… themselves into fascist pretzels. A few links from last month that are still very very pertient as we get closer to the election and it heats up. Remember: A cornered animal fights with it’s eyes closed sometimes.
I have written often about how the Republicans are becoming what they railed against for decades: totalitarians. Unsurprisingly I suppose, it turns out that what they really hated about Soviet communism was the economics. The 50 years of ranting about personal liberty and anti-authoritarian government seems to have been mere political rhetoric. Now that they are in power themselves they have adopted certain Soviet values quite seamlessly.
Read it all. I don’t know how seamless it’s been, to tell the truth. But, I agree with the result. To my eyes, the transition from Barry Goldwater Conservatives to “Compassionate” Conservatives has been filled with incompetancy, arrogance, and pandering to the religious nuts. Nothing seamless about it. It’s been a trainwreck from day one.
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