{"id":12217,"date":"2021-06-01T10:38:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=12217"},"modified":"2021-06-01T10:38:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T14:38:16","slug":"elizabeth-cook-lynn-the-real-truth-about-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/06\/01\/elizabeth-cook-lynn-the-real-truth-about-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Cook-Lynn: The real truth about the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"\"donaldtrump\"
A crowd chants \u201cNo More Trump\u201d as a balloon depicting Donald Trump is inflated, then deflated, at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C., on November 7, 2020. Photo by Indianz.Com (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a><\/figcaption>\r\n
It\u2019s not just bad history; it\u2019s a \u201ccult<\/div>\r\n
Tuesday, June 1, 2021<\/div>\r\n
By Professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\n\u201cThey are sooo tribal,\u201d smirks Meghan McCain<\/a> from her very own protected pipeline (The View<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0as she tries to criticize the GOP\u2019s\u00a0\u00a0stance on just about every useful and rational thing. She is a determined cultist but doesn\u2019t know it.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThis\u00a0\u00a0above phrase was her response to the threat of her party in the process of ousting Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) from her assignment as Chair of the House Republican Conference, which seems to mean that McCain is defending her own kind.\u00a0\r\n

<\/p>\r\nAt one time both of these Daddy\u2019s Girls belonged to the Republicans which was, we thought,\u00a0a political party.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\n

<\/p>\r\nNow, however it seems to have\u00a0turned into a \u201ccult\u201d of people led by one man,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Donald Trump, a\u00a0so called \u201ccharismatic\u201d who has spent the past four years on \u201ctwitter\u201d holding\u00a0power over a now polarized senate.\u00a0\r\n

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn. Courtesy photo\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n

<\/p>\r\nRepublicans are confused about the positions these two politicos\u00a0have taken concerning their colleagues since\u00a0any thinking person knows that such a polarized state of affairs that is now the GOP is a \u201ccult\u201d,\u00a0no longer a governing body.\u00a0\r\n

<\/p>\r\nThe Grand Old Party has turned into a modern day\u00a0death cult. And unless they find a way to agree that the party is finished as a governing body, they can\u2019t really start over. I’ve been taught to believe in a two party system.\u00a0\r\n

<\/p>\r\nMcCain doesn\u2019t seem to know the difference between a tribe which is a governing body\u00a0and a cult which is a way to destroy a government. For her to\u00a0call\u00a0dissenters \u201ca tribe\u201d is to fail to understand what a governing body\u00a0like a \u201ctribe\u201d really is. A tribe is a democracy, a government with signed treaties with other nations, and historical reality. Not a \u201ccult\u201d, not a movement,\u00a0not \u201cleft\u201d,\u00a0not \u201cright\u201d. It is a way of life.\r\n

<\/p>\r\nA cult is\u00a0a dangerous, divisive collection of non-thinkers,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0often religious,\u00a0that thrives for the moment, sometimes forever!\r\n

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