I suppose I shouldn't complain about the internet service on my road being screwed up, there's a teacher on the road who's having to deal with that while teaching remotely. She may have to go somewhere else to set up, all I have to do is grit my teeth as I'm prevented from doing online research for this pro-bono writing I attempt.
Though I have found I'm still exhausted from the past year, maybe it's just as well that I haven't been writing thousand + word diatribes.
In the little listening I have been doing through pirates of MSNBC, Chris Hayes raised one of the best issues I've seen raised in the last four years. It was riffing off of a quote from the Chamber of Commerce, Wall St. Republican Senator John Thune from one of the worst white supremacist states, South Dakota, he asked,
"Do they want to be the party of limited government and fiscal responsibility, free markets, peace through strength and pro-life or do they want to the be party of conspiracy theories and QAnon?"
Chris Hayes, correctly, points out that no one, not even the Republican base wants that, which, due to it being tried and flopping, screwing the Republicans own rural racist base to the extent that Donald Trump hammered Jeb Bush to pieces in 2016, the Republican Party is, in fact and not idiotic "conservative theory" the party of white-supremacy and insurrection and is just fine with Marjorie Taylor Greene and QAnon, Steve Bannon, Mike Flynn, etc. because they are motivated by their racism and their hatred and their largely whipped up media driven resentment in which they blame all the wrong people, exactly as the corporate media planned over the past sixty years.
There are no decent Republicans in 2021. Not Liz Cheney, not Adam Kinzinger, not Lisa Murkowski or Mitt Romney. The last two got together with the disgusting fraud Susan Collins to try to destroy aid to the American People AID THAT, AS HAYES POINTS OUT IS EVEN POPULAR WITH SOME OF THE WORST REPUBLICANS BECAUSE THEY ARE DESPERATE. They may announce their disdain for the Taylor Greens, the Lauren Boeberts, maybe eventually even the Matt Gaetzs and others, but what they want is the flip side of a depraved party which is a danger to the United States. Mitt Romney has the distinction of having voted to remove Trump through conviction last year and he almost certainly will do that this year, the others not so much.
As I noted recently as far back as the Republican Convention of 1964, the baseball hero Jackie Robinson was noting that the racists had taken over the Republican Party, the first one in which the white supremacists the Republicans took in as Democrats started passing civil rights for Black People and others into law, dominated the party. His account from his memoir is worth reading and re-reading because everything that was obvious in this past election was already in place AND ON THE CONVENTION HALL FLOOR, PUT THEIR BY RACIST REPUBLICAN DELEGATES FIFTY-SIX YEARS AGO. It was a trend that started even earlier, back in the 1940s when the Democrats really started making changes in light of the lessons from fighting Nazism.
Anyone who is pretending that the Republican Party, a party that unites the money interests, the financier class, the increasingly tiny, flaky and work eaten stalwart Republican families that started out that way while Lincoln was still alive (hardly still extant in rural New England) and the Americanazis, the old line white supremacists, the more dangerous modern ones, often founded among the college credentialed and more amorally depraved and degenerate than the genteel racists of the Republican past. I have had to recently point out to someone who bought his old PR that the posing elitist William F. Buckley was opposed to voting rights laws for the same reasons that today's Republicans sitting on the Supreme Court do, that Black People will vote.
No comments:
Post a Comment