10 Reasons Why Republicans are Close-Minded

by John Sammon⁽⁸⁾
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I talked to another Republican who wants to ignore the eight years of Bush and blame Obama for everything. I just threw up my hands. I realized it's hopeless. There will never be any progress in health care or anything except doomsday weapons with people like this guy around.

You can't reason with people like this.

Here are 10 reasons why you can't reason with them.

1. They believe there has never been a Republican wrong about anything. If they are proven wrong in their viewpoint, they'll deny it. They believe it's impossible for American policy toward other countries to be wrong, if the policy was enacted by Republicans.

2. Republicans, mostly white men, consider black Americans, Mexican Americans and women to be inferior. They consider them inferior in this order (bottom most inferior):

A. Women (white women).

B. Mexicans.

C. Blacks.

Yet, they need women for purposes of sex, those Republicans who aren't gay. Also, Republicans don't mind picking a person of color as a token to dispel the notion that they are racist.

3. Republicans don't believe in freedom of speech. Anybody who has an opinion they don't like they heckle or shout down. They don't believe in the Constitution. Anybody who wants to do something different they call a traitor.

4. The Republican Party, the white man's party, are champions of the double standard. For example, they constantly brand social programs as socialistic giveaways because the programs help those whom they consider inferior, but they don't mind spending billions forever nation-building in Iraq, giving money to those they consider inferior (Arabs). As long as it's a war of conquest or building a colony overseas, it's not wasteful spending. If it's here in this country and spent on the poor or immigrants, it's wasteful spending.

5. A Republican harps on the cost of everything, but knows the value of nothing. An older Republican will call you a subversive if you're liberal, but doesn't throw his Social Security check in the trash, a check made possible by liberals. The Republican spends the Social Security check.

6. Republicans love to castigate others for being unpatriotic, yet far fewer Republicans in Congress have served in the military than Democrats. Elected Republican officials love to carp about family values, yet they are at least on par with Democrats when it comes to adultery, gay, rough and group sex, and pursuing under-age boys in the men's room.

7. Very few Republicans have read a history book. George Bush Senior said Pearl Harbor happened on September 6, 1941 , and Ronald Reagan laid a wreath in a German cemetery commemorating victims of the Holocaust only to find out it contained SS members of the Gestapo. He laid the wreath anyway. George Bush Junior compared Iraq with its attack helicopters to American independence in 1776.

8. Republicans not only didn't learn from Watergate, they actually admired it, and have tirelessly developed secret government ever since, including the art of "Plausible deniability," first coined by Reagan. Republicans fervently believe in secret government.

9. Republicans don't believe in a two-party system, though it worked fairly well for all its failures and foibles up until the time Republicans began listening to the whacked out psychotic extremists in their party. They make Barry Goldwater look like a Bolshevik.

10. Republicans believe that God is a Republican who looks like John Wayne. This makes reasoning with them very difficult.

Article submitted Saturday, August 08, 2009 & read 23418 times.

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» left by Tex Norman⁽⁶³⁾ (3 years 287 days ago.)

You nailed it. Again. I am actually worried. While I am a progressive (liberal) I have lived long enough to remember when the Republican Party was not so crazy. There was a time when Republicans still cared about the people, all the people, including poor people. Now it seems like they have been taken over by religous radicals who care only for corporations. There is something mean that runs through the Republican Party. There is a move not to debate, but to silence all questions, all discussion. Thanks for speaking out. I love the way you write.
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» left by Anonymous (3 years 285 days ago.)

there is very little substance to this post. I don't disagree on some of what you've stated, but you probably should have included some sources or more concrete examples per point, otherwise it's just generalities and stereotypes
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» left by Stephen from FL (3 years 218 days ago.)

I think your going a little too far in saying that all Republicans are racists; although most racists are Republicans or people that are against both parties because they simply hate the government (I would say most neo-Nazis fit that category).

I agree that some people are just so irrational that you can't do anything about it other than walk away or ignore them. I also agree with the point Tex Norman made in his blog about Craig T. Nelson that when these irrational people are trying to influence others on TV and radio or are in office we have to try to counter their arguments, but not in the shout down way the other side often uses because we don't need to and shouldn't if we did.
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» left by Anonymous (2 years 100 days ago.)

I have to take issue with only one statement in the article and that is saying that Republicans are only white males. I am a white male and I am so far from a republican (Thank God) I understand that most of the republicans are white males of wealth , so lets just say Wealthy white males are republicans.
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