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I’m writing to you today to announce the death of the Republican Party. It is no longer a living, vital, animate organization. It has been replaced by warring tribes of rightwing zealots – evangelicals opposed to abortion, gay marriage, and science; libertarians opposed to any government constraint on private behavior; market fundamentalists convinced the “free market” can do no wrong; corporate and Wall Street titans seeking bailouts, corporate welfare, tax cuts, and deregulation; right-wing billionaires wanting more of the nation’s wealth than they own already; and white working-class Trumpoids who love Donald and hate Muslims, blacks, and Mexicans.

Each tribe has its own organization, its own sources of campaign funding, its own ideology, and its own candidates. What’s left is a lifeless shell called the Republican Party, but the Grand Old Party inside the shell is no more.

I, for one, regrets its passing. Our nation needs political parties to connect up different groups of Americans and to sift through prospective candidates. Without a Republican Party, there’s nothing standing between us and a bunch of liars, bigots, egomaniacs, and creeps who decide on their own to seek the Republican nomination president.

What do you think?

George Washington said political parties would ruin the nation. He was right

I think you have a point,... but both parties are full of crap. Electing Obama the totally inexperienced community organizer who couldn't pass a background check to work the secret service detail that protects him was the death of the Dems,... and Trump leading the pack in the GOP shows how bad the GOP has gotten. However,... its the voters that have created this mess,... look who they elect.

Political parties are obsolete in an age of everyone simply being for themselves fueled by self-selected sources of ideology and confirmation of ideas they already have, half-assed or otherwise. Both parties have run their course and serve little function today.

both parties have been largely irrelevant since 1913 when the Federal Reserve Act was passed. "give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who makes its laws" and all that..

Wow, I half way agree with you. That's a first. I won't, however, go into detail on the parts I don't agree with you on.

Yes. Yes I did.