We Need To Speak Honestly About The GOP's Evolution Into A Conspiracy Cult

skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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swing_voter said:

I think what you're seeing is a huge influx of poor whites into the republican party. Poor whites used to be democrats.

Poor whites are very susceptible to conspiracies because of their lack of education.

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Casper said:

They need to change the name of their Party, problem solved. Leave the Republican Party to actual Conservatives.

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Craig234 said:

You don't seem to understand the purpose of the Republican Party. It is a political instrument for the plutocratic corpotocracy to control the country's political system, using its voters as deluded pawns to take that power, nothing more. Romanticized talk of 'conservative principles' has essentially nothing to do with its purpose, only its con. It's like how they say "the great state of" in front of every state. Empty words.

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cabse5 said:

You realize yours is a conspiracy theory, swing_voter? I guess the dem party which hates Trump is the king of conspirators against Trump...Russian collusion with the Trump campaign over the 2016 election. The Russian influence of the US election of 2016 is, itself, a conspiracy theory. The phone call with Zelensky. Need I go on? Me thinks the wrong party was correctly labeled the conspiracy party.

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We Need To Speak Honestly About The GOP's Evolution Into A Conspiracy Cult

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skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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Captain Adverse said:

We are all guilty of this from time to time, but IMO we should at least try to recognize this penchant for hyperbolic partisanship and tone it down. Otherwise we find we are merely preaching to the choir, but not reaching those minds were actually seek to convince.

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cabse5 said:

You realize yours is a conspiracy theory, swing_voter? I guess the dem party which hates Trump is the king of conspirators against Trump...Russian collusion with the Trump campaign over the 2016 election. The Russian influence of the US election of 2016 is, itself, a conspiracy theory. The phone call with Zelensky. Need I go on? Me thinks the wrong party was correctly labeled the conspiracy party.

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Condor060 said:

Democrats claiming Conservatives are a conspiracy cult is laughable. Talk about projection.


All Trump loans are signed by Russian Oligarhs
Kavanaugh is an alcoholic high schools serial rapist
Illegal immigrants are drinking from toilets
Trump is a Russian asset and we have conclusive evidence to prove it
Trump will start a nuclear war with North Korea
Trump will start a war with Iran
We have video of Russian hookers peeing on Trump
We have Trumps tax returns
Trump owes Russia billions of dollars
The Covington Catholic kids are racist
Trump is going to invade Mexico
Trump cut funding to the CDC
The Mueller report will remove Trump
The Emoluments clause will remove Trump
The Ukraine phone call will remove Trump
Trump will be removed for campaign violations
Trump had early access to Wikileaks documents
17 Intelligence agencies confirmed Russia helped Trump
Trump removed the MLK bust from the WH
Trump carelessly overfed fish in a koi pond
Director Anthony Scaramucci had ties to Russia
Trump will get rid of Meals on Wheels
Trump laundered Russian money through real estate deals
The Russians laundered money through the NRA for the Trump campaign
Secretary Steve Mnuchin had foreclosed on a 90-year-old woman for due to a 27-cent payment
Trump removed climate change and LGBT from the White House website
Trump issued a "gag order" on the EPA and other agencies
Trump's voter fraud expert was registered to vote in three states
Melania Trump and son Barron might never move to the White House
Trump renamed black history month
intelligence officials were keeping information from Trump to make sure it wouldn't be compromised
Trump said to inject your lungs with Lysol

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nota bene said:

This. Exactly this.

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ludin said:

you can't educate closed minded people. they don't want to be educated but confirmed in their false belief.

all their claims of open minded and tolerant and inclusiveness is just words they do not understand and have in clue what they mean.

this is easily demonstrated by their constant ramblings after they have been proven wrong.

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Captain Adverse said:

I find it problematic that I have to help people with correcting errors.

Let's see now... :think:

"One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Democrat Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Democrat Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people right (or left) of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the Democrat Party was busy covering up the Fast and Furious scandal and promoting Open Borders as serious public policy."

There, I fixed it for you. You're welcome.

In all seriousness though, such threads and their sources are just commentary and opinion. It isn't honesty, or truth, but rather a political position couched in hasty generalizations.

We are all guilty of this from time to time, but IMO we should at least try to recognize this penchant for hyperbolic partisanship and tone it down. Otherwise we find we are merely preaching to the choir, but not reaching those minds we are actually seeking to convince.

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Casper said:

If you want to discuss the Democrat Party and Liberals you know how to start a thread. The topic here is Conservatives and the GOP.

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Casper said:

You will get no argument from me on any of that.

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Captain Adverse said:

The GOP has no more devolved into a "Cult" than has the Democrat Party, which was the point of my reply.

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skews13. said:

One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Republican Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people left of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the GOP was busy covering up the Iran Contra scandal and promoting the Laffer Curve as serious public policy.

We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult | Washington Monthly

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Captain Adverse said:

The GOP has no more devolved into a "Cult" than has the Democrat Party, which was the point of my reply. Hence the "correction" of the OP statement.

Oh, forgive me for "disrupting" another echo chamber of hyperbolic "this (insert target here) is Baaad" with a rational and to the point response.

Carry on. :coffeepap:

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Kerry Won Ohio said:

This is one of my biggest problems with the mainstream media -- they have carried water for Trump for far too long.

The media has tried their best to "normalize" Trump and treat him like any other President, especially those dumb asses at CNN. They've also tried to give this dumb **** Trump the benefit of the doubt, no matter what.

The media should have been speaking the truth about Trump during his entire presidency -- that 99% of the garbage that comes out of Trump's mouth is pure idiocy, lies, and unintelligible gibberish. Anytime Trump somehow manages to string two coherent sentences together on a 5th grade level, the mainstream media applauds this ****ing imbecile, for not being a total embarrassment as President for 20 whole seconds.

The media has tried way too hard to be "fair" to Trump, holding this deranged idiot ****tard to a ridiculously low bar.

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Captain Adverse said:

I find it problematic that I have to help people with correcting errors.

Let's see now... :think:

"One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Democrat Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Unfortunately, the modern Democrat Party’s abdication of seriousness, good faith and reality-based communications or policy-making has stretched even the most open-minded analyst’s capacity for forced balance. But there comes a tipping point at which it becomes too dangerous to keep up the pretense. Most people right (or left) of center would argue (rightly, I believe) that we hit that point long, long ago and the time to re-evaluate journalistic norms and practices should have been decades earlier when the Democrat Party was busy covering up the Fast and Furious scandal and promoting Open Borders as serious public policy."

There, I fixed it for you. You're welcome.

In all seriousness though, such threads and their sources are just commentary and opinion. It isn't honesty, or truth, but rather a political position couched in hasty generalizations.

We are all guilty of this from time to time, but IMO we should at least try to recognize this penchant for hyperbolic partisanship and tone it down. Otherwise we find we are merely preaching to the choir, but not reaching those minds we are actually seeking to convince.

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