{"id":47154,"date":"2017-10-25T07:26:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=47154"},"modified":"2017-10-25T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T11:28:01","slug":"republican-civil-war-dancing-with-the-devil-leads-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/republican-civil-war-dancing-with-the-devil-leads-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Civil War (Dancing With The Devil Leads To This)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Immediately after the last US general election, despite the fact that the Republican Party “won,” I wrote about Republican Party “civil war” and asked in the title of an article, “Can The GOP Survive?<\/a>“<\/p>\n

It may have seemed odd to write about political civil war in a party that just won a presidential election, but the future seemed like it could go in only one direction for the party.<\/p>\n

For years, Republicans in Congress and Republican presidents have gone against the actual preferences and wishes of their voters. They have voted for pollution over clean air and water, for racism over an open heart and fair treatment of all, for programs that hurt the middle class and poor to help the rich and super rich. These have not been policies many actual Republicans support, and they certainly have not been policies that help the majority of Republicans \u2014 quite the opposite.<\/p>\n

The thing is, Republican Party “leaders” have partnered with pollution industries in corrupt ways in order to get more funding and win more elections,\u00a0Republican Party managers have sided with racists and pushed racist policies in order to “rally the base” and win more elections, Republican Party policy wonks have orchestrated policies designed specifically to cut taxes on billionaires and multimillionaires while taking services and support away from the country’s poorest and the mass population in the middle.<\/p>\n

Eventually, this dancing with the devil was bound to come and bite the party in its butt. And it seems electing Donald Trump was the disaster the party was granted and is now struggling to deal with.<\/p>\n

How will the party survive and evolve? It’s a good question. I don’t have an answer. And it seems the Republicans with a conscience who have been leaving the party or speaking up against its cruelest absurdities don’t either.<\/p>\n

In any case, since the news regarding Congressmen Jeff Flake and Bob Corker in recent weeks has been further stirring the\u00a0Republican Civil War pot, below a new video is a repost of my November 11 article on this topic.<\/p>\n