We are witnessing a kind of theater of cruelty, where policies that kill and/or demean certain people are celebrated in a widely televised national forum.

‘It’s Sadism’

Revised govt formula shows new poverty high: 49.1M

Susan Brooks Thistlewaite, Special to the Washington (DC) Post

Submitted by David Culver

Three Republican debates have produced three occasions of extraordinary moral callousness.

We are witnessing a kind of theatre of cruelty, where policies that kill and/or demean certain people are celebrated in a widely televised national forum.

Cruelty is celebrated, and thus learned. And our nation becomes ever more coarse and harsh as a result.

In the GOP tea party debate, the audience cheered when a question was asked whether society should just let an uninsured man in a coma die. “Yeah!” several members of the crowd yelled out.

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