"I give up. I fucking give up.So much truth. In a world where Republicans can make headway by being completely disingenuous, what's left of real political debate?
When I first started hearing right-wingers claim that separation of church and state is a liberal myth, I wondered why no one sat them down, shoved the document in their face, and made them read those three lines out loud. Now I see that it doesn’t matter.
Something like 30% of the country has gone mad. That’s the only explanation I can think of. This is not an exaggeration. They are literally standing there pointing at the sky and saying “the sky is red” and when you try to convince them that it’s blue and bring them a color chart and other blue things for comparison they stare at you blankly for a few seconds and then go back to repeating “the sky is red”. And even if you convince them for a moment that it is indeed blue, you were being condescending while you did it. So you’re an elitist. And therefore you’re wrong. The sky is red.
No, I’m done with the appeals to bipartisanship, the platitudes that we all share a common dream, that people are just frustrated with government. A country where this kind of thing constitutes mainstream political debate is not worth fighting for. I’ll stay on the coast where it is relatively safe, but I’ll be ready to jump ship at any moment. I suggest anyone with half a brain do the same."
Gawker commenter on Christine O’Donnell not knowing, and then NOT BELIEVING that the first amendment contained the provision of separation of church and state during a debate with Chris Coons. Coons recited the text of the amendment “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion”, to which she responded “That’s in the first amendment…?”
Seriously, nearly every time I hear a Teabagger open his/her mouth, I feel like I’m back in second grade and being made fun of for knowing the right answer to the teacher’s question.
Disingenuous? Absolutely. How about we just call it hypocrisy? Or outright lies. They advocate that we have to reduce spending while simultaneously arguing for an unfunded $4 trillion extension of tax cuts that primarily benefit the top 2%.
They scream for getting government off of our backs while they move to allow the greatest government intrusion in our personal lives ever. Using the most extreme positions on abortion by trying to disallow abortion even in the case of rape and saying that the government should root out teachers who are gay or straight and co-habitating, they're inviting the government into our homes in ways that have never been allowed.
When they say that they're against the stimulus because it didn't create jobs, and yet write letters asking for stimulus money to create jobs in their states, they are at best prevaricators. At best.
The party that trumpets the Constitution doesn't know the First Amendment or the Establishment Clause, doesn't believe in freedom of the press, refuses to talk to them and uses their own private security goons to illegally detain a reporter asking difficult questions
What's worse, they live in a factless reality. Everything is relative. When proven wrong by facts, they ignore the facts or decry them as creations of the lamestream media.
Where are we headed when there are no objective facts and the media has completely abdicated its role as gatekeeper and fact-checker?
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