What’s Happened to the GOP?

In other words, if they tell it like it is I will agree. They can tell it like it is and it is logical, then I find them credible, whether I "agree" or not, yes?

 

Which is only if they agree with you.

 

Read the post again, as I have clarified. Listen to Hannity and Tucker, 2 shills for Trump.

 

Regardless, you only believe Fox if they agree with you. Sounds like a waste of time to listen to them.

 

Not at all. That was my station of choice before O'Reilly got canned. Unfortunately, it has become the station of Trump for the most part.

 

Interesting. What specific issues made you a Republican, and what is your stance on those same issues today?

 

What’s Happened to the GOP?

Its being purged of the trotskyite neocons and RINOs that had co-opted it as controlled/theàtracized opposition to 'progress'ivism for decades. Now its opposing 'progress'ivism for real. Thats all that happened.

 

Certainly. And such a position would not be adopted by today's moderates, as you imply with your statement that Goldwater would be considered a moderate.

 

Fair enough

 

You just restated in a judgmental way what I stated in a non-judgmental way.

As to my prediction, Whites may endorse equal opportunity, but they will not accept the demand for equal outcomes.

 

I have lived in states where racism is strong, & in states where I felt racism was practically non-existent. It taught me to regard all Americans as simply Americans, without reference to the color of their skin or their ethnic background. To me, they're simply Americans, & I regard them as my equal. I am totally comfortable with the thought that any person, male or female, homo or heterosexual, and of any color of skin, gets paid the same wage as me for the same job. I believe in the equality of all Americans, & try to practice that belief in my everyday life. The only Americans I feel uncomfortable with are those who are so selfish, self-serving & self-promoting that they use such qualifiers as race, color of skin, sexual preference, gender, age, ethnicity, religion, etc, to identify those they feel are disqualified as potential equals to themselves. For sure, those Americans don't identify with the resounding ideals of the Declaration of Independence or the Bill of Rights in our U.S. Constitution, as applicable to anyone dissimilar to themselves. Based on recent experience, Trump & his supporters fit this description.

 

What happened to the GOP? They didn't learn from their mistakes.

https://gop.com/growth-and-opportunity-project

 

Do you think it is a problem that only 1% of Google's technical staff is Black?

 

What happened? The other side went crazy, and in response Republicans went crazy.

 

Well, the extreme polarization (by both sides) started after Reagan left office. Moderates in both parties disappeared.

 

Too bad the radical dems are going to run Biden out.

 

That and we got tired of being insulted and call racists, Fascists stupid and every other name in the book while our so-called leadership acted as if they agreed with the calumny.

 

Since I was born during JFK's presidency, the Democrats have moved twice as far to the left as the Republicans have moved to the right.

 

We reached the point where room for compromise disappeared along with people who were willing to accede to a compromise that meant doing whatever lefty wanted in exchange for not being insulted and little else.

 

So your primary problem is that you don't like Trump and they at the very least are asking yout o deal with an uncomfortable reality. To wit that various upper echelon folks in our government did there ever loving best to rid the country of a duly elected president purely because he wasn't a member of their revolting club?

 

Rid the country of this president because of his horrific, divisive conduct. Purely because of that and nothing else.

 

Which isn't good enough and he is far less divisive than most of his opposition which has been calling it's opposition horrid names and insulting them since Stevenson tried to convince the country that Ike wasn't smart enough to be president in two different elections. The only thing dividise about Trump is that he won't put up with the sort of leftist calumny that neocons seem altogether unwilling to reject loudly and completely.

 

Nonsense. Trump is a charlatan and is tearing apart our country and is in it for the big bucks and nothing else. He has some lame ideas that he is attempting to employ without due diligence. I have already discussed them ad nausea.

 

That was the beginning stages of Ditto-Head “thinking”. Rush Limbaugh and the parade of copy cats filled AM radio 24/7/365, then Fox News, Whacky right wing internet disinformation sites and now an army of Russian government funded trolls have turned the US political landscape into a hateful circus of the absurd.

This well planned and well funded disinformation war was skillfully fomented by right wing war profiteers and bank swindlers who heavily funded so called “think tanks” who churn out most of the swill repeated by Limbaugh, Carlson, Breitbart, Hannity and the rest. This was and is a direct reaction to the peaceful revolution of the ‘60s which exposed them regarding the bull crap Vietnam debacle.

 

I think it's an example of the kind of racial thinking that should have died in America by the year 2000. I also think it exemplifies the division all Americans face during the next election. Increasingly, it appears our choice will be to decide between a leader who wants to take us back to the good old days of white supremacy & open racism, or a leader who will work with all Americans as equals toward a future with new challenges & new solutions. I side with the latter.