The extreme Republican Party
By Neal Gabler
BACK IN 1970 when Richard Nixon nominated a little-known district court judge named Harold Carswell for the Supreme Court and Carswell’s opponents branded him “mediocre,’’ Republican Senator Roman Hruska of Nebraska famously rose to Carswell’s defense. Even if he were mediocre, Hruska said, “mediocre people are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they?’’ With that ringing endorsement, Carswell’s appointment was soundly defeated by the Senate, but not even Hruska could have foreseen how his prescription would be adopted by our political system.
Let’s not mince words here: We now have an entire political party that is not only dedicated to the mediocre. It is dedicated to the nearly deranged.
We are long past the time when we can pretend there are two serious political parties in this country - one right of center and one left of center.........
Posts
8 comments:
I would say Mr. Gabler is 100% correct! Today's paranoid and hateful far-right Republican Party enthusiasts are insane.
It's the cynical manipulation of the poorly educated that gets me. The ease with which the Republican propaganda machine creates and disseminates those messages; their constituency's utterly uncritical acceptance of anything that comes out of that machine -- it's all so 1933.
one would think the poorly educated would somehow gravitate AWAY from the right wing. i guess one would think incorrectly
jack they are paranoid and hateful AND racist and AFRAID
Nah, because by "poorly educated" I mean "complete and utter lack of critical thinking skills", and that's the loophole the Right has managed to exploit so brilliantly for decades.
are critical thinking skills learned or are they inherent? don't know BUT i do get what you're saying
Well, that's a question, but I'm inclined to say Nurture over Nature, just on the strength of empirical evidence.
you can lead a horse to water............
...only if there's water.
Post a Comment