Portrait Of The Senator As A Stinking Flower Of Decay

Lindsay Graham is certainly in the running to be the most disgusting gay man in America, certainly among living ones and is right down there with those from the past,  Roy Cohn, James Buchanan*, J. Edgar Hoover.  If he goes for Andrew McCabe, I, as a gay man, will certainly be on the side of the button-down straight guy with whom I probably have little to nothing in common. 

Why, a lot of people wonder, would Lindsay Graham, who, if you may recall, played a never-Trumper before Trump got the nomination and who is now slobbering all over him, wanting to be nothing but his tool as head of the degraded Senate Judiciary Committee?   Well, there are lots of reasons, one is that the most prominent Southern faggot in public life is a neo-Segregationist, or, at least, knows that's where his own best interests lie in advancing.  He wants to put more Federalist-fascists on the Supreme Court and lower federal courts to pretty much annul the entire range of civil rights legislation, including any that benefits LGBT people.  Lindsay Graham has lived his entire life under a system that makes him a pariah but which has always had room for gay men who have no morals, no honor, no sense of civic decency, look at that list I gave above.  He knows that servants of power and wealth are always protected except when they do something really bad and their protectors have fallen. 

I tend to suspect that Trump or some sleaze like Pecker or Putin or some billionaire oligarch probably has something on Lindsay that he knows they'll use to crush him like the little grub he is if he doesn't do their bidding but it might not be that.  You can imagine how bad that could be, anything from officially outting him to the South Carolina voters who have been pretending he's not a faggot even as every gay man with any political knowledge I've known has much known that about him for his entire time in public life. I've known men who reported seeing him partying for decades. But maybe it doesn't take overt blackmail.  Having no morals, no honor, no sense of civic decency, he'd do it for money and power. 

Lindsay Graham is exactly what you would expect a person without any morals to be like, one who isn't placed by chance or by physical endowment to be even worse than he is.  His being in the Senate only proves that South Carolina is, as it has been since the Constitutional Convention, a place where the worst hold power with few exceptions to break that rule.  He is the poisoned, putrid flower of the decadence of slave power, a corpse flower growing parasitically out of the decay of democracy.  He has no real beliefs, no real convictions, he is a willing tool of corruption.  He's been rewarded for being one.  He knows that the TV networks are his fellow tools of money and power.  They'll always have him on and never really challenge him on anything.

* I've been thinking more about the Buchanan administration lately because there are many parallels, a totally corrupt and degenerate Supreme Court working hand in glove with an incompetent and corrupt president whose devotion to slavery was based in or enhanced by his sexual relationship with Alabama Senator William Rufus King, who, no doubt, was susceptible to influence over fears of being exposed as much as Trump fears Putin exposing his perversions.  The fracturing politics, the regionalism, the floridly corrupt media and general corruption of the antebellum period. 

I think there is more than a good chance that, like the late 1850s, we are on the verge of a terrible and bloody period only this one is going to be far worse.  The bloodshed of the Civil War was something that no one was prepared for because of the recent advances in arms and weaponry, those are far worse today.  The Federalist-fascists have been making sure that the equivalent of the slavery side, today, has as much of that as their paranoid, hating hearts can manage to get.  I hope when its over, whoever is left will take a good look at scrapping the Constitution that contains the corruption endemic to our system, the system that has put power into the hands of a degenerate like Lindsay Graham.