Another political post
Mar. 21st, 2004 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaNot that I'm likely to convince anyone of anything; with the exception of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nigelpuggle (who is, after all, a dog), I think that everyone who reads this journal already agrees with me on the importance of defeating the Republicans, at every level, in November.
None the less. Here's an excellent paragraph from an excellent essay on the Republican party as it has conducted itself for the last 20-something years. I present it in the hopes that if someone needs an excellent paragraph on what's facing us, they might have it available:
It used to be possible to be an honest Republican politician. I don't think it is any more. By agreeing to take the label "Republican", a politician is taking the whole burden--everything from lying about greenhouse gasses to supporting the Patriot Act. The Republican/Democrat divide is no longer a matter of differing views of how to run America; it's a divide over whether there is to be a government of the people or of the entrenched elites.
nigelpuggle (who is, after all, a dog), I think that everyone who reads this journal already agrees with me on the importance of defeating the Republicans, at every level, in November. None the less. Here's an excellent paragraph from an excellent essay on the Republican party as it has conducted itself for the last 20-something years. I present it in the hopes that if someone needs an excellent paragraph on what's facing us, they might have it available:
It is, frankly, foolishness at this point in time to even vote for a Republican. Not because the party lacks candidates who are utterly unworthy of support; there are, indeed, smart, thoughtful and honest Republicans even still, though they are harder to come by. But even they represent, and remain an integral part of, a party that has become nearly absolutely corrupted by its near-absolute power, and almost permanently tainted by its lust for utter control of the political and social landscape.
It used to be possible to be an honest Republican politician. I don't think it is any more. By agreeing to take the label "Republican", a politician is taking the whole burden--everything from lying about greenhouse gasses to supporting the Patriot Act. The Republican/Democrat divide is no longer a matter of differing views of how to run America; it's a divide over whether there is to be a government of the people or of the entrenched elites.
