A big part of me would love to F-bomb tRump & his merry band of the Worst and the Dullest right back into the Stone Age. Except, that is where they want all of us to go. Superstition, magical thinking and denial of inconvenient facts are the hallmarks of what it means to be a conservative in today’s America. Stupidity is the most sought after quality for membership in the republican base. We are watching people celebrate their inability to think for themselves by protesting against measures taken to protect their lives.
What is left of the republican party have become lockstep (or goosestep) parrots more invested in belonging to the cult than in looking out for their own best interests. Republicans are now unapologetic extremists, eschewing judgement and sanity for fear of the other.
Building an extremist movement is driven by preying on the fears and insecurities of a group. For an individual targeted by insincere propagandists, it’s almost understandable. Except, for the denial of evidence necessary to becoming a true believer. We see little difference between the rage filled faces at a tRump rally or the rage filled faces at a Paula White church hate service. It’s the same for the audiences following David Duke, Ammon Bundy, Rocky J. Suhayda, Andrew Anglin, Alex Linder. Rachel Pendergraft, August Kreis III, Don Black, Matthew Heimbach, Brad Griffin, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and even US congressman Steve King (the names you don’t recognize are all Nazi, KKK, Militia or White Nationalist endorsers of Donald tRump).
It the cynicism of the leadership that moves this all into the crimes against humanity level of misrepresentation and deceit. There is no appreciable difference between the Mitch McConnells, Susan Collins’, Kevin McCarthys, Franklin Grahams, Charles Kochs and Donald tRumps of the world. They are all in the business of selling smoke. There is no substance to their claims, no honesty to their words and no thought to the consequences of their actions. Today’s republicans are doing their absolute best to make the worst of the worst look inviting by comparison.
Republican have created a cult and sponsored the appalling intermarriage of:
- Religious Extremists
- Anti-Government Extremists
- Racist Extremists
- Homophobic Extremists
- Misogynistic Extremists
- Xenophobic Extremists
- Anti-Science Extremists
together with a large number of mostly uninterested, uninvolved and complacent Fox viewers who are unwilling to do the work necessary to think for themselves. Mullah Omar, Osama bin Laden, Muammar al-Gaddafi and Pol Pot would all fit in well with the authoritarian focus of today’s republican party.
Sure, many of them hide behind the skirts of their libertarian goddess, Ayn Rand, and her simplistic, juvenile fantasy world of me, me, me and more me. They pretend to be all about the individual. But, at their core, they are all about bowing and scraping at the tiny feet of their leader. They all identify with his faux victimhood and rejoice in his boorish attacks.
I would wish a pox on all their houses, but they are doing a hell of a job spreading it to all of us. November, here we come, and we aren’t going to forget.
chloris creator fought her demons and brought us a heck of a GNR today: Good News Roundup for Friday, April 17, 2020: Getting ready to kick some R b*tt!