| richardhutnik said: The reality is that Ayn Rand worship had overwhelmed the GOP. |
LOL. No. The reality is that the Republicans are a uselessly centrist party who suck at politics, while the Democrats keep moving further and further to the left on almost every single issue and the majority of the media provides cover for them by pretending that only Republican positions are extreme. See: abortion. The mainstream position on abortion is that it should be legal up to a point, and that a viable fetus should not be terminated without reason. The Democratic Party has drifted so far left on the issue that the pro-life Democrat is basically extinct, but you won't hear a word about how this represents a radicalization of the party to the point that no Democrat can challenge this dogma without being called anti-woman. While the media ceaselessly tried to tie every single pro-life Republican to Todd Akin, they have never spent a single second scrutinizing Obama's equally extreme position of abortion any time, anywhere, for any reason, paid for by tax payers.
| richardhutnik said: Combine this with the Tea Party mentality of "We are a Republic NOT a Democracy" and you have a mindset that there are people, the rich and successful, who are an entirely different species of humans, and worthy of all they get, than the slimy underclass who won't take responsibility for themselves. |
I don't exactly see how the idea that the United States is a republic and not a democracy has anything to do with your jumping at Ayn Rand-shaped shadows, but as far as I'm concerned the "Tea Party mentality" (also, the founding fathers' mentality) that there ought to be a hedge against a tyranny of the majority is charmingly quaint in this day and age of unbridled government and much preferable to the left's mentality that the Constitution is just so much toilet paper.
