Finally a political party i can agree with

[N2theBlue]

http://www.modernwhig.org/index.html

got it after reading this article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michae..._b_470793.html

[longfisher]

Been there for a very long time. And, here's a quote from the second article which makes a good start on why I left the Repugnant Party.

"The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."

It just became too mean spirited for me to be proud of being a Republican in front of my then very small children. How in the Devil was I going to explain my membership in a party of such narrow, exclusive, racist and plan old meanness to them as they grew up? I surely didn't treat them or our neighbors that way.

The plain old meanness was, after 9/11, coupled to the most absurd fear I've ever seen in anyone and then coupled with mob behavior that ultimately endorsed and even trumpeted every manifestation of evil (torture, extrajudicial killings, slaughter of civilians, commitment of our troops for lies, war crimes of ever sort). When those things started happening under Bush I was sooooooo glad I'd long since renounced the Republican party so I could actually discuss the pure evil of those deeds with my kids and instruct them objectively that these were not the values and actions that were typical of America, they were not the sorts of things I'd tolerate from them and that they represented the most obscene mutation of the citizenship I expected of them.

Clear conscience. Let the Republicans go to Hell.

LongFisher

[captnemo]

Been there for a very long time. And, here's a quote from the second article which makes a good start on why I left the Repugnant Party.

"The national GOP is a party of exclusion and litmus tests, dominated on social issues by the religious right, with zero discernible outreach by the national party to anyone who doesn't fit neatly within its parameters."

It just became too mean spirited for me to be proud of being a Republican in front of my then very small children. How in the Devil was I going to explain my membership in a party of such narrow, exclusive, racist and plan old meanness to them as they grew up? I surely didn't treat them or our neighbors that way.

The plain old meanness was, after 9/11, coupled to the most absurd fear I've ever seen in anyone and then coupled with mob behavior that ultimately endorsed and even trumpeted every manifestation of evil (torture, extrajudicial killings, slaughter of civilians, commitment of our troops for lies, war crimes of ever sort). When those things started happening under Bush I was sooooooo glad I'd long since renounced the Republican party so I could actually discuss the pure evil of those deeds with my kids and instruct them objectively that these were not the values and actions that were typical of America, they were not the sorts of things I'd tolerate from them and that they represented the most obscene mutation of the citizenship I expected of them.

Clear conscience. Let the Republicans go to Hell.

LongFisher

Your a nut job

[Matuka Fly]

Your a nut job

I second that. Longfisher is a nut job.

[longfisher]

The last two posts vindicate my position on Republicans.

But let's change the topic here a bit. High IQ seems to be correlated well with liberalism and negatively correlated with conservatism. See here:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2010/02...-to-higher-iq/

I guess I was always destined to leave the Republican party. I'm smarter than all the dullards in that party.

In addition, when the "war on terror" started there was much propoganda here in the U.S. which mischaracterized the Arabs as suggesting that they were all like the Taliban, virtually prehistoric in thier thinking, doctrinaire, prostelizers, religious zealots, domineering of their women and warlike and violent to the extreme. Of course, the Arab culture is as diverse as ours and that missfitting stereotype is just that, a racist characateur (sp?).

But what stuck me like a load of bricks was the ease with which one could substitute the words Republican for the word Arab or Taliban or Islamic extremist and find a fitting description of the then Republican party and it's supporters. Indeed, I used to do this as literary sport when I'd come across a board like this with a bunch of righ-wing nut cases blowing off steam. It was eye-opening to most but confounding to the Republicans there.

Not much has changed, really. The Republican party remains dominated by racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, religios intolerants and violent thugs. There's little if anything to admire of that Party.

It's a true shame. The likes of Goldwater, Buchannan and Buckley would be ashamed of the existing bunch of nut-cases that make up todays' Republican Party and would, like me, distance themselves or leave the party altogether (take a look at some of Pat Buchannan's recent articles and columns where you'll see concretely how disenchanted and even disdainful he is of the Republicans). Of that, I'm quite confident.

Republicans are too Nazi-like for my tastes and the tastes of most Americans. In their current form, they're doomed as a political party and they're fragmenting before our very eyes. The dems have always been that way. So, it's going to be an even fight from here on out I suppose.

LongFisher

[NY Bearhunter]

NAZI-LIKE ?????

[captnemo]

The last two posts vindicate my position on Republicans.

But let's change the topic here a bit. High IQ seems to be correlated well with liberalism and negatively correlated with conservatism. See here:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2010/02...-to-higher-iq/

I guess I was always destined to leave the Republican party. I'm smarter than all the dullards in that party.

In addition, when the "war on terror" started there was much propoganda here in the U.S. which mischaracterized the Arabs as suggesting that they were all like the Taliban, virtually prehistoric in thier thinking, doctrinaire, prostelizers, religious zealots, domineering of their women and warlike and violent to the extreme. Of course, the Arab culture is as diverse as ours and that missfitting stereotype is just that, a racist characateur (sp?).

But what stuck me like a load of bricks was the ease with which one could substitute the words Republican for the word Arab or Taliban or Islamic extremist and find a fitting description of the then Republican party and it's supporters. Indeed, I used to do this as literary sport when I'd come across a board like this with a bunch of righ-wing nut cases blowing off steam. It was eye-opening to most but confounding to the Republicans there.

Not much has changed, really. The Republican party remains dominated by racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, religios intolerants and violent thugs. There's little if anything to admire of that Party.

It's a true shame. The likes of Goldwater, Buchannan and Buckley would be ashamed of the existing bunch of nut-cases that make up todays' Republican Party and would, like me, distance themselves or leave the party altogether (take a look at some of Pat Buchannan's recent articles and columns where you'll see concretely how disenchanted and even disdainful he is of the Republicans). Of that, I'm quite confident.

Republicans are too Nazi-like for my tastes and the tastes of most Americans. In their current form, they're doomed as a political party and they're fragmenting before our very eyes. The dems have always been that way. So, it's going to be an even fight from here on out I suppose.

LongFisher

Thanks for confirming your nut jobness

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