FULFILLED FULLY to the HEART'S CONTENT REALISTICAALY touches on UNIQUE Territory, the sub-conscious level ;Oh, and then there's the small issue of your own personal safety. Who'll be paying attention to that? Fresh from an election where the majority of the nation firmly rejected the GOP’s agenda, is there any appetite among the faithful for a reality check yet?
According to a USA Today survey conducted in mid-February the GOP are now embraced by only 22 percent of the American public. But still they govern as though their mandate came from God Himself (and many in their ranks believe it does, after all).
Here they come again, this ideological buzz saw still hacking through the thickets of American political life. It’s as if they’re daring the nation to stop them.
Voters, it turns out, consistently prefer Democratic positions on the issues -- on immigration, gun restrictions, abortion rights, gay marriage, climate change and increasing tax revenue on the most comfortably off. The American public has overwhelmingly rejected the GOP's take no prisoners stance.
But the message from the GOP? You don’t matter.
You’re all wrong. We’ll just press on without you. We’ll even figure out a way to make our own shrinking vote share amount to a victory, if we have to. Buzz buzz buzz.
If you watch Fox News these days -- and apparently fewer and fewer of you are doing that according to the latest figures -- you’ll notice that the reality distortion field that allowed them to think that Mitt Romney was about to trounce President Obama hasn’t diminished.
In fact, the GOP has started to look like an alternate Harry Potter universe that madly exists in the real one. This isn’t good for its future as a party, nor is it good for the nation.
It didn’t set out to, but Fox News has now become a kind of conservative echo chamber where the like-minded GOP leadership can pontificate to their heart’s content without reference to the rest of the nation, and without wrangling with them over the messy business of governance.
No one in the party is immune from this axis of wishful thinking, this ideological tributary where conservatives’ fondest hopes miraculously meet their fulfillment.
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FULFILLED FULLY to the HEART'S CONTENT REALISTICAALY touches on UNIQUE Territory, the sub-conscious level ;Oh, and then there's the small issue of your own personal safety. Who'll be paying attention to that?
ReplyDeleteFresh from an election where the majority of the nation firmly rejected the GOP’s agenda, is there any appetite among the faithful for a reality check yet?
According to a USA Today survey conducted in mid-February the GOP are now embraced by only 22 percent of the American public. But still they govern as though their mandate came from God Himself (and many in their ranks believe it does, after all).
Here they come again, this ideological buzz saw still hacking through the thickets of American political life. It’s as if they’re daring the nation to stop them.
Voters, it turns out, consistently prefer Democratic positions on the issues -- on immigration, gun restrictions, abortion rights, gay marriage, climate change and increasing tax revenue on the most comfortably off. The American public has overwhelmingly rejected the GOP's take no prisoners stance.
But the message from the GOP? You don’t matter.
You’re all wrong. We’ll just press on without you. We’ll even figure out a way to make our own shrinking vote share amount to a victory, if we have to. Buzz buzz buzz.
If you watch Fox News these days -- and apparently fewer and fewer of you are doing that according to the latest figures -- you’ll notice that the reality distortion field that allowed them to think that Mitt Romney was about to trounce President Obama hasn’t diminished.
In fact, the GOP has started to look like an alternate Harry Potter universe that madly exists in the real one. This isn’t good for its future as a party, nor is it good for the nation.
It didn’t set out to, but Fox News has now become a kind of conservative echo chamber where the like-minded GOP leadership can pontificate to their heart’s content without reference to the rest of the nation, and without wrangling with them over the messy business of governance.
No one in the party is immune from this axis of wishful thinking, this ideological tributary where conservatives’ fondest hopes miraculously meet their fulfillment.
Read more: http://www.irishcentral.com/story/ent/manhattan_diary/republican-party-rushing-headlong-toward-irrelevance-195539321.html#ixzz2O6a5wnE5
Follow us: @IrishCentral on Twitter | IrishCentral on Facebook