Friday, November 6, 2015

Aligators and the Swamp

In the midst of fighting alligators with blog entries it is inspiring to pause and read something written by a bigger thinker drainer of the swamp of ignorance.

GOP and the Rise of Anti-Knowledge

"The current wave, which now threatens to swamp our political culture, began in a similar fashion with the rise to prominence in the 1970s of fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson. But to a far greater degree than previous outbreaks, fundamentalism has merged its personnel, its policies, its tactics and its fate with a major American political party, the Republicans."

Mike Lofgren is a former congressional staff member who served on both the House and Senate budget committees. His book about Congress, The Party is Over: How Republicans Went Crazy, Democrats Became Useless, and the Middle Class Got Shafted, appeared in paperback in August 2013. His new book, The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government, will be published in January 2016.

Not just the Republicans but the Democrats too.

Hillary is in the same Clown Car.  -- Sic Semper Tyrannis

 

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