Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

[katty]

http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779

Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

Saturday 3 September 2011
by: Mike Lofgren, Truthout | News Analysis


Barbara Stanwyck: "We're both rotten!"

Fred MacMurray: "Yeah - only you're a little more rotten." -"Double Indemnity" (1944)

Those lines of dialogue from a classic film noir sum up the state of the two political parties in contemporary America.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. You MUST read this essay!

And the comments too.

[David Sky]

2. Wonderfully refreshing reading from a former Republican operative..

and it all confirms what folks here already knew, or should have already known.

[katty]

3. yes, it covers all the tracks

[katty]

4. (in a nutshell)...he writes...

>"It is my view that the rise of politicized religious fundamentalism (which is a subset of the decline of rational problem solving in America) may have been the key ingredient of the takeover of the Republican Party. For politicized religion provides a substrate of beliefs that rationalizes - at least in the minds of followers - all three of the GOP's main tenets."

[progressoid]

5. Rec.

[DoBotherMe]

6. k & r

[David Sky]

7. Want to thank you for posting this link. I think this article really is

a fine, well-written and accurate take on the Republican Party in DC today!

[katty]

8. sure, I agree-the clarity is refreshing

[poverlay]

9. Excellent.. n/t