Sword And Shield Of The Party (Left Behind Is A Lie II, Seven.)

There are times, however, and this is one of them, when even being right feels wrong. What do you say, for instance, about a generation that has been taught that rain is poison and sex is death? If making love might be fatal and if a cool spring breeze on any summer afternoon can turn a crystal blue lake into a puddle of black poison right in front of your eyes, there is not much left except TV and relentless masturbation. It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix — a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing... And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get. ~Hunter S. Thompson, Generation Of Swine.

Last night at work I saw this. Madison Cawthorn in his Trump-wannabe suit, posing with a bat that has "We The People..." written on it. Next to him, some douchebag posing with a curvy novelty-knife and a pistol.

Sword and Shield of The Party, right there, y'all.

I commented that it was all of modern "Conservative" thought in one image.

One of my regular commentors replied that "Thought" was doing a lot of heavy lifting there.

Seriously what the fuck is it with these people and their idea that they can, one way or another, beat their beliefs into people? Seriously, these fucking people think their beliefs are actually transmissible by either relentless-simplistic brain-pounding propaganda (that actually, if you look at it, has nothing to do with Christ or Christianity but rather the "supremacy" of both) or by actual physical assault.

Their real message of course is "OBEY ME" the hell with Jesus. Or reality, or really anything else.

And they can and will keep at this shit when reality and the people they're trying to coerce have flatly and forcibly told them no. 

Like, literally these people think if they believe in it hard enough or think "good" enough thoughts they can somehow bullshit the universe into giving them what they want.

And if not, they think they'll just beat it out of you and take what they think they want.

And then, invariably, they find out that it didn't work out the way they thought it would and/or they're not happy anyway. It works out the same way every time you run the experiment. 

I used to be a conservative Christian. Trust me, these people are everywhere and they don't react well either to correction or to people who actually know things.

And of course these shitty little narcissists never understand that all they're actually doing is making people hate them or for that matter turning the people who stay in their movements into a bunch of bitter assholes.

Yeah, I pretty much think at this point the Evangelicals, the Far-right, the Republicans and the Russians all richly deserve each other.

None of these fucking people believe in anything, and they're all trying to use each other for no better reason than to gain personal power.

And then when it doesn't turn out the way that they wanted...they're going to preach about things endlessly getting worse until Jesus comes to save them and zaps everybody they don't like.

And all that crap is a lie, and it always was a lie.

All the End Times Prophecy Bullshit is literally rooted in a fear of the world adopting any kind of liberal values. And I'm here to tell you these people already regard all of Eurasia outside of Russia as "Lost" and they have for 30 years.

Meanwhile the GOP is slouching toward becoming a Christianized version of the Communist Party Of The Soviet Union, which itself died just over 30 years ago...but without any of the social welfare aspects or anything else that helps the average person.

While it holds Twitter Spaces with the Taliban. There's no enemy of America that these people won't get on their knees and blow.

Reagan Wept.

It's a new day, it's a new goddamn year. You don't have to be like these fucking people.

Remember that.

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If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves. ~Ronald Reagan