By: Zack Burgess
"The two parties have combined against us to nullify our power by a ‘gentleman's agreement' of non-recognition, no matter how we vote ... May God write us down as asses if ever again we are found putting our trust in either the Republican or the Democratic Parties." - W.E.B. DuBois, 1922
If ever there was a home for fighting, the United States Congress is it. Once known as a bastion of freedom, it has now become a governing body so full of vitriolic behavior that it makes one wonder why we continue to watch and a support such immature antics in our politics - and political discourse.
Congressman Joe Wilson had the audacity to yell at the president, calling him a liar. Conservative radio blowhard Rush Limbaugh has called for his failure. And the chairman the Republican National Committee, Michael Steele, is cool one minute – if you get what I mean – and divisive the next. Yes, it’s that ugly. Which makes one wonder: What’s happened to patriotism in the age of Obama?
Unfortunately, the cognitive dissonance is a serious reality. Instead of them being happy that our perception around the world is improving, the GOP seems satisfied with the status quo. Do Republicans live in an intellectual void? Or is it a tiny box of irrational, reflexive nationalism, girded by a vicious partisan savagery whose shame knows no boundaries? The concern, frankly, is that it appears that Republican opponents of President Barack Obama either do not understand or simply do not care about what’s at stake for our country.
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