I get beat up frequently by readers who are still viewing themselves as Republicans and who don't like me speaking the truth - at least as I see it - on the foul and toxic state of today's Republican Party. I'm not by any means saying that Democrats are always right and I frequently take Democrat elected officials, the
DNC and others to task over their spinelessness, broken campaign promises and a litany of other failings. But despite the Democrat failings, as a party the Democrats have not embraced ignorance - today's GOP revels in ignorance - and unvarnished bigotry be it against gays, immigrants and other minorities. Thus, I found solace in the fact that the German newsweekly
Spiegel has launched into an indictment of what the Republican Party has become.
Harper's has a translation of
Spiegel's analysis. Here are highlights:
The German newsweekly Spiegel takes the latest disclosures concerning Herman Cain and the rise of Newt Gingrich as an opportunity to offer a foreign bird’s-eye view of the current Republican Party and the American media froth around it. My translation:
“Africa is a country. The Taliban rule in Libya. Muslims are terrorists. Immigrants are mostly criminals, Occupy Wall Street protesters are always dirty. And women who claim to have been sexually molested should kindly keep quiet.”
Welcome to the wonderful world of the Republican Party. Or rather: to the distorted world of its presidential campaign. For months it has coiled through the country like a traveling circus, from debate to debate, from scandal to scandal, contesting the mightiest office in the world — and nothing is ever too unfathomable for them… These eight presidential wannabes are happy enough not only to demolish their own reputations but also that of their party, the once worthy party of Abraham Lincoln. They are also ruining the reputation of the United States.
They lie, deceive, scuffle and speak every manner of idiocy. And they expose a political, economic, geographic and historical ignorance compared to which George W. Bush sounds like a scholar. Even the party’s boosters are horrified by the spectacle…
Platitudes in lieu of programs: in serious times that demand the smartest, these clowns offer blather that is an insult to the intelligence of all Americans. But as with all freak shows, it would be impossible without a stage, the U.S. media, which has been neutered by the demands of political correctness, and a welcoming audience, a party base that seems to have been lobotomized overnight. Notwithstanding the subterranean depths of the primary process, the press and broadcasters proclaim one clown after the next to be the new frontrunner, in predictable news cycles of forty-five days.
I truly could not have said it better.
I get beat up frequently by readers who are still viewing themselves as Republicans and who don't like me speaking the truth - at least as I see it - on the foul and toxic state of today's Republican Party. I'm not by any means saying that Democrats are always right and I frequently take Democrat elected officials, the DNC and others to task over their spinelessness, broken campaign promises and a litany of other failings. But despite the Democrat failings, as a party the Democrats have not embraced ignorance - today's GOP revels in ignorance - and unvarnished bigotry be it against gays, immigrants and other minorities. Thus, I found solace in the fact that the German newsweekly Spiegel has launched into an indictment of what the Republican Party has become. Harper's has a translation of Spiegel's analysis. Here are highlights:
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