Ted Cruz began his Wisconsin victory speech: “As Winston Churchill said on taking office, ‘If we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future.’ The same is true today.”
Alan: To paraphrase vice presidential candidate Lloyd Bensen: "Senator Cruz, you are no Winston Churchill."
After Wisconsin, Cruz Looks To Churchill And Trump Turns To Troy
Alan: The Republican Party is -- and has long been -- determined to "open a quarrel between the present and the past" - a quarrel that would undo LBJ's "Great Society," Roosevelt's "New Deal" and reverse the darkening of America's skin.
If the GOP gets its way, it will not stop until it reestablishes America's "home on the range, where the deer and the antelope play where seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day."
Everything will be hunky dory if only we circle the wagons, turn our backs on the present and go back in time.
Here is George McGovern's penetrating analysis of The Republican Party's denunciation of The Future and The Present, coupled with its unabashed neo-necrophiliac embrace of The Dead Past.
George McGovern: "The Case For Liberalism, A Defense Of The Future Against The Past"
Alan: Cruz is no Winston Churchill. Rather, he is a dangerous pig-headed theocrat, using "Christianity" as camouflage for self-aggrandizing uncharitableness.
"American Theocracy," By Kevin Phillips
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Bill McKibben
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Bill McKibben
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