OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Mark Wein said:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...d-about-trumps-cabinet-picks?cid=sm_fb_maddow
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Kennedy is spearheading the ACA replacement effort. Next the government will ban vaccines. Childhood mortality will spike, dramatically reducing the number of Americans needing health care.
 
It truly does feel to me as though Voldemort is in charge, has installed Pius Thicknesse (Trump looks like he could fit that name) and Delores Umbridge is running Hogwarts. If only the Weasley twins could broom around Congress and the Capitol letting off fart bombs and fireworks and feeding people puke pills and the like, and fix it all up that way. Guess real life doesn't work like that. But we might need Dumbledore's Army, or Oliver's Army or something like that. Maybe its Michelle Obama's army.
 
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mongooz said:
when did they become so fucking stuipd? even Nixon wasn't this dead set on destroying progress.
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I know the question is rhetorical, but the answer involves Nixon. The GOP started to become so fucking stupid when they began implementing the Southern Strategy, cynically and deliberately appealing to racists in an effort to break up the Democrats' solid political hold on the South that had endured since the Civil War.

Republican strategist Lee Atwater discussed the Southern strategy in a 1981 interview later published in Southern Politics in the 1990s by Alexander P. Lamis.[54][55][56]

Atwater: As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry Dent and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now [Reagan] doesn't have to do that. All you have to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues he's campaigned on since 1964 . . . and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster...

Questioner: But the fact is, isn't it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?

Atwater: You start out in 1954 by saying, "N*gger, n*gger, n*gger." By 1968 you can't say "n*gger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "N*gger, n*gger."​
 
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