I've been going to write something for two days, and it just wasn't getting together in my head. Then I saw this, and a whole different project materialized in my head in the space of a few seconds.
Over the last few years I've watched with horror as Trumpism sprang into existence and gained energy and power. Why? Because I remember my own conservative, Christian upbringing and I knew that what Trump said was not what I was taught. Deep down, I knew this day would come that the Trump-worshipers would start tearing down even what they claimed to have held sacred. The second I heard them start tearing down the Bush family I knew that they would eventually have to tear down Reagan as well. But tearing someone else down cannot build a person up.
I'm serious. I'm a Reagan/Bush-era conservative, my views haven't really changed all that much except concerning a number of social issues like health care and LGBT rights. I've always supported diversity, education, freedom and human rights. I am against Trump for the same reason that I was against Soviet Communism.
I was against Trump saying "Build a wall" for the same reason I cheered Reagan demanding that a wall be torn down.
That is what having a line you will not cross and a working moral compass gets you these days, Trump's "Conservatives" whose understanding of conservatism could be described in three words "What he said" branding you as a socialist.
You know what? Put that shit on a shirt and I'll wear it.
So who's next?
To quote the article itself:
"In poll after poll, they have said that Trump has kept his promises to appoint conservative Supreme Court justices, fight for religious liberty, adopt pro-life policies and deliver on other issues that are high priorities for them.
"At the same time, many have acknowledged the awkwardness of being both self-proclaimed followers of Jesus and the No. 1 champions of a president whose character has been defined not just by alleged infidelity but accusations of sexual harassment, advancing conspiracy theories popular with white supremacists, using language that swaths of Americans find racist, routinely spreading falsehoods and an array of casual cruelties and immoderate behaviors that amount to a roll call of the seven deadly sins.
You see it too, don't you? These people care more about conservative judges and their social place than they care about loving thy neighbor or the Sermon on the Mount. They care more about the Tweets of Trump than the teachings of Christ. They care more that they're ahead of the brown people in the line at the emergency room than they do about whether those people live or die.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the Underworld, the shade of Ayn Rand cackles gleefully.
You think I'm kidding?
When we moved to Mission Viejo, I had to switch libraries but still was part of the same county-based system. I knew what inter-library loan was when I was in the sixth grade. It was fucking great because I was in the middle of reading a couple of novel series when we moved and one of them one library had and the other didn't.
Knowledge is power. Hell, reading fluff gamer fiction or science fiction still fires the imagination and expands your mind. Of course Libertarian motherfuckers who believe life is a zero-sum game don't want you to have any. Yes, it's a threat to them that a person who is poor, or a person who doesn't toe the line on their hard-right Libertarian ideology can look at a book about the Islamic Golden Age, or knows what the Constitution says or is able to learn a foreign language or participate in a multilingual Children's Story Hour. You damn well bet it's a threat.
As somebody who went to plenty of those story hours and who had teachers that read books to us aloud after lunch in both of the Christian schools I attended while using those Orange County district libraries, I'm here to tell you what the alternative, and These Fucking People's end goal is.
The sheer amount of obvious woo woo bullshit and potential psychological problems demonstrated by this motherfucker is literally mind-boggling. If I acted like that I'm pretty sure family and friends would break a land speed record getting me into the nearest mental hospital. God Damn, I am not joking, read the linked article. It's absolutely not the least bit mind-boggling how this guy fell for Sacha Baron Cohen's "Anti-Terrorist" schtick. And remember, Baron Cohen is the guy who gave us "Borat" which is seriously one of the dumbest movies I've ever seen in my life.
As I understand it, this dude lost his bid for re-election in the primary. Allah Akbar, Thank You Jesus and if there's any other deities involved, please consider my thanks tendered as well. As for the voters who kicked him to the curb? WHAT THE FUCK WERE YOU THINKING WHEN YOU ELECTED HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE!?!?!?!?
Do better, America. Show up and vote these sons of bitches out.
While we can.
As I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner, 'This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.' Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom. `Ronald Reagan
Speaking as a former Republican, I will forever consider it the greatest irony of my life that in my lifetime Republicans have gone from demanding that walls in Germany be torn down to demanding that walls be put up in America. As a longtime Christian and conservative, I will forever consider it heretical that Christians and conservatives have in my lifetime gone from believing in Christ and teaching the Truth (as I understood it to be for much of my time) to elevating a known flimflam artist and liar in place of not only their philosophical forefathers but arguably to replace Christ himself.
God Damn these motherfuckers, and I say that with the full weight of someone who understands the theological implications of those words.
These fucking people can't stand the truth, because they know they cannot withstand it.
Know that these cowardly sons of bitches fear something as simple as the fact that the truth can be read by almost all Americans.
But you have to have the desire to read it. You have to have the willpower to translate knowing into action.
It's that simple. No one else is going to save us from this shit. We have to do it ourselves, and we absolutely have the means to do so without doing more than taking maybe an hour out of our day on the first Tuesday in November. Judgment day is coming, Republicans.
Use it.
Part Two.
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