Republicans Tell the Truth!
Recently, more Responsible Republicans and a growing contingent of former and current military officers are edging slowly away from the icy totalitarian grip of our “Dear Leader.” The overwhelming bulk of Congressional Republicans, though, remain in zombie-like lockstep with his ever accelerating descent into what increasingly appears to be an illegitimate and kinky love affair with fascist sentiment. It is mind boggling that Republicans cannot bring themselves to aspire to a higher vision than that which has bumbled and bungled its way through the COVID-19 crisis causing innumerable unnecessary deaths and botched all opportunity to bring the country together in the aftermath of the vicious murder of George Floyd.
I might, and perhaps more of the general public might, have some modicum of respect and less gut level disgust for Congressional Republicans if they would just occasionally act with some degree of integrity and reveal the truth in their souls for a change. When they compare Donald Trump to Abraham Lincoln, or breathtakingly even to Jesus Christ, they can’t possibly be serious. I imagine the collective national guffaws to be deafening when they debase themselves in this way. Rather than defending, denying and obfuscating at every turn the routinely horrifying conduct of their thoroughly inept, ill-equipped, narcissistically sociopathic and maniacal “leader,” wouldn’t we all just really appreciate it if they would for once tell it like it really is? Why can’t Republicans just tell the truth, dammit?
I’m looking for a full disclosure of their Republican inner truth that would no doubt sound something like this.
“Ya know, this President is pretty much of a colossally embarrassing, lying, immoral, self-serving charlatan…we’ll give you that…and he’s likely broken at least a dozen federal laws while President and is without question under the thumb of a cadre of Russian mob bosses who bailed out his businesses. Yet we sure didn’t want him removed from office and could stand to see him reelected for all sorts of reasons that benefit us personally, financially and politically. As the saying goes, he may well be a complete idiot, but he’s our compete idiot.
The truth is we really like tax cuts for the wealthy and cash heavy corporations, and those cuts and the rampant deregulation El Presidente’ has engineered in every federal agency are helping to drive a real hot stock market bubble and what was an artificially stimulated economy and solid growth in jobs that don’t pay a living wage before COVID-19 hit. Translated, that means that with this guy in office money is flowing like a swollen river into our pockets and the pockets of our donors, and we’re all for that.
And we’re also very okay ignoring the exploding deficit we’re firing up because we think that will eventually give us the ammunition to push for drastic cuts in degenerate social programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. We fundamentally hate social welfare programs that we think are just giveaways to underclass “takers,” paid for by privileged white men like us or the “makers,” and so we brand them as “socialist” because that inexplicably scares the heck out of people who really have no clue as to what that word means.
What’s so wonderful too is that the inevitable longer term social costs of hefty deregulation like white collar crime, occupational illness and injury, environmental degradation and chemical exposure related diseases and deaths won’t surface until we’re long out of office, so we’re just giddy to be reelected now and then we can blame our successors and let them take the inevitable hit for the aftermath of our greedy little financial pleasure party. And let’s be clear that we just love the avalanche of Trump appointed conservative federal judges being crammed willy-nilly into the judicial system to help us fight our “culture war”against the obscenely popular national liberal consensus, so there is definitely a lot for Republicans to like about Donald J. Trump, wouldn’t you agree?
Intellectually…surmising momentarily that Republicans actually have an intellect and not just a reptilian brain stem…having this type of Republican in the White House also helps us manage our irrational fear and loathing of an emerging multi-cultural United States electorate. Keeping white men in control now gives us time to continue to amass obscene amounts of wealth for our golden years and our elitist, privileged white families for generations, and it just doesn’t get any better than that.
And the truth is we have also known for quite a while that climate change is both real and man-made, but it just scares us silly, so we can’t possibly acknowledge its reality. It scares us into apoplexy not because the poor, the elderly, children and people of color will preferentially suffer and die as a result, either. Admitting that climate change is real scares the stuffing out of us because it is a searing indictment of an unrestrained capitalist economic system and uncontrolled free markets that have been very good to our well-to-do families for centuries and have allowed us to blissfully profit from plundering natural resources, poisoning the environment and exploiting, oppressing and sickening working class people for decades. How cool is that? Pretty darn cool, we Republicans would say. Accepting climate science as a fact, which it no doubt is, would also anger our gargantuan donors in the fossil fuel industry, and we just can’t anger donors, or maybe we won’t be reelected.
So, our personal and political reality is a pragmatic one, that’s for sure. Unrestrained self-interest and greed are awesomely wonderful things, are they not? We tolerate the breathtaking chaos, corruption, cruelty and criminality in the White House because that highly imperfect, imbecilic man-child is just really, really good for us personally… financially and politically…and we can’t tolerate the idea of giving Democrats any sort of a win in any form at any time in any way and truly hate the idea of liberal democracy almost as much as we love the idea of white dominated oligarchy, like we see in a great place like, well, Russia. Finally, the “lame stream media” angers and frightens us because they report facts, reveal truth and call us out repeatedly on these monumentally selfish aspects our inner reality, so we get our talking points exclusively from Faux News to prop up our surreal alternate reality.
So there you have it. That’s our truth. That’s our Republican inner self. Get over it.”
(Original artwork by Joan E. Hargate)
