When did the Republican Party officially become the party of hate and violence?Are they stupid or just AHOLES?

Answer 1

The Republican party, the party of Ronald Reagan, is all about love and inclusion.

Democrats are about divisiveness and hate.

Answer 2

They aren't the party of hate and violence. They are the party of protect America. Republicans have never claimed to hate a Democratic president like so many democrats now hate bush. In real life Democrats are the party of hateful wimps, who wouldn't defend America from a martian invasion because to many martians would die.

Answer 3

The right-wing has always had a home in the Republican party ever since they were co-opted during the Civil War by big business. War profiteers took control of the party and never let go. During the 1960s, they sucked the last remnants of right-leaning Democrats (Dixiecrats) into the party when they defended racial inequality and fought civil rights.
As with any right-wing organization, they had to have an enemy to hate to justify their blind jingoism and keep wife-beater support behind them, even as they proceeded to screw their trailer-trash base. The USSR collapsed and they needed a "new enemy" to hate, so they pick the progressive elements in the U.S. (Liberals). If they ever are able to vanquish us, they will no doubt fracture and end up hating subgroups of their own kind over minutia

Answer 4

The Republican Party as it was conceived in Wisconsin many years ago was a party of and for the people. It has morphed over the years into something else. The Rep Party has been co-opted by the religious right, special interest groups, and some hate groups.

With 'God' on their side the Republican party feels that is their duty to be in power and to convert the public or at least control the public and to guide the unwashed to their way of thinking, their politics, their moral values, and their religion. All this for the publics own good weather they like it or not. There is no room for descent. They are looking to establish a one party system.

To accomplish this agenda the right wing of the Republican party organized a campaign modeled, knowingly or not, after the public conversion campaign of the Nazi party in Germany in the 1930's.

Don't get excited here. I am not calling ANY Republicans Nazis.

What I am saying is that if you were to compare the tactics, as described in Germany's Nazi Documentation Center in Nuremburg Germany, with the methods that the far right wing is using today to conscript, divide, bully, and conquer all opposing views you would find many, many parallels. The conservative far right is taking their campaign to dominate the political arena right out of the Nazi play book.

Be careful people. The Nazi party started their campaign for domination in the early 1930's and by 1938 the German people did not know what hit them. The parallel I'm drawing here sounds extreme but it is a matter of degrees. Good men can be lead down the path if the steps are small enough.

Beware the loss of your rights in the name of the fight on terrorism. Terrorism is real but the reasons for war in Iraq are not. That war is a deception and it provides a bully platform from which the American people can be scared into giving up rights and delivering power to the ideologs of the far right wing.

Beware of the religious right who claim that religion in government is proper and good for the moral values of the country. Our government was established under a basic set of laws as defined by our constitution specifically to provide political protection to any one of any faith to live in happiness in pursuit of their religion or lack of religion. The first settlers in the New World came here because of religious persecution. Lets not allow religious evangelists to control the political debate.

Beware of our government giving tax dollars to faith based entities(as a percentage of participation the Jews have been left out of the governments largess. Interesting, I wonder how many Buddhist groups have ever received faith based funding? None?) This is a campaign to give more credence and power to like thinking ideologs. Do not allow our public schools to be eviscerated by the Faith Based Initiative of the Republican Right .

The short answer to your question: No they are not stupid. They are not assholes per say, they are ordinary people like you and I. They are the ordinary people. The farmers and accountants and the housewives of this country. They are the good people of this country who have not learned the lesson of the last two world wars. They are the people who slept through the lessons of the founding or our country. Perhaps these people have forgotten how difficult is was to establish a political system in this land that protects all men form those who think their politics and way of life were inspired by God; their personal God. These innocents are being lead by individuals who would take away the basic rights of the people for their own beliefs, power, and gain.

There is momentum in this movement. I am very afraid for our Republic. If you love this country and are Republican, TAKE BACK THE PARTY!! Vote for Republican moderate candidates, or for conservative Democrats, or even Independent Centrists.

Good luck out there. These are dangerous times. The enemy is ignorance. There is work to be done.

Answer 5

oh puleez... who are the people who can't shut up about how much they hate Bush?
Dimwit-o-crats.
You're full of hate AND you're and Ahole.
and the best way to describe democrats like you is:
RABID LUNATIC FAR LEFT LIBERALS (The "Foaming-at-the-mouth" type)

Answer 6

They are not as I can see.

Answer 7

A question like this would only come from the mouth of a complaining democrat.

Answer 8

Oh, Sweetie, you've got your parties mixed up. It's the Democrats and the Libertarians that are like that. Hang in there, you'll get it!

Answer 9

Stop. Look, and read all of your questions, and then tell us who is full of hate and on the verge of committing violence.

Answer 10

A bit of a broken record now.