As an Oregonian I occasionally view the campaign ads from Republican Senate candidate Monica Wehby. She's challenging Senator Jeff Merkley, Democrat yet I cannot understand who Monica Wehby actually is as a person nor can I find any specifics about her platform.
Monica Wehby, brain surgeon, white female Republican is in my opinion the perfect example of the spoiled, privileged narcissist who believes Oregonians should simply accept her at her "word". Why, because she's a rich white, cute American and that is all we need to know.
The ads she's running are dripping with contempt, where you can see her disdain for working Oregonians with her body language and lack of specific policy proposals.
Suddenly, my television broadcasts ad after ad with Republican Monica Wehby, in her doctor garb declaring Oregon is broken, needs to be repaired as well as she'll "repeal and replace the ACA".
Of course Monica doesn't offer specific one about what is broken or what she'll replace the ACA with. Ironically, Republican Monica Wehby is an M.D., a freaking BRAIN SURGEON, so if anyone should have insight into our health care system it should be her.
Like all (most) pathetic Republicans of today, they truly think we're unable to research the ACA, we're unable to understand the Oregon budget and won't ask questions because Monica Wehby is in two bubbles. The first is the Republican "alternate reality" they've created where they only engage their constituents, listen only to Republican media and people who reinforce her beliefs.
Second, and this is the point I wish to make - Republican Monica Wehby is dangerous and I'm not talking about her stalking episodes (yet) I'm talking about a spoiled white American who happens to be an attractive white woman, highly educated who's enjoyed all America offers and thinks she's above us.
You know the type, probably born on third and thinks she hit a triple. Now, I give her much credit for becoming a brain surgeon. That takes intelligence, hard work and commitment.
But with every commercial, every bit of information about her she is obviously arrogant, so much so that we're supposed to just "take her at her word" and not ask questions.
Oregon's budget and economy are improving since Democratic Governor John Kitzhaber and brilliant Democratic President Obama have been in office. In spite of the Oracle website debacle, Oregon expanded Medicaid and created health exchanges.
Our tax revenues are increasing and the Oregon Constitution mandates a balanced budget. We continue to pursue economic diversity and most Oregonians care about our precious resources and environment.
Yet, Ms. Wehby tells us we're in trouble here in Oregon and that she'll (try) replace the ACA, but doesn't tell us how or with what and she's a brain surgeon. If there's anyone who should have an idea of our health care system it is her, yet with breathtaking arrogance, she simply states and I paraphrase - "Obamacare is a miserable failure and we're all going to suffer and die with it in place, and she'll work hard to replace it".
I for one, have had enough of corporations and spoiled, privileged Republicans treating me like I have no mind of my own. Additionally my friends, we simply don't have the luxury anymore to debate and humor these assholes like Republican Monica Wehby.
America provides a system where Monica Wehby enjoys all life has to offer, and again she earned her M.D. and I applaud that, but she's decided, and it is obvious in her ads and her public statements that she thinks she's better than you and me, and that we should just accept her without question.
You know narcissists believe they're special and not prepared to admit fault in anyway and Republican Monica Wehby is the poster child for American's breaking bad.
Narcissism is rampant in America where we're told wealth creation is a virtue, that profit motive never fails and good looks are good character.
The Earth, our planet and the precious innocent creatures dependent upon humans for existence are begging for mercy, screaming at us in their own way to please stop polluting and cutting down trees. Begging us to stop dumping our plastic water bottles etc. in the oceans and for the love of everything to stop spraying Roundup in our weirdly prioritized front yards.
America is declining in education, health care, leading in prison population, consumption of fossil fuels and military expenditures yet many still think we're exceptional because World War Two, and we are not patriots if we even mention that we need to improve.
I, as a patriot of Earth and a human being can no longer live with myself if I don't interject myself in the Oregon, American and world debate.
We're pumping gigatons of CO2 into the air daily, we're poisoning our animal partners to have pretty lawns and we don't have to use Roundup for pretty lawns.
When I call Monica Wehby's office or e-mail her she and her staff never answer my questions, just always respond with something like "Democrats are destroying Oregon and vote for me because freedom."
People, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden, and members of the Kos community I BEG you to join me in highlighting Monica Wehby as a person and her campaign as why Republicans and some American Caucasians, often supposed Christians - as the problem.
White privilege, narcissism, consumption, willfully ignorant and dangerously willing to de-humanize people who disagree with them, people like Monica Wehby must no longer be humored. We simply don't have the time and we owe it to our families and future generations to begin the serious take down of corporate, profit driven consumption as good humans.
Of course our founders deserve some credit, but more importantly, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X., our grandparents who shed blood for humane workplace treatment, my dogs who look to me for everything, the butterflies and bees who we depend on as well as they are simply creatures trying to survive and propagate.
We owe it to them to push back, hard and fast. The accumulation of wealth is not most people's motive. Being white or born into wealth are not what is important. Abundant trees, fish, water and energy are a thing of the past, the 19th century frankly and those days are over.
In Oregon, radiation from Fukushima are now in some of our fish. Mercury and trash in the oceans, aquatic species near collapse. Republicans' stole our retirement money, launched the Iraq war for oil and Halliburton, and tried to take our social security too.
Monica Wehby refuses to address these most important topics, instead telling Oregonians basically, "Democrats bad, Republicans good" and that is all you need to know.
I'm Monica Wehby, rich, white and attractive therefore you should accept me at my word. I've dated women like her, where they were so sure of my male desire for sex, or American desire for money that I was lucky to dine with them.
Zero depth, zero concern for anyone or anything except themselves. Of course there are plenty of both sexes who are narcissists, and as human nature has it, they are both ignorant and learned.
I ask the Kos community, Senator Jeff Merkley and all Oregonians to highlight Monica Wehby, Republican and her condescending approach to us, and the very real and extreme issues we are facing.
She is the poster child for Americans' who refuse to acknowledge that we share this world, and that the days of behavior without concern for economic and ecosystem consequences are over.
The very nerve of Monica Wehby, to tell me I don't need to know her plans to replace the ACA, and to declare Oregon "bad" when it is finally coming out of the epic, biblically bad performance of Republicans' George W. Bush and the Republicans from 2000-2008 to act like those years didn't exist.
My friends, NOW is the time to laugh out loud, and face to face to Republicans like Monica Wehby who truly, actually and breathtakingly try to pretend that the incidents from 2000 to 2008 didn't exist.
Now is the time to laugh in their faces and to literally say to them, until you enter reality and stop the negative messaging techniques, and listening to hate radio, Fox "News" I am not your friend, nor are you welcome in my house.
Remember the civil war, if you've read about it. Republicans these days are similar to the confederacy, who were traitors and wanted to continue to enslave African Americans for their personal gain.
The south fired first, the south still resents the war and tries to rewrite history about the civil war, and we are in our second "civil war" if you will and this time there is much more than the United States of America at stake. Our world is at stake.
Republican Monica Wehby, I ask you - What are the problems with Oregon you mention? What will you replace the ACA with? Do you believe that the Civil Rights Act and Great Society were necessary and do you support them?
Do you believe a magic god will appear one day, and save humanity, thus denying the need to care for animals, life and future generations?
Ms. Wehby, do you believe the free market will repair our bridges, clean our air and educate our children?
Finally, Republican Monica Wehby, why have 2-3 men who knew you closely gone to the police to get complain about you stalking them?
One more thing Ms Wehby - what is your opinion of Republican president George W. Bush? Please, he existed and 9/11, 11 embassy attacks, Katrina, Medicare Part D, economic collapse, Iraq, Afghanistan, bank bailouts, huge deficits thus $12 TRILLION of debt created under his Republican policies.
I won't even let you in my house, much less vote for you until you act like a human, not like a robotic Republican talking point if you cannot treat me and all Oregonians respectfully and answer these questions.
As a matter of fact, Republicans have been the cause of many of my family's economic travails and if you and your party continue to try and scare me about Benghazi and the ACA, I consider you an enemy of my family, America and the very human species and will work to defeat you.
In conclusion Monica, I don't care that you're white, cute or a brain surgeon. I care about climate change, the 6th great mass extinction and if I can see a doctor with an illness, get help without becoming an indentured servant to the ruling class Republicans like you are so infatuated with.
Let me be clear Ma'am, you are a destroyer of life and if you are one of the religiously insane who think there are magic, invisible angels floating around, a hell where I will be burned in flames, tortured for eternity and that corporations are people then you must be stopped.
America can be exceptional again, but only if we stop killing, consuming needlessly and believing that wealth is the only goal.
I am your enemy and I post this as one tactic towards my opposition to you and people like you. I am a reasonably smart person and just because you tell me something, doesn't mean I won't fact check you and I am insulted by your lies.