The Republican Party is the party of extremes. It is the party that contains the most exploitive members of our society and the most exploitable members of our society. Not surprisingly, the exploitable members are mercilessly exploited and used as tools by the exploitive members. Amazingly, this relationship is symbiotic in its own fashion; which is to say that the exploited are willing victims, who feel grateful for anything that feeds their paranoia and their dark view of this world. Trying to reason with those masochists, or trying to present any facts that will make them realize they are being abused is a fool’s errand. They honestly believe that being the victim is a virtue, and it takes a very evil person to attack their virtue with inconvenient facts.
To those exploited people on the far right everything is a matter of faith; they rarely let a thought interfere with an established opinion, and they never let a fact change a belief. They are quick to brand as a heretical RINO anyone who would object to the excommunication of Galileo, Darwin, climatologists, gynecologists, psychiatrists, physicists, and/or instructors who dare to teach the empirical method or sex education. This is why the Republican Party has been dubbed the stupid party, and that is not good for the exploitive Republicans who need a viable national party to do their bidding. Unfortunately for the exploiters, reigning in the idiots they have been using as their attack dogs is a difficult thing to do. The bottom line is that the people who are so easily exploited are also so nihilistic and vicious that they are threatening to cause a catastrophic implosion of the Republican Party. At this point I am inclined to say good riddance. Nature abhors a vacuum, and a new party will emerge.
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