Should the GOP be banned?

They always stand for wrong and never stand for what's good. They have no conscience...they do not seem like human beings.

Banned? No.

Shamed and shunned? Absolutely.

They are mean, so yes.

Racist fascist pseudo-religious nutjob ignoramuses who can’t be trusted with the economy. Banning is too good for them

It should be added to the US List of Domestic and International Terrorist Organizations.

Yes. Time to flush them down the toilet!

well the repub party of present is certainly not the party it was before the 1960s. They are basically an anti-truth, anti-science, hate mongering zealous cult that wants to bring the country backwards.

Look at their most recent bunch of assholes who inhabited the White House: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II and Trump. All of them had asshole agendas that had to be cleaned up by Democrats

Noam Chomsky called the Republican Party "the most dangerous organization in human history."

It's the outdated 'family values' shtick that pisses me off most when they are closeted, on their third or fourth wife, had numerous affairs, steal money from taxpayers, etc.. Seriously. If there were a Christ and he came back, the fucking GOP would be under the stone that created the government buildings they hold office in.

Hitler's Party was banned. I see no difference here

I think they will become defunct and irrelevant anyhow. They're playing 20th century politics in a 21st century world, and they show no interest in evolving or outreaching to a population with rapidly changing values and points of view. JMO.

Most of the republicans in Congress should be taken to the rim of the Grand Canyon and shoved over.

Here's an old joke I've re-worded.

You know what's a crying shame? A bus load of republicans careening off a 1000' cliff ...................... with 2 empty seats.

It should be classified as a hate group

A RICO investigation might be in order, among others.

[quote] Most of the republicans in Congress should be taken to the rim of the Grand Canyon and shoved over.

Please.. no! What have I done to you?

[R8] THIS! Noam Chomsky thinks so, and so do I. Furthermore these current motley crew of Republicans need to be dump in the hauge/ICC.

If they should be banned, make it for actual wrongdoings:

Attempting to subvert the Constitution

Denying people the right to vote

Opposing basic human rights

A long list of hate crimes against blacks, gays and other minorities

Encouraging acts of violence against other citizens and branches of government

The list can go on, but the truth is, nothing will happen. Their stupid, often gullible and bitter supporters are still with us.

As somebody who has voted since LBJ's time, it was Reagan who messed up the party. He brought the Dixiecrats out of the Democratic party and created the rethugs.

They were made up of Lincoln hating racist idiots from the confederacy days, southern religous nutz that embraced "family values", etc. Religious fakes like Jerry Falwell.

TheOrangeShitAss is the ideal president of those wackos

I don't think they should be banned. They, including their supporters like Rupert Murdoch with the FOX News media outlet, should be shamed and ridiculed for their shameless hot button pushing manipulations to create a hostile environment in the US.

The "Never Forget" should be attached to them (how their shameless hypocrisy, their bold lies, criminal activity, hate and fear mongering got them into power).

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Republican Party?”

The Republican party should be treated just as the NAZI party was after WWII. Many of them in Congress and around the country should be arrested and taken before a military tribunal and if found guilty, sentenced appropriately.

That's great R19, except that the repigs have proven over and over again that they have absolutely no shame.

So freedom is limited to you and your opinion, OP? Wow. That’s quite a responsibility.

r9 The party of family values is officially over. It went out the door with Trump. They're welcome to try that shtick again, but they'll just be laughed at.

Treason , Racism , Hate mongers … to name a few .

GOP - hypocrites and Looters

The members of the GOP are less honorable versions of the robber barons. They think the money, they steal from the US treasury putting it in their own pockets and the ones of their supporters, belongs to them.

The Republican Party are Anti Democracy. They are fucking fascists. Fascism is the mortal enemy of the USA.

Let devise a plan to: give all money to the wealthy, use tax payer money to enrich the rich and keep burning fossil fuels to eradicate humanity should be ban polices. Any political party espousing this, should be banned.

R18 Reagan made it worse and solidified the party we know today (along with Gingrich and his partisan warfare in the 90s) but wasn't it Nixon with the southern strategy thing in the late 60s/early 70s that really turned the party to trash after civil rights act?

I think the Democratic Party should be banned first - for not standing up for the people and failing spectacularly time and time again. They knew better. And caused the needless death of thousands and the untold suffering of millions.

And put Pelosi Schumer and Schiff behind bars for incompetence. For as their enemy puts it:

Donald Trump was willing to halt criminal investigations to “give personal favors to dictators he liked”, according to a new book written by his former national security adviser John Bolton.

In his memoir, due to be published later this month, Bolton reports that Trump pleaded with China’s President Xi Jinping to help him get re-elected by buying more US agricultural products, according to accounts of his forthcoming memoir.

In his pursuit of a good personal relationship with Xi, Trump is described as brushing aside human rights issues, even providing encouragement to the communist leader to continue to build concentration camps for China’s Muslim Uighur population.

In his book, which Trump’s justice department has attempted to stop being published, Bolton argues the House impeachment inquiry should have ranged much further than just Trump’s efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government for his own political gain.

According to excerpts published by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and the Washington Post, Bolton describes a pattern of corruption in which Trump routinely attempts to use the leverage of US power on other countries to his own personal ends.

“The pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn’t accept,” Bolton writes, adding that he took his concerns to the attorney general, William Barr.

The anecdote involving Xi is particularly damaging for Trump in the run-up to an election in which he is trying to position himself as tough on China, and his opponent, Joe Biden, as being in Beijing’s pocket

They should be put in border detention centers

Yes. It’s a criminal cartel.

Why no poll?

OP = Butt-hurt Right-Wing Troll Post!

F&F then move along.

Yes, they're literally worse than the Nazis and the Confederacy. At least the Confederacy had the good taste, manners, and decency to support the Democratic party and the Nazis weren't foolish enough to believe in supply side economics.

You realize with a few edits this thread would be at home on Free Republic?

So would you, R36, with that grotesque false equivalence.

FYI to the obsessives, the election is over.

Banned for treasonous activity. For not upholding the Constitution. Who can initiate this move?

How can you ban a political party in a democracy?

Don't be a sore winner op.

Winner? You promised a landslide!

Can a nazi political party be banned in a democracy?

no r42 see "Skokie"

(it was made into a movie with Danny Kaye)

And we're paying for that mistake right now.

Should a country allow a political party that seeks to overthrow the country?

How can they go around spouting blatantly false accusations without impunity?

The same way a chicken runs around after being decapitated.

They need not be banned if they split off the QAnon and MAGA factions.

The GOP is rotten and riddled with MAGAts.

For many of the same reasons the Nazi Party is illegal in Germany.

How can you ban something that half the country supports? People cried about Trump being a fascist wanting to eliminate any oppositional opinions.

We can't do the same thing. You just have to convince people that the democratic candidate is better, which has happened three out of the last four presidential elections.

The Nazi party only did 12 years of damage. The GOP has been holding this country back since before Adolf Hitler was even born. No, the Nazis are not worse, they just tried to make up for lost time.

Yes, even National Socialism is preferable to supply side economics.

Lincoln was in the GOP. They haven't always held us back.

Lincoln was a racist who killed Indians and wanted to send Black people back to Africa. Based on that, John Wilkes Booth did this country a favor. Even then, actors knew more about what’s best for this country than the GOP did or ever will.

I hate the GOP so much that if Hitler had been fighting with Teddy Roosevelt instead of Franklin Roosevelt, then he would’ve been the good guy.

If you didn’t vote for Joe Biden, then you deserve slavery.

All Republicans should be forced to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue in diapers.

Why can't people enjoy the victory. It is like you are obsessed with hating the republicans.

All Republicans belong in gulags. And these gulags should be at the bottom of active volcanoes.

I would support the Democrats even if they openly supported slavery.

Should a democracy allow a party to operate that is vowed to destroy it? It’s a national question.

Oh the arrogance of thinking that everyone agrees with you cause you're so amazing. THE TRUTH is that almost half of the country does not. And the last time I checked, the vote of an idiot equals that of the most enlightened of our citizenry.

R4 ironically, if the GOP were banned, then we'd only have a single party government. That's kinda borderline fascism, right?

Because they lie, chest and steal, that's why. They are not a political party, they are the Mafia.

[quote][R4] ironically, if the GOP were banned, then we'd only have a single party government. That's kinda borderline fascism, right?

Fascism isn't fascism when fascists are the ones with the jackboots cutting off their windpipes.

Has it become a domestic terrorist organization? If not, then no.

It became a domestic terrorist organization the day they started the War Between the States.

Filibuster is anti- democracy. Of course the gop wants it. Get rid of it. Ban the party.

The Rethugs in the State Legislatures across the country are in a war against Democracy. I'm an elder and I've never seen such treachery and treasonous behavior, from an insurrection to Rethugs supporting Putin over our current POTUS. I feel like I'm living in a Bizarro world.

If people were automatically required to vote like they do in Australia, we wouldn't have this problem. There are huge masses of people who do not vote in our country and that's a problem.

[quote] The Nazi party only did 12 years of damage. The GOP has been holding this country back since before Adolf Hitler was even born. No, the Nazis are not worse, they just tried to make up for lost time.

R52's post must be the most imbecilic thing I've read on DL in a while (and that's saying a lot).

The war that the Nazi Party started resulted in the deaths of ca. *80 million people*. And probably an even bigger number were injured and died later. That's like if a QUARTER of the entire modern U.S. population was killed.

Of course it doesn't seem that bad for people living in the States. Because, hey, the Nazis did almost no damage to U.S. cities. People could still take their kids to the pool and throw BBQ parties. People didn't even bother locking their front-porch doors. For most Americans, life went on like normal. Which is why most Americans have little appreciation for the horrors of war - and why both GOPers and Dems keep voting in war criminals into office.

[wuote] I've never seen such treachery and treasonous behavior,

Yes it is treason. The gop must not only be condemned and mocked but tried for treason and put behind bars or executed.

R71: The antiwar movement was nothing but a front for selfish and racist white men who would rather let people of color suffer under the whims of a dictator then actually inconvenience themselves by doing anything about it. Trump proved that irrefutably.

War is progressive when the enemy is deplorable. Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria was the most progressive bombing this country has ever engaged in. Not since the bombing of Dresden has a country had it coming this much. You’re basically a Nazi if you don’t support war with them at this point. They hate everybody Hitler hated. We need several more progressive airstrikes and drone strikes on deplorable shitholes both foreign and domestic. If you are antiwar, then you are pro-Trump.

[quote] Filibuster is anti- democracy. Of course the gop wants it.

Sure why not but the old fashioned way. No filibustering by email - and when did this happen??

So, here we go. No sitting, resting, eating, drinking, bathroom breaks. One time only. The turtle can shit in the senate floor. He’s been shitting on democracy so what’s the big deal.

[quote] [bold]War is progressive[/bold] when the enemy is deplorable. Joe Biden’s bombing of Syria was the most progressive bombing this country has ever engaged in. Not since the bombing of Dresden has a country had it coming this much. You’re basically a Nazi if you don’t support war with them at this point. They hate everybody Hitler hated. We need several more progressive airstrikes and drone strikes on deplorable shitholes both foreign and domestic. [bold]If you are antiwar, then you are pro-Trump.[/bold]

Fascist war hawk @ R73, go take your meds. Invaders Obama and Biden supported Jihadist extremists in Syria to topple the elected *secular* government. This will come back to haunt the Pentagon and blow back in its face. Anyone who supports invading & occupying other far-away continents is clearly a fascist.

the GOP is a terrorist organization

No, I don't want them banned. I want them to get their sanity back.

It's not terrorism when terrorists are on the receiving end of their own tactics.

[quote] Fascist war hawk @ [R73], go take your meds. Invaders Obama and Biden supported Jihadist extremists in Syria to topple the elected *secular* government. This will come back to haunt the Pentagon and blow back in its face. Anyone who supports invading & occupying other far-away continents is clearly a fascist.

Anyone who opposes bombing a country that bans homosexuality is a homophobe.

If bombing a homophobic cracker shithole is fascism, then Heil Biden, Heil Harris, and Heil Pelosi! Seriously. bring on fascism if this is your idea of fascism.

[quote]Invaders Obama and Biden supported Jihadist extremists in Syria to topple the elected *secular* government.

You only oppose war with Syria because Obama is Black. Admit it, you racist motherfucker.

It is racist to oppose wars waged by Black people against anyone lighter-skinned than themselves, and you fucking know it, boy!

If this US neonazi group can be banned, why not the GOP if it continues to fan destructive racism and prevents voters from voting in a democracy? It’s just a master of degree, or time.

Bump

You mean in a similar way to the Nazis banning their competition? Because there's nothing better for democracy than a one party system...

Only a stupid pussy would want to ban something they do not like.

Throw them all in jail for treason. Problem solved.

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[Quote] You mean in a similar way to the Nazis banning their competition?

No. In the way extremely right and fascist nazi and neonazis are banned in a democracy.

General Milley confirms fear of a coup and that the Russians owned traitor trump. We knew that. We know that. This is the GOP.

They need to be exterminated like the nazis were. Sure many survive and went under cover but the fear of God needs to be put into them. We need trials for treason and executions.

Should GOP members of Congress who deny the electron or took part in the January insurrection be allowed to hold public office?

the GOP is a terrorist organization

They are deliberately putting people in danger of their lives for their political ends. And they are all vaccinated while telling others not to get vaxxed. Yes I'd call it terrorism too.