{"id":42442,"date":"2014-06-08T14:36:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T20:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/political-platform-zaniness.html"},"modified":"2014-06-09T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T16:11:30","slug":"political-platform-zaniness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/08\/political-platform-zaniness.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Platform Zaniness"},"content":{"rendered":"
Courtesy of the Texas GOP.<\/p>\n

Granted, political platforms tend to be, any more, fairly fringe ivory tower ideals that nobody thinks will happen (or even particular want to have happen). \u00a0But this bunch of proposals can essentially be summed up as "we need to use our God-given guns to drive off all the scientists, poor people, non-English-speakers, gays, and socialists in Jesus' name."<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +George Wiman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Democrats aren't perfect but Republicans are crazy<\/b>, Texas edition.
I often hear people saying that Democrats and Republicans are the same. In the sense that Democrats are not liberal enough, sure. But read over these excerpts from the Texas Republican party platform and… just stop saying that Democrats are the same.\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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Texas Republicans setting a bad example<\/a>
\n You really must read the temporary Texas Republican Party platform for 2014. They have a clear vision for the future of America, and it is a hellhole. I skimmed through it this morning and there wa…\n <\/p>\n

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Courtesy of the Texas GOP. Granted, political platforms tend to be, any more, fairly fringe ivory tower ideals that nobody thinks will happen (or even particular want to have happen). \u00a0But this bunch of proposals can essentially be summed up as "we need to use our God-given guns to drive off all the scientists, poor … Continue reading “Political Platform Zaniness”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,109,100,353,25,380],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-church-state","category-dolts","category-elections-2014","category-gay-stuff","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5807,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/15\/christian_natio.html","url_meta":{"origin":42442,"position":0},"title":"“Christian nation”","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Jul-04 8:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Texas GOP has included a plank in their state party platform that the US is \"a Christian nation.\" That's just swell, guys. 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