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April 22, 2013 at 12:42 pm
Until people can confront the reality that one entire political party and its base is committed to destroying the government and the presidency, there can be no change. We can only have change if the GOP is run off. It has a stranglehold on everything. I read a long essay posed as a ‘scholarly paper’ from the future on what paralyzed things so much that global warming could not be dealt with and global disaster arrived. And the authors went through the entire thing without once mentioning the Republican Party in the US and its antipathy toward science. Instead, readers got a long discussion on “neoliberalism” and a doomed belief in the free market’s, as opposed to the government’s, ability to do things. I suppose they did this on purpose, to try and reach a great audience. And I’ve seen it linked to on some progressive blogs without mentioning this rather obvious construction made for the sake of readership. In and of itself it’s a tacit admission of paralysis caused by the GOP and for that reason I decided it was a difficult essay to recommend.
April 22, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Heh.
A vision comes to me from out of the past:
Are you now are have you ever been a card-carrying member of the Republican Party?
Afterthought: Until the media start reporting on the craven behavior of the Republican Party and stop playing everything as a horserace, we are stuck. That’s why Driftglass rants on and on about the hypocrisy of centrists and of “both sides do it.”
In actuality, both sides don’t do it.