I know I should stop reading these, but I just can't get enough. Here's more choice bits from commenters to the stories on Glenn Beck's page post-Obama's election
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The morning after the election, I posted to my Facebook wall discussing the changing demographics of the American electorate and that the GOP cannot win without supporting minorities and women. The response I got from a friend was very telling:
"You might be right, but 80% of Democrats are on gov assistance. I am gonna switch parties so I can get free health care and free cell phone, free food, get a marijuana card and smoke dope all day let Repubicans pay for me. Remember we all have our own opinions."
I'm leaning more and more toward what someone else in t_p said the other day: to give all the Glenn Beck-like individuals of the Republican party lots and lots of media room and free exposure. That way more and more moderate republicans will leave the party, and perhaps the structure of the two party system in the US will change in the future. (I absolutely do not count the tea party as a third party, and never have)
The US needs proportional representation in a multi party system, to hell with the shit they have today.
Somehow I'm not surprised by any of that.. some of the more extremist Republicans are looking for anything to validate their skewed world view, and if that means inventing crazy theories, then they will. I think what really blows my mind is this idea that the way to win voters that voted for a party that is more left than the Republicans is to move their platform further away from them by going more right. How does that even make sense?
- The US was given to Americans by God, He simply allowed the Indians to live there until we came. It's not correct to say we took America from the Indians.
^This comment is from the 19th Century, right? Please tell me it's some time-traveling troll who discovered the Internet as opposed to someone from the modern age.
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"You might be right, but 80% of Democrats are on gov assistance. I am gonna switch parties so I can get free health care and free cell phone, free food, get a marijuana card and smoke dope all day let Repubicans pay for me. Remember we all have our own opinions."
Welcome to common thinking in Arizona. Ugh.
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That way more and more moderate republicans will leave the party, and perhaps the structure of the two party system in the US will change in the future. (I absolutely do not count the tea party as a third party, and never have)
The US needs proportional representation in a multi party system, to hell with the shit they have today.
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^This comment is from the 19th Century, right? Please tell me it's some time-traveling troll who discovered the Internet as opposed to someone from the modern age.
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