Creeps.

Editor,

I had to turn the video of Chris Christie's speech off at 20:40.

Incredible.

A bald-faced party claiming it is telling the truth.

Amazing.

A fear-mongering, divisive party accusing others of being exactly that.

It's as if Mr. Christie stood in front of a mirror, noted every moral shortcoming of his own and his party, then listed them all as faults of his opponents.

One line that got me is that he, or Republicans, whatever he said, stand staunchly against the proposition it is every man for himself.

Unbelievable.

It is their guiding principle.

And the business about polls, that Mitt Romney, or the Republicans, do not calibrate their every mendacious utterance to what polls tell them.

Throughout the speech, and especially the shots of the crowd, I had the distinct feeling I was looking at a fringe agglomeration of cranks, not a major political party.

If the Republicans were not backed by extremely rich individuals and corporations, they would be no more than a handful of disgruntled malcontents huddled in a cafe somewhere grousing about a political End of Days and plotting, impotently, to take over the world.

I hate to harp on 1920's Italian fascists and 1930's Nazis, although I must say that star-trooper-uniformed paramilitaries securing the Republicans' bubble world does feel as menacing to me as Black or Brown Shirts.

But it is the depth of their hatred for a society that actually does revolve around the idea of sharing that gives me the creeps.

Re: "How the Republicans Built It" (8/29/2012)