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vlyons

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2. The GOP definitely needs to die
Mon Nov 19, 2018, 06:44 AM
Nov 2018

Whether the GOP will ever be reformed to be resurrected is debatable. Their problem is that they have completely lost their moral compass (assuming they ever had one), in the pursuit of greed at any costs. The oligarchs and corporate monopolists cynically joined with the Christian Taliban domionists to use the culture wars to rile up ignorant and gullible people.

There is a place for sensible conservatism that raises and uses taxes responsibly. That conserves our environment for health and recreation. But this Ayn Rand virtue of selfishess fantasy that all gov is evil has got to go.

We will always have fearful and hateful bigots and racists, but the GOP has got to take responsibility for defeating them in their primaries. Personally, I think that it will take many more election cycles to finally sink in that the vast majority of American people don't like what the GOP is selling.

We need to start asking Republicans why the rest of the world gets universal healthcare, but we don't? Why is it that other countries have 4 to 6 weeks paid vacation, and 6 months paid maternity leave, and free childcare, and retirement with dignity, but we don't have those things? If gthe US is the best country in the world, why can't we have nice things?

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