Having written a post that accuses the GOP of being a bunch of psychopaths, I felt it was prudent to follow up with a few words of clarification. First, it should be obvious that not every registered Republican is a psychopath. In fact, I suspect that most of them are relatively normal, if misguided, folks who honestly love their country. The problem is that this ain’t their father’s GOP. They probably still think their party stands for fiscal responsibility, limited government, sensible foreign policy, and the Constitution. Unfortunately, they’re wrong on all points.
Today’s Republican Party is run by and enabled by a bunch of greedy, grasping, Machiavellian thugs who will do and say most anything to keep the GOP in power. These are the psychopaths I was referring to in my post. They have no concern for governing except as an incidental side effect of political gamesmanship. For them, the legislative process is nothing more than a Darwinian struggle for dominance. Right and wrong are chips to be wagered in a high-stakes poker game, and it’s winner take all.
Many Republican voters are abysmally uninformed, either because they’re disinclined toward politics or they’re just too damned busy trying to get by that they have more fundamental priorities. The Republican leadership excels at maintaining this status-quo, both by the endless stream of spin and lies coming from ‘conservative’ politicians and pundits alike and by oppressive economic policies that give people less and less time and energy to think beyond their next paycheck.
Then there’s the big ass foam finger bunch, the “we’re number one!” win-at-all-costs Rethugs who wouldn’t care if their Party nominated an axe murderer as long as that axe murderer could win elections. These are the psychopathic GOP leadership’s fellow-travelers: the College Republicans and other ratfucking Republican operatives; the screeching partisan hacks who think they’ve won as long as they don’t admit they’ve lost; the crazed, rabid fascists who are beyond the reach of reason. Psychopaths? Probably. Despicable? Certainly.
The psychopathic Republican leadership and their fellow-travelers are the malignancy that threatens this country’s continued survival as a democracy. This November 7, we can take the first steps in excising this cancer; we’ll have another shot to go under the knife in 2008. Surgery is never fun, but it’s for our own good. The alternative is a slow, painful, lingering death.
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