3/2/2014 9:03 AM
Well, in their defense, I know the country is changing. That's the design, the plan.
Whether it's for "better" or "worse" is subjective, and due to human nature and our social diversity, unanswerable. We'll see - we'll move on - we'll survive like we do. As we've always done as human beings, politics notwithstanding.
So, we laugh right, but in the face of change, it's natural to dig in if it feels wrong. It may be the only sane choice they feel they have.
I totally get that.
I'm thankful my parents never bought into the Fox hysteria machine, or NBC's for that matter. My dad, although an uber-conservative successful small business owner, remained a Democrat. Don't know why, but he just never drank the kool-aid.
The weirdest red-flag to me though (among many), that the far-right is running out of rope, is their insistence that medical, and science reporting or findings are tainted, wrong, or corrupt if they don't agree with them.
Peer-reviewing data and stories is a thing. It's an actual thing we do to verify truth over fiction.
When you throw that out in the name of political agenda, you lose your credibility.
I think that's the biggest challenge for the far-right now - credibility. The left is guilty enough of this too, there's plenty to go around. But when the data is the data and it's been cross-checked and verified - let it happen.
THAT ALL SAID -- if the Republicans ran Christie, I'd probably vote for him - or someone like him.
Someone give me a moderate fiscal conservative to vote for.