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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy do we tolerate the
The Republican Party? Parties do die like the Whig party. When will the Republican Party be too corrupt, greedy, racist and downright cruel to be allowed co-exist in this government ? Exist without causing harm to the government and the non millionaire people?
Actual Nazis in the gop apparently are not enough of a problem to disband those R monsters idiots and assholes and narcissists.
Why not be voting for the Democratic Party and democratic socialist progressive party.
I am tired of regressive policy regressive taxes treated as valid.
Its gotten way beyond bipartisan bullshit on the floor beyond go along with them for-reason anymore
Truth is some ideas are more worthy of being taken seriously than others all ideas are not equal
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Why do we tolerate the (Original Post)
I_UndergroundPanther
6 hrs ago
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RandySF
(88,210 posts)1. You're asking the wrong people.
Cirsium
(4,262 posts)2. Good post
Good to see you. Hope you are doing OK.
Intractable
(2,622 posts)3. We are only as good as the information we get.
I live in southern Florida, which is quite urban and a broad mix of ethnicities and politics.
Ironically, the so-called "Deep South" is hundreds of miles north of me.
For a few years, I lived in the Deep South.
They hate liberals and Democrats. It's how they are raised. They view us as the children of savages rolling in the mud at Woodstock. They hate that view of America.
It's like that line from the movie "Easy Rider" ... "They hate us because we are free."
If they would spend a little time on DU, they might change their minds. But they listen to Fox news and hate radio.
A lot of the news about what Trump does and information about the problems of the world never reaches their ears.