• blahblahgabor (edited 9 years ago)
    +3

    It isn't often that the word flummoxed comes to mind. But, I am. It seems true that there are many in the Republican party who only seek to destroy the government, the republic, that they swore to protect. I can't understand as much as I try to find the middle, the compromise, the incrementalism that is the keystone of how politics work in the US. What is their goal?

    • spaceghoti
      +2

      Grover Norquist summarized their goals in 2001:

      I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.

      • blahblahgabor (edited 9 years ago)
        +2

        My first thought was to defend. My second thought was reduction, and, the third, acceptance of the quote.