You know what is a really bad combination. Dumb and mean. Those two words sum up the Republican Party on the eve of its convention.
Dumb: In Texas the Republican platform calls for an end to the teaching of critical thinking. In North Carolina the Republican legislature forbids state agencies from referring to the rise in sea level. The Vice Presidential choice takes his economic theory from a juvenile philosophy. A Senate candidate thinks rape victims don’t get pregnant. The Presidential candidate proposes to bring back the policies that led to the latest economic meltdown. Global warming denial, “creationism” taught in schools, faith-based politics...how did a major political party go down this road?
Mean: Denying people who are American citizens the right to vote because they can’t produce certain prescribed IDs, demanding the deportation of children, slashing programs for the very poor while cutting the taxes for the very rich, denying prenatal care for poor women because Planned Parenthood provides it--the list goes on. These are people without empathy, without morals, without a modicum of the Christian virtue they keep throwing in our faces.
Here is the worst of it. They might win this November.
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