The GOP And The Tea Party Go The Way Of The Whigs

Throughout the past year I had developed a fascination with reading facebook pages and blog sites with names like "Tea Party Patriots" and "Obama is a Terrorist". Luckily for me, I don't have to "Like" these pages in order to post on them. I decided that I wanted to get into the dialogue. My plan was not to troll these sites and belittle them but to ask questions and attempt to understand why they feel the way that they do. Needless to say this was an unbelievable waste of time. My hours would have been better spent throwing large stones in the air and attempting to catch them with my face.

Here are some facts that I have extrapolated from my experience.

It doesn't matter how many real facts that you provide to support your argument, they will never accept it. For example in the case of questioning their reluctance to accept man-made climate change I presented a fairly well thought out argument with links to NASA, The Intergovernmental Panel on Science Change, The National Academy of Science and others. They claim that NASA was taken over by the Obama administration, defunded and filled with European style communists bent on destroying America. All of the other Scientific studies were debunked because FOX News had a show about a guy who found e-mails from another scientist guy who said all the climate change studies were wrong. They presented this link as undeniable proof.  http://www.friendsofscience.org

They all think that they are constitutional experts when in fact none have them have any real grasp on the document or The Bill of Rights. In one instance I was trying to make the point that all free speech is protected even in the cases of flag burning and the KKK. I said that however distasteful we find this form of speech, we must protect their right to do it and the ACLU is there to help in these cases. The response was unbelievable. The threats and the name calling was incredible!! After being threatened with violence and asked to leave the country, I had given up on that subject, which leads me to the next point.

Tea Party followers and ultra right wing conservatives are socially paranoid and religiously  schizophrenic, almost to the point of being delusional. I have had the most venomous vitriol thrown at me by people who claim to be Christians. And believe me when I tell you that at no point did I ever name call or belittle anyone on these sites. All I did was ask for clarification on statements they would post. If I had a dollar for every time that I was called a Marxist or a socialist or a libratard I could probably put a bid on that authentic Lenin autographed Ushanka hat I saw on EBAY.

But the icing on the cake was their complete insistence that Romney would win this election. They would always talk about November 6th when Obama loses the election and how glorious it would be.
I would point out in the final weeks of the election that Romney will lose New York, California, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Jersey right off the bat. That's 145 votes and the election hasn't even started yet!!! Math doesn't matter. Early exit polls didn't matter. Romney was down by 10 points in Ohio a week before the election by all accounts! Nothing mattered except for the flow of disinformation being regurgitated in the right wing snow bubble.

When the election went to Obama there was utter shock and disbelief. 332 to 206. Romney wasn't just beaten, he was ass raped. And this was a case of legitimate rape. Romney spent 25K on victory fireworks and had not even written a concession speech. This guy was so arrogant that he didn't even consider that he may lose and that he should be prepared for it. He was running for president of the United States for fuck sake!! By all counts, history tells us that he should have won. Presidential elections that take place during times of  recessions always lead to an incumbent being replaced. The difference here was that the majority of America wasn't buying the bullshit that Romney was shoveling. The Fox News watching Tea Party dimwits were so deafened by their own party's propaganda that didn't hear the sound of the Obama reelection locomotive bearing down on them.

What we are now left with is a bunch of angry tea party wackos who now believe that secession is the only answer. These people refuse to accept the fact that the country is getting more ethnically diverse, more progressive and more secular. They claim that the America that they loved is gone and it is the beginning of the end for the United States. The fact is that they are the ones who will soon be gone. America will move forward and change just like it always has. America will fight for the rights of immigrants like Latinos and Asians and Muslims just like we did for Germans and Irish 100 years ago.  Americans will fight for sexual equality for gays just like we did for women during the suffrage movement and for African Americans when we abolished slavery. We will fight for health care and fair pay and worker's rights just like we did in the 30's with The New Deal. What they don't understand is that they represent the people who were on the losing sides of those battles and they will be on the wrong side of history. Our children and their children will look back with scorn on the people who fought to stop Gay marriage, Gays in our military, Healthcare for all, The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, The new G.I Bill, The 9-11 first responders bill and a hundred other good progressive pieces of legislation. The Tea Party and the GOP will be castigated by future generations as small minded people out to destroy our form of government in an effort to disgrace our first African American leader.

Listen up conservatives. You lost this election because you were crushed by the African American vote, the Latino vote, the Gay vote, Young women, People under 40, atheists and Catholics. And guess what? It's only going to get worse, so keep up the crazy talk. Keep calling the president a Marxist. Keep trying to stop gay people from having marital rights. Keep trying to pass ridiculous personhood bills and denying women their reproductive rights. In four more years you will have another 20 million voters coming of age and they ain't buying your bullshit either. Keep being the opposition party because that is what you will face until you have gone the way of the Whigs.

Our Country Is Not America Inc.

One thing that I have taken away from the last few months of puerile jabbering (otherwise known as the Republican debates) is that conservatives believe that a good CEO will make a great President. The GOP with the assistance of Fox News and nit-wit AM radio douchebags like Rush Limbaugh  have repeatedly smashed this idea into the heads of their viewers and listeners. This talking point is like most GOP talking points...complete bullshit.

A country is not a big corporation!

The majority of Republican voters think that an individual who has amassed great personal wealth is going to somehow balance the budget, create jobs and make America prosperous. This is the furthermost thing from the reality of Corporate America. CEO's make money for the investor class. They do not care if their labor force is from this country or from Laos or Cambodia as long as it is cheap. Since the beginning of the 20th century, 21 men have served as President of the United States. Only 5 of them had real business experience. Warren Harding, Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter and both of the Bushes. This not exactly an overwhelming boost in the arm for this ridiculous theory and let's note here that 2 of these presidents (Hoover and W.) led us into the great depression and the bank collapse of 2007.

What the conservatives actually want to do is privatize all the services that our taxes have been paying for over the last 100 years. Since Reagan, they have been slowly chipping away at social services like Medicare, Social Security and the Postal Service. They have been underfunding and sometimes defunding Public Education, Health and Human Services and letting our nations highways and infrastructure crumble. They run on platforms of how government doesn't work, and once they are elected they continue to sabotage the process even further to prove the point. They continue to lower the tax rates so less money is coming in to pay for these services and then bark that the government is overspending all while calling themselves conservative.

We have now reached a very important point in our nation's history. It is the point where we the American people either elect a president who can lead a country based on the needs of it's citizens or we elect a corporatist who will ultimately lead us into fascist state. This new conservative leader will not represent us, but the corporate oligarchy. We are almost there now. The newspapers and media are completely owned by a few of these giant, bloated conglomerates. If you seriously believe that Newscorp and Fox News are not the KY jellied fist rammed up the GOP puppet's ass making it move then you are fucking delusional. CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and all the other network news programming is just a 24 hour a day psychotic merry-go-round of right wing and left wing hacks barking at each other while the moderator nods and smiles. These supposed news channels can barely present a 30 second report about the war in Syria and bloodbaths in Rwanda, but can spend brain numbing hours on a story about Mel Gibson throwing his own feces at a hotel maid.

They have learned that by utilizing Christianity, they can can subvert the constitution by denying basic human rights to gays and lesbians, woman and minorities. They wave a bible and accuse these groups of people of being evil,  lazy and morally corrupt to glean votes from frightened white people.
The outrageous fact is that many of these people who are suckered into voting for these neo-conservative scumbags are the very people who will lose their medicare, social security and public assistance if they get elected!

The United States is not a Company.  It cannot be run like one. You cannot fire American citizens. Our democracy does not need to be monetary profitable. Our democracy needs to work for it's  citizens. All of it's citizens. We are the investors and the consumers. The rich need to pony up more because they have thrived in this country and they need to give something back. The poor need to be helped so they can climb out of poverty. Our elderly must be taken care of. We need health care for all because this is America for fucks sake! People should not be dying of curable ailments because they cannot pay for it. That's not supposed to happen here. We have all forgotten about the public good. We all need to pay attention in November because if the Republicans get the White House we will become America Inc. and believe me there will be pink slips for all.

The Madhouse That Is The G.O.P

You would never know it from reading my blog, but I voted for Ronald Reagan and George Bush I.  I was a twenty-something white kid with a limited world view who didn't read the papers. I was Catholic who never experienced real poverty and hardship. In other words, I was the perfect GOP demographic. I grew up on Long Island and was only about a 40 minute ride on the LIRR into Manhattan. In my world you were either Jewish or Roman Catholic and the only real poor people that you saw were the brown faces begging for quarters at Penn Station.

When Ronald Reagan came into office, the Iran hostage crisis ended almost simultaneously and it seemed like America was coming back. The whole country was waking up and we were getting our "fuck you" shit going again. It was easy to vote for for Ronnie because we were blowin shit up, telling the Russians to go fuck themselves and everybody was working for the weekend. Iran-Contra was too confusing for my politically complacent brain and even though deep down I knew something fucked was happening I felt that the American ship would eventually right itself. Voting for Georgie the first was easy too because it was just  an extension of Ronnie's second term anyway. It wasn't until Clinton came along that I started morphing into the filthy liberal scum that stands before you today, but that is a tale for another day. The point that I am making is that it was easy for ill-informed, politically lazy white males to vote Republican back then.

What a difference 20 years makes, huh? That form of Reagan Republicanism that conservatives continually extol and weep for is practically Marxism compared to the drivel that this current crop of crazed lunatics preach. The fanatical right wing of the party has officially taken over. It does not matter what over the top, coo coo for cocoa puffs, neo-con crap they spew out! Can you imagine Ronald Reagan saying this?

"The notion that college education is a cost-effective way to help poor, low-skill, unmarried mothers with high school diplomas or GEDs move up the economic ladder is just wrong." Rick Santorum

What? College education is bad? Improving one's situation by educating oneself so they can be better citizens is wrong? It is bad enough that these cross-eyed, knuckle draggers have the sheer audacity to even utter this venom, but it is one thousand times worse for a group of citizens to push a lever and vote for these fuckers!!! This current crop of GOP stooges seem to be trying to out-stupid themselves everyday. First they were against the health care bill calling it socialism. That's right, how dare someone with a life threatening illness want to get better without going into indentured servitude for the rest of their lives. But now they are against women's health services and publicly funded breast exams and contraception!!! Fucking Contraception??!!! Didn't we really get this all figured out 40 years ago for Christ's sake? These pious, holier than thou motherfuckers preach all this shit about less government and how we need to spend less, and then create larger government by mandating that that women have ultrasounds and their vagina's probed before having an abortion that is legally their right!!

These neanderthal fucktards talk about how their is so much waste in the system and how we need to cut social programs when by far the biggest return on investment would come from expanding access to family planning through Medicaid, something made possibly through the 2010 Affordable Care Act. A $235 million investment there would lower taxpayer costs of $1.32 billion by preventing unintended pregnancies. 1.32 Billion motherfucking dollars!!!!

Rick Scott, our fucking piece of shit governor down hear in Florida wanted to make sure that people receiving welfare weren't taking drugs. Because every republican right wing asshole understands that all poor people are drug addicts right? Wrong again!!! They set up a government program to preform blood tests on welfare recipients to make sure they weren't using the money to buy drugs. So far only 2% of those tested have come up positive, the Tampa Tribune reports, with 96% testing clean and 2% declining to complete the application process. The result was an intrusive government program that ended up costing the taxpayer more money!!! How much you ask? The state spent $40,000.00 implementing the program and saved $5000.00 a month in denied welfare payments. I say to you then, WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON???

Here's what's going on. These Republican assholes have nothing. They have no jobs bill. No plan for alternative energies. No foreign policy except to release democracy drones and drop freedom bombs on third world countries. They feel that Americans workers forming Labor Unions are Marxists bent on destroying America, but rich investors have the God given right to form corporations to protect their interests. They ship American jobs overseas and pay Indonesian children 50 cents a day then complain that American workers are selfish and don't understand how to be competitive in the world market. They are all of these things and in a normal, rational, free thinking society these fat cat oligarchists would be run out of town. But they have Jesus. And they use him to distract the rabid mob away from the stinking pile of shit that is the Republican platform.

I have no doubt that Obama will be the 45th president of the united states. The ultra-conservative right wing of the Republican party have alienated minorites, women, atheists, anyone who is not Christian and LBGT. I think that they have earned the right to alienate the 18-30 white male demographic.