{"id":4941,"date":"2017-01-25T10:23:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2017-01-25T10:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T15:23:40","slug":"a-party-in-denial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2017\/01\/25\/a-party-in-denial\/","title":{"rendered":"A Party in Denial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican Party in the United States is a party in denial, both literally in its stances and in regards to what it is. It still <em><strong>claims<\/strong><\/em> to be the party of small government, state &amp; individual rights, and the idea of a strong military with a leadership role in the world. But this is all patently false, and as of the recent election it&#8217;s become even more clear.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party has created some of the largest, most invasive, most pervasive federal government agencies ever; it has overruled state rights, it has clamped down on individual rights, and it has been less of a leader in the world and more of a bully.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the Republican Party controls 2\/3rds of the federal government, it&#8217;s doubling down on these same things and driving itself so far from what it claims to be that it is basically unrecognizable.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the Republican Party is simply a party of denials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denying that climate change is happening<\/li>\n<li>Denying that climate change is caused by humans<\/li>\n<li>Denying women control over their own bodies<\/li>\n<li>Denying people control over their own identity<\/li>\n<li>Denying that police are at fault for shootings<\/li>\n<li>Denying that there is any problem with race in this country<\/li>\n<li>Denying refugees aid and comfort<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The list goes on and on &#8211; and many of the denials contradict one another (e.g., climate change &#8211; you can&#8217;t say &#8220;it isn&#8217;t happening&#8221; and then turn around and say &#8220;it&#8217;s happening but it isn&#8217;t caused by us!&#8221;) or contradict the supposed backbone ideals of the party itself (e.g., championing individual rights but then taking them away from people).<\/p>\n<p>There is no denying it: the Republican Party is a party in denial; though it would almost be more appropriate to say the Republic Party is a party of doublethink. Or maybe they&#8217;d just prefer to be called &#8220;The Party?&#8221; Hmmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denial has somehow become the political strategy of the Republican Party in the United States, and somehow&#8230; it&#8217;s working? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[199,2],"tags":[412,385,420],"class_list":["post-4941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-opinion","category-politics","tag-america","tag-politics","tag-republicans","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1hH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2005\/05\/06\/us-national-identity-cards-all-but-law\/","url_meta":{"origin":4941,"position":0},"title":"U.S. National Identity Cards All But Law","author":"Keith Survell","date":"May 6, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Given the recent surge in Federalism here in the US (a.k.a. \"states rights\"), I wonder how people will react to this - as it is a huge violation of states rights by the Federal Government. 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