In their quest to regain power, have U.S. Republicans gone too far? For Spain’s El Pais, columnist Elvira Lindo laments that while it’s clear ‘the Republican Party has no compunction about making use of lies and prejudice to regain power,’ it is unlikely to be forced to pay for its many indiscretions.
For El Pais, Elvira Lindo writes in part:
Those who accentuate the divisions between people of different ideologies to the point that tolerance is unbearable should be forced to pay for it. Those who bandy about the idea that friendship between those of opposing parties is impossible should pay for it. Those who spread the idea that it’s impossible to coexist with people of a certain religion should pay for the enormous potential damage. They should pay.
After two years of a Democratic presidency, what has occurred to have increased the number of Americans who demonize Obama, consider him a Muslim? What can explain the way a significant percentage of citizens are against the building of an Islamic center near Ground Zero?
It is clear that the Republican Party has no compunction about making use of lies and prejudice against others to regain power. They do it with fury. It’s not important to them that they are splitting the country in two. Some media, dedicated to the same tactics of feeding rage, do their work. It has done so by giving undue importance to the pathetic burner of Qurans, Pastor Jones.
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