I love many Republicans. I despise what their party has become.
From the days of Lee Atwater through the present Republicans have become increasingly obstructionist. Liberal Republicans are, and moderate Republicans are almost, extinct. The far-right coordinates their language to an incredible extent, carefully characterizing their opponents and disfavored programs with the same negative language and their friends and favored programs in the same glowing terms. They have filibustered even measures they have previously supported, obviously just to stymie the Democrats. They actively suppress voting. They champion Gerrymandering to the extent that our House of "Representatives" is no longer close to representative of the people at large. (The Senate, of course, has never been.) It is well documented that Republican leadership made the decision to obstruct President Obama from Inauguration Day 2009 on.
Their policies are doomed by demographics, but their ever more bitter tactics seek to delay that fall by limiting democracy and empowering plutocrats. Their devotion to "trickle-down" is impervious to the overwhelming evidence that that approach only deepens the divide between the ever-more-powerful one-percent and the rest of us. And economically, environmentally, socially, we edge closer and closer to tipping points.
This graphic is several months old now but the pattern is clear. Republicans want Democrats, especially President Obama, to fail and will allow the United States to suffer to achieve that failure.
I love many Republicans. I despise what their party has become.
Terrell Shaw
There's a good argument for that Denis. Like the Ivorybilled Woodpecker, Moderate Republicans' mournful calls have occasionally been rumored to be heard deep in remote forests. I choose to hope pocketed populations still exist.
Neal Brackett
And of course, nothing that has passed the house has made it out of committee in the the senate... Washington is broke.
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