I realized last night that I have been anxious about Republicans for 25 years. Listening to eternal right-wing douchebag #Mancow on the way to my first Chicago job each morning made me realize how stupid and easily manipulated people can be. That was officially when I realized that I had to be opposed to that worldview and line of thinking.
Then there was the Brooks Bros riot, created and perpetrated by republican staffers and starring then-intern #BrettKavanaugh, that threw the presidency to Bush, then 9/11, and the onslaught of lies by Bush, Rove, Rice, Cheney... all of them really, the most disciplined pack of liars ever. I mean, I remember thinking after them that no one would be able to vote R again with a clear conscience ever again. It was that obvious how badly they botched 9/11, the Iraq invasion, Hurricane Katrina, and all manner of things.
Then the deluge of racist horseshit because of Obama that showed me some truly ugly shit about people I knew and considered friends, and then the Heritage Foundation created the Tea Party, notwithstanding the fact that taxes were the lowest they had been in 50 years. Then ACORN got defunded because of #JamesOKeefe and #ProjectVeritas, even though everyone knew it was fake but realized that fighting against an entire right wing media apparatus was going to be too much.
Then Trump, a pandemic, SCOTUS corruption, not excluding Brett Kavanaugh getting his payback and being rammed through to SCOTUS despite the most credible claim of sexual assault ever.
And always at the edges, these blood gargling sociopaths and slaves to Mammon are working behind the scenes, whittling away at civilization to send us back to feudalism, so they can use their family wealth to live like gods on earth. All of this has been against the backdrop of global warming, which scientists have been talking about for about 200 years, and which became political only after NASA (the folks who put people on the moon and know how to land a probe on an asteroid) went public about it in the 80s, and which Republicans have been pretending doesn't exist despite all evidence to the contrary ever since. Seriously, look up Frank Luntz and "climate change" instead of "global warming" to help them cover up the fact that we cannot just take whatever we want from the earth, all 8 billion of us, indefinitely, without forethought or consequences. Short-term profit and the election cycle are always gonna trump science and ethics.
I remember the halcyon days of Mitt Romney, who manages to seem decent by comparison. He was at a campaign fundraiser with a bunch of other rich, white dudes and said, See, Democrats look at this beautiful room and fine food and they say, No one should live like this. But Republicans look at it and say, Everyone should live like this. And all of them laughed because, How true, the free market will make us all rich... Or whatever the fuck they believe in their little rich people terrariums.
But the tell was in the room with them: the servers, waitresses, and staff hurrying around catering to these assholes' every whim. As for me, I'm with the kitchen crew and vote like it. Fuck them and their lies forever.