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In reply to the discussion: Why Is The GOP So Angry At Everything These Days? - By Mike Barnicle [View all]hatrack
(59,592 posts)Because they know that the old, white, intellectually bankrupt and literally dying political party they "control" can last no more than ten years more as a national force, absent massive internal ideological change.
Because the very change that reality demands (a younger, increasingly secular, increasingly diverse and heavily indebted/discarded electorate, destabilized climate, a multi-polar world and the simple inescapable fact that BOMB EVERYTHING! doesn't work as foreign "policy" is a concept that induces at best full-on mental anaphylaxis in latest crop of grifters taking the stage to thump the same old drum of God, Guns, Fetuses and "Faggots".
Because they lack the energy to even regurgitate the idealized, imaginary past that we're supposed to "return to". The best they can come up with these days is longing for the days when we were all supposedly wiping red, white and blue tears from our eyes, longing for an idealized imaginary past (RonaldReaganRonaldReaganRonaldReagan). If getting nostalgic for nostalgia isn't political Cheyne-Stokes respiration, I don't know what is.
Because the logical conclusion of grooming, elevating and electing candidates who not only can't govern, but don't even believe in government is a whole sticky, greasy, stinky kettle full of elected officials who can't govern - and not just with quiet incompetence, but obviously so, to anyone who's watching with more than a few marbles to rattle together.
Because they're fools who think that magical thinking, wishing on a star and Jesus are all you need to make it come out OK, and the world is just a fucking bit more complicated than that, and Barack Obama knows it.