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In reply to the discussion: Must be quite a shock to see this vulgar return of overt white racism [View all]love_katz
(3,276 posts)If we can't say who is responsible for the mess that we are in, then it's unlikely that anything will change.
The fact that a problem exists has to be acknowledged before any steps can be figured out on how to solve it.
Furthermore, I am not saying that Republicans can't exist at all (which they seem to be saying about any of us "Libruls" ). I'm just saying that we have had really rotten results from letting them get into our government.
Electing people who hate and fear government, who agreed with Ronald Reagan when he said that the most frightening words you could hear were, "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you ", how does that work? From what I have observed in my seven decades of life, is that electing members of a party whose only mission is to 'prove' that government doesn't work is...to break it after they get into office. I have never voted for a Republican, ever, because they have never had anything to offer to either women or minorities.
If we can't call them out on this, then how can we fix it?
And, for the record, my Dad was a lifelong republican, and my state had one good republican governor, Tom McCall. I loved my dad, and Governor McCall was a great governor.
However, I think that in order to solve our current problems, we need to vote all of the Republicans out. They're complicit in the oppression, violence and corruption that are proceeding at full blast.