The Abiding Danger of the so-called Tea Party - author unknown
When the Republicans realized they had shut down the government they CHEERED on the floor! Members of the Press described their apparent "elation" and the word "giddy" was the most heard and reported attribute assigned these morally-compromised Congressmen posing as self-important statesmen.
Repeal of the ACA is nothing more than a pretense. Their intent all along (and even when running for office) was four-part: (1) Shut the government down; (2) Await its surrender; (3) Failing that, threaten default; (4) If all else fails... summarily kill the hostage. This end-game would be, by any reasonable measure, a declaration and execution of war -- one against our collective well-being. This act of betrayal (if carried out) would indelibly and forever sully the good faith, credit, and word of what was a great nation -- hollowing out the hopes, dreams, and expectations of the regular people of America for generations to come.
These secessionists are still fighting the War of Northern Aggression -- and hate, with little or no pretense, a government always striving to be inclusive, our egalitarian society, and the cohesion of the Union. They will, if they can, do more damage to our people, our economy, and our way-of-life than any outside terrorist group could ever dream of achieving.
These so-called Republicans are an erratic coalition of coded-racists, conspicuous hypocrites, neo-Confederates, birthers, secessionists, those who would impose theocracy, the cognitively-challenged, the proudly ignorant, anti-intellectuals, science-deniers, default-deniers, homophobes, sexists, misogynists, xenophobes, absolutists, sellers-of-fear, and those ever-overtly vocal professing quasi-Christians who act like anything but real Christians -- using the tenants of Jesus selectively, narrowly, and without context -- and then doing so as a weapon to bludgeon the poor, the sick, women, working people, non-whites and non-believers.
Having all the attributes of low-functioning sociopaths, to a man and woman they scream with abandon platitudes like freedom, America, family, patriot, and values -- and do so with projectile speed and with indiscriminate-dispersal while having no thought or genuine feeling invested or understanding of the sacrosanct concepts in question. For them the medium in which they swim is hate radio, paranoia, and conspiracy -- the more fantastic, the more readily-transmitted like some horrible contagion. These are reactionaries who, rather than being for someone or something, are, for reasons of raw unflinching pathological self-interest, against all who are not them. They live in a world free of facts -- where history is revised accordingly -- and the only voices they hear are their own self-reinforcing feverish rants.
This necrotizing-vestige and fading shadow of what was formerly the establishment party of Reagan has now made of what was once the call and privilege of public service nothing more than a reductive pursuit -- one intent on serving ever-narrowing interests and the illusion of purity. Never to be concerned with the hard work-of-governance or a need to actually have the capacity of compassion, these craven, puerile, destructive, intellectually-lazy, full-on nihilist place-holders see both compromise and reasonable accommodation as the failings of capitulation; and so they strive only to circumvent good-order, to-impede, to slow-down, and, if allowed to, flat-line the progress of the entire nation.
They reject the very structures of our democracy, its intended healthy tension, civility, discourse, debate, and unity-of-purpose. No loyal opposition are they. They brandish mini-constitutions like fetishes, all the while working to undo all that this living document has allowed us to achieve -- and the very society which has risen up around it. For them their moral-universe extends no further than their petty concerns will take them -- even to a place where the theft of power by extortion is just another day's work.
If they cannot re-litigate a law already duly passed, or invalidate the consensus of an election already held, they will, in effect, strap on a weapon of mass economic destruction – and stand in our collective public square and detonate it. Because we will not relent to their onerous terms, they threaten our irrevocable demise, and, unknowingly or knowingly, their own murder-suicide. Every Republican in the House, the Tea Party, and the Leadership will surely be held to account as accessories to this historic crime, this self-inflicted economic Pearl Harbor, this act of treason.
Their world is ever shrinking and circumscribed... they would make of a great nation a much lesser thing. Their path is a descent downward in allegiance - to region, then state, then county, then city, then town, then fiefdom and finally to barricade the gates of their minds. They are the enemy within. They are the dry-rot in the floorboards of our civilization. They are the cancer metastasizing through our body-politic. They are collectively a dangerous unbridled child with a gun now found; and, if we let them, they will wound us all terribly.
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