Never Back Down? (Slouching Towards Idiocracy II.)

America's freedom does not belong to just one nation. We're custodians of freedom for the world. In Philadelphia, two centuries ago, James Allen wrote in his diary that ``If we fail, liberty no longer continues an inhabitant of this globe.´´ Well, we didn't fail. And still, we must not fail. For freedom is not the property of one generation; it's the obligation of this and every generation. It's our duty to protect it and expand it and pass it undiminished to those still unborn. ~Ronald Reagan

"We are House Republicans, and we will never back down." ~Kevin McCarthy

"Yes Sir, Mr. Trump Sur, May I have another, Sir?"

"Please Teabag Me Again, Sir, I enjoy it."

~ALSO Kevin McCarthy.

"Kevin, Polish my boots...."

*McCarthy grabs a rag*

"No...with your tongue."

~Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia.)

I'm sorry, but according to what I was taught, if you "Never back down" that means never, and it means everybody who wants to do or wants you to do something that's against your principles. Either you believe in something or you don't. It's just that simple. Never give in, in matters great or small, large or petty, excepting as demanded by honor or good sense. If somebody on your side expects you to be their bitch or just roll over...or to have loyalty to them over even your own beliefs...they're not really on your side.

If your moral construct only allows you to be brave or steadfast in the face of one or two limited sets of circumstances, it's not courage or a moral construct. If you're expected to rabidly fight against anything that the Democrats do, but to roll over for Donald Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene or the ravening mob, what you're doing is not, by definition, leadership.  You're at best an ideological Commissar, at worst a pawn...and most likely your ideology and the people manipulating you are all shit.

I mean, if The Party is all...doesn't that sound vaguely Communist in the most Soviet sense possible...and certainly Orwellian?

And aren't these the people who've spent the last year calling anything they don't like, or that doesn't benefit their rich donors or that falls outside of their narrow ideological track "Communism?"

Communism hasn't been a thing since 1989, but these people are going full-on Red Scare in the face of nothing more than a changing world...or even in facing what has already been.

All these people have even got is cowardice, fear of the mob, and obstructionism.

And the worst part is, the world...and their base, and the people who support them...is changing anyway and they're the ones who are going to lose no matter what. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene and the rest of the MAGA mutant parade already has the knives out for Kevin McCarthy.

And all the shitty obstruction in the world won't be enough, not for people who whack off to the idea of throwing people they don't like out of helicopters. 

Not that Mr. "I LOVE BEING AN AMERICAN" in the snipped image appears to even know which side of the road Americans (and people in the Americas generally) drive on. Whoever drew this is a foreigner...and more importantly, a goddamned moron.

Yes, the Republican Base is being egged on by particularly stupid foreign fascists...likely some British far-right Brexit nut in this case. Think about that for a second. All this banging on about "Communism" is nothing more than trying to set up some kind of circumstances in which These Fucking People can simply kill whoever they do not like, and kill them with words that have been stripped of all meaning, that have become magic words that mean whatever they want them to mean. 

Denounce someone as a "Communist" for expressing an opinion you don't like and the State comes along and takes them away and pitches them out of a helicopter into the ocean. Does that sound like freedom to you, really? Does that even sound like America?

Sounds like Chile under Pinochet to me.

You know, the guy who was so bad that when it was all over and he was dead, the Chilean Army wouldn't allow him to be buried on its property or in any of its cemeteries.

Like, in the end nobody ends up wanting this shit, but you can't tell these fuckers that.

Somehow, they always think they're going to kill their way into power, or popularity.

And again, somehow they never think the same could happen to them. Never mind that no amount of craven, simpering submission is enough for these fucking people...and then they want these fuckers to turn around and be some kind of rabid attack dogs against their enemies?

Human beings simply don't work that way. If you're a coward, it'll show when it counts.

Thus the problem with most current Republican office-holders. If Lauren and Marge ever get the kind of revolution they think they want...the first people they're going to put up against the wall are the other people on their own team...for not being shitty enough.

Can't count how many times I've heard MAGA's call Kevin McCarthy a "RINO" or a closet liberal or this or that or the other goddamned thing, at least since MTG started trying to shank him.

And even worse people are gravitating to the Republican Party as a result of all this bullshit, people who think a gun and telling the world "Fuck you" are the answer to every problem, but also that making fun of crocs and a stupid sweatshirt is a "Vicious attack." There's not much worse to give a thin-skinned, weak-willed egotistical narcissist than a gun, except power.  

Dude doesn't have the guts to just say "Fuck the President" in a real fight he's going to piss himself, drop his weapon and run away...only to get dragged from a spider hole while crying later, and then to wonder why he's been shot or is in prison.

Trouble is, first his go-to will be to murder a couple of people for daring to believe in their civil rights and expressing their freedom of speech. I don't give a damn what happens to Bo Hines, I absolutely give a damn that his combination of aggressive stupidity and narcissism will get somebody else hurt or killed...and this fucker is running for Congress, on a "Fuck Joe Biden and I have a gun" platform.

But he doesn't have the guts to actually say it.

The real problem here, though, is that there's always somebody these cowardly, cruel, evil motherfuckers feel like they can get away with hurting for no damned good reason. In point of fact it seems to me that that's increasingly the basis of their entire philosophy, not just of politics, but life in general. They have to have somebody they can have power over and hurt for no reason in order to feel good about themselves. 

And maybe it's just me but I think no one should have to put up with that type of shit in the United States Of America when we're not much more than a couple hours away from it being the year 2022. We're either a civilization or we're not. Either that civilization includes all of us, or it's not a civilization. Either all of us have rights, or none of us do.

The only thing Republicans want to "Step up" against is basic decency.

That's all.

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