Most Republicans don't have convictions to retreat from. Following the more consistent Democrats in more slowly implementing their premises is not a kind of leadership, intellectually or otherwise. Compromise now means the statists taking what they can and coming back for the rest later. Those still naive enough to be disappointed in Republicans had false expectations. It illustrates why education for better ideas is so important and still may have a chance.

That requires a level of objectivity he doesn't seem to have.

The Democrats are far worse. The Republicans often talk a good talk during the election season, then fail to deliver once elected. The Democrats, on the other hand, don't even pretend to have any respect for traditional American values, capitalism, or individual freedom. They are all about group rights and left wing economics.

Indeed, been there, done that, could not afford the t shirt...

Nickursis-Captain Queeg was not on trial. Barney was defending Lt. Maryk, Queeg the chief prosecution witness.

What will irk us most in all of this is the two sets of laws. One reserved for us subjects and the other reserved for those in high positions who can afford the legal representation, usually paid for by us, to drag out the legal penalties for many years to come. I have always maintained the lawyers in these cases are the ones who get very rich on our dimes and if you know anything about lawyers you know that the vast majority are liberal and democrat.

Though I agree that Norm Chomsky was a 'party member' not just a 'fellow traveler' as they use in code... I must disagree that Ayn Rand would be hated more than republicans, and the following is why. Ayn was against religion, communists are against religion, the republican party stand is pro the One Truth God "I AM" and His Son Jesus. This former statement is alone a major reason that 'Norm' would have a more visceral hatred of the republican party.

The Republican party is both leading and following. They are leading those who actually believe in what they purpose to stand for, while following the Democrats straight to Hell. Republicans at the politicians level suffer from a fatal flaw. I forget who said it but I love this quote and Republican politicians really need to take it to heart, "You can't compromise with someone who wants to kill you. What you gonna let them kill you just a little bit?" They keep compromising their positions in order to get their agenda advanced but then the Democrats make another run at the issue and the Republicans compromise again and again. It is NEVER ending, they are fighting a full fledged retreat on their convictions. This is why the American people get behind them and then are so disappointed, and this is why Republicans are so dangerous. As to more dangerous than anything in the history of the world? Well that remains to be evaluated after the fact. Obviously at the moment it doesn't look that bad but 100 years down the road...well time will tell. I will stand by the statement that it is the most dangerous currently going on as it enables nearly all of the other negative things going on today, with ISIS as just 1 example.

One would think it will, but for the last 25 years or so even undeniable evidence of wrongdoing for a democrat has been ignored by everyone, and any hint of a Republican issue is instant jail time. I liked Trey Gowdys interview on Fox Tues night where he basically absolved Comey of any wrongdoing in regards to Hillary in that he thought he was doing the right thing, as he stated the Justice Dept was tainted. Gowdy then let on that they have uncovered some other issues though that do go back to Hillary and Obama, but declined to say anything as it is still under investigation, but the Fox person stated "Issues where Hillary and Obama colluded to cover things up" and he said "Well, that seems obvious". This will all end up like a game of Stratego with lots of casualties and everyone hoping to impart more on the other side. That is what is wrong with the whole system, everyone just wants power, and will trash the country to get it.

Now they got their Special Prosecutor and want to see Comey's notes that Trump ordered him to stand down on the Flynn investigation. If Comey is the big note taker then lets see all the notes on Hillary regarding Benghazi, regarding Uranium sales to Russia, regarding Susan Rice and Vallerie Jarrett. How about the notes on the tarmac plane visit by Bill and all the times BHO commented on how there was no wrong doing. I hope their special investigation uncovers so much more than any BS collusion by Trump for which there is zero proof of so far. I hope the investigation comes up and bites them in their own ass.

That is a hard statement to contradict, in that there is nothing to really prove otherwise. One would just have to hope that he will wake up to the fact this is not a TV show he can just walk away from, or rewrite to his content.....

The deeper problem is that he doesn't have the knowledge or attention span to say something longer than his 140 character emotional tweetbursts. He can't even read a teleprompter convincingly when someone else writes it for him (often followed by his tangents contradicting himself). He isn't going to grow up, intellectually or otherwise; it's too late for that -- for the same reason that you can't explain to a ten year old that he is immature and what to do about it. There is no base of knowledge or experience to build on. At least the 10 year old can grow up over time, while Trump has ossified his neural paths into emotional, range of the moment Pragmatism as the psychology of his thinking.

That is indeed very true, and almost reminds me of the lecture Barney the attorney gives the crew of the Caine after the trial of Captain Queeg. He clearly points oput that none of them tried to support him, because they all assumed he was a loon and thus not worthy of their respect or support. All I see id 2 groups of politicos, who are identical in their moral and emotional turpitude, and the fact Trump took away their "entitled leader" pissed one off so much they will stop at nothing, and the fact he is not one of the "special few" makes the others want to help. Thus he is doomed unless he grows up, and gets serious, and stops the tweeting war (it is no longer a useful weapon and does not distract) and calls out the Republicrats for what they are. He keeps compromising and giving away his political capital to the Republicrats and gets crap legislation in return.

Ok, I go with that.. a little dark, but essentially correct.....

The Republican Party is not leading us to Mao and Stalin. They aren't leading anything. They are echoing the same premises as Democrats and other more extreme collectivists. Their default as an opposition is certainly dangerous, but the ideas are the real danger. In that sense they may be more dangerous than Democrats because their default in the name of capitalism serves to misrepresent it. But it doesn't make Republicans a more dangerous organization than anything in the history of the world.

Chomsky is wrong because of his inverted ethics. He is a collectivist.

Chomsky is a communist. His criteria is individualism and freedom as the basis of evil, so he does mean it. By that standard Republicans are worse than Hitler and Ayn Rand is worse than that.

We do not define the most dangerous as meaning "number of deaths" of anything that happens to be living. The number of abortions is irrelevant.

Chomsky thinks we are more dangerous than the Republican Party given the criteria he used. He is opposed to industrialization and a refusal to engage in collectivist sacrifice. He has now added refusal to submit to climate hysteria.

Rights are not based on an entity being "alive".

Yes, there are RINOs in the party, but I would classify the party as "inept" before "dangerous". Reminds me of the dog that finally catches the car it has been chasing for months or years, and has no idea what to do next. LEAD, damn it, LEAD!

If we require "conscious of it's environment" as a prerequisite to define life, then we must determine that Shia LaBeouf and the entire Kardashian clan are not living....

Back when we were still a Representative Republic the Federalists party was thought to be working to turn America into a plantation where most people worked to support a small elite class. The Federalist party split into two parties and became the Republican and the Democratic parties. Looks like to me they are still working toward the same goal.

Just depends on what is considered life. Pro Lifers seem to believe that life extends from human conception to birth. Otherwise life is expendable depending upon the laws one accepts. Seems like the Right prefers having as much life behind bars as possible, while the Left just has a slightly different idea of who should lose liberty.
Who wants to be ruled anyway? So that leaves out the Democrats and their majority rules belief. Who likes DEA, EPA, Patriot Act, etc. leaving out a lot of desire for the Republicans. But who gives much credence to what Chomsky says anyway?

Is a 1 cell organism alive? I would say so. Is it concious of it's environment? Probably not. But the main question is it considered alive!!!

Haha! If I believed in god I would agree with you...

So if we are going down that road, perhaps FIRE is the deadliest thing as far as killing life, or perhaps drought. Kind of goes off of the subject of "dangerous organization" however.