Friday, July 12, 2013

The fence is killing the Rebublican Party

Putting up a fence tells U S Hispanics that the U S sees them as not valuable, but as leeches rather than productive people.  The words about illegal vs legal are insignificant when compared to a fence with guns. 

Talk radio is killing the Republican Party which may never recover from this nasty obsession. 

I used to be a Republican but I can no longer identify with the contempt demonstrated by the fence, the active sabotage of the safety net in the name of smaller government (shrinking the caring parts of the government), and tyrannical control over women's reproductive lives. 

Plus, of course, the disgusting display of Republicans in Congress doing anything and everything they can to make sure the government doesn't work, the filibuster of presidential nominees being the current focus.  

They have become the party that refuses to compromise, which is another way of saying they have become the party that refuses to join in the cooperative enterprise of democratic government, which is another way of saying that they are the party that refuses to govern, which is another way of saying that they are hoping that the day can come when they can simply rule by fiat.  

Talk radio extremists are leading the Republicans into a very clearly understood brand that plays only to an ever shrinking base.  Too bad. It used to be a good party.