The cancer in the Republican Party has reached stage 4, terminal.

[fightforfreedom]

The cancer of extremism in the Republican Party has metastasized. It has spread throughout the entire body. It is out of control and there is no cure. The Republicans can no longer control the spread of their extremism. We can already see the damage being done.

The polls are already showing the Democrats gaining a lot of ground in the November elections. That's going to get worse, for them. The Republicans no longer run on anything except extremism. When they get hurt by their extremism, they double down trying to fix it.

This type of cancer is not survivable in the long term. Just my opinion.

[essaynnc]

1. so how do we rid the country of this cancer of extremism?

no matter what we do, they make incremental progress towards their goal of taking over and implementing their extremist doctrine on all of us. even if they loose an election or two, their machine keeps chugging towards their goal.

We fight and fight to right the wrong stuff we see every day. We get lost in the minor skirmishes of wrong doing that we see and hope to fix. We fight hard to win the election or 2. But we're losing the overall war, due to their cheating and lying, propaganda, long term strategy, and single purpose-ness.

Thanks for listening to my rant. End of pessimism for today!

[MineralMan]

2. How? Vote, and bring others to the polls with you.

That's how.

[PortTack]

3. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[housecat]

21. and once voted out, they disappear, because the media will lose interest, and we will forget

[homegirl]

27. This is the Republican party

Here’s NEWS... what Republicans have voted against recently:

An anti-price gouging act to fight inflation and keep goods and services affordable for Americans.

A reproductive rights act to codify protections for Americans crossing state lines for reproductive care.

A gun violence prevention act to create a comprehensive public alert system for active shooters.

A terrorism prevention act to investigate white nationalist extremism in police departments and the military.

A health care act that would provide increased resources for Americans coping with substance abuse disorder and mental health issues.

Entrenching poverty.
Enforcing inequity.
Eliminating freedom.
This is the Republican party.

[Magoo48]

29. Yes, vote, vote, vote. I would add, take creative, sustained direct action of some sort.

[uponit7771]

39. True

[fightforfreedom]

5. You vote them out of power and keep them out until they realize what they are doing will not work.

Our ancestors did this back in the 1930's, 1940's. We can do it again. We better, it's all up to the American people.

[durablend]

14. I think you're being way too optimistic

They're not going to have some sudden epiphany. They're just going to get even more pissed off.

[CrispyQ]

12. We're the majority. If everyone would vote we could change things.

But everyone has to vote & they have to vote in every election. Every. Fucking. One. No excuses.

Spread this far & wide:

[paleotn]

18. The key being every bleeping election....

We've got to keep at least doing this...



But even that isn't good enough. Turnout in the 2020 presidential was ~67% overall. We've got to narrow the gap between midterms and presidential elections.

[calimary]

30. This is One Helluva GREAT Quote, CrispyQ!

Any attribution?

I think I want to use this in one of my I divisible group’s weekly Call to Action emails.

And if it’s an uncredited cautionary tale, it’s well worth using anyway. Just has to be presented that way.

Thank you in advance.

[vlyons]

17. once we have a truly workable majority across the board,

we must must must invalidate the Citizens United decision, outlaw dark money and corporate contributions. Only US citizens and legal residents should be allowed to make campaign contributions to some reasonable max level, say $2500 per candidate per race.

After that, we can prioritize the to do list. But getting the money corruption out has to be first.

[Dustlawyer]

24. The only way I see to fix all of this is nigh unattainable.

We have 2 root causes for most of our problems, including the RW extremism.

1. Propaganda - we have to find some way to legislate against media intentionally lying to us. The government can restrict the 1st Amendment under the same reasoning that you cannot shout “fire” in a crowded theater if no fire. Propaganda is being used by RW media to create the people that will do their bidding. The rest of the media is not innocent either, just more subtle.

2. Eliminate campaign finance altogether and enact publicly funded elections. - we are awash in bribes and quid pro quo’s and no one investigating them. Our political system is corrupt with Super PACs, Dark Money, and the Revolving Door.

The campaign money eliminates good candidates that don’t take the bribes, leaving ambitious, power hungry, sell outs to take the office. The propaganda manipulates the voters to elect the donor’s candidates. The networks benefit from all of the campaign money so they say nothing of this problem.

In my view, it would take a mass, grass roots uprising to demand these reforms, with no help from the media, to make the necessary changes. This is not likely to happen because they have us fighting the symptoms of these problems instead of the root causes. The symptoms are things like abortion, immigration, gun control, climate change…. These things are very important but cannot ever be addressed properly under our corrupt system. We have to fix the system first before we can address these other important issues.

We have a shadow government of oligarchs and Special Interests (Donors) who control our government. They also control the media with their ad dollars. The last barrier to their complete power was the Supreme Court and the federal justice system. They pretty much have this in hand now as well. This is why WE cannot have nice things!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Here's an example of the extremism at work ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216958944

[GoneOffShore]

32. And this is why local elections are so fecking important.

[NewHendoLib]

6. Reagan was the first cancer cell....or was it Nixon???

[Rebl2]

8. I think it

was Reagan

[katmondoo]

13. Definitely Reagan

[Buckeyeblue]

16. I agree

When they brought in the extreme side of Christianity and paired it with anti-worker, "pro-business" extremist it made for an odd partnership but they made it work. The business side was willing to adopt an extreme social agenda in exchange to weaken unions and lower taxes. The "Christian" side was willing to vote against their own economical best interests to curtail certain civil rights.

Slowly over time, many moderate conservatives were replaced with those who were extremists. Over the last decade it has been a race to the bottom.

If Democrats make gains in the midterms will we see moderate candidates start to gain favor among Republicans? Or has that ship sailed?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. It was Thomas E. Dewey

that's when the GOP turned to business for its leadership, and Eisenhower, who earned everything in his entire life up to his presidency from government spending and military benefits, was a pro-business guy too.

[tanyev]

31. And there were the Joseph McCarthy Communist witch hunts in the 50s.

[bucolic_frolic]

35. Which were the descendant of the Red Scare post-WWI and

the descendant of anti-communism post-1900 as immigrants embracing socialism flooded major cities.

And the GOP has always been the party of Big Business. Even Abe Lincoln, who was also a railroad lawyer and investor.

[hunter]

20. Reagan. That's when the party started using incurious meat puppets as front men.

Whatever horrible things Nixon was, he wasn't stupid and he was his own man.

Burned by Nixon the party started seeking out front men they could easily control.

Reagan was a venal empty headed fool who would do or say anything for a blow job. His later dementia made him even more pliable.

The Republicans may have gone too far with Trump. Trump is so damned stupid and narcissistic he thought he'd been anointed by god as emperor of the U.S.A. for life. Trump and many of his followers still believe that. With any luck they'll all go down in flames, taking the Republican Party with them.

[Rebl2]

22. Yes

I don’t remember Nixon trying to use religious folks to push his agenda.

[lambchopp59]

37. This.

"Trump is so damned stupid and narcissistic he thought he'd been anointed by god as emperor of the U.S.A. for life. Trump and many of his followers still believe that. With any luck they'll all go down in flames, taking the Republican Party with them."
Yet, how to peel the rotten banana for the cultists to perceive they've been sold the brooklyn bridge?
I think we need anti-disinformation push to encourage the cultists out of that loving comfort zone they've found in hating groups X,Y,Z more than "luck".
Working at one of this area's biggest hospitals, much of our staff is immigrants, top notch caregivers all. I'm one of the ilk to step up when some red-hatted fool starts blathering racist shit. If I could broadcast the facepalmworthy shit I've seen MAGA's pull to assert their Fox-news reinforced "'Murican exceptionalism", because especially when they're sick they get extra demanding.... Jeebus crackers I could bring down the whole damn cult with it.
Of course I would be so out of a job, so deep in lawsuits doing so.
Still, we need an edge.

[GoneOffShore]

33. Nixon wanted to be king. Reagan? He wanted to destroy democracy.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. I don't know if I'd agree with 'a lot of ground'

We're bouncing, and the other guys have no upside, but we are having popularity problems too.

[greymattermom]

10. make them a joke

Like the Josh Hawley video. Keep doing that every day until more people laugh at them.

[Thunderbeast]

11. Every cancer eventually dies...

Some from chemotherapy.

Some from radiation.

Some from imune therapies.

Sadly, a large number die when they kill the host.

[Traildogbob]

25. You are absolutely right

The last line is spot on. We can fight it with the passion a hope a cancer patient does, pain involved, and try to beat it, or just let it eat us into a hollow corpse. Still very painful. Like cancer, you have to be “more”aggressive than it is, 24/7, because it is aggressively fighting to survive as well. The GQP is spreading faster than any virus or deadly disease that ever existed on earth. We HAVE to fight like hell. You can believe 2022 will NOT be a peaceful transfer even if we can win by 10’s of millions more votes. We need aggressive leadership, and zero reaching across the isle to our friends bull shit. They are ravenous deadly predictors and will bite that arm off at the shoulder.
I want to see outrage from our side, no more Chuck Shumer kid gloves. Bare knuckles with rage.
The messaging is screaming at us.

[MsLeopard]

28. +1000 nt

[DENVERPOPS]

15. Awesome analogy fff nc

[The Wizard]

19. Unfortunately

GQP is their religion. once the dogma sets in the remedy becomes far more difficult. Step one should be deporting the Murdock family and silencing their brain poison. Next is FEMA camps.

[GoneOffShore]

34. Murdoch's, Mercer's, Thiel, Musk, Bezos. All are enemies of democracay. And the list is longer.

Includes guys, and it's overwhelmingly guys, who are talked about in this piece - https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-the-have-yachts?

[Wounded Bear]

23. Vote them out while we still can...

[Stuart G]

26. We have seen this before: Nixon 1974, Bush incompetent, but reelected 2004

Political Parties survive in spite of incompetence. George McGovern was incompetent, did we survive after McGovern fiasco, and elect Obama twice?...............

Politics is a very strange game..in my honest opinion.........

[SleeplessinSoCal]

36. I agree. But it can still function as a Zombie.

They've jettisoned their humanity. But because Dems haven't truly defended themselves from the attacks by highly paid crazy talkers, 40% of the country believes them.

[live love laugh]

38. Terminal for who though?

[Initech]

40. Fox News and AM hate radio are the driving forces behind this cancer.

I've been saying for a while now that Fox is steering this country in a very dangerous direction. If we don't stop them, they will turn America into an authoritarian night. Just look at what Ron Desantis is doing in Florida. He's literally writing laws based on what Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity are talking about that week. Now imagine that on a national scale.

[Demovictory9]

41. Trump was at fox news bwck and call too