Mostly because I'm enjoying the spinning wheels. The GOP talk pieces are in complete and utter denial. They simply can not wrap their minds around the fact that the majority of the electorate REJECTS their ideology, belief system, and broken plans for the United States of America.
Their idea of America does not exist and they keep believing that it does: Mostly white, middle class, men, working in desk jobs with college educated with no loans and a wife and 2.5 children waiting at home with supper on the table. The only place that exists is in their minds and "Leave it to Beaver" reruns. However, they are convinced that if they just keep pushing their austerity agenda that they can make that world magically appear.
It won't. They are delusional. They refuse to accept responsibility for their choices and marrying themselves to the tea party extremists. We as democrats and progressives and moderates need to keep calling the Republicans & Tea party what they are: Dangerous Extremists. We must repudiate them and their agenda at every opportunity, on every social network, on the house floor, the senate floor, in the press, in our blogs, in our conversations. Repeat after me, the tea party and GOP are dangerous extremists and threaten liberty and freedom. For too long we have let them slap around the word liberal and attach the "extremist" definition and "entitled" to our platform and ideas.
The tea party / GOP / neocons are like a virus in the American government and while this recent election has fought them back, they are not gone. They are waiting for the opportunity to re-emerge. We must make it our mission to ruin their "brand" and continue to push the truth forward and continue to call them out as the fanatical extremists that they are. They are the fringe and they need to know we will not embrace their racist, sexist, homophobic, nihilistic ideas or governance.
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