But many Republicans disliked it. More to the point, most Tea Party Republicans disliked it. So the treaty was scuttled. Even wheeling Bob Dole, a Republican icon, onto the Senate floor was not enough to persuade the small-minded, diversity-fearing xenophobes that go by the name of the Republican caucus.
I have little more to say. I am, once again disgusted by the Republican party. You can read Gail Collins piece in today’s New York Times if you want to know more.
Winston Churchill reportedly said “If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain.” The undercurrent here is that if you’re a Republican in 21st century America you have no heart, no compassion, no ability to think beyond your own tiny, egocentric worldview. You should NOT be representing the fine people of this country!
There has been an undercurrent in American politics since before WWI that kept us out of the League of Nations (and therefore doomed it to complete and total failure), that tried to keep us out of the UN (these were the same Isolationists that did not want to prepare for WWII and tried to dismantle our Army and abolish the Marines after WWII and before Korea) and since then have beaten a drum about all UN treaties as "undermining our sovereignty. Some of this has even reached the local level here, with opposition to Agenda 21, which asks that people try to make development sustainable. The locals are sure the UN will swoop in an make then recycle or something.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lunatic fringe and always have been but lately too many people have been listening to them, afraid of things like a joint UN/Russia thrust to take over the Denver Airport with Russian Special Forces.
Sorry, Walter but you were right. 'Mericans are stupid.