Not a single member of the GOP will ever recognize the successes of the Obama Administration. His biggest accomplishment is moving our nation out of the worst financial debacle since the great depression, and caused by his predecessor. His second greatest achievement is the renewal of our nation’s reputation throughout the world. However, thanks to a destructive and extremist group within the GOP, much of what should have been accomplished failed. They can call themselves the TEA Party, or the Freedom Caucus, whatever they choose, but what they have been in truth is the ‘party of no.’

When a candidate has no experience and no ideas, he has a single option; attack the present administration with falsehoods and labels. This has been Donald Trump’s tactic, along with criticizing members of his own party. Now Ben Carson has followed Trump’s lead, and is displaying ignorance and a denial of science and reality.

Earlier this year the former neurosurgeon claimed that homosexuality was a choice; climate change is not caused by man; he’s not sure that gravity exists; and he believes that if those who died in the holocaust had been armed, it would never have happened.

Here’s the latest on the GOP buffoon. He frequently compares our nation to the Third Reich of Nazi Germany. Really?

It’s easy to label anyone, but that is always action taken when a person lacks knowledge. Mr. Carson obviously fails to believe in historical facts along with science. I don’t recall President Obama rallying our nation to dominate the world militarily. It is obvious that the President does not have 100 percent of support from all of our nation’s people, unlike Adolf Hitler. The facts prove that it is the GOP which wants to remove our Constitutional rights. It is the GOP which has moved us away from democracy and into an oligarchy.

Carson’s denigration of the working class has never faltered. He doesn’t believe that all Americans should have health care, only the privileged. He said this about the Affordable Care Act. He claimed it to be “the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery” and compared it to slavery.

He didn’t stop there. He claimed that if the GOP hadn’t regained control of the Senate in 2014, the ‘anarchy’ in Washington would have prevented an election in 2016. Really?

He joined other anti-Americans such as Palin, Limbaugh and Coulter blaming the ‘liberal media’ for much of what is wrong with our nation. Lack of intellect is unpreventable; lack of knowledge is unforgivable. The major media fails everyone, and the only singular network which calls itself a ‘news service’ when it is 100 percent biased and merely a tool of conservatives is FOX Noise; and Carson loves FOX.

The good news is that neither Carson nor Trump are truly a danger to the American people; they are gifts to the Democratic candidates. The first Democratic debate one week ago today proved that they are willing to talk about the issues and not provide a circus sideshow.

While the GOP continues to implode, Trump and Carson are witnessing their polls numbers rise while those behind them are declining. This is a frightening fact for the other presidential wannabees.

By November 2016, America may have a singular major party; and that’s not a good thing for our nation.

Op-Ed

By James Turnage

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