Posted on 03/09/2016 9:35:38 AM PST by smokingfrog
We have a very serious political problem in this country. Our system of government works best when it is balanced between roughly equal political parties, one on the center-right and the other on the center-left.
Unfortunately, what we have is a centrist Democratic Party and a far-right Republican Party. Therefore, the system is out of balance, creating gridlock even as the public cries out for action on serious problems such as our deteriorating public infrastructure, epitomized by that in Flint, Michigan.
I believe that Republicans made a deal with the devil in 2009 when they embraced the Tea Party, a populist group who were just mad as hell and weren't going to take it anymore. In Congress, the Tea Party has been aggressive in destroying all the norms that made it work for more than 200 years.
The government was shut down, increases in the debt limit are constantly at risk, nominations to even the most minor administration positions are blocked and, now, the president has been denied the opportunity, which is his right under the Constitution, to name a new justice to the Supreme Court.
Flush with such "victories," extremists of all shapes and sizes were attracted to the Tea Party ranks—Christian religious fanatics, gun nuts, anti-gay bigots, nativists opposed to all nonwhite immigrants, secessionists, conspiracy theorists and, of course, racists.
What binds them together is hatred. Hatred of government, yes, but also hatred of liberals, minorities, homosexuals, non-fundamentalist Christians, environmentalists, feminists, and many other groups.
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Lol
Idiot.
OMG!
Democrat party? centrist? only in the delusions of the mainstream media.
I got as far as:
“Unfortunately, what we have is a centrist Democratic Party and a far-right Republican Party.”
Quickly realized the author was an idiot and moved on.
This guy is living proof You Can’t Fix Stupid.
Boehner, McConnell, and Ryan are the reason why the GOP needs to be destroyed.
Centrist democrat party? They are socialists and communists.
I could read no more.
Bruce Bartlett was really good and informative at one time, but during the reign of W the Terrible he was clearly bought out or blackmailed by the GOPe.
Ridiculous!! Must be a dead girl or a live boy in his closet.
Hey, whatever works. His misguided motivation only helps the cause of eradicating the GOPe and the globalists, so I can’t really get too worked up about his blathering rationale.
If the “Centerist” Hillary or Obama used a time-machine, and gave a speech at the 1960 Democrat Convention, they would be lucky to get out of the hall alive. Yeah abortion, Gay marriage, and income equality would go over big. If any Republican candidate were to speak at that 1960 Democrat Convention, he would fit right in. Who has moved again?
“Unfortunately, what we have is a centrist Democratic Party and a far-right Republican Party.”
That’s the biggest load of crap I’ve read in a long time.
Yes. I wonder what happened to him?
I love it when liberals are sure they know what is wrong with conservatives. Listen to their advice and to the opposite.
stopped after centrist Dem party.
They have a socialist and a woman under FBI investigation
I stopped right at that line
hey I just said the same LOL
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