Like we really need an outbreak of McCarthyism right now

[thewayne]

"There were fewer declared Republicans in the faculty when we were there than Communists! There was one Republican. But there were twelve who would say they were Marxists who believed in the Communists overthrowing the United States government."
—Sen. Ted Cruz on Harvard Law School, which he attended 1992-1995

Reminds me of that Florida Congresscritter Teabagger, Allen West, who at a Town Hall meeting April '12 responded to a question by saying that he believed "there's about 78 to 81 members of the Democrat Party that are members of the Communist Party." When asked to name them, he replied "It's called the Congressional Progressive Caucus."

A HLS Prof said that at that time there were at least four republicans and no Marxist/Communists. He also said that they were sad that Cruz had become such an idiot. I paraphrase a bit, but they were surprised at what his viewpoint had become.

I only wish Cruz were a Representative so that Texans might wake up and realize what an idiot it was that they elected and pull him out of office next year, as it is, he'll be there at least for another five.

These people, i.e. Mainline Republicans, have become absolutists and refuse to acknowledge any viewpoint except their own and want to force you to convert to their particular truth. I look at the de facto martial law forced down the voter's throats in Michigan that voids elections, I look at three states forcing closed the last public health clinics in which women can get abortions even though apparently private OB/GYNs can still perform them.

The result of the election cycle next year is going to be very interesting as it looks like no one is listening to Bobby Jindal when he says that Republicans have to stop being the party of the stupid.

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[silveradept]

Which is why the Republicans in charge now are doing as much as they can to rig the game so that it won't matter what the voters think of them, they'll still be elected.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I think you're spot-on, good sir. But if their own base rebels and starts voting for the other team, the gerrymandering won't matter.

[silveradept]

"The Other Team", though, usually means candidates that are more conservative than the average Republican moderate. They can get thrashed in the general, but the redistricting does its very best to ensure all the Democrats are in one district and Republicans and conservatives are in the other eleven. So it's slowly starting to not matter.