Foaming Republicans - Larry Beinheart at Huffington Post

Foaming Republicans
Larry Beinheart
Huffington Post

"Today's Republican Party is a stool that rests on three legs of fear: fear of foreigners, fear of dark people and fear of sex.

The issues that touch on these fears are usually called hot-button issues. But a better term is 'foam at the mouth' issues. Because they make Republicans foam at the mouth.

As does any person or any idea that challenges that foaming.

Foaming is now most visible around the "immigration" issue.

The "immigration" issue is not about immigration.

It's about Mexicans, those dark foreigners. There are no Minute Men, or Second Men or Hour Men for that matter, out to patrol the frozen wastes from the Straits of San Juan de la Fuca to the St. Lawrence Seaway. There are no foamers screaming for the Navy to get out on Lake Superior and shoot those Canadian canoes out of the water before the illegals reach Minnesota and take up residence in Lake Woebegone.

...Skip"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-beinhart/foaming-republicans_b_22033.html

I don't think those things are ALL Republicans are afraid of (they seem very afraid of ideas, change, uncertainty, decision-making, responsibility, and cooperation too) but this article makes good points.

from all the other fears.. especially the fear of being small in a big, big world.. like everyone else. Too bad that being afraid of being small will mean other places get the market on alternative fuel technologies. Other countries will be healthier and more equitable. More democratic. Better educated. More ready to face the rest of the world.

interested in the kinkiest stuff) . . .

but they know that sex sells, and it brings the butts into the pews . . .

with his characterization of the Republican party as a three legged stool.

The Republican party is more like a simple stool, as in something you don't want to step in.