It has taken nearly four decades, but the Republicans’ longing to dumb down the electorate and impede our democratic political process has come to fruition. Evidence being what is taking place in what I like to call the circus side show — also known as the Republican Party presidential primaries.
Starting in 1980 with Ronald Reagan (I’m from the government, and I’m here to help) and Paul Weyrich (Goo-Goo Syndrome), you’ve employed the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, and “Faux” News. You threw in Grover Norquist, who would like to drown the government in a bathtub, for good measure during the Bush years, and in the last 20 years, you thought the rise of Bible-thumping, Constitution-carrying wing-nuts would be icing on the cake. I want to personally thank you for Sarah Palin.
You gave us every child, er, no child left behind and Just Say No. Wars on credit cards, the dismantling of the Glass-Stegall Act, and what a worthy Republican called the military-industrial complex. And when the moderates among us thought it couldn’t get any worse, along came Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Jim DeMint, Michele Bachmann, etc, etc., etc.
If Donald Trump ends up being your nominee, then congratulations. Through utter incompetence at governing and quantitative obstruction, you fully get what you deserve. And I don’t mind watching the Republican Party implode.
