My Problem With... The GOP
(Note: This is
the continuation of the ongoing look at the factors and candidates that make up
the 2016 Farce. Each of the “dominant”
factors will be examined. The author
will not entertain nor permit anyone to try to negate the focus of each look by
saying “X is bad but Y is even worse” because they all are bad in their own
way. Each will have their turn to be
examined and castigated, and you probably will not like it when it is your
group’s turn.)
When I first started the whole “My Problem With” series earlier this
year, I was hoping to cover all of the GOP and DNC presidential contenders in
the 2016 Farce. Sadly, I had no idea
that by the time I got to this series, most of the wannabes would burn out and
drop out faster than the ABC Network’s remake of “Uncle Buck”. Hell, Ted Cruz dropped out right after I
roasted his pompous self-righteous ass, and he was supposed to be the one with staying
power! Remember? He was supposed to be the latest to bear the
title of “God’s Anointed Candidate”.
Before we could even say “and then there were three”, we all pretty much
presumed it would just be two... a modern-day Lady Macbeth and a career narcissist
with an ego that is so big that his ego has an ego and a publicist and runs one
of his businesses. (We talked
about Bernie, and I’ll go more into his problem next time around.)
So now it’s two... if you still believe in the Orwellian script that says
that there are and have always been two and only two political parties since
the dawn of existence. And, yes, it is
just that... a script. A bold-faced
fraudulent lie. But way too many people
believe in that fraudulent lie. In fact,
that lie has become so big, it is quite literally a death-cult. A death-cult that will spell out the end of
the United States of America if we allow it.
But that’s a separate subject for a different time.
And while I’ve had some modest fun racking those dominant presidential
contenders over the verbal coals, I’m not done doing it. Because even though I’ve gone through the
candidates, they’re not the only ones responsible for the 2016 Farce being the monumental
unholy farce that it is. The dominant
political parties are equally to blame for this being the 2016 Farce, and the
next two weeks are their supposed “moments to shine” as they each hold their national
conventions and make their so-called “choices” official.
And since this particular dominant political party will be starting their
convention when this article posts, they get to go first.
I have a problem with... the Grand Old Party, which they still pretend to
call “Republicans”.
First a disclaimer. Long time
readers know that I was once an actual card-carrying dues-paying member of the
GOP. I drank the “Regan Republican”
Kool-Aid of getting the government off our backs and out of our lives. Then I found out that they weren’t the
pro-freedom group they pretended to be.
In fact, they wanted to put people like me in prison because I happened
to like reading Playboy Magazine (long before it was
replaced with the fraud that exists today).
This is the party that claims to still be the “Party of Lincoln”, when,
in fact, if Abraham Lincoln knew what the GOP was doing today in his name, he’d
be showing up in Cleveland with an axe-handle in each hand and a boatload of whoop-ass
for everyone there. But, of course, he’s
long since dead and buried, and so were any dreams that he helped to bring
about.
The GOP claims to be a “big tent party”.
Everybody is supposedly “welcomed” there. Except I discovered more than twenty-five
years ago that this “big tent” was really just a Christian extremist revival
tent. Everyone was “welcomed” just as
long as they sat down, shut up, paid their money and voted the way they were
told to vote.
The GOP claim that they are the “party of freedom” and of “less
government” died a long time ago. They
are now the party of 9/11; the party of the “new normal” of police state rules
and Homeland Security and war-on-demand.
And they don’t hesitate to remind everyone of that!
That is why, for the longest time, I have refused to refer to them as “Republicans”. They no longer deserve that name. They have no moral claim to it after the crap
that they’ve been pulling. They behave
like a gang of geriatric party animals, so I will continue to call them the “Grand
Old Party”.
As a matter of fact, someone should start a drinking game for the GOP
convention. Every takes a drink the
minute the words “terrorists” or “Islamic extremism” or “Radical Islam” is
uttered. Then again we could drive
everyone into the emergency room with alcohol poisoning.
So what is their part in the 2016 Farce?
Simple... they helped to make Donald Trump not only their nominee, but
also they created their own worst nightmare.
There has been a basic disconnect of the GOP from the general
populace. With every campaign season –
and that has become non-stop now thanks to both dominant political parties –
the GOP has slowly gravitated towards their extremist base. We saw this back in 2008 with Senator John
McCain and his running mate, Governor Sarah Palin. McCain was obviously the “establishment”
nominee. He was the “sane” one. The “reasonable” one. But underneath that was the groundswell of
extremism that Palin channeled like Linda Blair in “The Exorcist”. Hell, she still channels it, and she’s not
the only one.
The problem is that the GOP only has their extremist base left to count
on, and they damned well know it! They
have cultivated their crazies like so much Midwest corn. That’s what keeps them in power during the non-Presidential
campaigns. They’re the only ones
fanatical enough to show up at the ballot box all the time.
Unfortunately, at the top are still party bosses and party players...
otherwise known as “the establishment”.
People like Senator McCain and Mitt Romney and the whole Bush family. These are the people who think that being
President is simply a matter of paying your dues and waiting your turn.
And it is this precise disconnect between “the establishment” and their
base that created the situation that they are in right now. Where a self-promoting narcissistic clown
like Donald Trump can take over the GOP and turn it into the ultimate version
of his TV series “The Apprentice”.
And how the hell do you think he got there? Huh, GOP bosses? Tell you what, I’ll answer it for you.
Let’s get brutally honest here... like I’ve been saying over and over
again, the GOP bosses have nobody to blame for Trump being their nominee but
themselves! They created the situation
whereby the masses could no longer tolerate the games being played by “the
establishment”, and thus they went for whomever would appear to actually shake
things up.
Think about it. Every single
so-called “establishment” candidate crashed in miserable defeat and failure.
Every. Single. One!
And all of the so-called “outsider” candidates that the “establishment”
tried to adopt failed as well! Senator
Marco Rubio, aka “Little Marco”, was a viable contender until the “establishment”
tried to adopt him as their champion... and then he failed miserably! The Canadian-born #Cheat2Win Senator Ted Cruz
was considered a viable alternative to Trump... until the “establishment”
declared him to be their final champion... and then he failed miserably!
Hey, get this into your pompous heads, GOP bosses: your party may be going on, but you are a gang
of turncoats and losers in the eyes of your own supporters! That is why they picked Trump! He may be talking crazy, but he’s talking
their kind of crazy.
And the only good thing that the GOP has right now is that Trump had enough
sense to pick someone like Governor Mike Pence as his running mate. Pence may be a bible-thumping milquetoast,
but he’s far better than Governor Chris Christy or the nutty hypocrite, Newt Gingrich,
who lately has been channeling the ghost of disgraced drunken loser Joe
McCarthy in his attempt to be like Trump.
So I have no sympathy whatsoever for the GOP and the Trump-sized mess that
they are in. They have a candidate that
a lot of people don’t like, that the “establishment” doesn’t want, and they
have to put him up as their champion and defend him because that is what “the
base” demands. He played by their rules
and he won the nomination, and now they have to live with that.
But, you know, the GOP wouldn’t have this problem if they didn’t
cultivate the polarized hatred in the first place. If they stopped letting Fox News and talk
radio rile the masses into a frothing frenzy and reminded the base that they
can’t have a political party of just themselves. That having a “big tent party” really means
accepting other people into their ranks, and not just as mute sheep.
And maybe it would also help if the GOP bosses were to tell their
so-called “destiny” wannabes that getting that nomination really isn’t a matter
of “waiting your turn” and “paying your dues”.
It’s not a goddamned merit system.
Then again, after seeing how their counterparts in the DNC got their
nominee, I can understand why they keep thinking it is one.
But I suppose that’s asking for too much isn’t it? Maybe it would be best if the GOP simply take
the hit, and if they happen to lose, then they can decide if they should follow
their predecessors into oblivion and let another political party take
over. After all, that is how the “Party
of Lincoln” came to be in the first place.
Otherwise they’d still be Whigs and Know-Nothings.
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