The Republicans of today are the worst thing to happen to freedom, being American, democracy, anything of evidence or reason or even having a good time. Darth Vader was a really nice guy compared to these people.
Evidence: purging moderates from the Republican Party. Republicans purged moderate NY Assemblywoman, Dede Scozzofava, running for an open Congressional seat as a Republican because she wasn’t conservative enough. “Former House majority leader Dick Armey’s group FreedomWorks mobilized against her. She said she heard conservative robo-calls in the district describing her as a “child killer,” a “lesbian lover” and a “homo.” ” Republicans are now going after Florida governor Charlie Christ because Obama hugged him. Plus, still in Florida, they’re going after a moderate Republican who wants to run for the Senate. Apparently, even the architect of a Republican takeover of Congress and the leader in stonewalling Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich is now too moderate for these wackos.
What is democratic about purging people who don’t fall perfectly into line with the nutso right? They don’t want you to have an opinion unless it’s theirs. They want to force you into their way of thinking and doing things. They don’t want discussion, they want lock step.
Moderates, the conservative Republicans are taking away your rights to your own opinions, they’re taking away your rights to express yourself from within the Republican Party, they’re taking away your votes in legislatures, in Congress and in the Senate. This is not democracy, this is oligarchy. This is anti-American. Americans traditionally have believed in freedom of expression, freedom to their own opinions, freedom to vote their own way. The conservative way is against all of this, which means that it is anti-American. It is anti-freedom. The loudest proponents of “freedom” don’t actually believe in freedom, at least not for you.
