[TheRookie]

American politics is at a very dangerous crossroads. As bad as democracy and the two-party system is, a one-party system would be much more dangerous. Right now, there appears to be a concerted effort in the Democratic party and national media to pulverize and crush the Republican party.

See: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/pr...88288.html

I am not a Republican and I have never been a Republican. I have always found Republicans to be repulsive and fake, with the exception of Ron Paul. They refuse to stand in favor of liberty and dignity for the common man. They are war-hungry, feminist-lite, welfare-lite, pro-drug war, and under George W. Bush they paved the way for the destruction of the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th amendments; a mauling of basic freedoms that Barack Obama has happily accelerated.

But, a strong opposition party is necessary to obstruct and delay the ambitions of the ruling party. Under George W. Bush, the Democrats were far too weak and allowed the president to invade multiple foreign countries and destroy some of our liberties. At any time, they could have begun impeachment proceedings and refused to fund Bush's wars.

Obama is using every dirty trick and a compliant media to absolutely make a mockery of the faction of the Republican party that stands for liberty and prosperity. They are trying to crush any Republican who refuses to increase the federal budget, stand for 2nd amendment gun rights, lower taxes, and eliminate regulations that strangle the working classes and small business owners. They are using dirty, Alinksyite tricks to paint anyone who wants to cut the federal budget, cut taxes, and support gun rights as a crazy, homophobic, racist straight white male.

Instead of standing firm and re-framing the debate by painting Democrats under Obama as tax-raising, big-spending, anti-freedom leftists, the Republican response is to trot out the questionably heterosexual narcissist Marco Rubio and make democrat-lite arguments.

Meanwhile, a piddling $85 billion in cuts from the scheduled increase means that women, babies, feminists, old people, minorities, and small animals are all going to die. Here's Obama, employing Rule 9 from Rules for Radicals:

"Are Republicans in Congress really willing to let these cuts fall on our kids’ schools and mental health care just to protect tax loopholes for corporate jet owners? Are they really willing to slash military health care and the Border Patrol just because they refuse to eliminate tax breaks for big oil companies?"

Here are more doomsday stories from a variety of news outlets:
http://jezebel.com/5987920/what-does-the...adies-lots
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/...tml?ref=us
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-kierna...89223.html
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...s-say.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/0...ists-hard/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-5757...own-looms/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/0...W220130302

For Christ's sake, Maxine Waters just had a press conference and said 170 million American would lose their jobs, which just goes to show how terrible wymmyns are at abstract reasoning and statistics.

Here is the reality of sequestration:





If things continue on this current path, I pity a country ruled by Democrats and a token, acquiescent loyal opposition led by the likes of closeted homosexual Lindsey Graham and hot-headed idiot John McCain. Luckily, large unpredictable events tend to knock things off their current path and make the future unpredictable. We can only hope.