4 ms·

Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

• mentat 15y ago
  Seriously? This should not be on HN. Flagged.
  • tzs 15y ago
    It gratifies ones intellectual curiosity, which is sufficient for HN according to the guidelines. It's true the guidelines say most politics is off topic, but the key is "most", not "all". What's curious and interesting about the current Republicans is that if you took Obama, and sent him back in a time 40 years (and if as a side effect of time travel he came out white...), he'd have a good shot at winning the Republican nomination. A good chunk of Obama's initiatives in health care and economics are things that have long been proposed by Republicans. Hence, we have the curious phenomenon of Republicans doing everything in their power, up to the point of endangering the country, to fight against their own traditional agenda.
    • abrown28 15y ago
      Is there any criticism of Obama that I could make that wouldn't be dismissed as racism?