bullies whose stubborn refusal to evolve ideologically is matched in astonishing obduracy only by their unjustifiable hatred.

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Shakesville: “Where did we go wrong?” (via notemily)

vruz: hence my surprise on the irrationality and deranged behaviour of irreversible self-destruction. for those who like to draw parallels with the extremists of the east, it’s not unlike a sort of passive-aggressive self-immolation.

(via vruz)

Let us not for a minute not believe that the Dems as a party aren’t in parallel self-immolating as well. They have created the public union pension mess that is about to turn into a public vs private worker tax war. The public unions have taken over financing the dems from the equally destructive tort attorneys and are destructively advocating a what is mine is mine and what is yours is mine tax regime. This is likely going to get uglier before it gets better.

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