Republicans, your ass is showing.

When the earliest settlers poured into a wild continent there was no one to ask them where they came from. The only question was: Were they sturdy enough to make the journey, were they strong enough to clear the land, were they enduring enough to make a home for freedom, and were they brave enough to die for liberty if it became necessary to do so? And so it has been through all the great and testing moments of American history. Our history this year we see in Vietnam. Men there are dying; men named Fernandez and Zajac and Zelinko and Mariano and McCormick. Neither the enemy who killed them nor the people whose independence they have fought to save ever asked them where they or their parents came from. They were all Americans. It was for free men and for America that they gave their all, they gave their lives and selves. By eliminating that same question as a test for immigration the Congress proves ourselves worthy of those men and worthy of our own traditions as a nation. ~Lyndon B. Johnson.

I woke up this morning to find Richard Spencer trending on Twitter.

A lot of people kept pointing out that this asshole was on CNN (again) just four months ago.

Maybe it's just me, but I thought racial slurs against Jewish people started going out of fashion after the world found out that Nazis incinerated six million Jews. But ya know, that's not even what got my attention here.

"Little fucking Octaroons..." Now THERE'S a word I've literally never heard of anybody using outside of a historical context until I saw this...and I have a spent a fair portion of my life studying the Civil War and the conditions that led up to it.

I mean, seriously, who in the fuck talks like that, ever? Even in this day and age I thought people talking like that had long since gone the way of the Dodo bird.

Oh, right, Richard Spencer, Milquetoast Nazi Mr. Rogers. As I wrote all the way back in 2017, Fuck That Guy. I mean, seriously, what the fuck is even wrong with these people?

And by "These People" I can't just say "Racists" it increasingly seems to apply to Republicans in general. After all, here's a picture of Richard Spencer at the RNC in 2016.

I want you to think about something.

You know what's really going on here? All the shitty Republican policies, right wing attacks on people's basic rights, health care, the Constitution? Reproductive and sexual freedoms?

Trump?

Trump isn't the end game. He isn't even close. Trump is a symptom of the dysfunction put in place to get to that end game. And what is that, exactly? This fucking guy is the end game, a shitty fucking murderous Nazi who doesn't alarm unobservant white people because he maintains a photogenic TV personality, but when the cameras are off he's screaming profanities at people and demanding the "right" to rule over Jews and mixed-race people. What he might have in store for others one can only guess at, but it's probably worse.

And Republicans gladly let him into their inner sanctums.

If you enable Nazis, you're a fucking Nazi. It's really that simple.

These Fucking People are here memorializing the murder of a Black teenager, that was based on a lie, and for which the perpetrators were eventually ostracized but never held legally accountable.

For murder.

That's the end game here, murder, ethnic cleansing, and they'll fight a war to get it if they have to. And mind you, the "League Of The South" is considered a respectable organization in some quarters, this isn't a bunch of drunken frat-boys out shooting up signs.

Although they did install a bulletproof sign and security cameras, so you might think on that, as well.

Just like with the whole "debate" over the confederate statues, wherein if these motherfuckers can't own slaves, they want to memorialize the time when they could...if they can't just murder People Of Color for being People Of Color on the basis of the most ridiculous of excuses, they want to memorialize that as well.

Don't take my word for it, listen to them in their own words.

"I don't want our culture diluted, we need to close the border and 'let' everyone assimilate to a Western, white, English-speaking way of life."

And what about those who don't want to do that? What about people like me who see these ideas as, on a base level, bland and boring, banal cruelty dressed up with an inoffensive "Politically Correct" appearance, hiding their Un-American, Unconstitutional bullshit behind the boring blandness of being a bro in a T-shirt or an old white guy in a suit. What about those of us who'd rather die than put up with this horse shit?

Fundamentally, this is about the fact that a certain kind of white man desires to be able to kill people and take their stuff for no reason whatever. Because they're conservative white assholes, but they are offended on principle by having to explain even that much.  I'm serious, and I cannot stress this enough. There are people in this world who would rather hate than eat, who would rather kill and steal than live, and what remains of conservatism is full of people who seem to have no greater ambition than to have their boot on somebody else's throat before they die.

In the end, who it is won't even matter, because they aren't going to stop and ask for your beliefs or metrics before they try to kill you. When these fucking assholes start trying to do their thing, plenty of white conservatives who won't sign on to this crap, or who are serving in the military or the police, are going to die right along with the rest of us. This kind of thing has already happened.

These assholes tell us so, every so often, when they say that John McCain or Mitch McConnell or Paul Ryan or even Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan wasn't a "Real" Conservative. Hell, lots of these people keep telling us to our faces that current Republicans in Congress are just a bunch of no good RINO (Republican In Name Only) fakers.

And what is this all really about? It's about keeping other people, whether LGBT, Non-Asshole Whites, Non-Christians (and by the same token, seriously-practicing Christians) People of Color, Women and others from having as much of a say in our society as this subset of asshole white conservative men does.

And they're already terrified because the number of them is declining, to the point where they're not really punching above their weight anymore. I mean, years ago some pundit said they weren't generating enough angry old white guys.

And how do you think that scales, in real life?

When Trump gets impeached, if Republicans lose their ass next year even half as bad as it looks like they might?

These people have already abandoned every value they ever claimed to stand for, and are damned near openly embracing White Supremacy...and if they have to choose fascism and going to war against the rest of us to preserve that, I no longer think it's much of a stretch to say they will do so.

I mean, seriously, CNN and other "liberal" organizations; Do we have to let these people secede, break off a piece of America for themselves and then begin a Bosnia-style campaign of civil war and ethnic cleansing for you to fucking get it?

Stop enabling these motherfuckers.

Because no matter how much you do that, you're still going to be the first ones up against the wall...for not enabling them enough.

Most of the rest of the United States began to accept the idea of a multi-ethnic, pluralistic society 55 years ago. But not these assholes.

And especially as Impeachment bears down on Donald Trump...and I guarantee you that the scope of the man's crimes will come to light and greatly reduce the power of his adopted political party and even his social class and I suspect it will be grave enough that even the current Senate will have to vote to impeach and remove Trump from office...just to save their own skins from an irate public...it will get worse.

And when this problem eventually blows up and comes to a head...and it will...when the Klan and League Of The South and the Trumpist People's Liberation Front are shooting it out in the streets with the Army National Guard and the cops and paramilitary neighborhood defense groups, who do you think Fox News is going to support?

When the FBI catches Russian Wagner Group mercenaries or Spetsnaz advisers in gray uniforms supporting the bad guys, whose line will Fox News echo, that of the United States government, or that of the Kremlin?

And how much will all the same entities who've profited from all our dysfunctions thus far seek to prolong that conflict as long as they can...for nothing more than their own personal profit?

When the dust settles, when we're all watching war crimes trials on CNN and picking up the pieces and trying to rebuild our society, remember that the Russians didn't do this to us, we did it to ourselves by not relegating words like "Octaroon" to being nothing more than a historical curiosity, by continuing to enable and cater to toxic bullshit like racism, by allowing people to profit off of hate, by allowing evil beliefs and philosophies to simply hide under the radar until a time such as this, and all too often by doing it all in the name of capitalism or the most empty-headed sort of tolerance.

All the Russians did was play on our own weaknesses and use them to their advantage.

We knew better fifty years ago. We knew not to listen to these assholes then. What the hell is the problem now?