Today's GOP: Worst Political Party Since the Civil War

AlterNet by Martin Longman | May. 22, 2012 (Opinion)
The last time things got this bad was about 150 years ago -- and we needed a Civil War to resolve it.

What about the Jim Crow laws, or the Palmer raids, or the Japanese internment camps, or McCarthyism, or the Vietnam and Iraq wars? But when I started to think about it, I realized that many of the big mistakes our country has made since the Civil War were not really the result of one political party's actions. Full Story »

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We have not seen a party this dangerous in any of our lifetimes. Not in this country, anyway. More »

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