The GOP made the strategic mistake of letting their zealots put social matters (da gey, da wimmen back in da preggies) front and center. That scares half the country more than who is the worst at budgeting. Both parties fail at budgeting, the idea that the GOP as it exists now can budget is ludicrous. They're totally focused on extracting wealth for the .01%.
A fair read if you can get a copy:
Idiot America
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/idi...00216243&itm=2
Quote:
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle.... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, “We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evolutionists!” He knew then and there it was time to try and salvage the Land of the Enlightened, buried somewhere in this new Home of the Uninformed.
With his razor-sharp wit and erudite reasoning, Pierce delivers a gut-wrenching, side-splitting lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States, and how a country founded on intellectual curiosity has somehow deteriorated into a nation of simpletons more apt to vote for an American Idol contestant than a presidential candidate.
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