The Republican Party today is like a CULT

[Sugarcoated]

Sidney Blumenthal on Franken's show compares Bush to a cult leader and, no matter how much evidence, facts, proof, official reports many in the Republican party still believe him! Blumenthal is explaining this horrific mess of a government so well, so well. I'm going to listen to this again later with pencil and paper.

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[grytpype]

1. It is totally a cult.

Just like Jim Jones's People's Temple. And we know how that turned out.

[YOY]

13. With too much Koolaid?

Yeah, it was actually 'Flavor Aide" but the tie-in was there...

[grytpype]

15. Grape Flavr-Aid and potassium cyanide.. the Jonestown Cocktail

[EVDebs]

2. Internet connection, weblink ? Where to listen...? nt

[salib]

7. AAR

here is the Real Player link:

http://play.rbn.com/?url=airam/airam/live/live.rm&proto=rtsp

[bdamomma]

3. I'd believe it, bush is taking them over the cliff

and apparently everyone is doing just that.

[kurth]

4. It IS a cult

The Bush cult.

[rniel]

5. What I hear

from most conservatives is "the democrats are not any better" that's why I keep voting republican.

That's a great attitude. They sound like nihilists. Or they sound like football fans. My team is better than your team bullshit.

[The Deacon]

6. THERE IS NO GOD BUT REAGAN

AND GEORGE IS HIS PROPHET. A-MEN.

[salib]

8. Well that's what you get out religion in politics.

Faith based reality.

[gumby]

9. Political Cults are exceptionally dangerous.

Although some cults result in death and destruction, this Bush Cult is actually leading to massive death and destruction involving the whole world.

[Sugarcoated]

10. The bull-goose loonies were calling Cspan this morning

very disturbing, coming out with unbelievably ignorant, head shaking stuff.

My brother is a Republican, my other brother is starting to lean conservative. One just cares about national security, nothing else, so he votes Republican like it's his hometeam or something. The other just, I don't know, though he wouldn't vote for Bush in '04 (wrote in a candidate) and is gung-ho for Guliani, he's absorbing this shit they spew.

People just don't understand, 99% of it is think-tank BS stats and reports, it's diversion from what they're really doing, robbing us blind. It's so frustrating. My father-in-law, one of the most intelligent, well read, down to earth blue collar men, said for years 'Republican's want to get rid of the middle class', I took it with a grain of salt, didn't really believe it. But, goddamn if they really ARE! It's not a tin-foil thing. administration really and truly wants to eradicate the middle class.

THOSE EVIL GREEDY FUCKERS

[cliss]

11. You are right. They are a cult.

They are the Cult of the White Supremacists.

[JNelson6563]

14. The irony of it is

that Bush has surely shattered the myth of white supremecy for once and for all.

[C_U_L8R]

12. any organization that cannot bear self-criticism

or any criticism for that matter is probably a cult

[iPolitics]

16. The Republican Party is like a Cult?

I'm not so sure of this. As we saw during the primary in NH last night....the Republicans don't even want to vote for their own candidates!

http://www.capitalwatch.net/eagle/eagle091206.html

[Sugarcoated]

17. Well

I didn't say all Republican's. There are some good Republican people out there, but for so many facts & evidence just don't penetrate. That describes cultists.

[YOY]

18. Another difference between a conservative and a neocon

The main one being that one prefers personal attacks, groupthink/jingoism, and using straight out lies as opposed to reasonable debate.

[blm]

19. Some of us have been saying - scratch a fundie and you'll find a Moonie

underneath.