I hope Newt, the hypocritical pervert that he is, is proud of what he sowed. This all started, at least in my lifetime, with guns/god/gays/abortion. Wedge issues chosen to divide us and to get people to vote on emotion and not principal or fact or their own enlightened self-interest. There was a time when the leaders of all parties wisely kept the more extreme elements of their own side at bay, but, since the republicans needed a few more percentage points to be competitive, they started turning over the rocks. Now they can’t win without them and they can’t control them. If not for the incalculable damage they’re doing to our country it would be fine to watch them disintegrate due to their own actions. At least a few, god forbid, moderate republicans are starting to speak out, but is it too little too late? Is the greatest experiment in democracy doomed to lose to primitive tribalism?
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I hope Newt, the hypocritical pervert that he is, is proud of what he sowed. This all started, at least in my lifetime, with guns/god/gays/abortion. Wedge issues chosen to divide us and to get people to vote on emotion and not principal or fact or their own enlightened self-interest. There was a time when the leaders of all parties wisely kept the more extreme elements of their own side at bay, but, since the republicans needed a few more percentage points to be competitive, they started turning over the rocks. Now they can’t win without them and they can’t control them. If not for the incalculable damage they’re doing to our country it would be fine to watch them disintegrate due to their own actions. At least a few, god forbid, moderate republicans are starting to speak out, but is it too little too late? Is the greatest experiment in democracy doomed to lose to primitive tribalism?