South Carolina Soviet Socialist Republic (American Revelation V: Fuck You Lindsey Graham Edition.)

 In the future individualism ought to be the efficient utilization of the whole individual for the absolute benefit of a collectivity. ~Che Guevara

In 2015, when Trump started talking about building a wall, I said "So, Republicans are basically Communists now?"

This, this right here, is exactly why I said that.

Yesterday, Lindsey Graham said "An African American person or an immigrant can go anywhere in South Carolina, so long as they're conservative, not liberal."

Do you even America, bro?

No, I'm fucking serious you asshole closet-case. Listen to me, and make sure your brain don't fall out your dumb head.

This is not the South Carolina Soviet Socialist Republic.

This is America, according to what I was taught America is, by Christians, by conservatives, America is not the kind of country where one's success or failure in life is determined by whether or not one joins The Party. This right here is some pretty damned Communist-sounding shit, as far as this former conservative Republican is concerned.

This is America, where one can and cannot go should never be determined by one's political affiliation or the color of one's skin, but simply by whether or not a person has the capability to get where they want to go. Anything else smacks of the closed cities and fences and guard towers and walls of the Communist Bloc of my youth.

If Black people can be told where they can go, or what they can do, the rest of us will absolutely not be far behind. 

Power only craves more power, and the monster that Lady G insists on feeding has no bottom and has an insatiable appetite for more...

Like I've said you could pour this entire country and everyone and everything in it down that space where Donald Trump's soul is supposed to have been, and you'd never fill it. My ex-wife has a personality disorder, this whole Trump thing ain't my first rodeo.

And more to the point, this stupid bullshit shows that Lindsey Graham doesn't know jack shit about Black people, most of whom are, in a lot of ways...especially as regards religion...pretty damn conservative...just not in the kind of way that involves telling other people where they can and can't go or what they can and cannot do.

But this isn't about arguing capability vs. purpose, or Christian doctrine, or even navigating one's place in the world.

This is about power, and the fact that a small, angry, shitty man is for once in his life having to fight for that which he thinks he deserves...and the truth is, he doesn't, and he knows it.

The polling is dead even, or maybe with Jaime Harrison a little ahead, depending on the day. Also, Harrison is kicking Lindsey Graham's ass up between his shoulder blades fundraising-wise.

And that just makes him more angry. Lindsey Graham doubtless thinks he should be getting all that money.

See, These Fucking People (a term I picked up from Jim Wright of Stonekettle Station) i.e. people like Lindsey Graham, they don't really believe in anything, except power and their own capabilities.

And they love to exercise that power. They worship that power and crave more like a Black prosperity gospel preacher craves and worships money...and at least the Prosperity Gospel preacher has to pay lip service to a power higher than himself and be seen doing so with convincing enough passion that a whole lot of people will believe he's praying to Jesus and not for the fattening of his own wallet.

And Lady G, she really can't do that, can she? I mean, the old gay bear, he ain't what he used to be...or something. Hell, the last time I ever saw Lindsey Graham say something with any degree of passion it was that "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we'll deserve it."

Prophetically spoken, but the timing was off by about four years judging from how things are going.

And look where Lindsey Graham is now (cue Sad Trombone noise.)

I mean this in all sincerity and I say it as a former conservative: Fuck this Commie-Wannabe Motherfucker, with a train, sideways, while it's running.

Integrity Above All
Service Before Self
Excellence In All That We Do.
~United States Air Force Core Values.

You know how you know what kind of an absolute shit person Lindsey Graham is?

He's a retired South Carolina Air National Guard officer, a Judge Advocate General to be specific. I know the values he was supposed to have lived by, oh yes, I do.

And this? This ain't it.

For all the values he was supposed to espouse, uphold, and literally put his life on the line for, for all the oaths he swore, for all the time as a JAG and as a Congressman and as a Senator that he had in, for all his time in supposed-public service...

Well, you see all that ain't shit. It's worse than nothing, somebody else should have had his spot. See, at the end of the day Lindsey Graham's word ain't shit.

I don't know about you, but where I come from that is supposed to be the measure of a man.

And here's Lindsey Graham freely and openly stating that, at least behavior-wise, he'd gladly turn the United States of America into a new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics if it would keep him in power and serve the interests of those who make up his power base.

I don't know about you, but that's not the America I want to live in. We don't have a thousand years of history or all that many unifying factors. All he have is what we want to be.

And I don't want to be this.

Do you?

Vote.

Vote the bastards out.

All of them.

Because as of right now we still can.

It really is that simple.

And after this, it gets a lot harder. If you don't think Republicans will try to split America to see if they can break off a piece, well, you ain't been paying attention.

Part Five.