Pick a monster — any monster — and jack it up on steroids. That’s who & what the GOP has become. Having written a few horror movies in my time, I see Republicans as distinctly vampiric. But worse.
They’ve become the real life version of a story character that gets too close to the nuclear reactor core which makes their cells all go rogue. For a while they stayed recognizable but the damage is too extensive. Now their liver’s the size of a Pontiac and their thyroid glows in the dark. The radiation has metamorphosed them into a freakish Heironymous Bosch and William Blake love child.
Let’s be absolutely clear. The Republican Party gave up on electoral politics eons ago. There was no future in it for them. The handwriting on the wall said clearly “White Men Will Be The MINORITY Sooner Than You Think!” Republicans recognized that the executive branch of government was already gone (take Antonin Scalia out of Bush v Gore and Al Gore wins as he deserved to & Trump’s EC win was by a combined — and very dubious — 77,000 votes over three states COMBINED). They knew the Legislative branch also was dicey and getting dicier.
Their one shot at keeping power for now and extending now as far into the future as possible rested with gaming the Judiciary — and THAT has been the GOP’s whole focus. Mitch McConnell’s whole game plan was to hold off every possible Obama judicial nominee (especially the lifetime ones — and especially especially SCOTUS judges) to do what he’s been doing the last 2+ years — pack the bench with conservatives who will stand behind the gerrymandering and election fraud and voter suppression and utter disavowal of the Rule Of Law so as to enable permanent or near-permanent Republican rule.
Near permanent MINORITY RULE, that is.
The GOP does not care that Donald Trump has a treasonous relationship with Russia because THEY have a similarly treasonous relationship. Russia has poured millions & millions of dollars into Republican campaign coffers. Russia has worked to get Republicans elected over Democrats. That’s illegal on every single level — yet here we are.
The Republican Party has turned into every one of its very worst instincts juiced to its most perverse exaggeration. They are greed on steroids. Hypocrisy on steroids. Duplicity on steroids. Cold-hard-cynicism on steroids. They are Machiavelli squared, cubed and raised to a power of a thousand. The end justifies the means — and the means include murdering the whole planet.
Can people who think like this — who make deals with the worst devils imaginable — redeemable? They might be — I don’t care to find out. We’d have to gamble — betting on Republicans — giving them the benefit of the doubt. That’s a shaky house of cards to build on — even before ya start top loading it with bullshit.
It’s long past time we actually listen to Maya Angelou — when people (okay — when REPUBLICANS) tell you who they are? Believe them. The Republicans have told us repeatedly that they’re monsters — heartless, cavalier bigots, racists and misogynists hell bent on destroying the rest of us before we’re smart enough to destroy them first.
Republican extinction isn’t an “if”, it’s a “when”. They’ve held onto power as long as they have by suppressing the vote — both directly and by fostering a culture of ignorance where civics class means reciting the pledge of allegiance (and why would people in a free society have to PLEDGE their ALLEGIANCE to something — it’s a blatant contradiction of terms!) The massive non-voting part of the electorate has become woke. They’re like White Walkers in the always fearful Republican imagination — a legion of “Democrat”-voting creatures back from the electoral dead. When more Americans vote, it’s bad for Republicans, good for Democrats.
That fact means something. When more Americans vote, they vote for Democrats. That’s because the majority of Americans ARE Democrats — in heart if not by voter registration. A lot of them are socialists too — just don’t tell them; their heads will explode.
The most woke group of all — women. Black women. Women of color. African American women especially. Along with Native American women, African American women have been treated despicably. America has treated all women despicably but I hope you’ll indulge me here. The schoolyard’s been especially mean to those two groups and it has to stop.
As they assume more and greater political power, they will MAKE it stop. That’s the proof that Republicans will absolutely positively become extinct and probably before we all know it. They’ll collapse in a chaotic heap like the Soviet Union did, crushed by the overwhelming weight of its own corruption.
It can’t happen soon enough. Hell — I look forward to standing by the Republican Party’s grave — my “old fella” in hand — as I take a good, long, satisfying leak all over their headstone.