The element which is conveniently missing from today's Republican Party is the human one. People's hopes and realities become numbers and words, devoid of personality and easy to erase.

The GOP/corporate right-wing, it seems, never really considers the consequences of their actions.

Everything sells. Like integrity. Like democracy. Like truth. Like deeds.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the Republican Party has allowed itself to become.

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