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Originally Posted by scoundrel
The existing Republican party has detached itself from its natural constituency and is in hock to the religious right, a group too small to get a Republican president elected and too divisive to reach out effectively to the conservative mainstream.
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But sadly at State level they are still capable of introducing the most appalling retrogressive, fact and evidence deficient, right-wing, millionaire pleasing, fox 'news' pleasing, god-botherer legislation. Recently states have introduced bills that would make miscarriages illegal, give 'personhood' status to hour old zygotes, make the use of some contraceptives illegal, close abortion access, abolish collective bargaining, so called 'anti-voter fraud' measures, boundary gerrymandering, close down Medi-care and other provisions, which many of their elderly supporters depend upon, and even an attempt to remove direct elections to Congress.