Susan J Douglas; "C" word.

Susan J Douglas

I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching [Republicans] denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’” A professor explains that studies show the GOP is bad. A University of Michigan department chairwoman has published an article titled, “It’s Okay To Hate Republicans,” which will probably make all of her conservative students feel really comfortable and totally certain that they’re being graded fairly.  “I hate Republicans,” communications department chairwoman and professor Susan J. Douglas boldly declares in the opening of the piece. “I can’t stand the thought of having to spend the next two years watching Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Ted Cruz, Darrell Issa or any of the legions of other blowhards denying climate change, thwarting immigration reform or championing fetal ‘personhood.’” She writes that although the fact that her “tendency is to blame the Republicans . . . may seem biased,” historical and psychological research back her up, and so it’s basically actually a fact that Republicans are bad! Douglas said that in the 1970s she did work for a Republican, Rhode Island’s senate minority leader Fred Lippitt, but she hates them all now because Lippitt was a “brand of Republican” who no longer exists in that he was “fiscally conservative but progressive about women’s rights, racial justice and environmental preservation.” Republicans now, she writes, are focused on the “determined vilification” of others, and have “crafted a political identity that rests on a complete repudiation of the idea that the opposing party and its followers have any legitimacy at all.” (Apparently, the irony of this accusation given the content of her own article was lost on her.) Douglas adds that Republicans are really good at being mean because ... Douglas adds that Republicans are really good at being mean because studies have proven that they usually have psychological traits such as (disagreeing with her...).  Full Story My guess?  She's auditioning for MSNBC.  Still, she makes the B1G look bad.  I'll pray for her soul.