Republican's New National Strategy
The
rabidly wrong radical right wing of the
Republican Party has collectively lost its
basket. Its voter mandated exile from the
decision-making portions of the legislative and
executive branches of the federal government
has the worst elements of what once was the
party of
Public speaking opportunities are few and far between for minority party officials. Press conferences are ill-attended and irrelevant. Cynical party efforts to obscure the historic Republican preference for politicians with European pigmentation have thrust forward ill-prepared and not quite ready for prime-time figures like Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal - as if changing the publicly televised face of the party, changes anything.
Meanwhile the actual Republican message of the day is being shouted out by actors portraying comedians portraying news people. Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity now carry the lightly pigmented water – albeit from a hate poisoned well – to the thirsty few. They dispense their daily dread dollops of “ISMs” like socialism, communism, protectionism and liberalism all over their reportage hoping to incite the rank-and-file Republicans into following their mad charge up the hill, and, like lemmings, continuing over the hill and off the cliff into the political void.
So, in a word, the Republicans new national strategy is nihilism. They’ve committed their base to entertainers who spend their time screeching out Hooverisms and who have roundly rejected the only “ISM” that can help us now. They’ve rejected Patriotism.
John Galish
john@johngalish.com
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